Best of 09: Book

Dec 6, 2009 by

I never read as many books as I hope to each year. This year was rather dismal, since I spent way more time trying to write a book than reading any. Here’s what I did finish:

  • The Alienist, by Caleb Carr
  • Good in Bed, by Jennifer Weiner
  • Love the One You’re With, by Emily Giffin
  • Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
  • Dead Until Dark, by Charlaine Harris
  • Living Dead in Dallas, by Charlaine Harris

All of which, I enjoyed, with the Harris books probably being my least favorite. Naturally, I started so many more books that I just haven’t been able to invest in quite yet.

Of those books, I’d have to say that Pride and Prejudice was the best. It was long overdue and a fun thing to read. Thankfully, I finished it just before I went to Bath, England and visited the Jane Austen Centre.

Before the year ends, I hope to have finished reading A Christmas Carol, because I say I’m going to do that each Christmas season. I started yesterday and will be reading more here shortly. It’s only 50 pages, so it shouldn’t be a problem. And then, I have it on good authority that I’m getting a Kindle for Christmas, and I’m hoping that will make reading even easier.

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Best of 09: Restaurant Moment

Dec 6, 2009 by

This one was hard for me to come up with. I definitely ate some great meals out, especially while on vacation. But I think one of the best restaurant moments I had this year was when I went to Asian Fusion with Brian back in July. It was one the last times we were really happy together, and sort of carefree. He had started to date his fiancee then, but it wasn’t too serious. Don’t get me wrong, I am okay with what is happening between us and that our marriage is only going to last a couple more weeks before the divorce is final, but for that one meal, everything was fine between us and there was the slightest feeling that everything was going to be fine and that we maybe still had a future. But today, it is much more black and white. We will not be getting back together. He’s moved on completely and in every way. He’s become a different man and is going to have a family. He’s doing all the things that I had hoped we could do together, but it apparently never felt right to him and not right to me either, honestly. He couldn’t be the man I needed him to be, and apparently I couldn’t be the woman he needed me to be either.

But for that one last meal, we were able to get lost in the moment and feel happy with each other. I’m glad our last one on one meal was like that. Thankfully, for me, I was camera happy back then and took pictures to remember the occasion.

Brian

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Best of 09 Blog Challenge

Dec 4, 2009 by

So a couple of cool bloggy divas that both live in Boulder, Gwen Bell and Ally B, are doing a best Of 09 blog challenge, that was started by Gwen Bell. I love this idea! So I’m totally going to do it too, because it sounds really fun and will be a great record of the year (as if my Project 365 wasn’t enough).

The notion is 31 ‘best’ prompts…read more about it here.

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