Monthly Archives: May 2011

Family matters

Maybe my May goal should have been “keep it together”

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We got off to a jarring start this week, with Poppy waking up Sunday night with scream-inducing ear pain. She was up and miserable for most of the night. She has an ear infection and has been medicated and feeling fine since Monday morning. It set the tone for a rather off-kilter week in which I didn’t accomplish much.

3 in 30

Consistent exercise

I’m aiming for 4 days a week. This week I only made it to the gym twice. And I didn’t make up the other two days with anything else.

Follow Weight Watchers

Nope, not even a little bit.

Be patient

This one’s so hard to quantify, exactly. I’ve been alright on this some days and not so much on others. Today, for example: Not so much.

I’m looking at a pretty stressful next week, and today is trying to squash me like a bug. (I don’t really want to get into either one of those issues just now, but prayers would be nice.)

Reading

I read a book, and I liked it

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BlogHer Book Club @ Butterscotchsundae.comI’m reviewing books every now and again with the BlogHer Book Club, and my first review went live today. Here’s the plot-summary bit of it:

I so enjoyed reading Jean Kwok’s “Girl in Translation,” even though the book twisted my heartstrings at nearly every turn. It’s the story of a young girl who moves with her mother from Hong Kong to New York on the promise of a new life. When things don’t pan out as expected, Kimberly and her mother are forced into what I’m pretty sure qualifies as indentured servitude at a sweatshop.

You can read the rest at BlogHer. It’s a really good book, and I think you’d like it.