Yearly Archives: 2006

Reading

"The Mermaid Chair"

I didn’t care for the message this book sets forth — that it’s OK to set your marriage aside as long as you’re trying to “find yourself.” This is another My Family is Falling Apart book, and, as usual, I wasn’t crazy about it. I enjoyed the language of the book. I just didn’t like the overall theme.

I marvel at how good I was before I met him, how I lived molded to the smallest space possible, my days the size of little beads that passed without passion through my fingers.

I felt amazing at the choosing one had to do, over and over, a million times daily — choosing love, then choosing it again, how loving and being in love could be so different.”

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Reading

"The Memory Keeper’s Daughter"

The cover design on “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” made me want to buy the book every time I saw it. I have a hard time spending money on myself, though, so I kept not buying it and not buying it. Then I ran out of things to read while Poppy and I were at my dad’s, so I picked up two books and tossed them in the grocery cart at Meijer’s. And then Dad paid for everything.

(Hooray for Dad!)

Turns out I should’ve kept admiring the cover without reading the book. It was an interesting plot, and it was well written. I’m just not big on the My Family Is Falling Apart genre.

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Bandwagons

Friday Feast No. 121

Appetizer
What was your very first job with a paycheck?

    My dad signed me and my step-sister up to work at the GM family fun fair one summer. I think I was 13 or 14. My step-sister weaseled out of it somehow. I ended up working the tic-tac-toe beanbag toss for two whole afternoons. I think I made something like $30. And thus, my career as a carny was born.

Soup
Did you ever lose something really important to you?

    I had a miscarriage before we had Poppy, and it crushed me. And that’s all I have to say about that.
    (Except to say this: I don’t think this question was looking for that sort of answer. But that’s the first thing I thought of. So. I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned the miscarriage on here before, and now I’ve just sort of tossed it out there and it feels very strange.)

Salad
What is the best Christmas present you ever received?

    Gosh, I don’t know.

Main Course
Tell about a favorite “hang out” place for you and your friends when you were in high school.

    I grew up in a pretty small town, so there weren’t really many places to “hang out.” We spent a lot of time at friends’ houses, I guess.

Dessert
Name something that always brings a smile to your face.

    Puppies. And rainbows.

The Friday Feast is a weekly meme intended to “feed your mind by asking thought-provoking, mind-stimulating questions.”
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