Beth's Contradictory Brain

Where Does The Time Go?

I can't believe we're already 3 weeks into this new year. Guess I'd have to say it's been a pretty good year so far. We've mostly been taking things easy, having lazy weekends, meeting up with friends for lunch or dinner sometimes. It's good. Life should be mostly boring.

Nerdstar's also having a fantastically boring pregnancy so far - knock wood. No morning sickness, no weight gain yet, a little more tired than usual. Her taste buds might be beginning to change just a little, she no longer likes beef as much. I asked last night if her taste buds were becoming more asian. She's not sure yet.

I've been trying to do some reading. A couple of months ago I was bored enough to try to tackle Moby-Dick. Nope, never read it. While I can appreciate that it's some really amazing writing, I got about half way through and it started putting me to sleep. Reading never puts me to sleep. So, I gave up. I've never given up on reading a book. Oh well.

I just finished Audrey Niffenegger's (The Time Traveler's Wife) new book, Her Fearful Symmetry. It was a pretty good book, but I wasn't surprised by it at all.

I also checked out Pink Brain/Blue Brain about how boys and girls develop from conception on and how they do and don't differ. It's a pretty scientific book, but it's not hard to read. It does get a little repetitious. I'm about half way done and probably won't read the second half as closely as the first. I'd recommend it, even though I can't articulate at all what I've learned from it.

Today I picked up Belly Laughs by Jenny McCarthy. We'll both try to read it this weekend.

I've got a couple of other books checked out - all of this reading is courtesy of our local library - that I'll write about once I've read them.

My other ongoing project is my blog archive. I exported the whole thing into a txt file, then copy and pasted that into a word doc, so I've got to go through the whole thing and edit out all the extraneous stuff like extra lines and such. I think it started out of 2500 pages. I'm now on 1071 of 1600. I think it'll end up being about 1300 pages. One of these days maybe we'll buy a printer and I'll print it all up. It's been cool to go back and read about the past 8 years of life. Boy has a lot happened.

Hope your new year is off to a great start as well!