Marvelous Things

For the first time in months, my mind abounds with topics for blog posts, and yet I have not made time to write a single thing this week. Shame on me! Regrettably (or maybe not), most of what I have to talk about will require a good bit of detail, so I can't cover all of it in one of those lazy bullet point posts. Since it's way past my bedtime, I'm having trouble forming coherent sentences (and I haven't even written anything interesting yet!). That being said, I don't think it'd be wise for me to delve into one of those detail-oriented posts right this second. Lazy, moderately interesting bullet point post it is!

- I'm super excited about all the reading I've been doing recently! I swear I've read more for pleasure in the past four months than I did all four years of high school and all four years of college combined. I finished Dewey (it's about a cat, so it made me cry once. Or twenty times.) about two weeks ago, and then I read The Glass Castle last week because I just couldn't help myself (that is to say, I highly recommend!). Yesterday I started The Time Traveler's Wife and I'm already hooked even though I'm only 44 pages in.

- The absolutely fabulous weather has had a very strange effect on Miss Layla--she's started sleeping with me and showing affection and prancing up by my face early in the morning because she MUST HAVE A CHIN RUB FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY OR ELSE SHE WILL BREAK MY ROOM INTO PIECES SO HELP HER GOD. Cool weather makes everything better! Welcome, fall!

- While I was babysitting my cousin today, my epicurious uncle called me in and told me to eat this:

[Tasty (no, I'm serious!) rambutans--gastronomic cousin of the lychee, which is a popular fruit in Asia]. Dear uncle is saddled with a job that requires him to travel all over the world for weeks at a time and dine on fancy foreign cuisine with big wig business men (when he's not working, of course). He's always coming to holiday dinners with stories about eating Kobe beef in Japan and lamb chops in Australia. Gosh, if not for this blessed economy and those precious hiring freezes, we might all be jet-setting executives! Perish the thought!

- I'm blogging, Facebooking, and tweeting for money. Oops, I was going to save that for a long post, but it's just too marvelous to keep to myself. More to come later :)

At least there's one thing about this lazy sleepy-time post that we can all be grateful for--it's waaay more upbeat than the quarter-life crisis post that I've been mulling over in my head for the past week. Yeah, that one should be about as fun as a driving flaming bamboo shoots underneath your fingernails in Hell's Kitchen while Gordon Ramsay spits undercooked lamb in your eyes and sous-chefs Guy Fiere and Rachael Ray shout-talk in the background about their Off-the-Hook Line and Sinker Halibut Fritters that they made together in thirty minutes and for under forty dollars. Be sure to set your TiVos, folks!