numerous takes to try to get one good short video

watched

• Venture Bros (season 4)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• Sherlock (season 1 and 2)
• The Killing (season 1) – Andrew and I really love crime shows

read

• The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler (one of my favorite authors)
• The Frontiersman: The Real Life and Many Legends of Davy Crockett by Mark Derr
• Driven West: Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears to the Civil War by A.J. Langguth
• The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way you Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau
• The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay and Calhoun by Merrill D. Peterson (this one was LONG and slow)
• A Nation Within a Nation: Organizing African-American Communities Before the Civil War by John Ernest

listened to

• This American Life – I love that show. I really feel like it’s becoming an institution and there will soon be books written about its effect (like Sesame Street)
• Also all caught up with Here’s The Thing. LOVED the Billy Joel episode and the Robert Lustig episode
• Newsies Broadway Musical soundtrack – with Andrew. He loves it almost as much as I do

discovered

• The difference between Effect and Affect. I mean, I always knew there was a difference but couldn’t remember which was which. I got it now, don’t worry.
• A WHOLE bunch of babies! My nephew is now 3 months old! Met my friends identical twin boys (about 3.5 months), met my other friends 7-week old girl, went to a gender reveal party for another friend due in January, my cousin JUST had their baby a couple weeks ago and another friend is due ANY DAY! Babies EVERYWHERE! (33 sec mark)
• Suburban Sweetheart – I need to take the time to write down my stories like this. I always get compliments when I take the time, but I so rarely do it.
• Ken Jennings on Twitter and fictional account Paul Ryan Gosling (disclaimer: everything I know about Paul Ryan is from this twitter account. So, not much. But it’s pretty funny   )
• My video camera remote – but currently can’t find the charger. So that’s useful.

wrote

• 30 Days of Lists bonus prompt and most of the sales posts and emails for 30 Days of Lists
• Onward and Upward registration begins!
• Project Life updates from weeks 13-14 and 15-16
• my summer minibook update
• on being a late bloomer
• Weekend Project: The Rest of the Year
• What do you want to do before you die?
• Memories at every turn
• Challenge assumptions
  

What did you do this month?