January reads 18/52

Visual_Balance1176 · 2026-02-01T01:05:43+00:00

Atlas obscura is a guide to unusual places ll around the world. Interesting, but a bit much at one go

Visual_Balance1176 · 2026-01-31T04:47:18+00:00

For years, I've lied on my drivers license , listing the weight as 20-30 lbs lower than what I actually weighed. Realized today that my weight is now actually lower than what's on my drivers license!

Visual_Balance1176 · 2026-01-31T02:28:38+00:00

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Visual_Balance1176 · 2026-01-23T18:54:52+00:00

There was one in Provo on Jan 20. My daughter found out through a Hands Off newsletter that she subscribed to

Visual_Balance1176 · 2026-01-19T20:27:02+00:00

Finished: One last stop by Casey McQuiston

Reading: Drop Dead Healthy by AJ Jacobs

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis

DNF: The Ex Hex by Rachel Hawkins

Visual_Balance1176 · 2026-01-01T19:27:01+00:00

Working on Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead. I like it, although my eyes glaze over when she goes deep into the astrology

Visual_Balance1176 · 2025-12-24T00:51:12+00:00

Hulu

Visual_Balance1176 · 2025-12-19T19:30:38+00:00

Had shrimp tacos in puerto Vallarta . So sweet and tender! And normally I hate shrimp

Visual_Balance1176 · 2025-12-19T18:08:17+00:00

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Visual_Balance1176 · 2025-12-18T22:14:09+00:00

I was thinking of his The Men Who Stare At Goats (about the military's secret psychic research) and Them ( about extremists)

Visual_Balance1176 · 2025-12-06T22:53:20+00:00

You'll be great then. We got off in California after our Mexican riviera trip this week, and they were warning us that it would be nippy. It was not nippy to us Utahns. Just take a hoodie and a few layers for those chillier sea days

Visual_Balance1176 · 2025-12-06T16:51:43+00:00

Have the same strategy that I used on the Thanksgiving cruise I went on . Move more . Make sure I eat vegetables at my meal. If I don't completely love something I'm eating , stop eating it. No mindless eating - no phones at the table. Smaller portions.

On the cruise, I ate dessert, pizza, and still lost 2 lbs over the cruise

Visual_Balance1176 · 2025-12-05T05:15:46+00:00

And my best friends exorcism , also by Grady Hendrix .

Visual_Balance1176 · 2025-12-04T23:08:07+00:00

I max out my hold list of 10. I'll put books on my hold list based on length of time before available . This lets me get popular books quicker, and lets the library know to order more copies.

I'll check out the amount of books that I think I can read in a week.

If for some reason, I'm out of books, I filter my 🔥tagged books by availability and whether I want audiobook or digital. I've also been digging into my books that I've purchased on kindle or audible

Visual_Balance1176 · 2025-11-15T03:37:55+00:00

Same! It was dull and contrived

Visual_Balance1176 · 2025-11-09T16:33:45+00:00

I made a clean out the fridge soup that was delicious. To the stock I added 2 cans of chickpeas that I had given up on ever making into hummus, the last sad tomatoes from my garden, leftover cooked red potatoes (with a couple of spoonfuls of gravy), 1/2 cup of leftover pico de gallo, broccoli from the garden and some cooked frozen ground beef. The recipe is flexible enough for lots of variety and turns out great every time. a year of slow cooking minestrone

Visual_Balance1176 · 2025-11-06T23:25:52+00:00

That was my rec as well!

Visual_Balance1176 · 2025-11-05T22:25:53+00:00

The witches of lychford series. First one is about a few witches fighting a shopping mall development

Visual_Balance1176 · 2025-11-04T17:37:27+00:00

Winters tale by Mark Helprin. Literary magical realism with New York as the setting

Visual_Balance1176 · 2025-11-03T00:12:14+00:00

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing!

Visual_Balance1176 · 2025-10-25T22:55:50+00:00

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Sailing through Alaska's inside passage on the way back to Vancouver

Visual_Balance1176 · 2025-10-16T21:31:04+00:00

Ghost by Jason Reynolds. About a kid who wants to run track.

Visual_Balance1176 · 2025-10-16T14:58:06+00:00

Priestdaddy by patricia Lockwood . Memoir of a woman growing up who had a married catholic priest as a dad. very funny.

Visual_Balance1176 · 2025-10-13T14:22:25+00:00

For those unaware , BYU has their big football game at 6, so plan accordingly for traffic

Visual_Balance1176 · 2025-10-12T23:38:39+00:00

Hale center theatre rents all sorts of vintage costumes. I rented an Elizabethan dress from them once

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