Excellent OC, Alysa. I love these.
My local farmer's market. I love it. It makes me happy to wander around and buy overpriced organic strawberries off a truck, and handmade German bratwurst from an old round German woman who counts my change back in German. It just makes me happy. It's new every week. I never know if I'll come home with strawberries or beets. This week it's peaches.
Ladies Rock and Roll Camp. Yes, you read it right. Portland has had a Rock and Roll Camp for Girls for more than ten years, and a friend's daughter has attended several times. A few years ago they started a women's version. No experience required. I've played flute since the seventh grade, and lately I'm fascinated with the bass guitar. I think because it's so opposite everything I am or have ever done. I'll admit it, I'm white, I'm a little overweight, I'm a mom, I wear glasses, I live in the suburbs, and I edit books for a living. And I want to play the bass. And I'm going to rock and roll camp for a weekend in October. (I'm borrowing a bass from a friend next week.)
Glee. Stupid, mindless, brain-candy TV. I watch it late at night on my computer with headphones after my husband and kids are asleep. Pure guilty pleasure. Sadly, I just (belatedly) finished Season 2, and now I have to wait with everyone else for new episodes in the fall.
The Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. If you like fantasy fiction (I do, in spades), this is the best I've read since I discovered Lord of the Rings when I was in middle school. I don't say that lightly. If you saw my house (and all my books) you'd know why. It's amazing. It's also sadly unfinished and now I have to wait for the next book.
Pie crust. Yup, yours truly is teaching herself to make pie. With real crust, home made. Some is chilling in the fridge right now, waiting until tomorrow when the peaches are ripe enough to use. I spend my weeks pounding away on the computer dealing with pixels and verbs and subject verb agreement. I spend my weekends making things with my hands like bread and cakes and lately, pie. This weekend, as soon as those peaches are ready, I'm attempting a lattice-top pie. I have a novel in the drawer, and I just can't face it. My brain is too full of other people's words. Instead, it's OK, for now, to spend my weekends up to my elbows in flour and butter.
Great OC, Alysa!
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I LOVE that you are going to rock and roll camp how incredible and fun that sounds!
Joanie, get yourself a copy of The Art and Soul of Baking by Cindy Mushet. Excellent book. Eight pages of instructions about how to make pie crust. If I can do it, anyone can.
scanner, I'll warn you that Patrick Rothfuss will suck you in and you'll be stuck in a book-reading time warp for a week. I'm sure your local library will have it, it's a bestseller. (Both of them). Enjoy, and let me know how you like them!
lschmoopie--I need this. I really, really need to be more than just a mom. Every pop song I hear on the radio, I'm picking out the bass line and listening for the chord progressions. I need to do this.
algis--let me know what you think of Rothfuss! I've really enjoyed his two books, and now I'm re-reading them to catch everything I missed before.
A nice list you have, I appreciate it when I'm reading about other's faves. Isn't making pie crust delightful?