Currently In November

Current Book(s): Finishing up Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout for book club. It won the Pulitzer Prize this year, and believe me when I tell you that there is a reason for that. I love it so much.

Current Playlist: Mostly this month it’s been silence. The exceptions are my Over the Rhine Pandora station for when I’m cooking, and the Les Miserables original cast recording for when I’m cleaning. I guess I like a soundtrack for my chores.

Current Shame-Inducing Guilty Pleasure: Probably NOT exercising the way I should be. All the days that it was raining provided the perfect excuse. But it’s sunny and beautiful today, and I should go for a run. Not really feeling it, so we’ll see.

Current Drink: Actually enjoying coffee lately, and slowly learning to be a snob about it (a la Peter Kline). At home right now we have Newman’s Own French Roast, which I make every morning I have to drive to work. (I try to skip it on the other days; I don’t want to become too dependent on it.) After tasting this, I can’t even bring myself to drink what’s at work.

Current Food: The dinner exchange we’ve started with Scott and Vanessa is going strong in its second week. Last week we kept it simple and (somewhat) healthy by making tacos. My next cooking night isn’t till Saturday, so hopefully I can come up with something good.

Current Favorite Show: David and I are behind on our favorite shows and are trying to catch up on Netflix. Right now we’re on last season’s The Office, and it’s one of the best things ever. The words, “It’s as good as Seinfeld” actually came out of my husband’s mouth, which is incredible if you know him.

Current Wishlist: My family uses lists for Christmas every year, so this year I decided to put mine together online. That way I can edit it without having to tell every person my changes.

Current Needs: Just to love and be loved. :)

Current Triumphs: My house is still really clean after three days. Sometimes it’s the little things.

Current Bane(s) of my Existence: The key to our back door broke off in the lock. This would be a good time to bite the bullet and have all our locks changed so that they open with one key instead of four different ones, except that we just started our new, very strict, budget and have not saved up the money for that yet.

Current Celebrity Crush: I don’t really have a crush, but I sure do like watching Dmitry Chaplin dance.

Current Indulgence: I just threw away the remainders of two pans of brownies and chocolate chip cookies which have been taunting me. Enough with that.

Current Blessing: The weather is gorgeous. I mean honestly, is it even allowed to be this beautiful?

Current Outfit: Striped fuzzy socks, grey lounge pants from Gap Body, and a long sleeved white t-shirt that I got in Kauai. Also known as what I slept in last night.

Current Excitement: Running the Seawall Crawl with Maggie this Saturday and spending the day in Galveston afterwards. Completing NaBloPoMo. Saving money.

Current Mood: I’m feeling very lazy, gotta be honest.

Current Link: I’ve been searching a little bit for well-designed personal blogs on frugal and green living. Anyone know of any?