Anyone else with this Green Day classic in your head today?
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when September ends
I played the song on our commute to school and amused myself more than the kids (C likes Green Day but the others are not fans).
Tiny Wins Today
I admit I struggled to come up with today’s “Highlight of the Day”. I finally (optimistically) decided that maybe calculating our net worth would be said highlight (we do this every quarter). I mean, the markets do appear to still be up (though I feel like . . . they are going to have to fall at some point!). Anyway, it’s always nice to check in and see how things are going, as long as we don’t get scary news. A boring highlight perhaps but something to look forward to nonetheless.
BUT THEN I had 2 tiny wins in a row: I booked all of the Club Pilates sessions I wanted for October (trying 1.5 classes, I was approved to level up) and ordered our Break Fast essentials (bagels, spreads, etc) and was told by the restaurant that this was the last day to order. And here I thought I was planning ahead, but was sooo happy to be under the wire and have that done.
Since two of you in the comments said this recipe was amazing I am going to attempt to make it for dessert.
Rapid Fire September Highlights
Think: Less comprehensive, more broad strokes. (I have about 15 minutes before it’s patient time!)
Adventures
- Drive back from the Keys + visited Josh’s parents
- Getting to watch C run in cross country!
- Back to School Night (middle school)
- Mall trip with A’s friend’s mom (with A & G)
- Hosted book club
- Rosh Hashanah dinner in South Miami
- Pumpkin lunch (TJs)
Media
- Books read: The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga, I Wish I Had A Bigger Kitchen by Kate Strickler, These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean (Book Club), Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga (Booker Prize Longlist) plus most of Die with Zero by Bill Perkins and half of Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo. A good reading month!
- Harry Potter 1-4. This has been fun!
Accomplishments
- Getting a new sticker printer (and it works!)
- Prep for BLP Live – workbook is printed, and swag almost done!
- Audiobook recording dates are scheduled!
- Good number of interviews
- Stayed pretty on top of recording stuff despite limited days to work!
- Successfully time tracked for a while using Toggl!
- Finishing up all the required Maintenance of Certification stuff for my 5 year cycle at the American Board of Pediatrics! Due Dec 2026 but nice to be done NOW!
Lowlights
- Moooody (in the beginning of the month)
- Lot of stressful political things. News has been frequently gut-wrenching.
- Had issues with my arrhythmias – but ended up switching meds and now much better (so maybe not really a lowlight, but felt like one at the time)
- My Hobonichi stuck in customs limbo (STILLLLLLLLL – my new theory is that it’s because one of my washi tapes is the “Bird” pattern. That is actually the only “fish and wildlife” reference on the order.)
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What sticker printer did you get and do you like it?
Disregard! I just found it on an earlier post from this month by searching…duh! 🤣
that’s definitely a good month of reading. which fiction was your favorite?
The book i’m reading now- Ninth House! It’s fantasy/dark academic not a genre I read a lot of but glad it was our book club pick.
I am in a TERRIBLE reading rut right now. I ended up with 4 different books going ever since our trip in early August. I think the issue is that none of them were really “that good”. One was a non-fiction about the only American to ever complete a full year long assignment working in food service on a Carnival cruise ship. My sister got it at half priced books when she was home for that family cruise a couple years ago now, thinking it would just be a fun inside look at the cruising industry. She left it here for me. Well, it IS sorta interesting but I’m over 75% done and it’s just dragging now and I haven’t really picked it up in weeks… ha. (But at this point, I also kinda want to see how it all turns out?!) Then I was reading Time Anxiety which I also felt kinda meh about…and then I sort of had 2 personal finance books going (one of Ramit Sethi’s books and the YNAB books) because it was a 2025 goal to read 2 personal finance books. (The Ramit one I also wanted to see if it would be appropriate for the boys as it seemed geared toward younger people/ basics?) I guess in reality I just do not find personal finance that interesting because I have been draaaaaaging on finishing them. Oh, and I also had the ginormous Harry Potter #4 sitting on my nightstand which I renewed 3x and never even started! I kept saying I’d start it once I finished these other books… but it’s so huge that it also looked overwhelming…
I finally just gave up and gathered them all up and took them all back to the library today! hahaha. I’m a completist when it comes to books and very rarely, if ever, DNF books (I don’t read that much to start with, so I always feel like I want “credit” for the books… which is dumb because…credit from whom?!) I think what I need now are a couple of really good ones that I can’t put down. I just put Sandwich on hold- hoping maybe I can get a copy before my NS flight next week??? That’d be fun. I know you loved that one.
It hasn’t helped that we have houseguests/inlaws here and things have just felt chaotic, so I haven’t even felt like I’ve had the best windows of time for reading anyway…. but I need to right the ship here. lol.
the best way to get out of a rut is to ditch all the unfinished books so I think you made the right move! Sandwich was fun AND short so should be a fun way to bounce back into reading. You could probably finish it on the plane alone!!