Friday, August 06, 2010

Summer Reading (and whales)

It's kind of amazing what I will do to avoid cleaning my room. This week's extracurricular activities included fixing and then breaking my bike again, driving around Issaquah for the better part of Wednesday night trying to find northeast facing darkness to see the Northern Lights in what would have been at best a 1 in 200 chance of seeing them but was an even longer shot given the clouds and the iPhone's inability to lead us up Tiger Mountain, baking chocolate chip cookies using Karen's secret recipe, completely dismantling (and fixing!) the vacuum I broke over a year ago when I sucked up a superlong string my old roommate used to leave on the floor for her cat to play with, and cutting whales, lobsters, and goldfish out of construction paper because I decided we needed to have an old school (or should I say, "old library") summer reading club.

The August Reading Club is currently accepting members in all locations, so please let me know if you'd like to join. Our theme is preppy New England sea creatures.


P.S. Thanks for the comments, blogger friends (i.e. Tom and Kate, who actually update their blogs)! Yes, it was a long overdue facelift for ye olde nonblog. But I can't take credit for the background photo (but maybe I'll put some time into trying to figure out if I can switch it with one of the many mountain photos I've taken because that would be much cooler).

1 comment:

chloe said...

dude, nice job on the vacuum! i'm impressed. too bad we didn't fix it when my house chore was to vacuum :) what's the book for august? i wonder if i can find it down here. or everyone could read one of the books i brought down with me! right now i'm reading twilight in spanish!