I need a different subject line than "Oops"
Got distracted yesterday and forgot to post an entry. Again. Oops. So many oopses.
I have been eating All The Tacos since Sunday, and I still have enough fixin's to probably keep eating tacos until next Sunday. No complaints, I am happy to eat the same thing multiple days in a row, tbh.
I have momentarily misplaced my Kindle, which is mildly annoying, as I have things on there that I sort of wanted to read. Ish. I have been terrible about reading for years now. Right around when I moved to Ottawa and my brain finished its long journey turning into mush. I was reading very regularly right up until pdaughter moved in with Bean, and then I got busy (to put it politely) and then things got stressful (to put it even more politely), and somehow the reaction my brain had to that particular brand of stress was to just stop functioning except at the most basic subsistence level.
I'm a bit better than I used to be, but unless the conditions are "perfect" I find I can't read new material easily. I don't absorb what I'm reading, and have to re-read the same paragraph two or sometimes three times. Then if more than a day goes by before I can pick up the book again, I find I've forgotten everything I read and have to start over. It's discouraging, to say the least. When I was reading regularly I could easily read 5-10 books a week. I used to read English fiction at a rate of about 100 pages an hour, and it was one of my favourite things to do to just set aside a weekend and read, like, five books in a single sitting, especially if I'd just found a series I liked.
Anyway, I am slowly getting back into reading. Luckily, re-reading books isn't a problem, and I've always enjoyed re-reading favourite books. Last year I made my way through the Dresden Files and the Resident Evil novelizations (which held up surprisingly well!). So next on my list of things is to find my Kindle. Maybe in order to "encourage" myself to read I will post little book reports about what I'm reading. Hopefully I will remember that I decided to do this. :P
It might be in my backpack. I will check there first as soon as I shut down the computer.
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I have been eating All The Tacos since Sunday, and I still have enough fixin's to probably keep eating tacos until next Sunday. No complaints, I am happy to eat the same thing multiple days in a row, tbh.
I have momentarily misplaced my Kindle, which is mildly annoying, as I have things on there that I sort of wanted to read. Ish. I have been terrible about reading for years now. Right around when I moved to Ottawa and my brain finished its long journey turning into mush. I was reading very regularly right up until pdaughter moved in with Bean, and then I got busy (to put it politely) and then things got stressful (to put it even more politely), and somehow the reaction my brain had to that particular brand of stress was to just stop functioning except at the most basic subsistence level.
I'm a bit better than I used to be, but unless the conditions are "perfect" I find I can't read new material easily. I don't absorb what I'm reading, and have to re-read the same paragraph two or sometimes three times. Then if more than a day goes by before I can pick up the book again, I find I've forgotten everything I read and have to start over. It's discouraging, to say the least. When I was reading regularly I could easily read 5-10 books a week. I used to read English fiction at a rate of about 100 pages an hour, and it was one of my favourite things to do to just set aside a weekend and read, like, five books in a single sitting, especially if I'd just found a series I liked.
Anyway, I am slowly getting back into reading. Luckily, re-reading books isn't a problem, and I've always enjoyed re-reading favourite books. Last year I made my way through the Dresden Files and the Resident Evil novelizations (which held up surprisingly well!). So next on my list of things is to find my Kindle. Maybe in order to "encourage" myself to read I will post little book reports about what I'm reading. Hopefully I will remember that I decided to do this. :P
It might be in my backpack. I will check there first as soon as I shut down the computer.
This entry was originally posted at https://mousme.dreamwidth.org/1485812.html, where there are currently
comments. Feel free to comment wherever you'd like!