A Surprise Day Out
I expected this to be a normal workday for me, until Amy suggested a trip downtown and lunch out. We ended up spending most of the day downtown. We did some shopping at a few indie stores (I bought apple soap and a purse) and did a lot of walking! The place Amy picked for lunch wasn't open, so we got to go to my pick, a Mexican restaurant called Mesa. I loooooove Mexican food (as long as it's not too spicy) and omg everything on the menu looked amazing. We ended up getting something called flautas for a starter (yum) and I got a chicken chimichanga (double yum) and a mango margarita (all the yum in the world.) It was such a fun day. This is literally the first time I've actually just wandered around stopping into random stores and had a nice lunch out since before COVID!
On the way home we took the bus further than we needed to so I could pop into the library and get a book that was on hold, then walked from there. I only tracked the Point A to Point B walking we did without stopping (train station to downtown, downtown to train station, library to home) but that was 3 kms! Maybe all that walking will take care of the lunch? Hahahaha.
I'm also on a bad roll with books. Finished this one yesterday and do not recommend.
32. The Day After Oblivion by Tim Washburn
This book follows four sets of people in the week following worldwide nuclear war. A pair of computer scientists try to make it home, where the sister of one has just given birth; teachers and kids on a school trip are also trying to get home; and a nuclear sub searches for a way to refuel. All of the characters are two-dimensional with little to differentiate them, and with an astoundingly unemotional reaction to the end of life as we know it. But then again, they don’t seem concerned about radiation. I mean, they roll their car windows up in hot zones. That’s gotta fix it, right? *sigh* There are some many offputting moments, from the staggeringly high number of people they meet who are in it for rape and murder, to the blossoming romance between a guy whose *wife just died* and a complete stranger, to the crew of the sub cheering when they torpedo Russian or Chinese vessels *days after the war has already devastated the planet*. And let’s not forget the men doing all the shooting/searching/hunting/saving while the women are useless or annoying.
Dates Read: March 31 to April 04
2 out of 5 stars
561 pages
Goodreads Around The Year Challenge 52 - time-related word in title
And my latest Live Free or Die Hard Reward Fic is up by the amazing persnickett. This one is called Thirty-three, in honour of my 33 lbs total lost so far, and it's seriously the best one so far! Her John voice is completely spot-on and I got all swoony. If you are a DH fan, go check it out!
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On the way home we took the bus further than we needed to so I could pop into the library and get a book that was on hold, then walked from there. I only tracked the Point A to Point B walking we did without stopping (train station to downtown, downtown to train station, library to home) but that was 3 kms! Maybe all that walking will take care of the lunch? Hahahaha.
I'm also on a bad roll with books. Finished this one yesterday and do not recommend.
32. The Day After Oblivion by Tim Washburn
This book follows four sets of people in the week following worldwide nuclear war. A pair of computer scientists try to make it home, where the sister of one has just given birth; teachers and kids on a school trip are also trying to get home; and a nuclear sub searches for a way to refuel. All of the characters are two-dimensional with little to differentiate them, and with an astoundingly unemotional reaction to the end of life as we know it. But then again, they don’t seem concerned about radiation. I mean, they roll their car windows up in hot zones. That’s gotta fix it, right? *sigh* There are some many offputting moments, from the staggeringly high number of people they meet who are in it for rape and murder, to the blossoming romance between a guy whose *wife just died* and a complete stranger, to the crew of the sub cheering when they torpedo Russian or Chinese vessels *days after the war has already devastated the planet*. And let’s not forget the men doing all the shooting/searching/hunting/saving while the women are useless or annoying.
Dates Read: March 31 to April 04
2 out of 5 stars
561 pages
Goodreads Around The Year Challenge 52 - time-related word in title
And my latest Live Free or Die Hard Reward Fic is up by the amazing persnickett. This one is called Thirty-three, in honour of my 33 lbs total lost so far, and it's seriously the best one so far! Her John voice is completely spot-on and I got all swoony. If you are a DH fan, go check it out!
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