Worth getting up for in November: the World’s Largest Operational Frying Pan; the new Gaslight Anthem record; 5:30 meeting; the new Mickey Haller / Harry Bosch novel (Michael Connolly’s Resurrection Walk); Ashley Winstead’s Midnight Is The Darkest Hour; Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake; Alix E. Harrow’s Starling House; federal holidays; Atlas Obscura; women’s college basketball; the…
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worth getting up for: october 2023
Worth getting up for in October 2023: the new Gaslight Anthem record; the new Dave Hause record; the new Ha Ha Tonka record; last year’s American Aquarium record, which I finally got around to; road trips; getting necessary work done on my car (despite the expense); paying off a big debt; leaves changing colors; knocking…
worth getting up for this fall
Worth getting up for this fall: Kev and Angela’s wedding; college basketball, and thus our UNCWBB season tickets starting; house shows; soups in the crock pot; ostentatious displays of Christmas lights; boats covered in Christmas lights; making people I love go look at things that horrify and amaze me all at once; the re-created Rathskellar…
worth getting up for this summer
Worth getting up over the summer and September: visits from old friends; enormous grill dinners; the USWNT winning the World Cup; Kacey Musgraves’ Pageant Material; floppy hat night at Camden Yards; walk-off home runs; my sister’s puppies and our kittens; Trav, forever; episodes of Psych I haven’t seen before; True Detective, mostly; summer productions of Gilbert &…
worth getting up for so far in 2015
Worth getting up for: Trav; Trav living in my house; Trav’s couch; the kittens; Scott Antique Market in Atlanta; the grill on my back porch; North Carolina getting green; baseball; the NBA playoffs; house concerts; Smitten Kitchen’s roasted tomato Israeli pearl couscous recipe; kebabs; my garden; the Carolina wren nesting in my watering can planter;…
are we outta the woods yet
1. tales of new year’s festivities I took the afternoon off to watch TCU kick the crap out of Ole Miss, napped through Boise’s win, and then enjoyed the hell out of Georgia Tech whooping on Mississippi State, while eating half a wedge of brie, pantsless, in bed. 2. accounting for some unfinished business are…
worth getting up for in july
Worth getting up for in July: the Orioles in first place; two new posts on the hot dog blog; Wild Child; PHOX; the Shilohs and the Fresh & Onlys and Estrangers; Merge 25; old college friends; the new student books from Carleton with old college friends; mozzarella cheese; cold roast chicken; my dad; two new…
worth getting up for in april
Worth getting up for in April: the house got ceilings and walls and some floors; time in Augusta with my sister; time in Atlanta with Trav, and that day he and I sat on the couch for 12 hours watching the NBA playoffs; Record Store Day; Allie visiting; the South in springtime; the flowers in my…
worth getting up for in march
I can’t believe I haven’t made a Worth Getting Up For post since November. Maybe that’s why the last four months have sucked the big one. Anyway. Worth getting up for in March: baseball; daffodils; picking out countertops and floors for the house; every single late night conversation with Trav; the guys from This Is…
worth getting up for in november
Worth getting up for in November: Gross Ghost’s CD release show; having my offer on the townhouse accepted; cold weather; the start of Grimm season 3; four day weekends; the satisfaction of cleaning out your closet; The Newport Effect; the new Mason Jennings album; the song about Patti Smith on the new Mason Jennings album;…
brand new kind of photography 