Currently…
Adapted from Fourth Street Review and further inspired by A Slice of Brie:
Making: Anything Chef at Home tells me to. Especially these biscuits. But especially these brownies, which won me second prize at a community bake-off.
Drinking: Store brand mint tea.
Reading: Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin. I’m getting Bonjour Tristesse and The Great Gatsby vibes.
Coveting: Wolford Velvet de Luxe 66 Tights, after reading this article about the best tights. You get what you pay for.
Listening: Whatever’s playing on CBC Radio 2. I like the new Hozier song. I also like Hozier himself. Let’s not dwell on the fact that he was born in the 90s. Also this classical mix for at work.
Watching: Booktube. I’m looking forward to watching the Wolf Hall adaptation with Damien Lewis as Henry VIII. It’s like The Tudors meets The Forsyte Saga!
Smelling: Chicken broth simmering and cookies baking. I’m repressing some powerful emotions tonight.
Wishing: For time alone that doesn’t involve a grocery store or a cubicle.
Enjoying: Fires and hot chocolate. Winter arrived this weekend.
Loving: Getting back to blogging after a month off and jumping right into Novellas in November.
Needing: To figure out how to fit in my introvert-recharging-time. Work is very busy with meetings and presentations, which I find extremely draining. Home is, well, a two year old and a four year old who need constant supervision, assurance, guidance, and refereeing. I’ve taken to waking up at 5am to have some time alone.
Feeling: A bit scattered.
Wearing: Leggings as pants. Come at me, fashion people.
Wanting: To start writing in a journal. I’ve been trying, but it’s a tough habit to form.
Bookmarking: Think pieces on book reviews, as I get ready to write my own.
Aiming: To find a balance between planning and doing, here on the blog, at work, at home. When it comes to things I’m most passionate about, I get stuck in the planning phase. When it comes to things I *have* to do, I just jump in, to get it over with. Neither extreme is working too well.
Reading in Bed 
What a lovely photo. Laura, you have a gorgeous family! Sounds like there’s a lot of things you would like to do, but very little time. I feel with your pain.
Yeah, that’s exactly it!
I have never heard of this currently business. Now I know I think! 🙂 Writing journals is tough. I tried when traveling… it was abandoned as soon as I got off the plane!
I know, it always seems like a good idea but when you sit down to do it… nope.
The photos interspersed are a nice touch. And, beautiful, too.
Giovanni’s Room sounds awesome – I’ve never read James Baldwin.
No wonder you feel a bit scattered, if you wake up at 5am every morning!
I can empathize with your need for alone time – where, oh where can it be?
I love this. If I have time, maybe I will steal it. 🙂
Do it! Yeah I have to get up at 5:30 anyway, and I’ve been setting my alarm for 5 and hitting snooze for a half hour, which is kind of pointless.
Ha! I do that, too! Except for an hour later.
As long as your bum is covered, leggings for the win! (My husband and I have this argument/discussion every time I try to leave the house in them, haha!). I haven’t journaled since I was a teen, then a year or so ago, I tried to just write one line a day in one of those “one line a day” diaries, and even that I couldn’t keep up. We need more hours in the day, don’t we? And, beautiful family photo!!
Yes! Leggings-aren’t-pants people are so weird. The only difference I see from “pants” is that they fit me and are comfortable. Oh the horror.
LOVE the family photo. So great!
Thanks! PS where you been? Don’t see you as much round the Twitters/blogs etc…
I’ve been in the mood to just read–haven’t been online much. I still read everyone’s blogs every day, and I’m hoping to start blogging more regularly again soon.
Gorgeous family photo! And yeah … I’m living in leggings right now. And I’m like Brie … as long as the bum is covered, I’m good. I’m trying to find that balance, too … I love the planning stages, but I find that the planning has to be quicker than it was in the past because if I don’t get doing, it’ll never get done. And yeah … 5am is golden time. 🙂 I’m training the boy to sleep until 7, so that gives me two glorious hours to get things done!