Absentee Blogging

Things have been busy around here in a decidedly non-fun way this week. Work is a bit crazy--not so much hectic as frustrating--while I've had some family stuff going on as well. And today I had oodles of fun trying unsuccessfully to deal with the local board of elections. I also spent my free time this week watching the entire first season of Brothers and Sisters (next up, Friday Night Lights). The result of this is that I don't actually have much of anything interesting to blog about.

So instead you're getting my itty-bitty and definitely late New Year's Resolutions. I don't actually like the holiday and I don't normally make resolutions, but I've been having one of those months when I feel like my life could use a little organization. And here they are:

• I will read no more than three books at once. I know it's not unusual to read a bunch of books at once, but I feel like it's interfering with my enjoyment of the books. Right now I'm in the process of reading:
• Memoirs of an Anti-Semite
• Empire Falls
• The Evening Land
• The Book of Daniel
• I, Claudius
• The Towers of Trebizond
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
• Homo Faber
• An ARC for a book my company is publishing in the spring
• I will get rid of the books I will never, ever read and only took in the first place because they were free.
  
• I will brush the cat at least once a week. It's easy and he loves it so there's no excuse not to do it.
  
• I will pack a lunch more frequently than I buy one. Because I could really use the money.
• I will clean the bathroom on a regular basis (I totally think this counts as a big resolution).

And really I think that's quite enough, no?