Pencils

Here is the link to the pencils I was talking about yesterday: PENCILS .  As it turns out, they are actually called resolution pencils, which makes much more sense than conquering pencils.  The one that really caught my eye was Conquer the Souffle, it made me think about conquering something, rather than resolving to do it, or making a goal towards it.  I guess I feel like my goals, and resolutions mostly just set me up for failure.  Whereas if I set out to conquer something, there is a beginning, middle, and end.  Once it's conquered I can move onto the next thing I want to conquer.  Anyways, if Kate Spade makes them next year, I HIGHLY recommend getting them.  They are the cutest little pencils, and they work fantastically.  


In other news, I finished The Red Tent by Anita Diamant on Sunday, and spent an entire day bookless yesterday (my library isn't open on Sundays, and I get to work before it opens)!  Which ended up not being as tragic as I thought it might be.  Knowing I had 2 books waiting for me at the library made it a little more bearable.  Instead, I spent my lunch hour reading a magazine, which is also a good way to spend the hour.  But today, I started a new book, Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert.  I read Eat, Pray, Love by her a few years ago and fell in love (did not however fall in love with the movie), there was something about how she wrote it, and was particular about every part of it (dividing it into 3 parts, making sure she had the right number of chapters) that really struck me, it just reminds me that some authors take the time to pay attention to that stuff.  Besides that, it's a great adventure book.  The book club I am a part of chose Committed of our February books (I like to read them at least a month ahead of time just to stay on track).  I hadn't planned on reading this, but once the book club picked it, I thought I'd give it a try.  With no expectations, I'm already really enjoying it.  I think, so far, it's interesting that she's weaving both the history of marriage into her personal story of marriage, that way it's not entirely autobiographical, informative as well.  As soon as I'm done with this for tonight it's back to reading.  


But about The Red Tent, I started that on the advice of my younger sister and mother.  I wasn't entirely sure what to expect, and after the first 50-100 pages I still wasn't sure what to expect.  Then came pages 150+, and I was hooked.  What a story, about love, life, and the history we make, all centered around one woman's story.  It made me stop and think about women's history, how in this story, it was passed down generation to generation through stories and rites of passage.  And in my life how traditions in my family, especially, have been passed down.  Some of them cooking, some of them sewing, some of them other things.  But how those stories and that history carries on.  This book was also an interesting look at womanhood, and what rites of passage happen.  In this family very specific ones, in others, not so much.  It was interesting that Dinah had 4 mothers, each from different backgrounds, and what those backgrounds taught her about her history and her future.  If you can get through the beginning, I would definitely recommend it, and then pass it on to your favorite women!


That's really all I've got for today.  Week 2 of Couch to 5K is off to a good start.  Haven't really worked on the others too much so far this week.  But onward...