Council Mondays are not my favorite.
When I first started working at the Village, all of my co-workers bemoaned Council Mondays and how crazy they seemed. I must admit, after three and a half years of working here, their theory bears out-anything weird that can happen does on Council Mondays.
But, that being said, I had a weekend full of things that are my favorite (with the exception of the girls being with their dad-never a favorite-but I have learned through four years of this being alone every other weekend thing to plan a lot of stuff-keeping busy, especially with things that I enjoy spending time doing, is the key (quite literally) to sanity).
Peanut Butter Falcon
This quiet movie is one of my favorites for the year. The screenplay was specifically written for star Zack Gottsagen, who has Down Syndrome, and it is quite pitch perfect. I’m not a huge Shia LaBeouf fan but this movie might have made me one.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who finds herself needing therapy after an extremely painful breakup. (Most anything that is a true story about an extremely painful breakup is on my radar to read, always hoping to glean some kind of best practice for how to move on from a broken heart.) This is a non-fiction book, so to say that it was eye opening is an understatement. As an advocate for therapy, I feel that for nearly anyone in therapy or considering therapy, this should be required reading. She pulls back the curtain on both her own therapy and some of her clients that she has been given permission to share. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey
I’ll preface by saying I liked the idea behind this book better than the actual writing, although by the end I was charmed by the story. The writing could use some tightening. But I freely admit that I love rom coms, especially ones written by Nora Ephron, and Winfrey is trying her best to spin a romance around that specific love-it’s harder to do than it looks, and some of the writing is clunky as a result. But the story is set in German Village (The Book Loft is one particular setting) and as a total romantic at heart, I enjoyed this story.
1619
This podcast is blowing me away- it is profound and amazing and all the words to mean I am forever grateful to be learning so much. Episode 3, which dropped this past weekend, “The Birth of American Music,” is fantastic- I wrote an essay in college about cultural appropriation of R&B in the 1950s and rap music in the late 1980s and early 1990s that was one of my favorite essays ever to write (mostly because I love music and this was an excuse to listen to a lot of it). This podcast is in the same vein, and filled with music (I do adore yacht rock). It’s the bomb.
I also got out all the pumpkins and watched the Buckeyes win and the Browns lose and the most amazing Rafa Nadal win his 19th grand slam title and watched Serena just lose her grasp on her 24th. All in all, a weekend with slightly more good than bad (though my Browns did manage to crush my heart-I have a feeling that I will always and forever love the most the people who hurt me the most in the end).
