2017 Year In Review

1. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

March 17th – I turned 33 this year.

Spent the day celebrating a St. Patrick’s Day potluck at work, and then out to dinner with Charlie at Burntwood Tavern in Fairlawn. K, Kenny, Charlie, my parents and I went out to celebrate K’s and my joing birthday at Gigi’s and The Speakeasy.

2. Did anyone close to you die?

I lost two wonderful people this year: DadZ’s friend, Rob Smith, on Valentine’s Day, and Hooman’s wife, Vera, to metastatic breast cancer in July.

3. What vacations/trips did you take?

• May: Cincinnati for the Flying Pig Marathon
• June: Washington, DC for PanCan Advocacy Day (album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/6eX1fWj2R5zmM1j12)
• November: Thanksgiving in Louisville (album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/1LX71KmKtaaMtDtx1)

• Mortgage
• Amazon
• Eating Out

• Mindhunter
• America’s Test Kitchen
• Cook’s Country
• This Old House

• Walt Longmire mysteries.
• Tim Gunn: The Natty Professor: A Master Class on Mentoring, Motivating, and Making It Work!, Tim Gunn
• Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir, Jenny Lawson
• Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, Lindy West
• Sawbones, MacBride Stuart
  (I have literally no recollection of reading/listening to this book. But I still gave it 4 stars on Goodreads.)
• The Great Forgetting, James Renner
  (God, dammit, this book pissed me off.)
• Good Mourning, Elizabeth Meyer
• The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory
• First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies, Kate Anderson Bower
• I’m Just a Person, Tig Notaro
• Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind, Dan Charnas
• Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, Mary Roach
  (I know I finished it, but it wasn’t memorable at all.)
• True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray, James Renner

I also read Nemesis, by Jo Nesbø, but I had a hard time getting into it, and finishing it. I think I’m done with the Harry Hole mysteries. I don’t think I have the patience for them.

• I Doubt It with Dollemore
• The Dork Forest
• Real Crime Profile
• Extra Hot Great
• It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders
• Dressed: the History of Fashion
• Congressional Dish
• How Did This Get Made?
• NPR Politics Podcast
• The Blotter Presents
• The Jackie and Laurie Show
• The Minimalist Podcast
• The Smartest Man in the World
• Stay Tuned with Preet