November hey?

It sneaks up on me every year. Every damn year. It’s almost nearly over and I just noticed it was here.

And now I’m panicking booking travel, trying to figure out how to squeeze in my eldest’s birthday (poor lil’ December babies) and plan for Christmas.

I cannot continue to be shocked by the end of the year. How do we move on from this?

Reading

Damn Good Advice by George Lois. I got it at our local secondhand book store and it was a weird and wonderful read. George Lois is an advertising guru who was apparently the inspo for Don Draper in Mad Men. Very funny, very slap dash, very contradictory book but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I also listened to Smoke Gets In Your Eyes written by a young woman cremator. Fascinating stuff.

Watching

Breaking Bad of all things. Yes, we watched it the first time around, yes we are Breaking Bad tragics. After our first viewing it was so intense we weren’t sure we’d ever re-watch it. When we watched Better Call Saul we decided it warranted a revisit and we’re just as re-obsessed with it. I’m also watching season 2 of Nobody Wants This and it’s fab. Weirdly it’s romanticising LA for me which almost never happens. I’m usually an NY gal.

Listening

To another Lisa Jewell book called Then She Was Gone. It’s okay, production value isn’t as good as None of This is True.

Eating

I’ve been cooking ‘proper’ meals on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights from the Skinnytaste High Protein book. It’s been quite incredible actually. My kids have eaten tofu bowls, white bean and pesto pasta and even quinoa! I’m shook. I lose steam by Thursday and we do eggs on toast and Friday is air fryer fish and chip night. Balance. Can recommend a nice mix of fancy and basic meals through out the week though. You don’t have to be a chicken nugget family OR a home cooked meal family. Totally cool to be both.

Wearing

My new Dr Marten Blairs. I haven’t worn Docs since I was at uni and I forgot what a bastard they are to break in. I’m committed though. Thick socks and wearing them at home 24/7. It’s too chilly to wear them in real life yet so hopefully by summer they’ll be soft and lovely. Everything above is Alpha60, Variety Hour and COS.

Doing

I went away over the weekend to see my mate in Equus and get my hair cut. And this weekend we’re off camping. We’ve been wanting to get a caravan for ages and we finally found a second hand one in a model we’ve been wanting for a steal. Big4s here we come.

Work is absolutely heckers atm but should chill out by December. Maybe.

How are you? Anything you want to recommend?

Chat soon!

Carly

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