This unread magazine project is turning out to be more fun than I imagined.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you might want to check my two previous posts on the topic: unread magazine project and unread magazine project - part 2.
Newsflash - I have all of September's magazines (Martha Stewart Living) read - and I had them read before September! I also made the following recipes as a result: roasted vegetable soup, mushroom soup & honey walnut cake.
Since I completed my September magazines so quickly, I made myself a deal - I could work on August's magazines - as long as - I have them completed by September...and I did.
Why is this such great news? This whittles my year-long magazine reading adventure down a month - so instead of completing in July of next year, I will be complete by June (and possibly May if I keep this up). Yippee!
After completing all of August and September's magazines, I got to shift my magazines around so that the August/September magazines are filed in a plastic magazine holder along with a sticky note that reads: Unread magazine project - August & September - complete!
I'm looking forward to the next few months of magazines, since the focus will be the holidays: Halloween, Thanksgiving & Christmas - fun, fun.
My mountain is beginning to turn into a molehill.
What's something that "feels" like a mountain in your life? What's one thing you can do to begin to shift it into a molehill?
I'd love to hear your comments and discoveries.
Congratulations! Reading a magazine is really being in the moment. I live where I can walk to the grocery store. Last year when the days were getting shorter, like now, I had fixed dinner. My husband came home and ate everything in sight! He was tired and I know did not realize he had eaten my dinner, too! He immediately fell asleep. I decided to walk over to the grocery store to get something. It was early in the evening but dark outside, like what is happening now. If I am going to the grocery store, I am going to "cruise" the magazines. And there it was the "had to buy" magazine! Then the battle in my head of this is a ridiculous expense. The magazine won and with my few groceries came home with me. Immediately I was set up for pure pleasure. I can see it all still now. I had my dinner and then sat on the couch looking at my new prized possession. My husband was asleep nearby. The night of fall was through the windows and I was reading and looking at a fall magazine. Yes it was pure in the moment bliss. I am with you Kelsey. I get this! In this magazine was an article that was particularly meaningful to me and a recipe that I made not long after. It took me forever to give that magazine away. I still have the recipe and although I have not made it since I think of it from time to time. It was delicious and continues to be a reminder of a perfect evening.
Posted by: Toni | September 17, 2009 at 05:18 AM