Making Lists

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Readers of this blog know I have a thing  for making lists. For Christmas this year, I decided to participate in a bookish Secret Santa, and my favorite gift from Booksnob's Blog was this: Listography: One List a Day, A Three-Year-Journal. Each morning when I wake up, I look at that day's prompt. Some mornings I know immediately what I want to write for one or all of the lines on my list, but other mornings, I've been stumped. Three things I want to stay away from? After reading about nitrates in bacon, that was the first things I thought of. But two more? It took me all day. So far, I'm really enjoying the time I spent writing and thinking about my little lists each day. I'm excited to have this be my new habit, as it will be even more fun next year, when I can also look back at what I wrote each day this year. But perhaps my favorite thing about this book is that it's something I would never have discovered or bought for myself, yet it's the perfect little addition to my life and my days.

I also got some yummy chocolates, which I shared with my family, kitchen towels (one can never have enough!), and Girl Waits with Gun, which is a book I've been meaning to read since before it came out because it combines so many of my favorite things: historical fiction, a mystery, and fiction based on real women. I'll get to it soon, I hope.

Want to make your own lists each day? Buy Listography: One List a Day from Amazon (no Kindle edition.)

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Comments

  1. raidergirl3January 9, 2019 at 12:15 PM

    We have the Listography game! Great for the cottage. We like finding games we can all still sit around the living room playing. I'm going to look for that book.

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  2. Gayle WeiswasserJanuary 9, 2019 at 11:34 PM

    I bought Listography! Thanks! My kids have three year journals and they are awesome.

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  3. Laura Kozy LanikJanuary 12, 2019 at 12:13 PM

    I'm glad you enjoyed your gift.

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