#1192 sorting clothes and reading

Today is Friday, the last work day of my stay-at-home vacation. I really did stay at home most of the day. I pulled out all of my summer-y clothes, tried everything on and sent a whole bunch to the donation center and washed the rest to move into my wardrobe rotation. Then I put all my sweaters away into the storage to pull out when the weather turns cold. It's one of those seasonal things I like to do because, well, we have seasons here and you don't wear the same clothes year 'round.

Trying on all my summer-y clothes was bittersweet. I had a LOT that no longer fit me. Truthfully, they didn't fit last summer either but last summer I was too lazy and uninterested to even go through them so really I hadn't worn them for a couple of years. Still, it was depressing because those darn clothes had become way too small. (Notice it was the clothes being too small, not the clothes-wearer being too large.)

Some of the tops were really cute, but they did look a little dated and some were pretty faded. Next weekend my BFF LA is coming to visit and we are going to go shopping together. She has instructed me to put together a list of things I want to buy. I'm a bit intimidated about the prospect of a clothing list, but I'm willing to give it a try.

I was especially proud that as soon as I was done with my sorting, I bagged the clothes up and took them to the donation center. I did keep one or two pieces of clothing in the smallest size I was, just as I kept a couple of pieces in the largest size I was. It's good to remember. I would certainly not like to be the largest size again, but I would totally love to be the smallest size. Right now I'm pretty much in the middle.

I also gave my bathroom a bit of a cleaning. I'll be more vigorous about it this weekend, but it does look (and smell) better.

Mostly, though, I read. Yesterday I started a reading a book I had read several years ago, Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin. I remember that when I read it before, I liked it even though I wasn't comfortable with the premise (girl falls in love and has an affair with her best friend's fiance.) When the movie came out, I was much more tolerant with the lovers because the best friend, played by Kate Hudson, was just so unlikable, as she is in the book, but having her brought to life by Kate Hudson just made her unbearable. And Ginnifer Goodwin was Rachel and I like Ginnifer so it was ok.

I thought I really liked the movie, but the book really is so much better. You get all of the remorse and hopefulness and hopelessness that Rachel feels about falling in love with Dex. A book just gives you so much more detail and back-story.

Anyway, I finished the book tonight. I started it yesterday afternoon and finished it just now. It was awesome to just read through a book like that without worrying about having to do something else. What a decadent pleasure!

Something Borrowed makes seven books I have finished reading in May. Seven! I think that's a personal best. Of course I only finished one book in April, but I was reading two books that were both nearly 600 pages each. I read the bulk of them in April and finished them in May. Still, if I didn't count the two that I read the majority of in April, that would be five books this month. That's a lot for me.

Tomorrow I think I will go to a movie and probably to the driving range to hit some golf balls. I was feeling a little sore in the neck and shoulders on Thursday, so I didn't feel like hitting balls. Today I was going through my clothes and reading, so I couldn't mess with golf.

I finished a book! Check out the 2014 Reading Page.