January Wrap-Up

~ Emily Bourque
This month has been long and exhausting, but it has also been one of the best Januarys I have had in recent memory. I’ve been making an effort to be more intentional… choosing things that will bring me happiness, letting go of the things that bring me down, and making an effort to spend more time on reflection. While all things political have brought me down (down… down… down…), I’ve been counteracting that with things that uplift me and make my spirit sing (like watching my students in a play or cheering on my favorite cheerleaders at competition). Here’s to a good start to 2017.

 


January in One Word: Renewal

My Favorite Memories in January 2017:

  • A lazy New Year’s day after a long New Year’s eve
  • Finding new and better ways to help my sanity
  • Getting into my new Bullet Journal and journaling every day for the entire month of January!
  • Bringing my cheerleaders to SCA Nationals and placing second
  • Listening to some of the most influential women leaders march on Washington
  • A long, slow, productive week while most of my students were on college tours
  • Movie dates and play dates and fun with friends
  • Finding new podcasts to entertain, enlighten, and distract me from the treadmill
  • Weekends filled with friends and family before tax season consumes our lives

Books I Read this Month: 

  • The Perfect Girl by Gilly Macmillan (Review)
  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Review)
  • The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
  • Complicit by Stephanie Kuehn (Review)

Articles from Around the Web:

3 Things I’m Looking Forward to in February:

  • My very first Mardi Gras Ball!
  • Another book club wedding to celebrate
  • A week off for Mardi Gras, where I can hopefully put our house back together

Favorite Quote from a Book I Read this Month:

“As soon as my log-in sequence completed, a window popped up on my display, informing me that today was an election day. Now that I was eighteen, I could vote, in both the OASIS elections and the elections for U.S. government officials. I didn’t bother with the latter, because I didn’t see the point. The once-great country into which I’d been born now resembled its former self in name only. It didn’t matter who was in charge. Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone knew it. Besides, now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

Published by Emily Bourque