Hi, I’m Laura. I’m training for a marathon to raise money for charity. I eat Paleo. Tumblr (3.0; @maybe-not)http://maybe-not.net/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz8ogcjwuX1qz6zzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Bitches love my new haircut</b></p>http://maybe-not.net/post/446091632http://maybe-not.net/post/446091632Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:16:40 -0500<p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270008.Marriage_a_History_From_Obedience_to_Intimacy_or_How_Love_Conquered_Marriage"><img border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173299385m/270008.jpg" alt="Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage"/></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270008.Marriage_a_History_From_Obedience_to_Intimacy_or_How_Love_Conquered_Marriage">Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6640.Stephanie_Coontz">Stephanie Coontz</a><br/><br/>This book is frustrating. It’s very informative and incredibly interesting (as Liz Gilbert promised in Committed), but it’s very hard to read. The book is organized by periods of history, but jumps around so wildly from anecdote to anecdote in different parts of the world. I find myself almost tired trying to keep up with the one paragraph about this, three paragraphs about that, a page here, a page there, pace of the book. There are all sorts of great moments and things that really make me think, but not enough time is spent on any one anecdote that I can stop to think about. Blah.</p> <p>I would REALLY like to finish it, but I don’t know if I’m going to be able to. Putting in on hold for some solid fiction. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1338441-laura-d">View all my reviews »</a></p>http://maybe-not.net/post/443422720http://maybe-not.net/post/443422720Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0500book reviewbook<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://maybe-not.net/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/443241789/tumblr_kz5jduOkzp1qz7vv6&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p><a href="http://annamarie.tumblr.com/post/442646338/giving-up-the-gun-vampire-weekend-seriously">annamarie</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Giving Up The Gun - Vampire Weekend</p> <p>Seriously, what were they thinking making “Cousins” the single?  This song clearly should have been the first single.</p> </blockquote> <p>My fave song on the album!</p>http://maybe-not.net/post/443241789http://maybe-not.net/post/443241789Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:39:22 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz4vhdXZi61qz6zzjo1_250.png"/><br/><br/><p>Sometimes my Google Bookmark tags make me lol (I’m in the process of cleaning them up.  EPIC is assigned to a comprehensive page of almost every restaurant ever and nutrition facts.  KEEPING IT.)</p>http://maybe-not.net/post/442103446http://maybe-not.net/post/442103446Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:00:00 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz4lhsxCMd1qz6zzjo1_r2_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Every time I start doing this, it’s just so freaking interesting.  Hopefully this time I will actually put the information to use.</p> <p>It certainly reflects where <a href="http://laura.gpowered.net">my life</a> is at <a href="http://paleo.maybe-not.net">right now</a>.</p> <p>Later this year, when my health and fitness is at a nice stasis (hopefully), finances is going to be the next area of my life I tackle head-on.</p>http://maybe-not.net/post/441398432http://maybe-not.net/post/441398432Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:22:00 -0500personal finance<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kytzalaWIC1qz6zzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Hormones, you win</b></p>http://maybe-not.net/post/428981021http://maybe-not.net/post/428981021Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:47:10 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyq5mokS6S1qz6zzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>Just saw this in the kitchen at work:</b> <p>Makes me feel greeeat.</p>http://maybe-not.net/post/424735594http://maybe-not.net/post/424735594Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:12:57 -0500<p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2429135.The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tattoo"><img alt="The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255570700m/2429135.jpg"/></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2429135.The_Girl_with_the_Dragon_Tattoo">The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/706255.Stieg_Larsson">Stieg Larsson</a><br/><br/> My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/88030070">5 of 5 stars</a></p> <p>This book really sucked me in. It took a solid 50 (nook) pages to get going (some of the initially story setup was a yawn-fest), but once the book got going I was hooked. The mystery our protagonist needs to solve is intriguing, the family that is mired in the craziness is fascinating, and the character development is engaging.</p> <p>Tons of Swedish references, which were a little distracting at times (and yet they always talked temperature in Fahrenheit). Some of the techno-babble seemed like it was trying too hard. But overall, a solid mystery (or a mystery within a mystery).</p> <p>When I started the book, I didn’t realize it was the first in a trilogy. Now I’m looking forward to the next two books! <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1338441-laura-d">View all my reviews »</a></p>http://maybe-not.net/post/418347714http://maybe-not.net/post/418347714Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:50:14 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kygp44fUhv1qz6zzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>Every time I see myself in a mirror, I think Where’s Waldo?</b></p>http://maybe-not.net/post/413664371http://maybe-not.net/post/413664371Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:37:22 -0500<a href="http://ashleyannphotography.com/blog/2010/02/15/diy-notebooks-crayons-to-haiti-with-love/">This just nearly made me cry.</a>http://maybe-not.net/post/411630400http://maybe-not.net/post/411630400Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:49:58 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kycn2vrvth1qz6zzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I’ve been inspired by <a href="http://www.academichic.com/">Academichic’s</a> focus on scarfs this month and have been trying some variations myself.  Great way to spice up a plain long-sleeved tee from Target.</p>http://maybe-not.net/post/409088954http://maybe-not.net/post/409088954Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:04:06 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky9ku4Am8P1qz6zzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>Trying Icelandic yogurt for the first time:</b> <p>Thicker and tarter than Greek yogurt (if you can believe it). I’m on the fence. Have another at home to try this week. The tartness is making me eat it slowly, which is good.</p>http://maybe-not.net/post/405600624http://maybe-not.net/post/405600624Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:21:40 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky9agil5d11qzbvcio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://doree.tumblr.com/post/405278197/thatsimportant-crippingly-important">doree</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://thatsimportant.tumblr.com/post/405267358/crippingly-important-massachusetts-restaurant">thatsimportant</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Crippingly Important Massachusetts Restaurant</p> </blockquote> <p>My aunt and uncle lived, actually still live, in Peabody, and so we’d always pass Hilltop, which is in Saugus, on Route 1 on our way to visit them. There was always much remarking on the line that went all the way around the restaurant, in a “we would <i>never</i> wait in that kind of line, are those people crazy” kind of way, but even as a child I suspected it was because my parents thought Hilltop was “expensive.” We usually went instead to Godfried’s Deli, which no longer exists, where I learned about blintzes.</p> </blockquote> <p>I just realized I need to take Tim here (and any other New Yorkers who are deprived).</p>http://maybe-not.net/post/405546165http://maybe-not.net/post/405546165Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:51:30 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky3qxlYodO1qz6zzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>There has been a paperclip in this toiler for days:</b> <p>I’m really surprised it hasn’t flushed!</p>http://maybe-not.net/post/398947078http://maybe-not.net/post/398947078Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:48:28 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky3hu6E9zM1qz6zzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Really, WeightWatchers?  Effing?</p>http://maybe-not.net/post/398695405http://maybe-not.net/post/398695405Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:32:30 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky06rotdQb1qz6zzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>Duane Reade didn’t have tablespoons:</b> <p>So this kids medicine thingy will do for measuring salad dressing. This is WeighWatchers dedication people!</p>http://maybe-not.net/post/395194453http://maybe-not.net/post/395194453Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:40:15 -0500<p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/343.Perfume_The_Story_of_a_Murderer"><img alt="Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41UJkoYGPpL._SX106_.jpg"/></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/343.Perfume_The_Story_of_a_Murderer">Perfume: The Story of a Murderer</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/39402.Patrick_S_skind">Patrick Süskind</a><br/><br/> My rating: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70455783">3 of 5 stars</a></p> <p>So I don’t really know what to say about this book. It was recommended to me by a friend, and I didn’t know what to expect. The story itself was interesting (the world’s greatest perfumer who steals the essence of young girls). But the writing was just, ugh. It was too much. The author was trying too hard. The story meandered off to places that were uninteresting (his years spent in a cave? yawn) and the flowery writing did too much telling and not enough showing. I was certainly interested enough in the story to keep reading, but reading felt a bit arduous at times.</p> <p>The book has some really good reviews on Goodreads, so as with all books, it’s a matter of personal taste. I’m glad I gave it a try, but meh. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1338441-laura-d">View all my reviews »</a></p>http://maybe-not.net/post/391984157http://maybe-not.net/post/391984157Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:04:15 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxsotmybmc1qz6zzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>True dedication to Paleo: @broderboy eats salmon on the bus</b></p>http://maybe-not.net/post/387616304http://maybe-not.net/post/387616304Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:29:47 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxplrwL8XZ1qz6zzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://smittenkitchen.com/2010/02/chocolate-souffle-cupcakes-with-mint-cream/">chocolate soufflé cupcakes with mint cream | smitten kitchen</a></p>http://maybe-not.net/post/384851062http://maybe-not.net/post/384851062Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:31:08 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxp1vb4fzL1qz6zzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><b>Ugh:</b> <p>I totally forget how to do simple multiplication.</p>http://maybe-not.net/post/384218896http://maybe-not.net/post/384218896Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:21:13 -0500