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Terms of the Duel

New-Year's resolutions have a pronounced and infamous tendency to fall by the wayside by, say, the 1st of February. Perhaps, however, that is because they are resolved upon, adhered to, and discarded, by solitary individuals. Perhaps what's needed is some good old-fashioned competitive spirit.

The participants:

  1. Ilya Gandelman - desk jockey from 9-5:30, Monday thru Friday. Free time activities include, but are not limited to, writing, reading, watching tv/movies (very selective in this area!), eating Meredith's delicious food, playing with Gizmo, spending time with family and friends.
  2. Meredith Gandelman - also a desk jockey, from 9-6, Monday thru Friday. Free time activities include, but are not limited to, reading, watching tv/movies, cooking/baking for Ilya (and others), snuggling/playing with Gizmo and spending time with family and friends.

The resolutions:

  1. To read more books
  2. To watch less television
  3. To spend less money (by reading library books, and by making our way through unread volumes gathering dust on the shelves)
  4. To spend more quality time together with a shared interest

Therefore, the challenge proposed: who can read the most books in a year? On one side the wife, on the other the husband: who'll get the most volumes under her or his belt before 2015?

The rules:

  1. Books will be chosen independently. Any genre or subject is eligible.
  2. No second thoughts once starting a book. An uncompleted book is not counted, except of course as time lost. We shall have to choose carefully; and if a book seems to be disappointing, best to soldier on through to the end!
  3. A 300-page minimum. However, books briefer than 300 pages may be combined with others to count as one entry in the Duel.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Oh it doesn't show signs of stopping, but we've got some towels for sopping

Pages read today: 233 for Meredith (133 of Coraline, 100 of Gathering Blue), 80 for Ilya 















Water leaks are in full-swing and show no signs of stopping.  So, tonight we really are enacting our slumber party idea (good thing we had kept the sleeping bag out! And yeah...don't judge for the Christmas tree still being up...we've had way too much going on with this water leaking nonsense to deal with getting that taken down).  This will make it easier to get up and switch out towels, since it needs to be done quite frequently.  Thank goodness for a super cute dog and handsome husband to make it all easier to handle.  Though Gizmo really needs a pillow of his own so I don't get dog germs all over mine!

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