Reading / Watching / Playing - Q4 2025
With absolutely nothing to do with running an accounting firm (because it’s nice to remind ourselves that we’re more than our work), here’s what I’m…
READING
Right now, I’m reading Skipping Christmas by John Grisham for my local book club’s annual Christmas party. If you want to cut straight to the movie, watch Christmas With The Kranks (2004). Apparently it got terrible reviews when it first came out, but Ben and I will hold firm that this is one of our favorite Christmas movies. I’m also currently listening to the audiobook of Sister Wife: A Memoir of Faith, Family, and Finding Freedom by Christine Brown Woolley because I’ve never met a TLC reality series, turned religious trauma, turned hero story that I didn’t love. If you ever watched the show, you might enjoy a look behind the curtain.
WATCHING
With primetime back on this fall, our family is keeping up with season 5 of Ghosts on CBS. For five seasons, it hasn’t yet let us down at being hilarious. Most of the adult humor goes over our younger one’s head and then we have to explain some things to our older kid. Still totally worth it.
PLAYING
Here’s a weird fun fact about me…I like chopping wood in the winter. Like Paul Bunyan style, with an axe. Not in an angry way, more in a peaceful way with a light snow falling around me. Like an odd meditation of sorts. Ben helped me bring home a fallen tree a few weeks back and I just got a sharpening puck to sharpen my axe. When you take time to make your tools work better, your work becomes easier, faster, and less frustrating. (That’s actually a parallel to running an accounting firm, but I said this wasn’t going to be about firm running 😉)
If you’re in the US celebrating Thanksgiving this week, I’m wishing you and yours all the best.
In gratitude,
Erica
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