Mag Addict

Only a few of my addictions last year after year after year. And I don't think that's always a bad thing. Diet Coke is one habit though that I'm going to try and give up this week. Just because.

My other serious fix is reading magazines. Any kind of magazine, but especially health magazines, Real Simple, food magazines, and gossip/entertainment magazines. It's funny because all I do is read for school and work and research, but what I'd most like to read is mindless, feel-good, picture-filled, info-packed magazines. To "help" with my habit, I started a 3-ring binder a few years ago and if I HAD to keep an article, idea, pictures, web link, etc. I could tear out the page I needed, archive it, and toss/recycle the rest of the magazine.

But then you get one huge binder of stuff and every single page is interesting. So now I need to act on a few of my finds to clear the clutter. No more good intentions, I want results. And I'll share some of my favorites here and save you the trouble of buying the issues yourself...

There will be a few categories to help:

• to buy
• to do
• to cook

I won't necessarily act upon each, most of the "to buy's" will be a wish list and many of the "to cook's" will just have to wait. But this will feel so good.