Surprise! It's a Thursday episode. Sorry for tardying, November really snuck up on us. Tune in for our October updates. It was giving friendship, soup, concerts, for one of us...Covid, and much more. Let’s dig in.

How did you spend your spare time this month:

* AA: seeing the greatest band(s) in the world, watching my best friends get married, acquainting myself with NJ culture, pumpkin patches, QT with my friends 

* MM: concerts concerts concerts! Also weddings weddings! Covid :( watching lots of movies and catching up on my reading goal

Best/Worst:

* Worst:

* MM: aside from the obvious –gestures broadly at the state of humanity– my cats smashed our chemex and I made a truly atrocious smoothie

* AA:  why do we have jobs :( & two of my former employers declared bankruptcy today 

* Best: 

* AA: brown butter corn cake from radio bakery / portobello sandwiches at home 

* MM: matzo ball soup from Celebrity Delyi courtesy of Ted Bristol

Spare Time Rec:

* AA: Boda Borg

* MM: Julia Turshen’s charts

Culture / 3 Things You Need to Know:

* What's happening in Women's Soccer

* Hunger games prequel now that we have both completed the journey 

* Britney Spears The Woman in Me

Look Ahead:

* AA: thanksgiving, fall in NYC, am I going to run a marathon, 3 books away from 100 

* MM: hosting family, MOVEmber, catching up on reading, being a bike girlie

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