- picking up 2 new pendants/pendulums that I‘m looking forward to learning how to work with
- flipping through a pendulum book
- making a stack of festival bracelets
- a new bingo board for the last 2/3 of the year
- making chicken fried rice for dinner last night
#5JoysFriday
This evening, my mom and I were watching one of our favorite shows. Todd (one of the main characters of the show) is sitting and waiting for a clue at a restaurant when a series of names are called out for order pickup. One of the names given is my brother's name, Ulysses Joe! How epic!
Just found out that this TV show, So Help Me Todd has been cancelled!!!! Not another one, still not over the cancelation of the Fantasy Island reboot.
April #wrapup #BookspinBingo
I still feel like my reading is off. I DNFed my #Bookspin and got a bingo. I ended up skipping #aam for the month.
Reviews? What are those? 🤪
Total read: 9
Novella - 2
Audio - 4
Novels - 2
Children‘s book - 1
DNF - 1
It‘s the end of the first third of the year, and the beginning of the following third. I only just heard about this challenge today, so I made up a board for myself for the last two-thirds of the year. Ready. Set. Go!
#bingoboardfromhell2024
Here is my #BookspinBingo for May. I will move the titles as needed when @TheAromaofBooks shares the numbers on May 2nd.
#Bookspin #Doublespin
I‘m using a year long list like @TheAromaofBooks does. This month I didn‘t move books from the list on the right. Instead I added a couple more of #MyPartnerPickedIt and ‘one gifted to me,‘ because I have neglected those a bit.
#BookspinBingo list to come.
repost for @CBee
Finally getting around to posting this! It‘s almost #readyourkindle #readyourebooks #readyournook time 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Let me know if you want to be added or removed from my tag list! Happy Tuesday friends!
#ReadingChallenge
original post:
https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2729688
1️⃣ wildflowers
2️⃣ Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser
3️⃣ I‘m hoping to plan at least two movie nights for our family. Just the four of us watching a movie at home. I‘m thinking also takeout pizza, which we only splurge on every few months.
@Eggs Thank you for hosting this fun challenge. I don‘t always participate, but I love reading the answers, and challenges like this really make Litsy feel so welcoming and fun. 🤗
#WondrousWednesday
Placebo has been one of my favorite bands for years now. I was lucky enough to see them back in 2000, and they just released a new live album, which is fantastic 💗
#TuesdayTunes @TieDyeDude
This is one of my all time favorite songs. Someone shared it with me years ago, and it‘s stuck with me when other songs have fallen away. I‘ll try to share the link below. ⬇️
https://open.spotify.com/track/78x7OYkRzXvmflHY18h8bX?si=dpb8gdx_TimY8ZvtLfFkCg
@TieDyeDude #TuesdayTunes
My picks this month. I needed more genres for the badge and debuts and chunksters.
I read six books in April. Empire of the Damned was my favorite ❤️
For #ReadOrDonate as usual I read one of them, This Poison Heart, but will probably donate it and The Coffin Path. @julieclair
I love this question! What a cool idea for something to ask everyone. I‘m really looking forward to going through the tag and checking out everyone else‘s answers.
As for me, I own the most copies of Anne Sexton‘s complete poems. I think I have four copies of it. Possibly five. I have several different editions, some of which are literally falling apart. One of them has been written in heavily. All of them are well loved. #SundayFunday
Tried reading in the past couple of days but was distracted by this view…
(Cabarete Beach, Dominican Republic)
Tried some Venezuelan candy and cookies for #foodandlit. There was lots of chocolate snacks and I liked most of them better than their American counterparts. For example, they had a “crunch” bar and a “Hershey” bar that was better. The hands down favorite was the strawberry bubble gum lollipop and the coconut wafer cookie. @Texreader @Catsandbooks
Sorry honey. I don‘t know what happened. I was running errands all day, was headed home, and realized I needed to go to the bathroom and there was just happened to be Barnes and noble so I ran in to go to the bathroom and I thought I would pick up the #camplitsy books for June and something happened. I think I blacked out, maybe I got sucked into the vortex. Now we have 7 books, a tea towel and a puzzle. In my defense it was also raining.
1. The Power of Love by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
2. Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper
3. Lucky Star by Madonna
^^^I got stuck going down an 80s songs rabbit hole for the past hour. I finally realized there were no perfect 3 songs, because they can‘t really be narrowed down that far. So, with the exception of the first song, the others are not top favorites of mine. They‘re just great songs.
#ThreeListThursday #TLT
The variety of brands and colors and number of rolls for one price and designs of washi tape is mind boggling!! I don‘t mind sparing $10 on this but there are too many choices!! lol #litsylove HELP!! @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4life @TieDyeDude
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” Thich Nhat Hanh
#ThinkPositiveBePositive
#litsylove letters going out today!! @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4life @TieDyeDude
1. Both my great-aunt and my grandma. Also, my granddaddy. All three of them were always kind. I never saw any of them be anything other than gentle and kind.
2. My partner and my two sons.
3. I‘ve always loved Madeleine L‘Engle‘s O‘Keefe family. I wanted to be part of that family when I was a girl. I think I kinda still do.
@Eggs #WondrousWednesday
Happy Earth Day! 🌎 🌍 🌏
I‘d like your recommendations on books that would help someone deal with bullying. They can be for adults or YA. As an AuDHD adult with C-PTSD, I find that I don‘t have the social skills to navigate bullying. I could really use a couple books to help me work my way through it. Nothing triggering, please. Nonfiction is cool, as is fiction, as are graphic novels. I‘m open to anything. ⬇️
Through the Dragoncon in Atlanta, and other cons, I've had the pleasure of meeting Kevin J. Anderson, Jim Butcher, Delilah S. Dawson, Keith R.A. DeCandido, John Jackson Miller, Robert J. Sawyer, S.M. Stirling and Timothy Zahn.
I'd like to meet Neil Gaiman and John Scalzi. Also, Erik Larson, Sam Kean and Mary Beard (3 of my favorite non-fiction writers).
#sundayfunday @BookmarkTavern
I have met quite a few since I became a librarian a couple of years ago. To name a few: Kwame Alexander, Julie Murphy, Tehereh Mafi, Neal Shusterman, Justin Cronin, Dan Santat, Jerry Craft, April Henry, and Tracy Wolff, among others. Thank goodness for librarian conferences! 😁
#SundayFunday
Tried some Venezuelan food for #foodandlit. Wood fired bbq steak, rice and fries, a shredded chicken arepa on the right and a golfeado which is a cinnamon roll with cheese. The soda was strawberry flavored. Everyone loved the food and the drink it‘s gone except for some of the golfeado (it is an acquired taste, not bad but different enough we have some leftover).
The irises are in bloom. I wait all year for this. They‘re so beautiful. I actually go out of my way when driving places to drive by homes with irises in their yards. I keep a running list of which homes have them and which colors they have from the ones I‘ve seen while driving in previous years. The home with the most beautiful iris display changed owners last year, and before they moved, they dug up all their irises. They must‘ve had 200. ⬇️
Who else? Raise those hands haha 🙋🏼♀️
I. Focus. Sometimes I feel so fragmented.
II. Self doubt and unhelpful criticism.
III. I‘m not sure I would describe it as a “win”, but leaving my abusive ex while fighting for and then managing to keep full custody of our sons is probably the thing I‘m proudest of doing.
Anyone else want to play? Consider yourself tagged! 🌺
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
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