Tonight‘s comfort food: 🥔Baked Potato Soup
I may have gotten a little excited with the fake bacon bits🤷🏻♀️
This cookbook is great for whole foods plant-based comfort recipes. I need to explore more recipes in this one to see if I like her other meals.
Here are 5 books for #SnowedIn @TheAromaofBooks
Must share my highly scientifical process:
1. Ohh, there‘s a dog! 🐶
2. Aww, pretty
3. Resting Scrooge Face 🤣🤣🤣
4. I wanna stay at a book club hotel!
5. Mystery involving a train ✅
I hope you like these selections as much as I enjoyed choosing them.
@PuddleJumper
One of my favorite cookbooks. Definitely my favorite slow cooker cookbook.
Made the Garlic Lovers‘ Chili Mac and Cheeze today. Recipe calls for adding 2 cups of cheeze sauce at the end. When I‘ve made previously I used the Daiya fake cheeze sauce. Decided to make homemade cheeze sauce tonight to cut down more on processed foods.
Didn‘t take too long and it was yummy comfort food. After my bowl tonight, I‘ve got 8 more for future meals😋
panMost of this anthology didn‘t hold my attention. Loved the first short story where there‘s a book store that literally straddles the border btwn the divided states of America. Loved the final Groundhog Day type story. Liked 2 others out of 25 total.
Book 3 for #10BeforeTheEnd checked off, though.
#5JoysFriday
🇺🇸Election + ☔️🌧️💧= ☹️ so I decided to be intentional with some decisions this week.
1. Completed placing/cutting the flooring mats in our basement, our indoor dog training/play area
2. Deleted my FB & Instagram accounts
3. Made a yummy batch of minestrone
4. Have a big bin of household goods ready for donation
5. Deleted some apps on my phone, so reorganized my screens, adjusted widget
Seeing this post? You‘re tagged😊
#BookMail for #MidWinterSolace arrived☺️
Looking forward to these. My husband and I are decorating and celebrating for the winter holiday season for the first time together. We‘ve been together for several years, but we‘ve always ignored most holidays. Winter zen sounds so good right now❄️☃️
😊Thanks for tagging me @Sace and @Ddzmini
1. Spots
2. The tagged book is my current library read
#Two4Tuesday
@TheSpineView
Haven‘t been reading fiction, though. Too much time spent doom reading about cabinet appointees. Need to turn that around today.
Just watched Rob Sheffield on Morning Mika.
As someone who used to love pop music back in the 80s, I find myself singing Taylor‘s lyrics because they do remind me of different times in my life. Plus they‘re catchy!
This book seems perfect because I‘m less interested in Taylor‘s personal life, and much more interested in her creative process & business acumen.
#MountTBR
Watched this documentary last night. Found it somewhat comforting, so I thought I‘d share.
Definitely aimed at informed people who understand how complex a problem it is to fix the American Oligarchy. No quick fixes for this one. Building relationships with people who you disagree with is a central theme, which makes sense to me but also frustrates me. Educating people who despise intellectual strength is exhausting.
#WeekendReads
Starting The Family Experiment for the #LitsySciFiBookClub and to keep the dystopias rolling.
pickSaw @TrishB & @BarbaraBB posts, so read over 2 days. Talk about a character study on what it means to be human.
The part where the women keep finding the same results over & over, but with variations on how things look, whoa! Some of those scenes felt very Lord of the Flies to me, but others definitely not. Gave me perspective on how broadly humans react to same situation.
Would have loved to know more plot details, but those aren‘t the point.
#5JoysFriday
1. My dogs
2. My dog trainer who helped me start a solid training plan to keep us busy this winter
3. In Arizona, with 77% of the vote counted, Gallego is maintaining a small lead over Kari Lake. Holding out hope that he wins💙
4. Reading and Litsy have been welcome distractions
5. We put up our first ever Christmas Tree and the soft light it emits is just beautiful
Thought I‘d be reading either a #NFN pick or cozy fantasy next. After that devastating election, though, the tagged book showed up in the mail and I decided to go all in on the dystopian outlook. No idea where this book is going, but I‘m here for the ride.
This quote really hit me, especially when I think of all the people who voted for Trump, and all the people who sat this election out. Being human rests on very little indeed😢
Excited to get this email announcement this morning. Perfect timing for #NonfictionNovember #NFN
If you‘re looking for science-backed reputable books about canine care, Dogwise Publishing is the go-to source.
🎧 They‘ve got 7 audiobooks now with plans to keep adding. Maybe someday the word will spread wide enough to drown out the harmful training techniques from a certain “dog whisperer”🙄 so #DogsOfLitsy may celebrate fear-free communication.
#TenBeforeTheEnd #10BeforeTheEnd
Two books down. Slowly making my way through a sci-fi anthology audiobook. 7 stories completed and I‘ve only enjoyed one of them. 18 more to go. Holding out hope for this collection🤞🏼
Thinking I‘ll be starting Bookshops & Bonedust next🤔
pickChapters rotate through 5 MCs who have different relationships to the marriage act, a govt program that incentivizes couples to marry with better housing, cars, healthcare, & more. While implausible, I also found this dystopia unputdownable. The level of surveillance and AI involvement was highly creepy. Won‘t be buying an Echo any time soon. Second book down for #TenBeforeTheEnd #10BeforeTheEnd
Spent some time putting together this LEGO Ideas “Books are my passion” kit. Just a little zen time before turning on the cable news coverage.
💙🇺🇸🦅 Voted by email, overseas
Got my notification on 10/18 that my ballot had been transferred to batch XYZ to be counted. Saw that AZ started counting last night.
Maybe we see results tonight🤞🏼💙🌵
Husband‘s #BookHaul from the weekend.
3/4 of our home library is nonfiction because he has no shelf control😂 Not that I mind.
I use the library a lot and tend to buy fiction as ebooks, but I love having lots of books surrounding us. Books make the best decor!
#BookHaul for a good cause. My local library put out a call for new or gently used books for kids of all ages.
They partner with P.E.I. Literary Alliance to distribute them over the holidays across the province in Xmas Hampers. I haven‘t read any of these, but the descriptions sounded good and the price point was low enough that I could buy doubles for some. Gotta get books into as many middle school hands as possible.
#SundayFunday
Looking forward to reading this one about how various countries crank out disinformation to undermine democratic nations. Loved her book Nuclear War, so I have high expectations for this one.
Finished making 3 weeks‘ worth of pill pockets for my two pups. Love the recipes from the tagged book. I don‘t make a homemade meals for my two, but I‘m always adding toppers.
The pill pockets are made from cream cheese, bone broth, & coconut flour. Instead of refrigerating the leftover broth, I add it to a saute pan with diced apples to simmer on low until I can smoosh all of the bits for doggy apple sauce. Perfect for lick mats or toppers.
Top picks for #NonfictionNovember #NFN
The top 3 are the ones I want to tackle first. We‘ve been working with an amazing qualified R+ dog trainer for our littlest doodle who‘s doing much better with her anxiety and reactivity. Thankful for mental health meds for dogs! But I really want to dig deeper to boost her quality of life even more.
And I definitely want to address my menopause symptoms so I can be at my best to help littlest doodle.
#5JoysFriday
1. Family trip to East Point Lighthouse
2. Ready to binge S2 of The Diplomat
3. Got my LEGO sets today
4. Kept organizing our home library
5. Cancelled our subscription to The Washington Post
Started this science fiction read last night and it‘s bananas! Characters keep checking their smart watches because for ten minutes every day the government will be listening.
Given how many concerns I have about smart tech listening in right now in my reality, this speculative future is already making my skin crawl.
Adding this to my list of books I‘d like to read for #NonfictionNovember
Saw this author in the documentary The M Factor, which aired on PBS. Highly recommend. Can watch online. May need to use a VPN if you‘re outside the US.
#NFN
#OctoberWrapUp #MonthlyReads
I loved the top 6 books. The Fated Sky was probably my favorite followed closely by Legends & Lattes.
The bottom four prepper books were awful. Bought these to read for hurricane season. They were so general and focused on apocalypse type events. Not helpful for the person Prepping for Tuesday, not Doomsday.
#ThreeListThursday #TLT
Loving being back on Litsy because of all the fun game cards I keep seeing, and then there‘s these cool list surveys as well. Thanks @dabbe for organizing🙌🏼
There were several authors who I‘ve read, but not the actual book listed by Time. Clearly I have lots of books to keep adding to my #TBR
pickWhat makes us human? is the question this novel tackles. Is the emotional abuse from a controlling 34-year old white man okay if it‘s directed at a robot? Annie‘s awakening was fascinating to read. I did wish there were more interactions with Monica. Would make a great pick for book club discussion. First book from #10BeforeTheEnd down.
#TenBeforeTheEnd
Started last night and I was immediately creeped out. The voice of Annie the sex robot sounds like a woman weighing her options in every conversation with a controlling partner. I read the summary a while ago, so I don‘t know where this plot is going, but I am here for the ride.
#TenBeforeTheEnd #10BeforeTheEnd
1. No. I don‘t even answer the door. The husband handles candy distribution while I keep the dogs in a separate room.
2. I flew through Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra either in September or October, mainly because it was scary enough that I had to know if everything ended up okay.
#Two4Tuesday
@TheSpineView
pick100% pick. Since the sequel takes place mostly in space, there‘s less focus on events from the 1950s and 60s, but the way the characters relate to one another is the reminder. I especially liked seeing how the relationship between Elma and Parker developed. Now I need to buy this series because my library doesn‘t own #3 The Relentless Moon and book #4 comes out in 2025👩🏻🚀🚀
Dr. Elma York takes Miltown for her anxiety. I freaking love her character. Incredibly relatable even though she‘s a math savant who started college as a kid. These were the final sentences of Mary Robinette Kowal‘s author note🧡
I know the TV series is based on Slaughter‘s characters/premise, but are the episodes original plots?
Husband just found this show and we loved the pilot. Trying to decide if watching the TV series would spoil the books for us.
Adding this one to my #NFNovember #tbr
I loved The Menopause Manifesto and The Menopause Brain, so I‘m hoping to keep learning with this revised and updated book.
Started a reading spree this afternoon with the astronauts blasting off to Mars and not everything is going smoothly.
#5JoysFriday
1. Started organizing our library/game room again.
2. Husband is learning how to prepare meals for our dogs, which means we can share that task.
3. Had a screening appointment with a private pay clinic that specializes in hormone treatments and scored an appointment with one of their doctors.
4. Pups had their annual check and they‘re both really healthy.
5. I left a whole bunch of Facebook groups. Down to 15 🙌🏼
@DebinHawaii
Loving book #2 in The Lady Astronaut series. Still prepping for the first Mars expedition. The alternate history angle has really sucked me in.
Fall Harvest Butter is pretty tasty. Husband liking his toast as well, which is great. Another option for sneaking good food into his gut😂
It‘s not as thick as I‘d like, but I didn‘t want to turn the slow cooker to high with the propped open lid to let more moisture evaporate.
Lesson Learned: Start prepping this one earlier in the morning so I have options to keep cooking without staying up too late. Problems when you‘re over 50🤣
🐶My helper. Project Re-Prioritize is going well.
The big decision to stop blogging about my dogs was a long time coming. I haven‘t posted any new content in 3+ years, but I‘ve tried redesigning the site on the backend multiple times.
Yesterday & today I sat down for a couple of hours, deleting accounts & apps, canceling memberships, and making a spreadsheet to keep track of all of my steps.
Feeling a full digital declutter coming on!
Excited to try this Fall Harvest Fruit Butter! I tried making a different vegan butter recipe and was not impressed with the too liquidy consistency, but Hester‘s slow cooker direction to prop the lid of the slow cooker open makes total sense for a more successful result. Only downside is that I‘m not a fan of peeling apples and pears, but if this stuff is yummy, I won‘t complain again about it.
pickIf you have a budding wildlife enthusiast at home, this book about the founder of wildlife rehabilitation Hope for Wildlife in NS is sure to inspire & nurture their dream of helping all the animals.
Beautifully illustrated. Appreciated how the book highlights the hard work & dedication that goes into opening, maintaining, & expanding a world-class facility like Hope for Wildlife. A portion of proceeds from sales will support Hope for Wildlife.
pickSuper cute middle grade fantasy. Second book in the series. Took a little longer to hook me into the story than the first book. I could see students strongly relating to all the changing friendships that Amari must navigate. Even though I find it hard to believe that any supernatural institution would give kids as much responsibility as they do here with the junior agents, it‘s still a fun read.
Made some decisions to delete social media apps, except Facebook because connections there/groups, Goodreads because it‘s been my reading organizer for years, and Litsy because it‘s the only social app that I‘ve ever loved using.
Reorganizing priorities felt great & then I started browsing Litsy over the past few days. Found so many fun ways Littens encourage each other to read like #10BeforeTheEnd which makes me even happier to be back.
pickThird and last 🎧book that my husband and I listened to as we drove across 🇨🇦 on our epic road trip! Well worth the read. Part I gets technical with the details of how the electric grid works, including vulnerabilities. A little dry in places. Part II focuses on how unprepared the US is for a cyberattack or EMP that takes out the whole grid. Scary stuff! Part III was the most interesting. Features interviews with preppers + LDS church members.
so-soIf you‘re looking for a book that showcases the results of toxic masculinity, this one could be an exemplar. Posturing everywhere. Well researched and well written, but way too much grandstanding. Events do occur before and during the 2016 election of the Orangutan. I‘ll be giving 4 stars on GR. Removing a star because the first third of the book felt drawn out. Not repetitive, but plagued with extraneous details.
Just a few of the children‘s books we‘ve bought on our epic road trip across Canada🇨🇦
pickHighly engaging audiobook for a road trip. Temple thoroughly covers how the mega-clinic American Pain began and follows them all the way through the prison sentences for most, but not all, of the oxycodone drug dealers. Truly disgusting how complicit the doctors were in feeding the habits of addicts, and how much money the idiot felon made running his pill mill empire in Florida. Of course in Florida.
so-soSo many problems with this macho flag waving genuflecting prepper porn story. Narrator was awful reading any female or any dramatic moments. Will give props for making realistic + brutal character/plot decisions, but to be expected in a book whose purpose is to scare people into prepping for an EMP attack. Worth reading as a thought exercise, but be prepared for narrow minded world views.
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