pickI finished this today moving my youngest home from Uni. This is the tidy storage unit holding his stuff until his next adventure. My house is not tidy 😩 I liked this audio book but I didn‘t love it
#5joysfridays it‘s been a week 🤣🤣 1. I found my favourite pretzel crackers at Costco again after a too long for me hiatus 2. We move our youngest home from Uni this weekend and I have rented a storage unit and gone through multiple bins here and resorted stuff and this pile is ready to load in the car to pack him up 3. I‘m loving the #littensloveromance read this month 4. My iced peppermint mocha cold brew is life 5. I baked 1/5 cookie recipes
so-soYA snowmageddon ‘love, actually‘ influenced story with multiple couples getting back together or finding each other in the storm of the century. Would make a great movie I think. I enjoyed some of the minor characters‘ stories much more than the main one #sundaybuddyread
This has started off with a bang ❤️❤️❤️ I love it already and I‘m going to want to inhale it #littensloveromance
pickOh I loved this “book that feels like a hug” story about a children‘s book author who writes magical books about kids brave enough to make wishes. Fast forward he writes another book and turns its release into a contest that might be able to grant the wishes of grown up kids who loved his books ❤️❤️❤️
#saturdaychatterday I haven‘t had coffee yet 🤣 I‘m still lazing in bed scrolling on my phone, planning my day/weekend. I am going to bake this weekend; empire cookies, gingerbread and chocolate crackle cookies for sure. We are going to see 🎶The Sound of Music 🎶 with John‘s parents tonight. And reading 📖 what are you all up to as we get closer to Christmas and holidays ?
#5joysfridays 1. The tree was up but I finally decorated it last weekend 2. We got a lot of snow ands it‘s already almost all gone 🤦🏻♀️ 3. I continue to get joy from the list of books I found that feel like a hug - The Wishing Game is from that list 4. I did more art with some grade 2s and 3s that was so much fun 5. Our Honda Pilot died after 18 yrs of service - we experienced a lot of joy with it, our kids grew up while we drove it
It‘s been a Monday and a half
pickMy take away from this book is no pill, surgery will fix your mindset about food only therapy will. If you use food to soothe/hide behind/self medicate the pill/surgery won‘t cure you. If you can‘t eat because of surgery or pills you will substitute ‘medicating‘ with another addiction. And my Lego poinsettia is officially complete
pickA delightful cozy Christmas romance light on the spice and heavy on the Scotland ❤️
#5joysfriday 1. Cardinal art with grade 2s based on Charley Harper 2. Tree art with grade 2/3s 3. I got my nails done 4. My Santas are all out inside and out 5. Not my phone updating and this app is screwed up and I don‘t know how to add my picture
#tlt #threelistthursday some of the newer movies I‘ve never heard of and I need to make a list to watch them ( instead of football which is on now against my will) my three are 2 I watch every year; Die Hard and love actually and 1 I think should be on the list; Rent 🎶and it‘s beginning to snow 🎶
pickEH books are so easy to read. I devoured this on a snow day and I feel warm and fuzzy now
I‘m basically rage reading at this point. The mystery is WHY?!
It‘s a SNOW DAY 🎉🎉 Christmas has come early 🤣🤣 so it‘s hygge all day long and getting ahead of my #sundaybuddyread
Booked off today so I could sleep in and fight the good fight against all the germs at school. A lot of listening to this book while loads of laundry were done, kitchen tidying, nails were painted and a turkey breast was roasted for a Wednesday night dinner. I‘d like the holidays to be here now
pickThis was on a list of books that feel like a hug and it really is the loveliest story of friendship and found families and finding joy in all your moments. All the stars ⭐️
It‘s 5:30 and it feels like 8:30 so my #hyggehour starts now ❤️I‘m so behind on my #sundaybuddyread 🤦🏻♀️
Friday night and I‘m enjoying my favourite reading spot one last time. Tomorrow we get the tree 🌲 and it sits right here until Epiphany. So for now, I‘m just chilling in my favourite indoor reading spot ( besides my bed) with my favourite cocktail ( French blonde ) and the sweetest book that I know will break my heart
#5joysfriday I had another full week of teaching so it feels like I did nothing but put one foot in front of the other 1. last Saturday we drove to Toronto to see Beckett and go to the Swedish Fair and had lunch ( I love liver wurst ❤️) 2. We saw where the Eras Tour was going to be that night 😢 without me 3. My poinsettia is coming along 4. Last night I went to a magical holiday sale event 5. Today I‘m going shoe shopping with my sister & niece
Bag #3 of the poinsettia and starting a new audio book. I read about this somewhere and now I have it. I don‘t remember knowing this was about Ozempic 🤷🏻♀️
6 months later my hold comes in 👵🏻
pickBag #2 of the poinsettia and I have finished this crazy book! It really was a GREAT audio book read by one of my favourite actresses, Nicola Walker ❤️❤️❤️ I miss Unforgiven with her and Annika, hopefully I find her in another show sooner than later
My next Lego set #audiolegoing
The wreath is finished and hanging up. I keep thinking about this book and it‘s title and what is happening 🤯
I did bag #8 late last night when we got home from driving to Toronto. Taylor Swift has been in Toronto for the last 2 weeks so hotels are premium priced and booked up so we didn‘t/couldn‘t stay over 😢 we had a quick visit with Beckett, saw his latest big project for one of his last 2 classes before he‘s done his degree and went to the Swedish Fair for lunch and to pick up our order of foodstuffs for Christmas ( John‘s dad‘s family is Swedish)
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A gorgeous coming of age novel set in Colorado in the 60‘s. A first novel for SR that is stellar, a tale of first love, loss, strength, racism, friendship and forgiveness ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
1. I went for my mammogram this week so I treated my self to 2. A new mug to help me get over the fact I won‘t get to go to the Eras Tour 3. I taught a lot this week and I got to teach art ❤️❤️❤️ I did torn paper owls with grade 2s and we painted BIG fall leaves in grade 1 4. I fancied up my front urns for Christmas and 5. My Lego wreath brings me joy ( so much I ordered the big botanical garden for myself for Christmas 😆) #5joysfriday
Bag #7 still no idea what‘s going on in this although Josie can‘t be sane ( her mom is a narcissist, her husband is ancient, both girls have some issues that aren‘t discussed forever but it‘s more than diagnosis?)
Why does it feel like I have been reading this FOREVER?! And how am I not even halfway through?! WT actual F
Bag #6 of the Lego wreath and I continue to wonder what the heck is going on in this book 😱
New mug cuz why not #supportlocal I can‘t get tickets to the #erastour so I am making my own. This book was easy to get right into
pickBags 1-4 are done and attached - so repetitive 🙄 this book was so interesting. The end of the book breaks down the asteroid strike and a step by step description of what would have happened after it hit the Yucatan Peninsula. And all the people who scoffed at the asteroid hypothesis 🤣🤣
pickThis novella was on a book list of books that feel like a hug and part of a big library hold list I registered. I usually feel like November is a tough slog, between the time change and weather it kind of sucks the joy out of you. This is a bittersweet book about dementia, generations of family, and love.
The wreath is begun. Fun fact for me diplodocus is pronounced di-plod-u-cus not dip-low-dock-us 🤯
pickNovember #foodandlit 🇨🇦 I loved this book so much ❤️ so funny and heartbreaking too - you never know what other people are going through and how much a little kindness can change the world
It‘s been a week full of treats for me after some disappointing in law/extended family stress 1. A new Free People stripey top 2. New wreath Lego kit to start today or tomorrow 3. Christmas wreaths from Costco bought and hung 4. I finished my ‘books are my passion‘ set and I love it so 5. All of my holds came in and I‘m so excited to read all of them #5joysfriday
#foodandlit2024 November is Canada 🇨🇦 and I‘m trying a new to me Canadian author and her first book ❤️ with a mug of David‘s Tea 🇨🇦 in my Canadiana mug ( I mean if I can‘t do Canada what hope is there ?!)
I started this ages ago but didn‘t get it finished so had to wait for my hold to come back in ( Libby held my spot 🤯❤️) I finished my “Books are my passion” set and now to decide on which Christmas set I start 🤔
pickI love Elizabeth Strout and how she tells a story. I wanted to see a play adapted from My Name is Lucy Barton ( the first book in the Amgash series ) but the timing was never right to get to Toronto to see it. This is 17 years later
pickI really loved this book, magical imagining to how The Scarlet Letter came to be but I could have done without the past magic trip back in time
Audio Lego-ing
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This is darker and more dystopian than what I‘ve read by TJ Klune previously
It‘s a beautiful story but humans don‘t end well in it ( all current indicators show this ending is completely feasible )
#5joysfridays 1. This social media post spoke to me ( it feels like everything makes me cranky right now) 2. Jenny Colgan is always a mood shifter ❤️ I‘m glad I saved this 3rd book in the ‘Lessons‘ series ( my book hoarding has been justified) 3. Pyjama day at school = my new leopard print pjs ( shopping problem also justified) 4. Still trying to doodle 5. Remembrance Day Art with grade 4‘s today
Bedtime comfort reading doesn‘t get better than Jenny Colgan
#two4tuesday 1. Always a sunset preferably with a book in one hand and a chilled glass of rosé in the other 2. Future, Las Vegas, robots consider yourself tagged ?? if you see this and you haven‘t played already
