Friday night is lit with Lego, a gin & tonic and this audio book. All my loves together 🤣🤣

#5joysfriday why do short weeks sometimes feel longer? I‘ve worked 2 weeks straight in grade 1 and I‘m exhausted 🥱 random joys 1. I voted early 2. Puppy visit with Griz 3. The magnolia is having a MOMENT 4. My niece and I having matching manicures 5. My oldest left last night to work at a YMCA camp in Alberta for 6 weeks. An exciting and a bit nerve wracking new challenge for him. I‘m full of joy for him taking risks

New audio book so I can keep Lego-ing

Cold brew coffee float for breakfast #winning

#weekendtreads I need a new audio book but my holds are not cooperating

#5joysfriday 1. LONG WEEKENDS 🎉 2. Mixed media collage art I did with the grade 1 class I‘m in for 2 weeks is absolutely the cutest ever 3. The magnolia season has started, buds are splitting 🌸🌸🌸 finally feels like spring might be here 4. Date night last night at a Japanese restaurant we can walk to and whisky highballs ❤️ 5 started a new book with some chips and wine 👌🏻

Cozy mystery, demons, set in a library and the possibility of more books = love all around especially for @AmyG for gifting this book to me

I‘m always surprised to see what‘s included on the lists

MM is a romance writer & was looking forward to going to a Romance book festival in the US but the US is kind of unpredictable right now so MM decided to cancel her trip. I felt bad for her and so many other artists who are having to make such hard choices. So I bought a book
It‘s lovely. Not too spicy. It‘s well written, good dialogue, the main characters are interesting. I‘m surprised she hasn‘t got an editor but maybe everyone doesn‘t want one?

This book is important. It‘s also A LOT. It goes way back in time to how we gathered and why ( we love a unifying narrative) and all the ways those narratives have caused us harm or to do harm. We are the smartest and dumbest of creatures. It all leads up to the creation of AI and the good and bad it can and will bring. We need to create self correcting strategies. We need to fund education. We need to start yesterday.

Holding onto an outdoor reading day with both hands and in shorts 🤯

This is my first time making suggestions for Camp Litsy #camplitsy25 I‘ve included 2 Canadian Lit suggestions ‘Lake Burntshore‘ and ‘Julie Chan is Dead‘ 🇨🇦 ‘Second Chance Convenience Store‘ was a best selling novel in South Korea in 2021 and that had me thinking about Butter ( which was odd but I‘m really glad I read it ) and I love a translated novel. ‘Welcome to Murder Week‘ is just a vibe 🤣🤣 I can‘t wait for camp

To celebrate Indie month aka April I thought I‘d try an Indie author who‘s Canadian too. It‘s a romance and I saw on the socials she was going to go to a big Rom Lit festival in the US but has had to change her mind because of all the uncertainty with crossing the border. So many people are having their lives turned upside down 😢 so far so good with the story

Friday night: a new book from @AmyG to read together, fresh tulips that my husband brought home, a gin&tonic made by husband, salt & vinegar chips ( best kind) and I think the snow has finally gone for good

Building away. YNH is talking about how computer algorithms can go awry and referencing Facebook's involvement in spreading lies and misinformation against the Rohingya people. I read about this in Maria Ressa's How to Stand up to a Dictator. What's awful is even when people called out the lies and called on FB to stop the algorithms, the damage was done. CBC spoke this week about how easy and cheap it is to buy groups on FB with followers 😢

Reading for #sundaybuddyread thankful my husband took poetry courses in uni and we kept all the Norton Anthologies ❤️❤️❤️
I am certainly still waiting for the April
that comes like a babbling idiot strewing the flowers. I only have the mean AF one with snow flurries

I read all over the place and I think my results confirm this, as I read the synopsis of the books to choose I kept thinking “but is it well written? cuz if it‘s like Simon Winchester or Colleen Hoover then it‘s a maybe “
Want to try ? https://www.readyourcolor.com/red I think green must be the “how to lead the people to the promised cubicle category” not a fan

A Christmas gift and a book I‘d never heard off 🤯
A mystical magical story of a woman who travels the world alone to stay ahead of a mysterious illness
It‘s a lovely but odd story. There were times when I was captivated but others when I was just “wrap this up” and yet it went on. The ending was lovely

#5joysfriday I haven‘t taught all week so it‘s been a lovely quiet chill couple of days of doing whatever I feel like whenever I feel like it 1. I‘m obsessed with the Color Block Jam game 2. Finished the little flower arrangement Lego set 3. Started the telephone box Lego set 4. Book Outlet order came in ( cuz I need more books 😆) 5. Date night last night to a restaurant in the ‘hood we‘ve been going to try forever. Everything was amazing

Starting a new set

a weak link in the series imo but a reprieve from wars basically setting the stage for the next conflict with too much use of the word ‘mate‘ but it didn‘t hate it 🤣

“when rich white men did all the talking it was easier to reach agreements” 🤮 my little flower arrangement is complete and bringing me joy ( I put pansies in my front planters but I‘m going to have to bring them in tonight #stormbrewing)

1. I don‘t actually remember a time when I didn‘t consider myself a bibliophile 🤷🏻‍♀️despite my resolution to try an read the books I have accumulated already before I buy more I did in fact buy 2 at Costco today and order 6 from Book Outlet on the weekend 😬🤫🤭 2. I loved The Reading List. I‘d read every book on the list (and loved them) except A Suitable Boy which I bought to read afterwards. It‘s an amazing feat of storytelling

I‘m basically just listening to this and hiding from everything

This is a long book and jam packed with information that I‘m really enjoying and now I‘m questioning everything I know. For instance witchcraft was started to steal men‘s‘ penises so obviously men had to hunt witches down. 🤣🤣 (or that was what men ‘thought‘ witches were up to) Started a new Lego set, a gift with purchase, of a small floral arrangement and tackled the ironing mountain

I finished my Love Lego and it‘s going on shelves with love/relationship books. I need to do a complete book shelves reorganization but that‘s going to be a week long project probably happening in the summer

Cleaning my house

Reading and breakfasting in bed on a gray Saturday morning

#5joysfriday 1. I did a collage art project with 3 grade 1 classes and covered the artist-tree with birds on Monday 2. I got my nails done in pastels ( abstract Easter eggs) 3. My favourite clothing store shares my views on Spring weather 4. I went out on a Friday night 🤯 to see the funnest band ever and everyone I know was there 🤣 I danced for hours ( they play covers of hits from the 70‘s through to the 00‘s ) 5. The sun shone today ☀️

I‘m part of the cool kids now #sundaybuddyread thanks to @TheBookHippie for her amazing gift and fearless leading 😘😘😘

Reading outside today 🎉 this is my second book by this author she‘s an automatic buy for me from now on ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ another perfect multi generational story of friendship and love and community and total delight

A day off #praisebe listening to this gem of a book while I did errands all morning around town and finished it off with the V in Lego. This book is ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and should be read by everybody. I learned a lot, I understand so much more and I am hopping mad at the shaft women get over and over. We have drunk the koolaid and it‘s time to spit it out

Wednesday and yes that‘s snow/slush/sleet out my window WTF

It seemed to last forever ( but shorter than January 🙏🏻) and it meant lots of books although none of them really from deep in my TBR 🤦🏻‍♀️

I might try to track down a print copy but in the meantime I‘ve got Serial #hashtagbrigade

Learning some things

Reading on my prep at school

Written 20 years ago, PR creates an alternative past for the US that hits way different in 2025 than it must have in 2005. As powerful as The Handmaids Tale and just as freaking scary

I love this fantasy world

Set in 1920‘s London, involving the murder of a Chinese man that was beneath the police to investigate. Two very different Chinese men combine forces to investigate the murder and find themselves looking for a serial killer. Absolutely needs to be made into a BBC tv series

My take away so far ( last 1/4 of ACOWAR) Feyre chooses to be kind over and over again despite warnings and common sense. The world needs this kind of energy. All of us live here and all of us belong. If your actions keep someone down then you aren‘t living your best life. #teamfeyre #girlpower #choosekind

#5joysfriday 1. It‘s Friday #praisebe and my mini pack of Canadian wine order came 2. Fairy porn aka ACOWAR 3. Spring art with a grade 1 class because 4. Spring is psycho 5. Federal election is a go and I have mostly positive feelings that the Liberals will win ( the premier of Alberta is bonkers for trump and sinking the conservative ship 🤞🏻🤞🏻 with her nonsense)

Happy almost Friday! Celebrating with a slutty red and fairy porn #livingmybestlife

I blasted through ACOMAF and I‘m rereading it while #littensloveacotar continues the 3 chapters a day buddy read but I‘m weak and have started ACOWAR

Starting a new Lego set

Rainy Mondays call for staying in bed

Told over 2 weeks, an immigrant family faces off against the American dream and learns the cost in real time. I fluctuated between wanting to scream and wanting to cry, I was crying by the end.

Reading in bed all day. Probably. I don‘t know whether I want to rage or cry at this book.

#5joysfriday TGIF 1. I have been coveting these leopard sambas FOREVER and the universe heard me at last 2. Canadian wine order coming soon ( we make good wine in Ontario) 3. I taught art in grade 1 today and we did mixed media daffodils ??4. Spring is so mean sometimes 5. Drinking Ontario rosé and eating Canadian Cheezies while I type this #livingthedream this week felt long! I hope all of you are having a great Friday

Oh #hashtagbrigade how I loved this
An early work of detective fiction with a gothic vibe that kicks off with an unknown woman dressed completely in white on the run from an asylum. Oh what a wicked web we weave …… so many bizarre over the top characters doing nefarious things ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I laughed and I railed and I held my breath assuming the worst at all times while the good guys tried to triumph.