Quick Reviews 📚 Recursion - Black Crouch ☆☆☆☆☆ Time is but memory. And I'm obsessed with his writing. ACOTAR - Sarah J Maas ☆☆☆☆☆ So happy I picked these books up as they really got me back into reading and into a new genre!!! ACOMAF - Sarah J Mass Deserves all the stars in the Night Court! ☆+

Quick Reviews! 📚 Dearest - Jacquie Walters ☆☆ Unreliable narrator, the only spooky part of this book is the extreme PPA and PPD. The Church Beneath the Roots - Felix Blackwell ☆☆☆☆☆ One of the best prequels ever! Maggie's Grave - David Sodergren ☆☆☆☆☆ I'm buying all his books now. 2/2 amazing.

Finished The White Lotus season 3 and while I love every season of that show, I'm left wondering how the Ratliffs will fare when they're back home. I like, really really want to see their reactions.

When someone you took multiple writing courses with in college, 10+ years ago, publishes their work... you buy it!

Not my cat, Orphan, cosplaying as Jesse Gemstone. An uncanny resemblance.

I was nursing Elliott and petting my playful cat when the cat bit and scratched me a little too hard. I said owie!! and whimpered. And suddenly Elliott looks at me, frowns, and goes "oooh" and omg is my 14 month old baby practicing empathy already?!

Twice now in the past month I've had face to face conversations with people who assumed my age and said, "Well, there's no way you're 30 yet, right? You're like, maybe 27?" Thank you. No. But thank you. They were very surprised when I told them they were about 10 years off.

Got my first subscription order of #whogivesacrap t.p. and tissues today! Super fast shipping and amazing packaging! Reduce, reuse, recycle, and be totally cute in the meantime.

I've never had any real type of anxiety before and now 3x in past 2 weeks I've experienced wild anxiety symptoms that have basically debilitated me in the moment. Over-stimulation, head spinning, eyes popping behind my lids, heavy chest. Focus and take deep breaths....

My 13 month old is progressing very quickly suddenly and I'm utterly astonished.

Gulf of Distraction

Alzheimer's and dementia are so hard and so heart breaking. I've been grieving a living person in my life for 2 years and yet it gets harder every week as they continue to decline and I continue to grieve. I'm shattered.

Got my @springheeldjack.coffee beans today and I'm so excited for tomorrow mornings latte!

📚 Quick Review 📚 The Haar - David Sodergren @paperbacksandpugs.bsky.social Scottish folk horror with heavy elements of macabre/gore. A sweet old love story at it's core that made my heart burst! ☆☆☆☆½

Watched the trailer for the movie Cuckoo last night, and it freaked me out. Hesitant to watch the actual movie now. When did I become so lame?

There was a Ms. Rachel skit asking how old are you and they went up to 10. I said I highly doubt 10 year olds are watching Ms Rachel. Then I laughed, because I'm a 36 year old watching Ms. Rachel. 😌

🕯🔦 At least my Kindle is charged. I made some great progress on my book club book "The Haar" by David Sodergren tonight.

Nothing like a neighborhood blackout from a drunk driver hitting a power pole, starting a fire, and fleeing the scene to make you realize how ill-prepared you are for power outages.🕯🔦

With the continued threat to the Josephine County Library this is a great and important article outlining our history, from tax levies, to county commissioners, to shut downs, to the wonderful volunteers (hey, I'm one of those) and donors!

This January has been a crazy year. Furthermore, this has been the longest 8 days I've ever experienced.

Finally watching Smile (2022) and it's exactly what I expected. Nevertheless, glad I chose to watch it during the day.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Matt Reuter. #NewYorkerCartoons

If you're feeling down for any reason this evening, make yourself a hot cuppa loose leaf tea. It'll make you feel a little better. Even if just for awhile.

I burned bridges last year on accident. My pride, politics, opinions, & tongue got the best of me. I miss being part of my brothers lives. I'm sad I can't celebrate their successes with them. But I also refuse to apologize... so I have to live with this. It's my loss. My tragedy. I wish them well.

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." MLK Jr. Please remember this quote on this disappointing inauguration day.

That latest episode of Outlander "A Hundred Thousand Angels" completely destroyed me, btw. I watched it over 2 days ago and I'm still reeling.

While in the car: Me: That looked like an owl. I feel like I've seen 3 owls in the past 5 minutes.. Ben: Really? Me: That or they're really really THICK HAWKS Ben: Wait.. 😂 Can you say that again? Me: THICK HAWKS 😂😂 Ben: That's gonna be the name of my cover band. * I literally can't breathe *

As Elliott's birthday comes to an end, I also celebrate that I've been breastfeeding on-demand for an entire year! It's not always been easy, and the longest I've been apart from my boy is 6 hours, once, but the joy it brings us both is beyond anything I've ever known. I'm so happy I get to do this.

1 year ago we made our way to the hospital for a scheduled cesarean section at 37.5 weeks. It was traumatic & I have hospital PTSD from the 3 days that followed. But being Elliotts mom has been the best thing I've ever done in my 36 years of life. Happy 1st Birthday, baby boy.🎈 I love you so much.

Rest in Peace, iconic director, David Lynch (78).

The reality is setting in. I'm going to officially have a toddler in 2 days.

Agatha All Along was so much fun! Disney/Marvel... I beg you to keep creating glorious queer content. Thanks.

Glad I didn't have time to read the first book for the local spooky bookclub I joined. They all met last weekend and reported back to everyone else that nobody liked the book! 😅 February books are The Haar by David Sodergren and Pen Pal by Dathan Auerbach. I'll try again.

Watched S2E1 of 오징어 게임 (Squid Game) tonight. Now to force myself to actually go to bed and not stay up all night watching the whole season. So good.