Sometimes…I am this girl who fixes her hair and wakes up at 4:30 to workout and keeps spreadsheets on every last little thing and seems like she is totally put together.
Sometimes…I am a girl wearing a white sweatshirt that I’ve only worn three times since I bought it and I manage to get black ink right in the middle of it in front of a customer paying his water bill.
Lest anyone ever think I’m perfect, today I am the second one.
(No one thinks I’m perfect. It’s just a sort of metaphor.)
Anyway, things making me happy of late:
SSR Podcast
Oh my goodness, I am loving this so much! SSR stands for Sh*t She Read and Ali Hoff Kosik basically deep dives into a young adult book-or, in episode 19, an entire series- yes, Sweet Valley High gets the attention it so greatly deserves. I can’t even properly find words for how excited I was to find people conversing about Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield in a loving manner.
So far SSR has 21 episodes, so I intend to listen to most this upcoming 3 day weekend and get my 80s/90s girl book geek on. (Episode 7 on The Baby-sitters Club and episode 18 on Beezus and Ramona are at the top of my list.)
The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
YA is not usually my chosen genre, but this novel did not read like YA to me. Going in, all I knew was that the main character was the granddaughter of a famous novelist who lived in and created the Hinterland, a land of basically creepy fairytales. It reminded me of Night Film by Marshia Pessi only much better (Night Film was not my favorite by a long shot-I think that it’s difficult to write with a premise that something is so amazing that people will buy into an art form as a living creation and that was my big issue with it-in The Hazel Wood, maybe because it’s written for a purportedly younger audience, this was less of a stretch).
It was a nice addition to my fall reading list.
The Hallmark Chanel Countdown to Christmas App
Who knew this was a thing? It’s an app for your phone that syncs to your calendar to let you know when the new Hallmark Christmas movies are airing, and then you can check them off once you watch them. It’s just what this Type A, list loving, Christmas geek needed in her life.
April and I will be seeing Les Misérables on Sunday and I am most excited (I have seen the movie but never the musical itself). I’ve learned to leave time open to just do what I feel like doing-more difficult than it sounds for me because when I don’t have my schedule sometimes I feel overwhelmed and I basically crash hard. I know that sounds sort of crazy-I am sort of crazy, you know-but when the hours stretch around me with nothing exactly that needs doing, I just get a little too lost inside of this notion that this is what life will be like for years on end once the girls leave.
In reality, that isn’t true. (I think.) But there is a line between blessed solitude and sheer loneliness that I can bump up against if I’m not careful. And I’m lucky, I’m an introvert who enjoys being alone, but as always, I put voice to my crazy because it allows me to own it and accept it as my cross to bear.
From the bottom of my heart, I truly do thank you if you take the time to read my blogs. Sometimes writing a blog post is just my most favorite part of my day, and I am always most amazed whenever anyone reads them. Facebook has changed its algorithm of late, and so my posts about my blog don’t get the same traction that they used to, but I love posting my words too much to let it go. Thank you for letting me feel that they mean something beyond my own headspace.
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