Thursday, January 30, 2025
Book Birthday Today! It App-ened One Night!
Sunday, January 26, 2025
This Month Has Been Years Long, But We're Finally In The Last Week!
Time for the January Cozy Mystery Book Club on YouTube!
Saturday, January 25, 2025
Say There, Would You Like A Bunch of Free Books? The Sunday Post
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On Tuesday, over 1,000 romance ebooks will be free. Some are free on Kindle and some are free on a bunch of different places, so if you don't do Kindle but you do Nook or Apple Books or Kobo, you are in luck! You can go to https://romancebooklovers.com and pick what books you want to grab on Tuesday.
My first book No Gouda Without You is free under the small-town romance section of the website. If you plan to pick up some books let me know!
I have a cold or a sinus infection--to be determined, so I've been laying around hoping to feel better and trying to read. Here is what I've been reading:
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Surviorship and a Blue Apron Meal I made my own.
Saturday, January 18, 2025
The Sunday Post. I'm Ready For a Day Off, How About You?
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I've been trying something new to better organize my writing/author time. I get up at 4:45am. I started participating in Monday through Friday Zoom that's called the Five a.m. call. On the call, each person says a win for the previous day and shares three things they will accomplish for the day. Just saying out loud what I plan to achieve makes it about 85% more likely to happen.
Do you have any tricks to get things done?
Yesterday I was a guest on the podcast Skip to the Good Parts
We'll skip to the good parts - of new books, backstories, and inspirations. Join us and add a little more Happily Ever After to your day!
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Do You Know How To Read Cursive?
I came across this information in a news story and had to start sharing it with everyone I know!
Cool Thing I Must Share With You!
Do you know how to read cursive? It has become a skill that fewer and fewer people have, and that means you are special! The National Archives needs volunteers to help transcribe documents. All you need to do is go to their website, create an account, and pick your mission! Here are a few missions I saw that looked interesting:
- Report, "American Press on Divergencies Between the Members of the North Atlantic Treaty," Full Text of 27 November Pravda Article Broadcast by Radio Moscow Transcribe this record.
- Winston Churchill to Franklin D. Roosevelt Transcribe this record.
- Journal of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon Transcribe this record.
If you are a history buff or made a resolution to try new things, here is something you can do, and then you can say you are a part of the historical record! This is the link to the website to sign up: https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/get-started-transcribing
What do you think? If I do this, can I add it to my resume?
I hope you are having a great day! I'm working on my goal to read books I own. Here is this week's read!
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Can You Ever Have Enough Notebooks?
Meet my new notebook. My husband was very befuddled that I need a notebook to write down recipes when I could just save the links to the online recipes I like. He's not wrong. I don't need this...
In my defense, look at these pages!
There are little boxes you can check and lines for lots of ingredients and there is a big box to make future notes! I can't wait to fill it up with only the best recipes! I recently made a tomato soup from Blue Apron and it was very tasty so now I'm working on making some changes to it and adding a few ingredients. I'm thinking of adding zucchini and maybe orzo pasta to the soup. I will keep you posted!How is your week going? Have you gotten any reading in? Here is a quote from On The Edge that I loved. This is from the first book in Anne at Books of My Heart's read along. If you'd like to get in on the read along here is the link: https://booksofmyheart.net/2024/12/01/read-along-giveaway-edge-innkeeper-by-ilona-andrews/
Saturday, January 11, 2025
The Sunday Post- First Full Week of January is Complete
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How did your week go? It was busy here, what with the having to go back to work after break and my mother-in-law's funeral. It was also cold and that makes me being able to run more difficult. Not only is it cold, but you have to try not to slip on ice. I don't know about you but I don't like falling down!
I'm continuing to work on less scrolling and more reading! How are you doing with your New Year goals?
I've wanted to read this book for a while and when I saw it on Hoopla I grabbed it.
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Where do you read your audiobooks?
Our little city put in a new park over the last few years and it has a little pond. Over the summer they put a paved trail around the pond. I love a paved path because it's easier for me to run on and it's accessible for parents with strollers and people with wheelchairs or walkers.
I took this picture on January 3rd, the temperature was in the low 20s (aka -4 Celcius) but the wind chill was wicked cold! My ears were freezing under my hat. Luckily I always have a story to keep me distracted from the weather.
I picked up a free audio book from the Chirp newsletter. I love a free thriller! Where do you read your audiobooks?