The Sunday Post: 31, Beyond Belief, and Spooky Vibes
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31, Beyond Belief, and Spooky VibesHey Bookdragons! Happy Sunday! How was your week? Have you had nice summery weather or are you over it and ready for fall?
Friday I turned 31. It was the highlight of my week. The day where not only was I thought of by so many kind friends, family members, and coworkers but I got to do some fun, relaxing things. I started the day with my monthly manicure and picked a shade slightly darker that last month’s pink. Then I might have spent a little too much money at Barnes and Noble (shhh). I had dinner at Olive Garden and had a waitress who was so kind and welcoming to this solo diner that I almost cried (as a lot of restaurants lately have been annoyed and unfriendly to serve me when I eat alone… a story soon to be shared on my travel blog). And I ended the afternoon with Starbucks in which I attempted (and succeeded) using a drive-thru for the first time since getting my license! Then when I got to work and one of the officers I work with found out it was my birthday he brought me cookies his wife had just baked when he went on patrol. Another had left a birthday card in my box.
It was such a special day after a hard week. On Tuesday the hospice facility my mom is in said they were shipping her home on Friday whether we liked it or not because she wasn’t dying fast enough for them. My sister fought with them all week and tried to find another facility in between. We thought she had with one that said they would take her for two weeks if we paid up front. We were all ready to dip into the funeral fund to do so but then they talked to the current facility and did a one-eighty and refused unless we could come up with two months up front (almost $18k which is impossible.) Hearing that we would draw on the funeral fund the current facility suddenly decided she could stay for two weeks if we paid the two weeks up front. Fishy huh? Suddenly her bed wasn’t being given away after all. It’s not like they haven’t been getting paid, we have promptly paid them every week exactly the amount they asked for.
Anyway, this week I also kicked off my spooky season celebration! I am all in for spooky and cozy reads and streams. I’ve been binging a show on Hulu which I’ll talk about this week on my weekly check-in and my spooky season TBR is getting underway.
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? – 31 July 2023
First Chapter, First Paragraph, Tuesday Intros: A Death In Door County
Taylor Fenner’s Spooky Season 2023 Kick Off: 92 Days of Spooks, Scares, and Cozy Reads
Can’t Wait Wednesday: Nightbane!
The Friday 56: The Mary Shelley Club
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? – 7 August 2023
First Chapter, First Paragraph, Tuesday Intros: Dead Eleven
Can’t Wait Wednesday: Black Sheep
Taylor Fenner’s Spooky Season 2023 Week 1 Check-In
The Friday 56: Heartless
Birthday Book Haul
Ok, so I picked these up at Barnes and Noble vs getting them in the mail. Still counts.
The Bones of the Story: I have the ebook and I loved it so much I wanted a physical copy.
Psyche and Eros: has been on my TBR for a while and it looked good when I flipped through it
Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes: the only book I actually went in for (looking for books on shipwrecks in Door County/Lake Michigan specifically but this one looked good
Dead Eleven: was on a table with my last read, A Death In Door County, and is billed as “if Stranger Things was set in Door County,” so I had to have it!
Death in the Dark Woods (to see if I can order a signed copy from Boswell Books in Milwaukee)
