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[Saar The Book owl]

Good luck, Diana! Let us know how it went :)

[Diana Stormblessed]

Thanks all! I did it and did so much better than I expected. Under 11min miles, while on my treadmill while training I run 14.5 min miles. It was such a great experience. Def looking for the next race to run.

[Felina]

That’s so cool. Congrats!

[Diana Stormblessed]

Thank you!

[Narilka]

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Thanks all! I did it and did so much better than I expected. Under 11min miles, while on my treadmill while training I run 14.5 min miles. It was such a great experience. Def looking for the next r..."

Congrats!

[Charlie]

That's fantastic, congrats!

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Competitive spirit... solo you didn't try as hard :D

Way to go

[Diana Stormblessed]

Timelord Iain wrote: "Competitive spirit... solo you didn't try as hard :D

Way to go"

Oh def. It's easier when i have other people I'm trying to keep up with.

Tomorrow I'll start training with my son. There were so many kids there. I didn't even expect kids to be running 5k but why not? They have endless amounts of energy. My 11 year old wanted to come with but I wasn't sure he was ready so I'm going to train with him and see if he can run the next one with me. Hoping to get the 9 year old in on it as well eventually.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Starting healthy habits early is good

[Nirkatze]

That's awesome Diana! I did the Run for Women last weekend and it was a lot of fun, but I walked it. ^_^ It was great for audiobooking! There were lots of kids outpacing their parents there.

[Saar The Book owl]

Nicely done, Diana!

[Diana Stormblessed]

Thank you! I went to the gym with my son for him to start couch 2 5k yesterday. Soon we can hopefully run races together.

[Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker]

Congrats, Diana! That's a huge accomplishment 😄😄

[Tonari no Emily]

Aww that's awesome Diana! Congrats! Hope its a good bonding experience with the kiddos! :D

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Goodreads notifications might be working fully, again... I haven't noticed any missed notifications when checking new discussion comments from the Discussions page, lately... in the past 24hrs, anyway...

[Yanique, Thread Master]

How is it already July???... HOW?

Anyway, here are the July selections for you to enjoy:

Jul 1, 2024 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Jul 1, 2024 Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Jul 1, 2024 The Extreme / The Attack / The Exposed / The Experiment (Animorphs #25-28) by KA Applegate
Jul 1, 2024 A Letter to the Luminous Deep (The Sunken Archive #1) by Sylvie Cathrall
Jul 1, 2024 How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi #1) by Django Wexler
Jul 1, 2024 The Novice (Black Magician #2) by Trudi Canavan
Jul 1, 2024 Fortune & Glory (Stephanie Plum #27-30) by Janet Evanovich
Jul 1, 2024 On the Edge (The Edge #1-4) by Ilona Andrews
Jul 3, 2024 Beast-Laid Plans (Beaufort Scales #7) by Kim M. Watt
Jul 4, 2024 A Court of Silver Flames (ACOTAR #4) by Sarah J. Maas
Jul 5, 2024 Lirael (Old Kingdom #2) by Garth Nix
Jul 5, 2024 Midnight Blue-Light Special (InCryptid #2) by Seanan McGuire
Jul 5, 2024 Age of War (Legends of the First Empire #3) by Michael J. Sullivan
Jul 6, 2024 A Day of Fallen Night (Roots of Chaos #0) by Samantha Shannon
Jul 6, 2024 Jade Legacy (Green Bone Saga #3) by Fonda Lee
Jul 7, 2024 The Nowhere Man (Orphan X #2) by Gregg Hurwitz
Jul 7, 2024 Nyxia Unleashed (Nyxia Triad #2) by Scott Reintgen
Jul 8, 2024 Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #3) by Laini Taylor
Jul 8, 2024 Death's End (Remembrance of Earth's Past #3) by Liu Cixin
Jul 9, 2024 Disquiet Gods (The Sun Eater #6) by Christopher Ruocchio
Jul 9, 2024 Legacy of Ash (Legacy Trilogy #1) by Matthew Ward
Jul 10, 2024 Disciples of Chaos (Seven Faceless Saints #2) by M.K. Lobb
Jul 10, 2024 The Land of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things #2) by John Connolly
Jul 10, 2024 Ascendant (Songs of Chaos #1) by Michael R Miller
Jul 10, 2024 Mirror Dance (Vorkosigan Saga #8) by Lois McMaster Bujold
Jul 11, 2024 The Up-and-Under (Alchemical Journeys companion series #1-4) by A. Deborah Baker (Seanan McGuire)
Jul 12, 2024 Precursor (Foreigner #4 Arc 2 #1) by C.J. Cherryh
Jul 13, 2024 Into the Labyrinth / Jewel of the Endless Erg (Mage Errant #1-2 Publisher Pack) by John Bierce
Jul 15, 2024 Risen (Alex Verus #12) by Benedict Jacka
Jul 15, 2024 Destiny's Conflict (Wars of Light and Shadow Series #10) by Janny Wurts
Jul 15, 2024 The Dark Prophecy (Trials of Apollo #2) by Rick Riordan
Jul 16, 2024 Flag in Exile (Honor Harrington #5) by David Weber
Jul 17, 2024 The Prisoner's Throne (Folk of the Air: Oak #2) by Holly Black
Jul 18, 2024 So Let Them Burn (Divine Traitors #1) by Kamilah Cole
Jul 18, 2024 Vigor Mortis: Volume 4 (Vigor Mortis #4) Natalie "Thundamoo" Maher
Jul 19, 2024 The Magos (Warhammer 40k: Inquisition #7) by Dan Abnett
Jul 20, 2024 Songs of Insurrection (Dragon Songs Saga #1) by J.C. Kang
Jul 20, 2024 The Magicians (Magicians #1) by Lev Grossman
Jul 21, 2024 Promise of Blood (Powder Mage #1) by Brian McClellan
Jul 21, 2024 Time of the Twins (Dragonlance: Legends #1) by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
Jul 21, 2024 Throne of Jade (Temeraire #2) by Naomi Novik
Jul 22, 2024 Reaper Man (Discworld #11) by Terry Pratchett
Jul 23, 2024 The Human Division (Old Man's War #5) by John Scalzi
Jul 24, 2024 Of War and Ruin (The Bound and the Broken #3) by Ryan Cahill
Jul 26, 2024 He Who Drowned the World (Radiant Emperor #2) by Shelley Parker-Chan
Jul 27, 2024 Soulbinder (Spellslinger #4) by Sebastien de Castell
Jul 27, 2024 He who fights with monsters (He who fights with monsters #1) Shirtaloon
Jul 28, 2024 The Lightning-Struck Heart (Tales from Verania #1) by TJ Klune
Jul 28, 2024 The Prince and the Pilgrim (Arthurian Saga #5) by Mary Stewart
Jul 30, 2024 The Daughter's War (Blacktongue #0) by Christopher Buehlman

[Tonari no Emily]

If there's anyone in the path of Beryl, I hope yall are doing alright! Luckily, only our fence took damage, but we'll be out of power for who knows how long. (Thanks Texas energy 🙄)

[Nirkatze]

Oh goodness! Dittoing that wish--may everyone come through the other side safely... thank goodness and thank you for letting us know, Emily!

[Ann-Marie]

Hope your power is restored quickly!!!!

[Tonari no Emily]

Still no power in my neighborhood but a lot of my family in surrounding towns got theirs back up, so here's hoping!

I had to ride out the storm at my work (I work in a hospital lab), so I still haven't been home yet.. At least I got to enjoy the AC. I can go home in 30 minutes and my bed is calling!

[Nirkatze]

Tonari no Emily wrote: "Still no power in my neighborhood but a lot of my family in surrounding towns got theirs back up, so here's hoping!

I had to ride out the storm at my work (I work in a hospital lab), so I still ha..."

I read your post right at the 30mins mark--so I'm happy you finally get to go home!! Fingers crossed power will return before you wake!

[Felina]

Is everything back up, Tonari?

[Monika]

Weather not makes our life easier...hope all back to normal Tonari. We have typical English weather (rain and wind) eh... 'beautiful' Summer eh...

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

It's felt like a pretty tame summer in the midwest... last year was full of power outages, including that big storm that took a week to fully repair from... 1-2 power hubs blew up / caught fire, which was alot of work to repair...

[Saar The Book owl]

Do you have power again, Tonari and has the storm passed?
I heard that it's 45°C and more at the West or East of America.
It has been here (in Belgium) around 18°C. It should've been around 25°C normally and out of nowhere there is 30°C announced today with a thunderstorm that will happen in the next hour. It has been cloudy and oppressively warm with 25°C today.
It has just been a very strange and cold Summer for now.

[Ann-Marie]

I am in NJ and it is ungodly hot with no break anticipated until the end of the week. The Weather Channel has Sunday as the nicest day of the week and it's going to be 95 degrees but lower humidity I guess? Today's forecast is high of 97, hot & humid....

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Today is a weird day where the high is 72, and it just slowly goes down all day into the 60s...

Rest of the week is back to 85-95 tho... night time temps of 65-75...

That's pretty much how it's been all summer... I don't like hot weather, but I prefer it to all the destructive storms last year...

[Felina]

It’s been pretty nice in salt lake. High 80’s and low 90’s. I guess it’s supposed to spike this weekend with a severe heat wave warning. I don’t mind the heat. Hate the cold.

[Marie]

I have lived in Portugal for 5 years and there are always very hot and dry summers with clear skies starting in June. Now we getting rain, cloudy days, and quite mild temperatures, storms that are pretty rare in summer... I don't mind but something is not right, certainly. Feels like I am back home in Czechia with this kind of weather.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

I hate all weather... hot, cold, rain too... I just like warm enough time with a bit of a chill wind, in the Spring and Fall...

[Felina]

I love rain so much. Especially thunder and lightning. Love!

[Marie]

Felina wrote: "I love rain so much. Especially thunder and lightning. Love!"
Me too! When I don't have to go out that is :D
But yeah I rather have some rains and clouds now and then than clear sky and heat whole summer, the sun here is so strong and it kind of sucks when there are no clouds at all. I burn easily... At least there is a breeze most days.

Still I am not complaining about our weather here when I see the chaos out there. Stays safe everyone...

[Tonari no Emily]

Still no power, and we're getting to 94F today 🙃

[Tonari no Emily]

It'll probably get hotter as the week goes on now that the storm has passed.

Luckily my mother in law lives close and she has power

[Felina]

No good!!

When I was in highschool we lost power for a week right over Christmas break. Winter is no joke in Utah. My grandpa lives across the street. Literally kitty corner and that side of the street had power. But he would only watch westerns from the 50’s so me and my brother opted to freeze at home reading books and doing puzzles and getting 12 hours or more of sleep.

[Narilka]

Hope your power comes back soon Emily. I used to live in Florida. Waiting for the power to come back after a storm was always trying.

[Ann-Marie]

Tonari no Emily wrote: "It'll probably get hotter as the week goes on now that the storm has passed.

Luckily my mother in law lives close and she has power"

I can't even imagine! Hope all is well soon :)

[Tonari no Emily]

I have power! (mostly, its shutting off for a bit randomly, but it's mostly on!)

[Tonari no Emily]

Now to deal with all the food I need to throw away from the fridge...😭

[Ann-Marie]

Tonari no Emily wrote: "Now to deal with all the food I need to throw away from the fridge...😭"

That sounds terrible!

[Olivia]

Big vent incoming, I just needed to tell someone…

What do you do when the universe is just not giving you a break?

In the last 12 months I’ve had massive surgery (for endometriosis), then during recovery lost a 15 year old dog (who I’d lived with for 10 years, she was my now-ex-partner’s), then my relationship of 12 years fell apart, and I had to move out of my home, and finally yesterday my 16 year old dog who I’d had since he was 8 weeks old crossed the rainbow bridge.

And I’m just…. done 😭

[Mel]

I'm so sorry Olivia. Sometimes life just keeps on throwing one thing after another at you. And I think it's precisely because major things have already fallen apart that the rest feels so impossible to handle.

For me, losing friendships/relationships and sources of support is the worst. Maybe losing a job/being kicked out of housing/losing a pet would have been more bearable if you had someone to turn to. I hate that I've had to discover how much more ableist/classist some people are, who distance themselves when you are struggling.

Keep reaching out, let people know you are having a hard time. Times of grief can actually be the best times to bond with others. Share stories of your pets. What were the things that made them special?

[Olivia]

Thank you. My friends are amazing, and I've got a good support network. It's the reason I'm still standing.

My ex-partner's dog, Lola, was a black Cocker Spaniel, and she made it to 15, I met her when she was 3 years old, and moved in with her 2 years later. I moved countries for my ex, and Lola was my emotional support companion who would sit on me and lie on me whenever I was stressed or sad. Whenever I had a migraine, she'd sit on my head, sweetest girl.

But my boy, Blue, he was perfect. He chased the frisbee for hours, even at 16, he still went for 6 mile hikes with us.
He was very reserved around strangers, and tried to herd small children (Aussie), but he made friends with everyone and was just such an absolute sweet soul apart from when he
- figured out how to steal food from the counter by jumping up and angling himself in ways he could reach the back (he even got half a beef roast once)
- found and ate chocolate in an attempt to poison himself
- figured out how to open doors
- barked at the postman for delivering a package
- pulled me downhill whenever I didn't walk fast enough
- stole a massive slice of cheese from my plate (I was sitting on the sofa) during a blackout

At the end, he only really liked to drink from rivers, and we used aquarium equipment to make a pot of water bubble so he would drink...

He was so sweet (and active and healthy until he got ill) that our vet outright refused to put him to sleep a week ago...I knew in my gut that it was the end, but she wanted to try again and threw another batch of drugs his way. Unfortunately, it didn't work.

It was a sunny day, but when we came home afterwards, the skies suddenly opened and there was a two minute downpour, followed by a massive rainbow in front of our balcony. I'm not a believer, but what timing!

[Nirkatze]

So sorry to hear about your Lola & Blue, @Olivia, they sound like wonderful dogs... Very Good Boy and Very Good Girl. My mom had a Australian blue heeler when I was growing up, and she was the most loyal and sweetest thing.

[Felina]

I feel you, Olivia. I had the most handsome perfect old man cat. Such a friendly and sweet ginger kitty. He was 17 when he passed. And he died a month after I found out I had cancer. It was so hard. I miss him everyday.

I know you aren’t a believer, but I am so I’ll pray for you. These things are hard for sure. ((Hugs))

[Narilka]

My condolences Olivia, that's a lot back to back. Please be kind to yourself and give yourself time to mourn and heal. Hopefully you can get lost in a buddy read or two to help out.

[Timelord Iain, Tech Support]

Some people believe in the Rule of Three... celebrity deaths happening in 3s... bad things in personal life happening in 3s... etc...

This is clearly more than that...

Sending best wishes...

[Felina]

Ahhh getting lost in a BR is often the best medicine.

[Diana Stormblessed]

I am so incredibly sorry for your loss.

[Olivia]

Timelord Iain wrote: "Some people believe in the Rule of Three... celebrity deaths happening in 3s... bad things in personal life happening in 3s... etc...

This is clearly more than that...

Sending best wishes..."

Maybe the universe thinks I need 6 things? Or - I bloody hope not - 9?

Thank you everyone!

I really struggled with reading these last few years. I feel like when I'm stressed out it's easier to focus on television or videogames than books. And I really miss reading as well.