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Haha thank you Melissa! I never expected to start my day with a video of someone sewing a dress out of toilet paper 😂
@ KarishimaBasically, same as everyone else said.
+ If you meant "depression" in a medical-psychiatric sense, then I too have it, and understand how that can feel. Are you taking any medication?
+ Ok, so you see all these mega efficient ppl improving themselves, like pokemon evolving three stages at a time. Well, how about we look at me? I'm not doing anything, anything at all to improve myself. Not now, not before the isolation thing (well, if you don't count learning to evade the police while going to a coffee shop + reading laws to know how I'm protected against fines for various things one isn't "allowed" to do in quarantine). I might devolve into a cabbage in a year. While you're doing stuff. So see, you could do better, but you could do alot WORSE. I know this might not help much (like siobhan said, depression doesn't care), but maybe you'll smile for just a moment, who knows...
+ During my rehab for alcoholics, they made ppl do an assigment. You had to write down all the {blank} things you did that day. For me it was new-behavior things. But in your case it could be "improving" things. And it doesn't matter how small the thing is. I wrote down things like: I shaved, I put on new socks, etc. And you know what, it helped me take pride in the things I do. After rehab, it helped that my friends were supportive when I said things like "This week I washed my hair especially for u, aren't I awesome?!"
Do you share your improving-things with your friends? What's their reaction?
Also, this dylan moran joke about depression. But just in case for non-english ppl, I should say that cocoa pops is a type of cereal (typically a breakfast meal).“What’s that you say? “Face down in a pool of Cocoa Pops all day Wednesday? “l wish I had the strength for that.”
Melissa wrote: "This may be common knowledge, but the MET also is streaming operas for free, in case you're looking for more cultured content.https://www.metopera.org/
And as my own Youtube therapy recommendati..."
Bernadette is awesome!
Another weirdly relaxing channel is Nail Career Education. I never paint my nails, keep them meticulously short and would never get acrylic nails but somehow watching her do nails for half an hour is sooo calming!
Here's a random video, I actually really like that design :)
https://youtu.be/3J9jiaQ2Fi0
Can't believe Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer finally has a release date (August 4th). Never thought it would happen lol.Not overly bothered about Twilight anymore but I'm still looking forward to reading it.
Hailee wrote: "Can't believe Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer finally has a release date (August 4th). Never thought it would happen lol.Not overly bothered about Twilight anymore but I'm still looking forward t..."
Oh what is it? Another Twilight book?
Midnight Sun is Twilight but from Edward's POV. Its been on hold for 13 years (she started writing it in 2007) because first someone leaked part of the first draft on the internet and then E. J. James jumped in there wrote Grey. This pissed her off coz Fifty Shades started life as Twilight fanfiction so when she wrote Grey it was seen as her stealing another of Meyer's ideas (this info is all gathered through hearsay in the book community)
Hailee wrote: "Midnight Sun is Twilight but from Edward's POV. Its been on hold for 13 years (she started writing it in 2007) because first someone leaked part of the first draft on the internet and then E. J. Ja..."Ahhh I see! I missed all this going on haha.
Why release it after all this time when she's no longer relevant?
(Because millions of people will buy it anyway and she needs some money I suppose!)
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Yup. Whenever I see something like this i always assume that some bills came up and they needed money.
I assume that since the new hunger games book is coming, all these people will be trying to capitalize on the nostalgia moment.
Yanique wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "Hailee wrote: "Midnight Sun is Twilight but from Edward's POV. Its been on hold for 13 years (she started writing it in 2007) because first someone leaked part of the first draft on..."Ah yes I forgot about that one too!
Normally I'd think the same and I'm sure the money doesn't hurt but in this case there is also the fact that milllions of people have not shut up about Midnight Sun in the last 13 years. There hasn't been a week in 13 years that I haven't seen at least one social media post begging for Midnight Sun to be finished. They are obssessed. Plus her mother asks for the final draft of Midnight Sun for her birthday EVERY year. I think part of Stephanie Meyer's motivation is probably to get people to shut the hell up about so she can write new things without everybody (and her mother) asking for it every two minutes 😂🤦♀️You should have seen the twitter posts when it was announced. People sobbing with happiness. Its actually the number one trending hashtag on twitter at the moment lol.
Really?! I've genuinely seen nothing about it in the last 13 years!! I guess it depends who you follow etc 😅That's hilarious that her mum asks for it for her birthday every year! 😂 That's a good reason to get it done haha.
Bea wrote: "Bernadette is awesome!Another weirdly relaxing channel is Nail Career Education. I never paint my nails, keep them meticulously short and would never get acrylic nails but somehow watching her do nails for half an hour is sooo calming!"
I see what you mean! Nail art really isn't my scene, but I watched a couple episodes and I love how enamoured she is with the results. You see how much fun she is having.
Siobhan wrote: "Really?! I've genuinely seen nothing about it in the last 13 years!! I guess it depends who you follow etc 😅That's hilarious that her mum asks for it for her birthday every year! 😂 That's a good ..."
Lol if you have managed to avoid it for 13 years I am definitely following the wrong people 😂😂😂
Sir Anni wrote: "Haha thank you Melissa! I never expected to start my day with a video of someone sewing a dress out of toilet paper 😂"Now this I gotta see!
And @Mel...cheers!! I knew many would like it...Hailee got me into readathons so I am waiting for the Tome Topple to start and then I will listen to it in one go...
:) I've mostly been watching watercolour tutorials....
Yay Zaara!!! Tome Topple is such a fun readathon 😍. I'm a fan of the reading sprints they run on their twitter account. Really encourages you to get some pages read 😉
Hailee wrote: "Yay Zaara!!! Tome Topple is such a fun readathon 😍. I'm a fan of the reading sprints they run on their twitter account. Really encourages you to get some pages read 😉"I'm here :) and I will get to our thread soon-ish. God, totting up my books takes forever. From now on I will not keep putting it off...
Yeah I know what you mean as I'm not at work I don't get many opportunities to look at the spreadsheet at the moment (it doesn't load on my smartphone) so when when I had the opportunity to jump on a desktop briefly last week I had to add about 10 books all at the same time. Took a while lol.
Hailee wrote: "Siobhan wrote: "Really?! I've genuinely seen nothing about it in the last 13 years!! I guess it depends who you follow etc 😅That's hilarious that her mum asks for it for her birthday every year! ..."
Hahahaha! :D
Hailee wrote: "Can't believe Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer finally has a release date (August 4th). Never thought it would happen lol.Not overly bothered about Twilight anymore but I'm still looking forward t..."
Oh, didn't know about that!
I've just started a new job, working full time this week and I don't understand how some of you guys manage to read so much! Sad that my reading hours have been cut drastically lol. Now I'm going to be even slower!
Beena wrote: "I've just started a new job, working full time this week and I don't understand how some of you guys manage to read so much! Sad that my reading hours have been cut drastically lol. Now I'm going t..."Haha, at the sacrifice of all else! 😅
Congrats on the new job! What you doing?
Beena wrote: "I've just started a new job, working full time this week and I don't understand how some of you guys manage to read so much! Sad that my reading hours have been cut drastically lol. Now I'm going t..."Congratulations on the new job! How are you feeling about it? Excited? Relieved? Resigned?
I know how you feel though. I'm amazed at the sheer number of books some members devour. While I often prefer to digest my books more slowly, and don't necessarily think that more is better, I do wish I could join in more Buddy Reads! I usually can only manage one or two a month. Some are so tempting, but alas I need to rein in my zealous ambition to something more realistic.
In the morning I thought it would be a good idea to pull all of my books of their shelves and reorganize them by height and oh boy 😅 I've been at it for 4 jours and a third of my books is still on the floor. Why am I doing this to myself? At least I don't have to workout any more today 😂
Bea wrote: "In the morning I thought it would be a good idea to pull all of my books of their shelves and reorganize them by height and oh boy 😅 I've been at it for 4 jours and a third of my books is still on..."
Hahaha that happens to me every time! It seems like such a good idea until all my books are on the floor! :D
I don't know about other countries, but what drives me mad about printed books in russia is that there are like 30 different sizes of books, some with height variations of like a tenth of an inch.my books are generally stacked smth like this:
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I've been at it for 4 jours and a third of my books is still on..."
Did you see the news story about the Library that shutdown and did a deep clean?... The "helpful" cleaners put the books back on the shelf by size... so they have their work cut out for them on resorting... but the library is closed anyway, so it gives them something to do...
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-s...
idiffer wrote: "I don't know about other countries, but what drives me mad about printed books in russia is that there are like 30 different sizes of books, some with height variations of like a tenth of an inch...."
They're quite uniform in the UK, two paperback sizes, and hardback. You get the odd weird exception.
My two hates: a series changing from small paperback to large half way through so they don't match! Or vice versa.
Having to buy an American paperback! The sizes seem bizarre to me and match none of my books! They stick out like a sore thumb on the shelf!! 😂
Timelord Iain wrote: "Bea wrote: "In the morning I thought it would be a good idea to pull all of my books of their shelves and reorganize them by height and oh boy 😅 I've been at it for 4 jours and a third of my books..."
Haha, I haven't seen that 😂
I'm done now. Sorting by height didn't always work out because I have a bunch of different sizes besides the classic english tall books, mass market and trade paperbacks.
And I noticed how many mass markets I have. Everybody seems to hate them but I actually kind of like them.
Timelord Iain wrote: "Bea wrote: "In the morning I thought it would be a good idea to pull all of my books of their shelves and reorganize them by height and oh boy 😅 I've been at it for 4 jours and a third of my books..."
Hahaha that's so funny! XD
Bea wrote: "In the morning I thought it would be a good idea to pull all of my books of their shelves and reorganize them by height and oh boy 😅 I've been at it for 4 jours and a third of my books is still on..."
I have to have mine alphabetically by author or I can't find anything!
Haha, at the sacrifice of all else! 😅Congrats on the new job! What you doing?
Lmao!!
Cheers :) I'm an administrator for a substance misuse charity
Congratulations on the new job! How are you feeling about it? Excited? Relieved? Resigned?I know how you feel though. I'm amazed at the sheer number of books some members devour. While I often prefer to digest my books more slowly, and don't necessarily think that more is better, I do wish I could join in more Buddy Reads! I usually can only manage one or two a month. Some are so tempting, but alas I need to rein in my zealous ambition to something more realistic.
Thank you! Excited, it should be interesting and they seem like a friendly team so it'll be good getting to know them.
I know right! Like how??!! I do agree with you though, I'm glad reading several at a time works for some people, but I think it would really take away from the story for me. And it is because loads of buddy reads look so interesting, but I just have to be patient and get there eventually.
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Tammie wrote: "Bea wrote: "In the morning I thought it would be a good idea to pull all of my books of their shelves and reorganize them by height and oh boy 😅 I've been at it for 4 jours and a third of my books..."
I have an excel list of all my books, and besides a ton of other info, I write down which book is on which shelf. Otherwise I'm lost in a sea of literally a thousand books. Organizing alphabetically is not an option for me cuz I need books of certain sizes in certain places so that I can put other books on top horizontally. It's all cuz I'm very short on space for books. I'm constrained by one room and have to throw out old books to accomodate new ones.
Ppl liked the headsup about Jennifer Ehle reading P&P in bitesize pieces.Here is Andy Serkis (Gollum) reading The Hobbit for more comforting read and listens, should anyone be interested.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SILNvtr...
All the best for the new job, Beans.
Yeah I'd seen the library deepclean.
And I have never yet read Twilight or (more timely for
) Hunger Games :D
idiffer wrote: "I have an excel list of all my books, and besides a ton of other info, I write down which book is on which shelf. Otherwise I'm lost in a sea of literally a thousand books..."That's an excellent idea.
Tammie wrote: "Bea wrote: "In the morning I thought it would be a good idea to pull all of my books of their shelves and reorganize them by height and oh boy 😅 I've been at it for 4 jours and a third of my books..."
I organize by genre but within each genre I don't really care that much which book is where. I have 'only' around 600 books and I have three different bookshelf corners in my room and know which genre is in which corner. So it's actually not that hard to find books. If I had a lot more books than I do then I'd probably organize with more method, too.
Zaara wrote: "Ppl liked the headsup about Jennifer Ehle reading P&P in bitesize pieces.Here is Andy Serkis (Gollum) reading The Hobbit for more comforting read and listens, should anyone be interested.
https:/..."
I never read the Hunger Games either 😅
I did read Twilight back in the day in school because everybody was going crazy over it, so I had to know what the hype was about. 13 year old me actually liked it ☺
All the best for the new job, Beans.Thanks Zaara!
Bea wrote: "I organize by genre but within each genre I don't really care that much which book is where. I have 'only' around 600 books and I have three different bookshelf corners in my room and know which genre is in which corner. So it's actually not that hard to find books. If I had a lot more books than I do then I'd probably organize with more method, too..."I organize by genre and then have them organized alphabetically by author within each genre. It wouldn't be so hard to find them if I had less books, that's for sure.
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As an audio listener, when keeping books stored on my PC/HDD to cut down on redownloading, I modify the titles to sort chronologically by series, to make it easier to add & remove from my phone...
So Moontide Quartet will be MQ01 to MQ04... short stories will be X.5 unless there's a ton, then it'll be X.1 or X.01... and when my collection gets unwieldy, I just delete from iTunes Library without sending to Trash Can... can easily re-add when it's time for re-reads... step 2 is transferring to External HDD...
Well it’s definitely been awhile, hope everyone here is doing well with all that’s happening in the world, but hey I’m back to reading again hahaha. But yeah last few months have been interesting for me since I got a job (furloughed now) I’ve been working on my projects now not films unfortunately but I’ve been doing other stuff like gaming in twitch and stuff on YouTube which has really been amazing.
But yeah looks like I got a lot of catching up and cleaning to do...... So hi everybody ☺️☺️☺️
Hi Ahdam. Welcome back! Sorry to hear you are furloughed from your job though.
The orange (homepage) is only slightly less ghastly than the yellow and it's been here a lot longer....
Zaara wrote: "The orange (homepage) is only slightly less ghastly than the yellow and it's been here a lot longer...."Haha, you think so? I'm not sure if it really is better... I'm not a big fan of orange...
And Hellooo Ahdam :)
Hey Ahdam, I'm glad that you're back! I was wondering a few days ago where you went.Hooray, our main library opened last Monday! I was so happy and didn't mind the waiting line! It's a bit weird and you can't use all the services, but I don't mind.
I still hasn't rained for 8 weeks or so. Not including the 3 days that it rained and it's getting a bit worrying. Will this be the next crisis? I don't want to panic, but it hasn't been so dry since the last 119 years and now it's 4 years in a row.
The rainwater we use for our rented vegetable garden went dry, so I have a bit of rain water at home I can use for it. But where my horse is stabled, the pastures are just brown and yellow and that so early in the year.
I haven't been on GR for a couple of days due to a big reading slump (getting out of it now), a bit of a mental dip (my husband called it a ' start of a depression', but I won't to see it like that) and some family issues. I find it hard that I have no friends to talk about it, but a while ago (2 years) I posted that my younger sister had lung cancer. She got threated and she was in remission. The cancer shrinked, but it couldn't dissapear. Since a couple of weeks, she started to get head aches, was a bit dizzy....and she got a scan of her head. The result is that she has a tumor in her head, due to the lung cancer. She's now having radiations instead of chemo and lost her hair in 2 days. The doctor gave her 4 months, a year if she's lucky. I'm going to visit her at her home (with mask and alcogel) and I hope I can keep myself together. We've got a very difficult relation and I don't know how to feel about all of this.
Sorry for the long post, but I just wanted to share this with someone.
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https://www.metopera.org/
And as my own Youtube therapy recommendation, whenever I get tired of rewatching old Whose Line clips, I love Bernadette Banner for her calming, well-spoken videos on historical sewing. The filmography, lighting, soothing background music, and her crisp enunciation and dry understated humor are ASMR for my soul. I don't sew at all, but love her videos all the same.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSHt...