Sunday Stuff

Quote

“Its me, hi, I’m the problem it’s me.”-Taylor Swift

Song

“A Thousand Years” – Christina Perri

I love this song. For years I only ever associated it with the Twilight movies, which I loved so no hate, please. However, now when I hear this beautiful song, I think of Tennessee. The lyrics all seem to fit. All the years we’ve been waiting to find each other. Knowing so early in our relationship that we were meant to be together. Being brave so we can have our happily ever after. How can I not love it?

Books

“Summoned to Thirteenth Grave” by Darynda Jones

This was the final book in this epic paranormal series that I’ve been listening to on and off for months. The narrator, Lorelei King, was not a favorite of Tennessee’s but I liked her. She was Charley Davidson, Grim Reaper. I liked the author’s take on Heaven and Hell, and I was invested in the characters, not just the main characters but all the supporting cast too.

Here’s a link to the first book:

On the heels of this series, I found one on Kindle Unlimited by Sara Bourgeois. I am currently on Book 8 of 28 of the “Familiar Kitten Mysteries” series titled “Yule Be Magical”.

This series is fun, and I am curious to see how the author is going to take this main character through 20 more books. I admit I do not have high hopes as I’m already starting to get bored with the interplay between her and her two love interests. I’m not sure I’ll make it to number 28, but since I’m not paying for the books we will see.

As I said these have been fun so far, but the Darynda Jones’ series is superior in my humble opinion.

I have to be honest. I was supposed to be reading other books, books I committed to reading for one of my book clubs, but I just could not face either of those books. Both required a certain headspace I just wasn’t able to muster during these past couple of months.

Now that I’m feeling better I am going to go back and read them. I promised my friends that I would, but right now I’m in the middle of listening to a book that has been on hold for a really long time.

“The Light We Carry” by Michelle Obama

I wish I hadn’t waited so long to read this. I kept snoozing it in my library, but I loved her last book so much that I should have known I’d love this too. I’ll write more when I’ve finished it.

Go Small

There is so much hatred, violence, and division in the news right now: national politics and international wars. My doom-scrolling has not helped my mental health at all, and I’ve really been struggling with not doing it.

One of the stories Michelle Obama tells early on in her book is about going small when things feel overwhelming, or you feel helpless. She talks about picking up knitting needles during the pandemic and it made me smile. The reason?

I recently got all my cross-stitch, knitting, and loom paraphernalia that didn’t fit in the car and that my mother just mailed to me. A few days ago, just before I started Michellle’s book, I picked up my loom and made a child’s hat. And after listening to her sage advice, I realized that it had made me feel better and I need to do more of that.  

Does anyone need a child’s hat, or a toboggan as the locals call them? I already made one last year for J-Dawg though as I recall kids tend to lose hats and mittens often, so it would probably be alright to give him this one too. Or maybe his mama can pass it along to someone at her church.

Etymology

Speaking of toboggans here’s a small piece about why Southerners (and it is capitalized down here) call these types of hats toboggans.

https://www.southernthing.com/toboggan-hat-2648141814.html

Time Change

I’m one of those people who think the time change is completely unnecessary now that our farmers are no longer so dependent on daylight to do their work. But I have to admit I don’t mind the ‘fall back’ so much since it’s lighter in the morning and we got that extra hour of sleep. Not that it did me any good this morning since I was awake way too early, but the sun pouring into my office is nice.

It’ll suck later when it’s dark and the animals insist they need to be fed earlier, but whatever, I’m a morning person.

Have a great week my friends.