Dotty Sayers to the Rescue

Sorry about not posting last week, we’ve both been struggling a bit with our health. I actually started a blog last weekend, but it was very angry and filled with way too much political angst. I decided to wait a day before posting and when I read it again, I decided not to post it.

I think I was also very stressed out about starting my new job with my new boss, which I did on Monday. We had a marathon staff/training session most of that Monday because both the boss and the only other trained team member will both be on leave for big chunks of October, so she wanted to give us enough so that we could be busy while they were gone.

I was so exhausted after that I didn’t even have the energy to commit to watching TV let alone read a book. I spent way too much time on TikTok instead but didn’t sleep well when I finally crashed.

However, I think I’ll be able to settle into a bit of a routine soon and I do like how fast the days go now that I’m busy. The key is going to be to schedule movement breaks, and maybe accomplish at least one little thing each time I move…like emptying the dishwasher while waiting for my coffee to brew.

I started work on my first project and I’m enjoying the work so far. I’m not a fan of all the administrative parts of my job, but I love the puzzle-solving aspect, which is the part I’m working on now with this first project.

I can say that by Friday at 5 pm I was ‘plum tuckered out’. (I understand what tuckered out means but I have no idea what the plum has to do with it?)

On Wednesday, my doctor prescribed blood pressure meds. I confess that I did not pick them up until yesterday.  The message from Walgreens said I had until the 20th to get them or I’d have to get the prescription reissued. That meant I didn’t have to get it right away right? No, I know that’s not what it meant. So I picked them up when I was out getting our Walmart groceries, but I haven’t taken them out of the bag yet.

Tennessee and I are going out of town next weekend so I probably should start taking the pills, so I have some time to get used to the meds before being on the road right? But I’m still grieving the loss of my ability to brag about my normal blood pressure and if I open up those meds then it’s a fact I will have to face.

Can’t I just be in denial a few more days?

One thing I’m good at when facing struggles is to completely ignore them by reading books. I found a fun cozy murder series that I have been devouring so I am now ahead of schedule again. Here’s what I’ve read over the past two weeks:

Book 75

“Catmint Catastrophe”- Familiar Kitten Mysteries#22 by Sara Bourgeois

There are still more books left in this series but I’m bored with it so for now I’m moving on.

Book 76-84

“Hour is Come”; “Fake Death”; “Valued for Murder”; “Bidding for Revenge”; “Gavels, Tinsel and Murder”; “Antique Tragedy;” “Priceless Betrayal”; “Deadly Performance”; and “Holly, Baubles, and Murder”

Books .5 and 1-8 in the Dotty Sayers Antique Mystery series by Victoria Tait

Contemporary British cozy mysteries set in the Cotswold for the first handful of books about a young military widow who gets caught up in solving murders and finds out she’s good at it. They are fun and easy to read, and I’m very much enjoying them.

Only 16 more books until I hit my goal and I still have two and a half months left. Easy-peasy right?

Have a great week my friends and thank you for hanging around!