I really don’t like to complain as I’m so grateful for what I have and am able to do. When I do complain my biggest complaint is about not having enough time to read.
I am still raising kids and though some are still teenagers some are in their twenties and still living at home . It’s hard for adult children to leave home now because of the astronomical cost of housing, utilities groceries and everything else. This makes it unfair on the parents and children alike as you don’t really have the responsibility of adulthood until you’re gone and handling things out on your own.
If I were a lottery winner I would run a cat sanctuary. It would provide loving care (medical and general) for homeless ferals, abused and abandoned cats. They all deserve a chance. ❤️🐾😻
The better question is what do I not want to read ❓❓❓❓❔❔❔
As a life long reader, my mother put books 📚📚📚 in my crib as a baby and I was hooked. From picture books and I remember how sad I was when my books no longer had pictures to worded books I devour books. I am whittling away at my netgalley books . My backlist goes back to 2021 and I joined in 2017. My goal last year was to read all my 2021 books but failed. Those newer books kind of caught my attention instead, sigh. I’ll attempt this year to do it. I read a lot of genres but have no interest in sci fi. I did say that about fantasy as well but did find a few of those I enjoyed. I also have physical books on my library shelf at home. I have a lovely library in my home but have too many netgalley books to properly utilize it. Sadly those books can just sit there but netgalley books, they kind of want you to read them.
I also do blog tours and work with multiple book tour groups. I’ve been cutting back on signing up for those recently as well this year. There’s a lot of pressure reading for blog tours and posting. I want to do more reading of books of my choosing , not having to read a certain book by a certain day and post on a certain dsy. I enjoy most of the blog tour books I read but it can be draining. For blog tours you usually sign up for them several months in advance but at times you don’t get the book right away and more than once I’ve found myself reading the book for it the day /night before I have to post. My resolution this year is more relaxation reading of my choice when I want to read it.
To sum it up, I want to read what I want when I want and I don’t think that’s too much to ask. And I want my cats right there with me while I’m reading.📚😻🐾❤️📚
Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting.
I live in Fort Loudon, Pennsylvania which is in the United States. It’s an unincorporated village. Very small and very old. We have one of the oldest post offices in continuous use in Pennsylvania opening in 1814. This area used to be called Loudon but was changed to Fort Loudon in 1883.
Reading, relaxing and drinking tea by myself or with my husband who enjoys reading as much as I do but he won’t touch tea.
Walking and exercising
Visiting and spending time with family
Doing a word puzzle, playing games on my phone and playing hidden objects on my computer
Having my mind challenged and learning something
Blogging
Enjoying nature and watching the birds at my feeders. I have a cardinal couple that lives in our tree and they are such a joy to watch. They really love the safflower seeds I put out. They won’t eat the regular seeds I put out.
Clutter. Who wants it, who needs it. I’ve heard hoarders feel secure when they have their possessions all around that it gives them a good feeling. I am not a hoarder and it doesn’t make me feel happy, it actually makes me feel 🫥 depressed when I see a bunch of clutter so I try to stay on top of it. When I walked into a messy room before I would survey it and mentally calculate what needed done then scurry around with no plan just putting this away and that away from different sides of the room. Now I at least make a plan. I’ll start at the top of the room on one side and work my way down when I’m doing a deep cleaning 🧹🧼. Dust, wipe down walls, go through cabinets clear counters, what to keep, what to pitch what to give away. This way working on one side of a room at a time I have less chaos and can do a more thorough cleaning and it’s not as overwhelming as when I try to do the whole room at once.
My favorite animal is the cat. I have three, they are rascals but wouldn’t give them up for anything. Charlie, the black and white cow cat is 18 months , Orangey I’m not sure of his age as we took him in as a stray this past summer. Iris will be 11 and we’ve had her since she was 6 weeks old. She was a stray born in our yard.
I think a lot of online communication apps are overblown and you can have soooooo many of them. Mist in my opinion are nonsense. My favorite one to communicate on isy blog. I also have FB, use it for book promotion, X, same thing, IG I’m ready to delete and also ready to delete Pinterest. At one time I used Pinterest to look at pictures but haven’t used it in years. I have LinkedIn and that’s another book thing as well. I use Goodreads for communication about book challenges I am doing. Let’s see, the kids schools use several communication apps you have to have as well. It’s all too much!
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