Category: Weekly Wrap-ups

This week has been pretty calm more camp prep since the camp is in July I’ll be doing a lot of that till then. Other than that I brought my PlayStation downstairs, the way I had to sit to play it when it was in my room I can’t really do with my ankle now. It’s making me want to replay DragonAge. I was a elf mage last time not sure what make I’d go with, but I still want to complete the game I have, aka find all the shards, kill all the Dragons, get to the DLC. Yes, I know who is evil and what happens in the DLC but still I’d like to play it through.

If you’ve played DragonAge respond with your race and class and what race and class you think I should try!

I’m already a good way into the Path or Pantheon challenge I just finished my first book for the challenge, I switched books from the one on my TBR but this one still fits the prompt. It was for a young female MC and I’m now using The Five Things About Ava Andrews. I’m also about 3/4 of the way through the book about food. Much Ado about Baseball, so I’m hoping to finish this challenge up nice and early this month.

Okay, I’ve been watching Loki and it has its issues but I think once we get into the meat of the show as we did in Episode 2 we’ll really have something. I love the buddy cop feel with Mobius and Variant Loki. Also not sure what Marvel is setting up for but the banter between Variant Loki and Lady Loki is going to be amazing I can already tell.

My week wasn’t super exciting but it was still a good one. I got a lot done and am moving forward towards my TBR for the year.

Also expect to see some more game and show-based posts from me soon. DragonAge essentially got me through last summer’s rough health scare with my sister. So I’d like to replay it just to see if there is anything I missed and because it was so relaxing summer. Also expect some Switch game posts or commentary and shows because Marvel insists on making TV that I want to comment about.

So I’d love to be here telling you I read a ton of books this week, but honestly, I haven’t I did get back to writing on my two main story ideas which I’d been meaning to do for months so I see it as a success.

Also, comment with your 80’s music favorites (before 85) it might be featured in the novel. I’m looking for cute and sweet, happy and romantic, and creepy and murdery music.

I think the Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival did it, I love craft writing festivals and am really looking forward to see if there are more to attend over the summer. I’d love to addend Yallfest in person in the fall assuming they have it in person.

Now for why I haven’t been able to read as much, I changed my meds for pain but now that I’m not in pain the main time I’ve been reading is at night so I’ve been falling asleep. So now that I know not to worry about the pain meds. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get more reading done instead of just falling straight to sleep.

I’ve also been trying to read more during day, right now I’m reading Black Widow Red Vengeance by Margaret Stohl and The One’s We’re Meant to Find By Joan He. I’m enjoying both for different reasons one is due to my absurd Marvel kick and the other I won and it seems serious and sweet.

Speaking of sweet I’ve been longing WAY too many hours in Cozy Grove. If someone had given me the pitch for the game I would have been like what? But it’s perfect, and sweet and I love the quest, it’s like Lumberjanes and Animal Crossing with bears and I don’t know. Any one else out there addicted.

Well that’s how my week is going see you throughout the week!

Solara

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What weekend adventures was I up to? I was supposed to go to some Zooms for the organization I’m on the board for however because of the time change I missed them all. This week though I got to go out for the first time since Covid started so that was pretty cool. However, the thing I had the most fun doing and the thing that relates back to the site is the fact that I went to the Greater Rochester Teen, they had a variety of authors and great topics since it was only one day and you could only go to one topic each hour I’m going back and viewing some of the topics I missed I’m going to do posts about the panels on the blog throughout the week.

I just finished Season 4 of the Great Canadian Baking Show it was so sweet. My favorite for the winner won the show so I was happy about it. Now I’m enjoying the Kenyan Baking Show, for anyone who doesn’t know my love after books is baking. Though I can’t do any baking yet because of my foot. I’m going to try something simple this week. But I think I’ll have to sit partly while working on it.

This weekend I also realized I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump, I just picked up Margaret Stohl’s Black Widow Forever Red, and it’s the first thing I’ve just read in awhile, it reminds that on top of all my responsibilities I need to just make time for reading because I love it, and I can get caught up in all the extra, which I also love, but I let stress me out sometimes.

So for this week I’m going to focus more on reading

Having fun

Reading more

Here is a link to The Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival Website

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April flew by and the end of the month is here. I’m still healing but I feel like I got a lot done for some reason, I detail that more in my goals posts. But overall April has been pretty productive. I got both my COVID shot done which feels like a win. The second shot was a little annoying, but nothing like what imagine the real disease must be.

If you upload completed your shot card in the comments with all details obscured you can help me pick what I read next month. In other words, find a way to get your shot……..

In bookish news I read eight books in April so I’m getting back on track with the number of books per month that I want to read.

However, the biggest announcement is one you’ve already seen. I’ve been messing with themes throughout the week but I’ve finally settled on one. The wonderful artwork was done by Ryl who I hope to set up an interview with soon to ask more about their inspirations and just show off some of their work since they did such awesome stuff for the site. I’d like to know how the process went from their end.

For May so far I also have a book tour in the works as well as another interview coming up. Also while the month that the Disability and Autism readathons occurred is over, I still want to finish all my reads from the challenge, even though the challenges were at an end.

I will say that this month changed my feeling about indie publishing one of the prompts for the autism challenge was to read an independently published book by someone with Autism. Now I hadn’t read much independent publishing and wasn’t sure about the quality, but the book, The Place Inside the Storm, proved me wrong.

Now I’m going to need to give books from less common sources a chance. So at the end of the month of April taught me things, I help reorganize things, and am still learning things. Review for The Place Inside the Storm Should be Up soon.

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So the week went pretty well, currently I’m working on the Easter readathon which is going well I should have 4 books finished by the end of the weekend which is as many as I finished last month. I’m enjoying having all theses readathons they really direct my reading in a way I have a difficulty doing myself, plus I already have some readathons lined up for May and June. But perhaps most importantly I can FINALLY, go upstairs

My ankle is still weak and can’t be sprinting up and down with abandon, But I can get up and down which means I can sleep in my own bed for the first time since the middle of January. BEST THING EVER. Plus this means I can work from my big computer on the blog, I’ve been working on my small laptop screen and my eyes are ready for a big screen again.

I also got the first half of my COVID shot which knocked me out part of yesterday and today.

As for my personal life, I’m actually starting to get stuff done with my disability and medical billing that is pretty much my life at this point so that’s good.

Therapy for my foot is also going pretty well so I’m getting back a little bit of range of motion every time I work out, they say the total time for full recovery will be a year but I’m already feeling pretty good at this point,

I’m also learning Chinese with Duolingo and really enjoying that.

So in totally this past week was pretty good. I posted most days, I read a lot of them, and I studied language all of them. And I did the stupid life paperwork. I’d give myself an A for this past week which shocks me as much as anyone.

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