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1 rose after rain
2 walking in greenbelt
3 🧒🏻 little bear
4 & 5 community garden

#5joysFriday @DebinHawaii

“Private investigator Eddie Shoes heads to a resort outside Leavenworth, Washington, for a mother-daughter getaway weekend. Eddie‘s mother, Chava, wants to celebrate her new job at a casino by footing the bill for the two of them, and who is Eddie to say no?”

FULL SHOWCASE: https://tinyurl.com/239hpbb6

@elenataylorauthor
@partnersincrimevbt

Well I might be missing for a while😊

#SpringSkies
Day 18. Powerful
#Powerful

This every time I see a hidden room or an empty bookshelf 👀📚📚📚📚📚

🤦🏼‍♀️🤷‍♀️📖 idk why I do this but I have to stop … I haven‘t done it recently so I guess I‘m improving

This 🙌🏽📚

Our 2nd week of #5JoysFriday & I hope you‘re ready to list 5 joyful things, big or small that you‘re grateful for this week. Reading last week‘s lists gave me great joy & I need some more!💛

To join, post 5 things that brought you joy this week. Use #5JoysFriday tag me & share to spread the joy!💛There‘s space on the graphic for photos or text.

I‘ll be posting my list when it‘s Friday here.😉Tagging some friends to get started-all are welcome!

Made this little guy for my mom for early Mothers' Day. His name is Harold, never Harry. He'll soon have a mousy friend holding an ice cream cone.
#LitsyCrafters #CraftersofLitsy

1. Some downtime to relax. I feel like I‘ve been on the go lately.
2. Work projects 😂 and house chores.
3. Buying a house is definitely a contender for my “win”, but also just some personal goals being achieved as well.

Thanks for the tag @Eggs
🙂

The first author selected for #queerbc is Adib Khorram!

This is for May, I‘ve got it up early so you can pick what you want to read and source it.

You can read anything he has written, so have a look and see what catches your interest. If you‘ve already read something by them maybe drop a recommendation in the comments.

I‘ll post again at the end of May to see what everyone read and what you thought

Happy reading!

#TLT #ThreeListThursday

1) Katherine Hepburn
2) Helena Bonham Carter
3) Emma Thompson

Come play!

@dabbe

#TLT #ThreeListThursday

1. Deborah Carr. Affair to Remember, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
2. Judi Dench. How could I not?
3. Olivia Coleman. I‘m just a huge fan.

Consider yourself tagged!

This list shifts frequently, but three of my faves:

1. Frances McDormand (esp Fargo and Raising Arizona).
2. Shirley Maclaine (esp Steel Magnolias and Terms of Endearment)
3. Kate Winslet (esp Heavenly Creatures, Little Children)

(And Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth, LOTR). And Jennifer Aniston (specifically in Office Space and Cake and not in Friends). Couldn't help sneaking in a couple more!)

#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe

I missed my 125 000 litfluence! *waves*

#Typhoon

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

#SpringSkies
Day 17. Magic Element
#MagicElement
Both on tbr

I. Experiencing new places.
II. Patterns of behavior that no longer serve me.
III. My family (my spouse, my kids, homeschooling for so many years, the adventures we've had, and the parenting improvements I've made compared to the previous generations in my family of origin).

Great questions, @Eggs ! #WondrousWednesday

Thank you to @Eggs & @TheSpineView for the #WondrousWednesday tags! 🤗

1️⃣ Rest, breathing (better breathing), exercise & money (see # 3) 😉

2️⃣ Meetings, stress, work & weight 😬 (& probably self-judgement!)

3️⃣ Working hard & successfully enough to be able to buy a home on my own in Hawaii 🏡🏝️

If you haven‘t played along yet & want to, consider yourself tagged!

Truth.

#WhatsNewWednesday
🐈‍⬛ When I got home today, there was a surprise package from my mom with these adorable magnetic bookmarks! 🐈‍⬛
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4Life @TieDyeDude

#WhatsNewWednesday

Our magnolia‘s blossoms are beginning to open…

Relates to my post about having three books in different formats that I‘m currently reading 📖📖📖🤷‍♀️

My attitude always 🤣📚📚📚

This 🙌🏽 is a real struggle… I completely agree _lilau aka Lau 🙌🏽

1. Self-care. Need to value my mental health more.
2. Usage of social media
3. So far is quite an ambitious word... But lately I can say is the realization that is ok to get help from others.

#wondrouswensday
@Eggs

I'm going to my little sister's baby shower this weekend! She's having her first child in June. I'm so excited to spoil my new niece! 😍🤩

1. Time in nature.
2. Gossip and Drama - particularly at work 🙄
3. My marriage. I've been with K since we were 20 & 21 (married after 9 years). 24 years later, we're still ride or die. 💓

#WondrousWednesday

1) Exercise, Travel
2) Insomnia, sugar
3) My kids, both hard working, decent human beings but especially my hell on wheels ADHD son. That was a ride!

Tagging everyone! Loved today‘s question and the time to think about how to work towards 1 and 2.

@Eggs

#WhatsNewWednesday

I had my first post-op dr appointment and physical therapy session. My new knuckle is healing well. Still much swelling, stiffness and soreness but I‘m on the mend.

This is the travel mug I got in the care package from the #LitsyLove group. I love it!

Want to share @Eggs @TheSpineView @dabbe

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
1. More sweets without the concern for weight gain or disease.
2. Less work day hours.😂😂
3. Bringing my alma mater its first charter of my sorority. We made history last month!

Our 9-month-old great-nephew came to visit! (He brought his parents, too. 😉) It was such a joy to witness his first sight of the ocean, first time he put his toes in the sand and waves. 🌊🏖️☀️💙

#WhatsNewWednesday #LitsyLove #LitsyLoveBingo
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4life @TieDyeDude

#wondrouswednesday

1. To stop overthinking everything.

2. Allowing other people‘s bad vibes affect me!

3. My daughter. Watching the strong and sweet teenager that she is reminds me every day that I‘m doing it right.

No surprises here, except for my neighbors in WI. I may need to float some banned books across the river. 😒

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/04/16/npr-book-bans-2023-pen-america

#Type

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

Thanks for the tag, @TheSpineView 💙

1. Time & money to travel and visit my kids more often.
2. Medical issues and migraines
3. My family

Want to play @Gissy @Crazeedi @UwannaPublishme

#WondrousWednesday

1) More hanging out with my best friend… seems that we‘re at a stage where we see each other infrequently.
2) Less drama and more justice in the world around me.
3) My husband and the life we‘ve built together. This July will be 30 years since we met and I‘m grateful for every moment.

@Eggs

#SpringSkies
Day 15. Women in Sports
#WomenInSports
I read Raise The Roof a while back, Carrie Soto is on my tbr! (NF & F books)

Happy Wednesday and Happy 3rd week of April!
Everyone can play🥳

1-Just a bit more disposable income so I could travel more. And more peace and quiet
2-The repetitive house chores, and noise in general
3-Achievement of particular life goals, and having 3 wonderful, kind-hearted, successful daughters. I‘m so grateful 🩵🙏🏻🩵

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

Reading on my Kindle tonight! :)

Welcome back to #LitsyLove @WorldsOkayestStepMom 🥳🎊🎉💌📮📬 We are happy you are back!!

1. Is it vacation yet? 😂
2. Oh man my brain has no idea today lol
Thanks @peaKnit @Kshakal @TheSpineView #two4Tuesday

The album Boys & Girls by Alabama Shakes has been serving up the dopamine for me this week.

"Hold On":

https://youtu.be/jW0ZjNl-QW0?si=_wbyM1d6WB6DYfF7

#tuesdaytunes

I felt up for a walk today so I dropped a few books off at two Little Free Libraries in my neighborhood.

Everyone meet harry… 🕷️ he/she is a jumping spider in Washington state so while I don‘t mind spiders I don‘t really like the jumping part so I let him/her stay by the window and now I can‘t find him/her 👀 so I‘m just sitting here waiting for when he/she jumps out of its hiding spot 👀🕷️

#TuesdayTunes

I love this video (a little creepy vibe) and cover of one of my favorite Queen songs featuring Lindsey Stirling who I also love.

https://youtu.be/IbYG30ucL7Q?si=6HON5rFcXC5tBGqY

@TieDyeDude

So I‘ve been finding some good songs on my Spotify-curated lists lately. I put on “Evening Mix” last night when I was writing, and this came on. It just really hit hard. I‘m excited to listen to more by him. (But I‘ve been listening to dance music to get me through the day today!) #TuesdayTunes

https://open.spotify.com/track/5yGVHzJ2Se8pDzR7FIYUlU?si=Tatq23kOS9WoNaZ7KNZpPw&...

For this week's #tuesdaytunes I would like to highlight a musical passion that I've had since high school: classical music. Despite the flannel, baggy jeans,, chain wallet, smashing pumpkins zero t-shirt & backpack with favorite punk/alternative/indie bands written on them; there was a good chance that although side A of the tape in my walkman would be a mixed tape with Madness, Nirvana, Fiona Apple & Alice in Chains...when you turned it (CONT)

Indeed 🔥

My #CurrentStack . Goal is to finish them all by the end of April. 🫣
#LitsyLoveBingo #LitsyLove @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Read4life @TieDyeDude