Tired and cranky so Skip the dishes is bringing dinner to the hotel room

#wdncw we don‘t care that it is 2 pm, we are flying to Thunder Bay ( to take oldest to teachers college) and we paid good money for this wee bottle of white wine with our Air Canada ticket price 😉 ( John was aghast at the day drinking 😂 and we don‘t care about that either) #littenslovesjm

#showandtelltuesday I‘ve been painting the basement, the rec room? It‘s where the boys used to play video games, the exercise equipment is and the Lego sets are going to be displayed. Might be the future home to my yoga practice 🤷🏻‍♀️

Dinner is served

Painting is almost done and I‘m putting things back together- laughing out loud at my self as I‘ve forgotten how knobs work on cupboard doors 🤦🏻‍♀️

Impulse buy at the beginning of summer ( look at me reading it before it‘s sat for 3+ years on the Death Tower?! )
I went by title and 🇨🇦 author alone. I‘m not 100% thrilled so far (page17) but I think I just need to get into it a bit more 🤞🏻and grab some chips

Once upon a time I went to Paris on my honeymoon and went to the Louvre & Orsay, then 3 years later we went again on a self funded leave from school with a 2 yr old and then again in 2015 with a 16 yr old and an almost 13yr old. This time we made it to Beaubourg. This book is a reward for all my painting. I think I might do a chapter a day with it if anyone wants to join. My painting isn‘t done yet - maybe September 1 start? #europaeditions

Painting continues; I‘m priming built in shelves and cupboards, window trim, chair rail etc ….. and book #4. This book is because some internet troll during Canada‘s election told me I‘m a moron and I need to wake up and read MC‘s book. So I am and little does the troll know, Mark Carney had me with the fact he‘d written a book which is a lot more than I can say about Pee Pee

A physical book on my TBR officially read! I loved this on audio ❤️ ages ago I read the article Ann Mah wrote for the NYT and anxiously awaited the publication of her book. Then it languished on the Death Tower. I had a big love for Jackie Kennedy and I may understand her Onassis era more now

#5joysfriday this week has flown by 😢 1. Last weekend we were at my in laws‘ cottage which is a double edged sword, it‘s beautiful, they are a handful but floating in the lake is my favourite 2. Stopping at Webers for hamburgers is a summer tradition to or from the cottage 3. A fresh manicure always brings joy, it‘s hard to believe I bit my nails for decades 4. Audio books while painting = joy 5. Today is John‘s birthday; he‘s mostly a joy 😉

The rain is done, basement walls and ceiling painted so a little reading and floating time

I couldn‘t wait #littenslovesjm despite this being a reread I only vaguely remember the witches 🤷🏻‍♀️ Manon and Abraxos are my favourites. I‘m getting the next one from the library ( which I‘ve apparently also read but my brain is like a sieve with these books so I will be reading it again for the first time )

How to tell I‘m painting? I‘m blowing through the audio books 😆 I ran out of time with this and had to wait for my hold to come back around. I love Rick Steves! If more people travelled and exposed themselves to other cultures we‘d be better.

I‘ve had this in print on my bookshelves FOREVER, thanks to the anxiety my Death Tower is giving me I gave my self permission to listen to this instead. I am so glad I did, Tom Hanks reading this was wonderful
This wasn‘t what I thought it was about, I went in blind and I loved it

#wdncw we do not care that we have more unread books than we can read in a year ( or more) lying around in unmanageable piles and piled haphazardly on shelves. It Is Not Hoarding! We are mood readers and we need to be prepared. Forever. And Ever. Thus spoke the god of books.

A kindle sale b/c ‘bookworm‘
It‘s set in Montreal & it‘s so dark and crazy
Victoria has controlling parents, in laws and spouse. She‘s unhappy and spends every moment she can reading 🤔 when she‘s not reading, she‘s spinning narratives in her brain about the people she comes across in her day and at work. She is likeable some of the time. Her narratives get darker and darker and the story gets wilder and wilder. Lots of good book references

I‘m holding onto summer with both hands, drinking on a Monday night, the heat broke (25° C with no humidity) so I‘ve got a meatloaf in the oven ? and I‘m enjoying this #littensloveromance set in the Hollywood Hills

I have secured the #sundaybuddyread for September #itsamiracle

One year ago I tagged @CBee saying I would read this off my kindle AND I LIED! But here I am, reading it! A book off my kindle. For no real reason. Except every month I say I will. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ all around for my commitment 🤣🤣🤣 this is a bit weird so far #readyourkindle

#camplitsy “everything burns” summer is officially over when the last Camp Litsy read is done 😭😭 this is really not my usual genre but holy smokes ( see what I did there?) is it good! It took me three days to read the first half and now that I‘m immune to violence and bad choices, one afternoon to inhale the rest 🎶 fire‘s burning, fire‘s burning, draw nearer, draw nearer…..🎶

I whipped through this ❤️ CF writes a perfect summer read imo and I love that they are set in 🇨🇦 this one is on PEI and I loved reliving my trip there and my love of Anne Shirley. Maybe I want to move now

#fridayhappyreadinghour has begun and I just realized I have no chips 🤦🏻‍♀️ so off to snag some snacks Happy Weekend Reading everyone 😘😘😘

#hashtagbrigade I feel like this speaks to a few characters in our read

All my buddy reads plus an extra for the cottage ( and another extra just in case) ( and all the books on my kindle just in case case ) #readharder 🤣

#TLT #threelistthursday three things I love about school 1. Every day is different this is doubly/triply true for me because I‘m a supply/occasional teacher by choice 2. I work at the same school all the time now and I often tell the teachers I will plan an art lesson for them ( lessen their work load) 3. The kids think I‘m actually the school art teacher ( if only that job existed) I post the art we do on my IG acc‘t with the same name @mcctrish

#wdncw we do not care that you are hungry! Feed yourselves. #leavemethefuckalone every day it‘s the same thing! What‘s for breakfast? What‘s for lunch? What‘s for dinner? Taking the joy out of summer vacation, one day at a time and making retirement look grim

I feel like this cover represents the weather currently #thankgodforac also I‘d take a cut off pinkie over bashed in teeth ANY DAY

Started a new book, The Dutch House exists as a physical book on my death tower and now it can move off of it 🎉🎉 bag 5 of Sherlock includes a street kid

I read about this somewhere and the library had it
JW is a Scottish reporter/author who has moved to Canada 🇨🇦 this is the first in a series that features Jason Brazel, an unemployed reporter, and his mother in law, Amita, who solve a case involving a local pensioner that the police think is just an accident. I‘m probably going down a rabbit hole to read the rest in this series which won‘t help my book hoarding problem at all

This is only YA because it deals with young adults imo
This is fantastic as an audio book because you hear the indigenous language spoken
It‘s a coming of age tale, a mystery, a love story and a glimpse into indigenous culture

One of my death towers - trying to sort it into some manageable piles/shelves 🤷🏻‍♀️ it‘s not going to work

#saturdaycinqàseptreading feeling civilized

All the ‘cutting‘ is done so now it‘s time to float in the tub, I am loving this book so much I don‘t want to stop listening to it but I do want to stop painting

#fridaynightreadinghour once again I‘m in a car 🤷🏻‍♀️ driving youngest to GO train in Aldershot and going to IKEA to buy shelves for the basement glow up. There will be alcoholic drinks when I finally get home. I‘ve brought 3 books with me 😆 I was almost finished this one before we left, my Buddy read and a new one to start. If you liked Eleanor Oliphant you‘d like this. I wanted to punch Susan‘s brother

The weekend is almost here, if you enjoy a chill Friday night like I do post a pic of your book, drink and snack with the #fridaynightreadinghour and tag me 😘

#5joysfriday this week went fast 1. We were at my sister‘s cottage last weekend 2. Started my Sherlock Lego set 3. The Globe is printing a pic everyday from The Beaverbrook‘s collection, I read The Frame-Up to my class a few years ago and it is set in The Beaverbrook art gallery - it‘s a great middle grade novel 4. Finally started my basement glow up 5. Summer Shakespeare last night was an LGBTQ reimagining of Romeo & Juliet ❤️👏🏻🎉

This had some slow spots for me but when all the storylines came together it was delightful

I finished this this morning sanding the walls in the basement. I wish it was longer

Bag 2 of Sherlock Holmes and filling holes in the basement walls from all the things I‘ve taken down

Starting my Sherlock Holmes Lego set. This was a heartbreaker of a story from GB with quite a few life lessons within it

#wdncw we do not care that this VHS tv still works! The basement glow up operation starts today and my husband needs to choose 1. Me or 2. The TV, there is no middle ground. FYI I‘m not divorcing him over a tv, I am just no longer cleaning, cooking, shopping or talking to him if he chooses the wrong option. Fun fact about me: I can hold a grudge

Mornings are for Buddy reads #hashtagbrigade #littenslovesjm

Morning hygge at the cottage

Made it somewhere good ( already freaking out I didn‘t bring enough books)

#fridaynightreadinghour is currently snackless and fancy beverage-less at 8pm, saddest Friday night in a while 😆 but we are cottage bound so hopefully Saturday and Sunday night make up for it. Join in the fun wherever you are and post a pic of your drink, snacks and whatever you are reading. We still have an hour and half to go and we need to stop for something to eat 🤦🏻‍♀️

I cannot wait to talk about this tomorrow! Holy Hannah does the tension build - I think if I read this on my own I would have to read it in one sitting. I‘d get lulled by the flashbacks and then panic speed reading during the ‘now‘ sections. I just kept thinking “OMG, I could nevah “ #camplitsy

#5joysfriday and just like that it‘s august 🤯 July is such a sweet summer month that stretches on and on, august feels abrupt to me with real life right around the corner. My joys this week 1. My garden, when wildlife doesn‘t make me lose my shit 2. A cookbook I got for my birthday filled with salads - I made the first recipe last night ( fun fact: I write in my cookbook; when I make the recipes, did we like them) 3. July reading wrap up ⬇️

We do not care if the laundry ever gets folded #wdncw if people want their clothes they can come and pick them out

Well I inhaled this in a day. I loved how AJ included the characters from her previous books “Yours Truly” and “Part of Your World” in this story. I will probably read everything she ever writes going forward

I think I might just read every book about summer this summer. Choosing from my #deathtower is paralyzingly, I pick up multiple books and wander my house with them, read the first page, shudder at the number of books I have and freak out. Book Outlet has made a monster of me. Anyways, here we go with more AJ. ( PS I have 2 of these 🤦🏻‍♀️ so technically that means 2 less books in my #deathtower)