@DebinHawaii Thank you for the tag for #5JoysFriday

1. Oldest child‘s birthday week! Which means…
2. Another puppy chow sundae and…
3. College kid is home but we had….
4. The best latte I‘ve ever had…and then
MINOR SETBACK - Dad reminded me he‘ll never see things my way but…
5. I knit another sock to match my book 🤣🥰🎉❤️

Overall winning! I really enjoy this weekly opportunity to remember all the good in the crazy times we are in. I‘m grateful.

Thank you for the tag @TheSpineView #Two4Tuesday

1. In addition to reading - knitting, walking (especially hiking in nature) and yoga bring me peace.
2. The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen. I‘ve re-read it many times just for the joy of it. I also have a book of daily meditations about grief that I find comforting.

@JenReadsAlot @Kshakal @BethM

@Kerrbearlib #mentalhealthmonday

1. Feeling pretty good mentally but fighting a terrible cold and cough.
2. It can be positive or negative. I am on instagram as I follow other knitters, it‘s my yarn Litsy, so to speak. But if I‘m not careful I can go down political rabbit holes 😝
3. Yes, and it is helpful to my productivity and anxiety to put my phone down. Everything is in my phone, including audiobooks so total divorce would be tough.

I had my coffee hours ago but am now relaxing after a busy day working at the library and getting a walk in. Now i can put my feet up with my knitting for the Badger Basketball game as #MarchMadness continues!
Thank you for the tag @TheSpineView
#Chatterday2025 @AllDebooks

Thank you for tags @DebinHawaii @Kshakal #5JoysFriday
1. 4 meet ups with friends, this is a record for introverted me. I need some me time lol.
2. Bowling event with old co-workers
3. More sock knitting with books, I ripped this one out
4. College kid spring break
5. Impromptu hike today
Bonus - offered a move to daytime hours at the very part time library gig, feels like a promotion 🤣

@TheSpineView #two4tuesday

1. I love tulips the most but also daffodils and hyacinth
2. Tagged

Doesn‘t everyone knit socks to match their books? 🤣 there‘s a knitalong encouraging this silliness. It‘s fun, started my next pair. I switched to the audiobook and ended up enjoying the book after struggling to get drawn in by the print version.

#5JoysFriday Thank you for the tag @DebinHawaii @Kshakal
1. Crossing paths with an old cookbook at the library and making brownies
2. A knit socks/read along. Knitting matching socks to books
3. The pets
4. It‘s 77 and sunny 🌞 in WI today so two walks
5. Lunch with my dad where politics were not discussed. 🎉

#5JoysFriday Thank you for the tag @DebinHawaii @Kshakal
1. 5 mile hike today with former coworker
2. Tried a book club at a winery, enjoyed it, an old fashioned and some new people
3. Annual March Puppy chow sundae at a local custard place
4. An interview
5. A pleasant phone chat with my dad
6. and always Kevin the cat or Kev‘van if I want to talk to him with a French accent 🤣🤷🏼‍♀️

Tagging @dabbe @JenReadsAlot

#weirdwordwednesday @CBee

I learned this word last week and thought about it Monday when I was walking into the heavy wind. It gave meaning to my walk. 🧘‍♀️

Thank you @CSeydel for this bracket model. I thought I‘d join the fun! #bookbracket2025

#journalingprompts from @TheBookHippie - I want to leave these here so I can find them :)

Just finished. I rushed to Reddit to try to figure out what exactly I just read. Now I wait 18 months+ for the next chapter lol. I was not a fantasy reader and then started working a little at the library - my new co-workers were eating this up! I had to join and damn, I‘m enjoying the sauce. The hype around this book has been palpable.

#5JoysFriday Thank you for the tag @DebinHawaii and @Kshakal

1. Always the boys - Kevin 🐈‍⬛ and Leo 🐶
2. College kid and ENT trip hilarity
3. A new knit hat and walk in the sun in the hat
4. John Boyne ARC - all four parts - omg.
5. The college kid quote “well, he touches turtles and licks his hands”. Never sure where these things come from but the kid is comedy gold without trying.

@dabbe Thank you for the tag!!

Love so many of these movies!! I try to watch at least some Oscar contenders every year, many favorites! #TLT 🎥 🍿

#mentalhealthmonday thank you for the tag @Kshakal

1. Feeling melancholy and nostalgic, had a favorite uncle‘s funeral tonight, saw a lot of family.
2. Music always helps!
3. Seems like heavier rock always helps me jam out the blues, anger and pump me up! 🎸 🎶

I listened to the graphic audio of the first two in this series. Reading this feels haaard. So many names. Anyone else feel this? But - I want to know what happens so I‘ll try to keep at it. 🐉

I barely recognize Kevin, he has not been a lap cat AT ALL until recently. Where I knits, he fits.

#5JoysFriday Thank you for the tag and doing this list reminder weekly @DebinHawaii

1. Kevin, he missed me
2. Drinks and pizza with @JenReadsAlot - great chat where we again did not take a selfie 🤣
3. Nickolas Butler event
4. When Onyx Storm was on the lucky day shelf at the library! But I already had it held
5. Family, the good, the bad, the ugly. All of it this week has brought glimmers of joy.
Tagging @JenReadsAlot @dabbe @AmyG

Somehow I can get to the library embarrassingly early and still sit behind a big furry hat. (It is zero degrees so I‘ll give the lady a pass)That said, it was about the conversation with the author, Nickolas Butler - which was so powerful, vulnerable and just plain cool. He is such a regular guy, I love his work.

🤣💕🐛

#sundayfunday @BookmarkTavern

Sometimes reading magazines or doing what the tagged book implies, read easy breezy romance, can help me clear the deck to get out of the slump. 📚

Kevin missed me! (And he loves this blanket) Happy Caturday! 🐈

#5JoysFriday
1. The views
2. Safe flights all around. Lots of family traveling.
3. Simple entertainment - bingo, cards, puzzles and laying around in the sun 🏝️
4. My mother-in-law‘s cooking and hosting
5. Lots of walks, rest and reading - rested to face the rest of winter in WI 🥶
@DebinHawaii Thank you!! Tagging @JenReadsAlot @dabbe @Kshakal

Happy Valentine‘s Y‘all! 💕

❤️💕🩷🛍️ 📚

Finished the Atmosphere ARC, so good! I am also knitting a hat for return to the tundra for a serendipitously named Astronomy knit along.

At my in-laws condo in FL. A perfect spot to enjoy this book, Water by the water. Not a breezy read but so good. I love Boyne and look forward to getting the other three in this series. Do not look forward to going back to snow in a few days - but I‘ve heard there‘s no place like home.

#mentalgealthmonday @Kshakal - thank you for the tag❤️

1. I‘m feeling good, on vacation but also looking forward to going home
2. Walking, breath work, yoga, knitting and always reading
3. This. That we need to keep talking about it.

@DebinHawaii @Kshakal #5JoysFriday

1. Water 🏝️
2. Nostalgia on Sanibel Island
3. Paying homage to Gene‘s Books 😢
4. Dinner in Tampa with an old friend
5. College kid joining us mid-vacay

Pub day!! Love this local-to-me author, and the book is a delight, a slow and steady rekindling.

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. Long overdue lunch with a college friend
2. Successful sourdough with farmers market apple pie jelly
3. Warm temps in WI!
4. A zoom with my x-country knitting friends
5. Library staff holiday party to confirm I cannot golf
Pre-joy - I visiting my college kid today for lunch and supply shopping. 🛍️

@Kshakal @JenReadsAlot @dabbe @AmyG

🧁 📚 💤

Enjoying this so far. 👽 Narrator Will Patton is always so good.

#5joysFriday @DebinHawaii Thank you for the tag @Kshakal
I mean to do better with photos this week, I didn‘t:(
1. Two lunch dates with each of my longest work besties
2. Online book event
3. Always crafting
4. Puzzles with Kevin, he is very helpful
5. Morning coffee and exciting ARC‘s
Tagging @dabbe @JenReadsAlot @BethM

Excellent speaker tonight. If you enjoy hearing an author‘s perspective I encourage you to enjoy the Girlfriend‘s Bookclub on Facebook. It‘s fun to read the books and then see, or hear, behind the curtain. There are wonderful guest authors and compelling questions. I‘m impressed with what is offered in this group and it‘s free - and from my couch. The Lion Women of Tehran was an excellent and rich story of enduring friendship. 5 ⭐️

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Kevin says stay warm Wisconsin as we head into double-digit below zero wind chills this week 🥶

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii Thank you for the tag @Kshakal
I am woefully bad a taking photos but had a joy filled week…
1. Finished knit socks
2. Went to my first ever Bunco party where I only knew the host. I not only did not die, I had fun!
3. Great gathering with old work friends
4. Gifted yarn from a friend spun from his own sheep‘s wool. 🤯
5. Made sour dough bread and used it to make rosemary croutons for potato soup from Carolina Gelen

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView Thank you for the tag!

1. Hmm, the forced slow down of it and a walk on a snowy trail when I can.
2. The Sugar Queen, hits all the winter feels. I‘m about ready for a re-read of this one!

Tagging @JenReadsAlot @dabbe @AmyG

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
1. Yoga at a new studio with a friend
2. Fun day out with dad and husband
3. Breakfast with my girls
4. A new ARC!! ❤️ Katherine Center
5. Always the 4-legged family

Tagging @JenReadsAlot @Kshakal @dabbe

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView @Kshakal
1. Absolutely! I worked in corrections for 31 years, I had to, right?! 😊 and I truly do, people change, motives are confused, perspective changes.
2. How the Light Gets In. The main character gets a second chance with her kids.

#12Booksof2024 @Andrew65
❤️🎄My favorite reads for December that were not holiday books. 4 ⭐️ for each.

#12booksof2024 @Andrew65 late to the party but my favorite September read ❤️📚I didn‘t know what to expect and it‘s a crazy story. A woman takes over a hotel for a wedding, but an unexpected guest gets a room and ends up being the life of the party - the opposite of her plan.

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii Thank you for the tag @TheSpineView
1. A new planner
2. Adrienne‘s yearly yoga challenge, shorter but sweet.
3. Finished my temperature blanket. Just details to finish up.
4. New book and a “book club” with some like minded friends.
5. Cadbury mini eggs (already?!)
6. Lunch with a long time work buddy ❤️

This seemed perfect for this nebulous time between Christmas and New Years. And I thought of you @dabbe

Tagged my most favorite of 2024, I waited 16 years for this prequel. ❤️📚 🐕

#Two4Tuesay @TheSpineView and thank you for the tag!

1. I think I‘ll set a goal of 100 books this year. I am curious what retirement will look like and will it mean more time for books? 🤔

2. I‘m looking forward to the John Boyne element series, I broke down and ordered the first one. It‘s not readily available in the US. I think I‘ll check with my interlibrary loan hook up to see what magic could happen.

@JenReadsAlot @Kshakal @BethM

I‘m enjoying this charmer. A nice way to start the day. Happy Saturday!

#5JoysFriday
@DebinHawaii
1. My girls ❤️
2. Crafting
3. Baking
4. Snowshoeing
5. Nature