YOU GUYS! Oh, sorry to yell. You’ve all been posting your summer reading lists and I seriously have not even thought about my summer reading. You know me. I love a good list but work has been very busy and my brain has been occupied, like by a face hugger from Alien just sucking the life out of me.
I’m learning all sorts of cool things but there is a lot of it and different components that haven’t quite come together yet. Oh, and there is a little dispute with the union over the reclassification of my job. All in all, it will get dealt with, it’s just requiring more justification on my part to make it happen. That means, effort.
Right Now:
My Sunday routines are pretty static. Host a service, hang with students. Get something to eat and then sometimes a nap but lately helping people out with stuff. If I am lucky, I will work some reading in somewhere. Sometimes, not until I go to bed!
This Week:
This is a short week for me. Monday is a holiday and then I am taking Thursday and Friday off to visit my son in Seattle for the weekend. He has all sorts of things planned including me helping him at the Boys and Girls Club, where he is a director. He’s short staffed and I work with kids so he background checked me (ahem) and I get to meet all the characters he talks about.
Other than that, I am looking forward to a visit to one of my fave bookstores, Elliot Bay.
Reading:
Julie Chan is Dead by Liann Zhang (review coming soon)
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
Abigail & Alexa Save the Wedding by Lian Dolan
Watching:
I did finish Cobra Kai but the last season was such a dud.
Grateful for:
- Fitness apps (tracking steps and distance)
- Long weekends (no kidding)
- Long-time friends
Hope you all have a wonderful week. Maybe I’ll come up with a summer reading list! Maybe not. Probably will. 🙂
Book Chatter 
Oh goodness! I hope you get out from the face hugger soon! At least you have a short weekend and a fun trip to look forward to!
The face hugger is in overdrive today. LOL.
I haven’t gotten a real summer reading list together yet, either. Right now I’d be happy coming up with a few titles for June! Enjoy the long weekend.
Thank you. I am thinking of just picking a big classic and to slowly read it along with other review copies this summer.
You’ve got so much going on! But a trip to see Evan is such a good thing.
I am flying back from the east coast on Monday so it won’t feel like a holiday weekend. That was bad planning on my part!
I didn’t have many weekends to choose from because I am running into summer camp stuff soon. This works. It’s not all that long but he doesn’t have the time off anyway. I will be with the cat a lot!
Gah! How can I possibly sleep now that I’ve seen that photo from Alien?!?! That movie was so disturbing. I remember seeing it in the theater and feeling sick to my stomach during the drippy alien scenes. Yuck!
Enjoy your time in Seattle. Elliott Bay Bookstore is great! If you get a chance, see if they are carrying my husband’s book (Ship of Lost Souls by Rod Scher). If so, can you send me a photo of it on the shelf? We’re putting together “Spotted in the Wild” shots of the book from stores around the country. 🙂 Fingers crossed you have great weather in Seattle. We’re heading to Port Townsend in a couple of weeks and I want nothing but sunshine!
Absolutely!! I will for sure look for it and see if I can grab a pic!
“like by a face hugger from Alien just sucking the life out of me” & “he background checked me” Hilarious!
I’ve read every book Fredrik Backman has written and loved all of them.
Which fitness app did you decide on? I looked for one to switch to but couldn’t decide which one I thought would be the best and gave up.
I’m happy that you get to go visit your son. When my youngest son went into the Marines those 13 weeks seemed like 13 months to me.
I meant 13 weeks of Boot Camp, not that he was only in the Marines for 13 weeks.
I just use the fitness app that came with my iPhone. It’s just called Fitness. It tracks my walking in miles and calories burned and some other stuff but it has some motivation stuff like completing circles, etc.
Sounds like work is giving you a run for your money. I hope you enjoy your visit with your son. Background check by your son…that must have been so weird!
Background check. I was like, oh good, I squeaked through. LOL.
Did you enjoy your time in Seattle? I live about an hour from Seattle (South). Our weather has been fairly lovely, I hope you got out and enjoyed it.
Ti, I completely missed that you had written a new post. And I looked at it and got the joy of ‘Alien’. Hadn’t thought about that movie for a long, long time. Ha! Hope you have had a good time in Seattle with your son. I’m looking forward to hearing what you think about some of the books you’ve been reading. Take care!!
How did your Seattle trip go? I hope it was fun with your son. And did you get to Elliott Bay Books?! That is a good bookstore. I went there a bunch when I lived in Seattle 1990-1993, lol. It’s been a while. What is going on with your job? Hope all is well. Summer book lists are sort of fun to create … but you sound busy.
Yeah. I don’t think I will be able to work on a summer list this year. I just haven’t had one moment to myself. Work. We had a re-org and then the State abolished my job classification and put me in a different classification which caused all sorts of problems for me. I am working with the union to correct it but the workload and the different types of work is a lot.
I did get to Elliot Bay!! It was our first stop. The trip was great but my son was so tired from working 70 hour weeks that everytime we went out he fell asleep so then we’d head back for him to nap.
My daughter finished her first feature film shoot in Boston. Of course, now she loves it there.
I was thinking for the summer I may just pick one book that I’ve been wanting to tackle because I leave for church camp soon too. Wow. So much.