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. 🙂

Hello! Tap, tap…this thing on?

It is I, Ti! I know, I’ve been MIA. Many of you talk me off the blog too so you know what a struggle it’s been to read anything, at all! TOO MUCH NOISE going on in my head. The news. Ha! Every day I wake up to some new atrocity. The scare tactics, the ridiculous posts to get you to look over here while critical services are gutted. What a show! A bad one.

So how do we deal with this? For me, I try to get outside as much as possible but I also try to talk with others because we are definitely not alone in this. Do not isolate. As bad as it is, we can outlive HIM.

Some good news, my daughter graduated from college this past Friday! She will be moving out before August. Not sure where she will end up yet. Agents, auditions, they all play a role in where she will put down roots.

BUT just a few hours after graduating, she signed with her dream agency!

Right Now:

Headed to church. Online hosting and then hanging with the students. I drag myself around on the weekend but the minute I step into that building, the students energize me!

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms!

This Week:

My genetic tests came back perfect. Nothing in my gene makeup caused the tumor so my kids are good. My neurologist was really concerned that it was passed down. Of course, I probably will never know what caused it.

Work has been very busy. Adjusting to the additional workload that has resulted from a small re-org is taking some time. It’s cutting into my reading because a lot of approvals come after the work day so my free time is limited. I’m learning all sorts of fun things but eh, it’s a process.

Other than that, nothing planned this week. My goal is to finish a book!! Never had to set goals like that before.

Reading:

I’m reading a great book. The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter. It’s set in Orange County, California which is local to me. It’s about family but also identity and love and what love is to different people. It’s very thought provoking. Full review soon.

Also reading The City and the City by China Mièville. I read this book back in 2012 but my club picked it for May so I’m reading it again. I cannot remember it even though I reviewed it here.

Watching:

I WAS watching the last season of Cobra Kai but it’s horrible! Cheesy, predictable, bad acting, zero effort. I give up.

I will catch the new Karate Kid movie when it comes out because of Jackie Chan. Love him.

Grateful for:

• Long walks
• My genetic tests coming back good
• That The Girl graduated!
• That I am taking a trip to see my son at the end of the month!
• My little Otter Pup is still here!

Give me all of your updates!! Trying to catch-up.