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Sunday, the expected rain is here. I elected to wear pajama pants and a cozy turtleneck, although it isn’t really so cold. I wrote a review and then got to blog visiting. We have a space heater in our office work room and sometimes we forget to turn it off. I am up and down these days turning it on and off. Actually, I have a remote control for it somewhere. But I got out the booklet and figured out how to set it to turn on and off based on the temperature we want. Otherwise, it just runs at high heat indefinitely! I got posts ready to go. I finally went thru all my emails from publishers offering books to see if I wanted them and the ones I did, tried to fit them in my open slots Jan – May.
Monday, today I’m going to try to run errands but I had some calls to make first so I’m running late. I finally left about 1pm to go to the farmer’s market for a tree, then Wegmans, Trader Joes and last, to an Asian Market near our house. I hadn’t been there but I definitely will go back. It’s got great produce and all the gluten-free Asian sauces I like to use.
Tuesday, it was a difficult night. My daughter went to bed early and Lulu barked off and on all night. I finally gave up on sleeping and got up 2 hours early. Today’s the coldest this month, so I wore wool socks and an extra layer for walking the dogs. I started work on my Top 10 lists. I also had some thoughts and planning on my January reading. I updated the links for Library Love and COYER with my reads so far in December.
Wednesday, another cold morning but it will warm after this about 10 degrees and have a few rainy days early next week. Our walk was chilly but fine. It is audio publisher’s day to release review ARCs I got several today from 3 different publishers. What a gift for the holidays! I now have 100 follower on Instagram. It’s slow to add followers but it’s only been a couple months. Thank you all who have followed me. I thought my daughter was going to work with me this afternoon but she took a nap. I setup posts for the new ARCs, then I cut little branches from the bottom of the tree, put it in the stand and brought it in the house. I also got the boxes of decorations from the garage.
Thursday, it’s a bit warmer and another day where we don’t have to go out and about. Lulu and I walked with Abby while my daughter walked Kayla. They will be gone this next week with our neighbor. She had cards for us and a gift card for my daughter. Even though the weather is right around freezing every night I have primroses and Hellebores blooming. I wrote some reviews and set up some posts. I’m baking sugar cookies which my daughter requested for the holiday. We got a farm box with fresh goodies. My daughter wants me to try to recreate the chicken pesto tacos we had on our trip so I changed the menu plan to try that for tonight since I had some leftover fresh basil. I finally got the rest of the shelves hung in my daughter’s bathroom and then cleaned them up. I helped her look for some craft supplies, including crawling into the attic crawl space, until it was in the box (not in the attic space) where I told her to look first!
Friday, I was up early and tackled the task worrying me. Good thing because it turns out it is not a problem at all. I wrote some reviews and set up some posts. I’ve been “harvesting” bean sprouts from our new machine and it is better than the mason jar. However, I seem to have clogged the drain with it. Late afternoon, my daughter and I walked with Lulu to our normal short walk but it’s the first time she’s done that since September. After dinner, I poured drano in to try to reduce the clog.
Saturday, the drano doesn’t seem to have helped yet. I made an appt with the plumber but that would be Wednesday. I gave it a second dose of Drano. Later this afternoon, I’m going to try to remove the Ptrap and use a 25 foot snake. It might all be in the ptrap. And no more sprout pods or roots in the garbage disposal even if they are tiny. I loaded my audiobook ARCs into the app on my phone. After taking Lulu on her walk, I found the 25 foot snake and removed the section of the pipe after taking the stuff out from under the sink. The 25 feet wasn’t enough but a neighbor has a longer snake which he will drop off to me tomorrow. This week are all the fun top 10 lists. I hope you all will link up to one or more if you are posting lists.
Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Reading Reality. These are the exciting ARCs I received this week (If you click on the cover, it will take you to the Goodreads entry):
My grateful thanks to Berkley, Tantor Audio, Harper Audio, Brilliance Audio, Macmillan Audio
(If you click on the cover, it will take you to the Goodreads entry)
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Now the really scary one. This is all the Kindle and Audible freebies I grabbed this past week. You can see why I need to do Thrifty Thursday to be sure I read a few at least one each month.
I really meant to cut back on freebies BUT they are free so I guess that won’t be happening.
I’m not including things like reviews posted or upcoming as they are always in the right sidebar. And, my challenge status is also there.
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Good luck with the plumbing. Maybe it will all work out before Wednesday but hopefully it’s an easy fix!
Thank you Jennifer. I have not wanted to learn about plumbing but it was surprisingly easy so far. And all the sinks work in the house except the kitchen sink. I wanted to do some crafts this afternoon or maybe even just relax and read but instead I’ll be trying to snake the kitchen sink drain. Oh and I have presents to wrap!
Happy holidays, Anne! I’m looking forward to your lists:-)
Thank you Tammy. They are fun to do and I hope others link up because it is fun to see everyone’s lists.
I hope you get your plumbing issues sorted out. Have a wonderful holiday!
Thank you Bonnie. At least I am learning a lot and all the sinks work other than the kitchen sink.
Ugh, plumbing and other house repairs always pop up constantly it seems. The Catch looks good! Sounds like you had a busy week. I need to find my copy of the book for the read-a-long soon! Hope you and your daughter have a nice holiday!
Thank you Lisa. I hope you have a great holiday.
Merry Christmas! Happy Reading!
Thank you Hannah, Merry Christmas to you!
Ugh plumbing problems are the worst. We had a clogged up sink in our bathroom for a while and we tried everything. Eventually, the giant snake got it, but it was pain. Happy holidays!
Thank you Samantha. Well it’s always something isn’t it?
When plumbing problems happen I am glad I live in an apartment and just call maintenance. lol
Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a happy holiday.
Thank you Mary. I wish you the happiest of holidays and a Merry Christmas.
That’s great that your neighbor has a longer snake for you to try.
Love the picture of your festive room and, of course, cozy Lulu! I hope she doesn’t scare off Santa’s reindeer tonight with her barking!
Merry Christmas to you and your daughter!
Thank you Jinjer. The snake turned out not to be longer so I’m still down until my longer snake comes on Thursday. But I’ve learned a lot. I’ve been changing up our menu plan for the next couple days for things which work well with paper plates and not using tons of water. I still need to wrap gifts tonight. Merry Christmas!
Oh well, phooey! Sorry to hear the snake is NOT longer. That’s good that you can be flexible with your menu plan. I’ve had to do the holiday pivot a couple of times myself….once when we all had the flu and once when the oven died. Oh and then there was the time with the ants, but let’s not think about that one. 😀
My daughter was disappointed and wanted me to get it fixed ASAP. I have the plumber scheduled for Wednesday and my longer snake coming Thursday. I’m tempted to move the plumber out to Friday and try to do it myself first.
I hope your plumbing issues work out. I planned out my January reading schedule earlier today. The time is just creeping up on me too fast. Now I have to concentrate on my wrap up posts.
I hope you have a great holiday. Merry Christmas!
Thank you Yvonne. Month ends, year ends, it always seems to be busy and I’m always planning ahead.
I need to find a good Asian market.
Merry Christmas! Your tree looks great. Hope it’s a wonderful day. 🙂
The Allison Brennan book looks good also.
Thank you Greg. We have many homemade and vintage ornaments which were not yet on the tree for that photo, only the lights. We have a lowkey schedule here. We have two good Asian markets within 8-12 miles which is awesome. I love that Allison Brennan series and hope to read that one sooner than later.
I hate clogged drains. Ugh. I try to run vinegar and baking soda with hot water down mine about once a month. Sometimes I need to take the plunger to them to loosen up the gunk enough to drain better.
I’m so jelly of your Hurwitz audio! Hubby and I love the Orphan X series. I picked up a couple other of his books during the Audible and Chirp sales. We’ll see if they are as good.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Carol. I’ve never had a clogged drain until this year. It’s just the kitchen sink. The plumber is scheduled for tomorrow. I love Orphan X. Scott Brick is an awesome narrator too.
Sounds like you had a busy week. I hope you had a lovely Christmas. Have fun doing your top ten lists. I always love those! Thanks for stopping by my blog!
Thank you. We have been relaxing for this Christmas week.
I need to see if I can get on some of the audiobook lists that I am not already on. It was warmer last week but they are saying we might get snow tomorrow. I am super careful with what goes down my sink but we still have to pull the snake out from time to time. The last backup we had was the pipe the washer drains into believe it or not.
I’ve never had a drain problem until this house and it is just the kitchen sink. It’s been nice here this week around 60 but rain tonight and then 50s for awhile.
I hope the plumbing issue got sorted. We have the threat of rain but right now it’s just kind of heavy outside – just enough to cause headaches but not actually raining. I hope you and yours had a wonderful Christmas and you’re having a great week!
Than you Katherine. It’s been a bit of a hectic week. The plumbing got sorted and I’m proud to say I did it myself with no plumbing experience.
That tree is adorable!