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Sunday, well today is some rain off and on. We need it and it will be good for all my new plantings. I made fresh OJ again this morning. I’m doing indoor tasks like laundry and cooking and menu planning. We got our next Home Depot order and our monthly Amazon stuff came. My ex is feeling better so he’s been on the projects the last couple days. He shored up the blocks in my front planter. He put a coat of varnish on my plant shelves. He’s been going through boxes with my daughter at night for an hour after I go to bed and that’s been going amazing. Today he also cleaned the covers to the furnace filters and replaced them. He’s been power washing in front and spraying and removing wasp nests. Until the last few days, it felt like he would just be sick the whole time he was here and no projects would happen. This week will be cooler – 60-70s instead of 70-80s.
Monday, we;; it is cooler. Cold when I woke up, the thermostat said 70 which was the bottom of the range. I turned it up to 72. After an hour (of blowing cold air), the temperature was 67. So I turned off the fan. I called the HVAC guy. I’ve been working at a slow pace today. My daughter had her therapy appt. My ex is working on repairing up the cubby hole section of my Dad’s rolltop. We walked Lulu and saw Finley!
Tuesday, nicer today. I did my computer stuff quick, then worked on finishing up the last stuff. We got my rolltop back together. We took photos all around the house of things that need to be fixed. I helped carry stuff out to his car. The HVAC guy came and it was just a software setting so the heat is all working now. We walked Lulu and saw Finley again. I even had a treat for him. I mowed the lawn and sprayed the deer mace.
Wednesday, so much to do now. The usual chores are all happening. I’m working on menu plans. My daughter and I each had nutrition appointments today. My daughter called about her current classes and also about her plans for the next 2 sessions. It’s chilly. We walked Lulu and the neighbor joined us. I called about a tax question I had. Then I wrote a review and edited and scheduled some posts. Then I finally got through my Audible sale ordering.
Thursday, I got a Walmart delivery. Of course, some items weren’t available. I had the usual tasks and then edited my daughter’s paper. We walked Lulu, then we went to Harris Teeter for our Covid shots and a few items that weren’t available at Walmart.
Friday, I’m still not getting onto tasks quickly in the morning. Thankfully, next week has many less appointments. I contacted the window company about one small fix. I went through options for a mini vacation during my daughter’s spring break, got her input and booked a hotel with an indoor pool near the zoo. Next I looked through gluten free restaurants in the area.
Saturday, another day where I just didn’t go fast enough. In fact, I sat outside on the swing after picking up sticks in the yard when I let Lulu out. She sat in a sun patch. I just listened to my audio book and sat there. The weather is nice, really warming up though. I finally updated links for COYER and Library challenges. I haven’t been good about updating this year. At all. My daughter is working on her school work. We took a break to walk Lulu. I worked on post setups and still have 12 more to do (for May and June)!
Next week we have no medical appointments so hopefully I can catch up on things and work on some projects. It will be nice this week but on Tuesday it will be hot around 90sF / 33C for the rest of the week.
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):
Many thanks to Penguin Audio, Brilliance Audio, Macmillan Audio.
(If you click on the cover, it will take you to the Goodreads entry)
I purchased a lot of items at the Audible sale. I had 3 pre-orders:
I picked up the Dungeon Crawler Carl audios for $3.98 – $4.96.
I added to series : (from $2.90-$4.61)
And I bought a few other stand alones. (from $3.43 – $4.61)
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.
Chirp Friday freebies:
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.
Anne
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I downloaded Broken Circle, too. You got some great buys at that Audible sale. Hope you enjoy the Never Tell collection. I had a good time with the stories.
Have a great week!
Thank you Jonetta. So many great new audios.
Sitting on the swing outside and reading sounds wonderful! Our weather has been cold and windy, and I’m hoping it changes soon so I can do more deck reading. And I’m glad your ex is feeling better!
Thanks Tammy. The weather is good now but I’m worried about those 90+ days.
Lulu looks so cozy. It sounds like you got alot of good maintenance accomplished around the house. Enjoy the mini vacation!
Thank you Naida. It is always a relief to get things finished or repaired.
Glad your ex got to feeling better so he was able to help out some more! I had to turn my heater back on this past week, but then the next day will be warmer and I’ll have to turn it to the AC, ready to just be on one or the other. We are having rain right now. I wish I could sit outside with my dogs, but they go around and just eat stuff off the ground and then I have to worry about them getting sick. Ugh. The Audible sale was so hard to stop buying the cheap ones. And I tried to stick to ones I couldn’t get on Libby for the most part.
I’m just glad they have sales so I can get ones that are Audible only or not at the library at lower prices.
Well Anne sometimes we just need to go slow!
yes rest, go slow, take a break or sleep a bit more. Especially when our government is so horrible to everyone.
Its been nice enough here to sit outside with the dogs as well. Its so nice that your ex is helpful. Sounds like he got more done than my husband-he spent 3 days trying to find a filter for the oil on the lawn mower and came up empty. I ordered one on amazon so he will actually have to mow the lawn!
It’s tricky these days to find things between local and online possibilities. It’s worse if you don’t have a specific product or part number and just an idea of what you want.
I enjoy Walsh’s books and hope you enjoy both of these (as well as the others!). Have a wonderful week ahead Anne.
Thank you Jodie. It’s a constant downer to have an idiot in chief.
UGH!! I’m so mad. I forgot about the Audible sale. Oh well. I have so many books already. My week was decent. Our weather isn’t great, but it’s getting better. My daffodils are starting to bloom. I finished reading an ARC of The Antiquarian’s Object of Desire and really liked it. Now I’m on to Archangel’s Eternity. I can’t believe it’s the final book of the series.
It took me until the final day to get to the sale, partly because my ex was her until the last day. But there was stuff I definitely wanted. I haven’t read the other Nalini Singh series yet. We will be 90s the rest of this week. Yikes.
Happy to hear your ex felt better and you were able to get several projects accomplished. There’s always something, right? We had nice weather and then the temps dropped and we’ve had a ton of rain. I think over 4″ in the last three days! I’m thrilled to see you grabbed up the Dungeon Crawler Carl books! I hope you love them!
Thanks Rachel. I wish we could get some rain. I hope I like the Carl books since I bought almost all of them.
Love your new spring themed header 🙂
You certainly bought up big in the audible sale, I hope you enjoy them all.
The upcoming hot weather is the perfect opportunity to stay comfortable in the air con and work on all those scheduling tasks 🙂
Wishing you a great reading week
Thank you. I only bought things which aren’t at the library or part of a series I am collecting and less than $7. Most were less than $5. The weather should be conducive to staying inside at least in the afternoon for sure.
Glad your ex is doing better. It will be nice that you have a week off from appointments. Nice book haul! I listened to One Hit Wonder. It’s a cute little mystery that I really enjoyed.
Thanks Olivia. I’m looking forward to my new reads.
Glad your ex is feeling better and is able to tackle some projects. Yay for getting your desk back. I love a rolltop desk. You got a lot of great books. I love that C.S. Harris series. Have a great week!
Thank you Katherine. It felt good to manage a few things after weeks of limbo on projects.
Ahh, hope you enjoy Platform Decay. I had an ARC and didn’t love it as much as I hoped, but it’s still Murderbot so it’s a good time, haha.
This is the first time I haven’t had an ARC although maybe most of the time I got audio ARCs. I hope I enjoy it. The narrator is fabulous.
Walmart delivery has been the bane of my existence the last couple of times. :S
yes they can certainly be out of the things I most needed.