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Sunday, I was going to sleep in but since I went to bed at 9, I woke up at 5! I’ve been thinking about at the polls the Dem booth had both young and old poll greeters, white, black, Asian, Hispanic, male and female. The GOP booth had white and mostly old white men. We were there every day for all the hours; they were there sporadically. I got stuff ready to go to one of the supply depots that I had leftover signs and literature. I keep meaning to say that we got a Cuisinart mid range 7-1 air fryer/toaster oven and I like it very well, better than the new one we got 2 years ago that has already died. One thing is it is knob dials for settings instead of electronics. After dropping stuff at the supply site, I picked up a few things at Aldi’s.
Monday, I had the usual chores to do. Then I started taking care of things that have fallen through the cracks the last couple weeks. In the mid-afternoon, the neighbor, my daughter and I went to get pedicures. As soon as we got back, we walked Lulu. Then I called the ex since he is leaving tomorrow to get here Thursday.
Tuesday, I woke way too early at 4:30am I stayed up awhile, then dozed a bit. I have been going a little bit nuts with all the books I want to read. I didn’t get many of my chores done before going to poll greet. Afterwards I had to stop quick at Harris Teeter for a sale item, then home. I needed to eat, get out the garbage and recycle, and get dressed. We decided to dress up for the election party. We knew pretty early that Winn Decker had won. But there was plenty of other blue wave news. We went home about 10 and I watched until about 2 am.
Wednesday, hey y’all North Carolina is a BLUE state now. I have a Dem NC House rep, a Dem NC state rep, a Dem governor and attorney general, a new Dem US Senator and all the judiciary I voted for and county commissioners and school boards all went Democratic! Even though we are heavily gerrymandered we ended up 10D – 4R instead of the other way around. Now I have to try to get all my tasks done that I have been ignoring for the past 3 weeks. I am working on getting the Blogoversary winners prizes ready to go and selecting all the winners. I have lots of posts to set up. I invited the neighbor and my daughter to go out to dinner tonight to celebrate our wins!
Thursday, up early trying to do everything. Laundry, dishes, grocery list, placed a Walmart order. I did some cleaning and then went to Aldi, Trader Joes, Wegmans, JP Pastry, and then Walmart. I put everything away and started the chili, then the cornbread.
Friday, I didn’t get going as fast as I wanted. I made a breakfast casserole. I did some blog visiting, wrote a review, started setting up some posts. Then I was helping my daughter with her accounting homework. That took up most of the afternoon.
Saturday, I got a reasonable start but even with a list there are so many rabbit holes to go down. I did some year end planning. The ex and I talked about lots of projects. He put together my new leaf sweeper which we will be using. I took down all the yards signs. Every candidate I had on them won! I had 12 signs. Many projects this week and we will have Marley from Tuesday forward. I did some year end tax planning stuff.
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 Libro.fm, Macmillan Audio, Brilliance Audio (2) , Recorded Books, William Morrow, Harlequin Trade Publishing, Tor Publishing,
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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.
Chirp Friday Freebie:
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
I read all types of books but my favorites are urban fantasy and romantic suspense.I like some romance and some action / adventure / mystery in everything.I like sex in my books but please, only between TWO people.Intimate conversation is equally important to the sex in a book.It lets me see the characters.The other thing I enjoy is humor.
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It was such a thrilling week! Congrats on your state wins, and also all the other red states that flipped. I have comments on my blog from overseas friends that were watching the results, it’s so heartwarming. Good luck catching up with everything. I’ve also been trying to juggle all the 2027 book offers that are coming through!
Thank you Tammy. It’s a start but voters need to recognize that the changes from the Big Ugly Bill came from Republicans. I have books from this year, next year. Because I listen to a lot of audiobooks, sometimes they aren’t available until pretty close to release.
Huge congratulations on the win in your State, Anne:)). I know you worked really hard towards this, so no wonder you particularly celebrated. We’ve been watching from across the Atlantic with some nervousness and delight at the way things have turned out. I need to check out Nora Roberts’ fantasy series. Have a lovely week:).
Thank you Sarah. Thee is still the work to be done now with the recognition of change is needed. And so many books to be read.
Sweet Lulu💜
Yay! Can you believe it? NC Blue is finally sinking in. All your hard work paid off, Anne. We stayed up until 2:30 am but left the TV running.
Thank you. Now the real work needs to happen, not just back to the same old corruption. And people need to know the January changes are from the GOP.
This new breed of legislators won’t stand for that.
Congratulations! Thanks for working so hard to help the elections happen.
Thank you AJ. I’m trying to both catch up and rest up now.
All your hard work paid off! We had a lot of blue happen here too. And people voting on things to show we meant what we said when we voted the first time on the same things. I’m a little jealous of your ex right now, as I have several things around my house that are little things that need fixing. Like the ceiling fan in my bedroom just started making noises that are so annoying I can’t keep it going at night, and I really need the air moving to sleep and not get too hot. I miss my stepdad, as he used to help with all those little things. I’ll have to find a local handyman to help. And I’m always so nervous about just picking someone I don’t know. Anyway, hope you have a good week. I loved the latest book for the read-along and can’t wait to discuss it next week! I am also so ready to start Robin’s final book, but am making myself wait, lol.
Thank you Lisa. yes you kept your governor blue and got a senator. I know I’m fortunate to have help. Is your brother handy that he could advise you? Also I have learned to do many, many things myself. And I have cultivated neighborhood handymen which has worked out well. Living in a large neighborhood is a community which has given me some great recommendations and a couple not good ones. I KNOW! Wasn’t that awesome. I can’t wait to chat about Tori next week.
Kansas kept the blue governor, we didn’t vote on governor for Missouri, so we still have a Republican who is not great for schools. My brother could, but getting him to actually help is a whole other issue. My mom still struggles at time to get him to help her and sometimes she gives up and just hires someone else.
Congrats on your state win!!!! Also I woke up at 4 AM for months this year! I hope you will have better nights soon.
I can’t believe the blue wave that happened! Congratulations on your state! You really worked hard. I have that Nora Roberts too. Hope we both love it!
I couldn’t let myself have too much hope after the 2024 election, and I was so, so happy to see the election results! So glad you got some great representation in NC!
NC going SO blue is amazing!! Ohio had a few great wins-Democratic governor (and a woman), and we got rid of Husted and got a democrat back. The state house and state senate are still red, but not as red. I’m psyched!
Congratulations on getting so many democrats elected, Anne. I know you worked really hard, and now have lots to catch up on. You’ve got some good and listening ahead. I’ve got several of those books on my TBR shelf. I hope you have a wonderful week ahead.
Woohoo on NC being blue!! Your worked so hard!!
Hope you have a great week!
I’m glad all your hard work paid off for you. Hopefully you can relax a little and rest to catch up on all those books you want to read.
Have a great week, Anne!