None of which I’ve bought… yet.
I’m jonesing for some retail therapy. I had one of those days in which I’m terrified to say, it can’t get worse because it will. A) I had a child bring a unwrapped lubed condom to class for show n tell and when he dropped it a little girl picked it up – EEEEW WHAT IS IT?
Not a balloon.
So while I’m trying to deal with that, another of one of my more challenging students tells me to Suck It, Bitch.
I didn’t go to college for this. I just can’t.
So, I’m LOOKING – and remember, Zulily sells out fast so most of what I was panting over is already gone.
Summer on the coast is Hell. A beautiful, glorious Hell. As in hotter than. Furnace. If you look carefully, you’ll see a couple of Hobbits run through carrying a ring and being chased by Gollum. It’s THAT hot.
So I”m not surprised to see these –
I’m thinking that might be a tad busy soooo….
Which is cute, and if you want more…
But I’m rather drawn to this
Might be the color. I have autumn orange but nothing like this.
On the other hand, sleeveless can be a problem on me. I have bat wings and sometimes the armhole is a bit much. I have a white bolero, which would be fine with the top three, but nothing … wait I have a black crochet shrug.
And then there is this…
I love purple.
And there’s this.
It comes in a wide variety of colors and prints
And I’m absolutely over the moon about this
Isn’t that pretty? But it’s a VERY popular pattern, because there are about 8 other tunics in that including this…
Which I”m wearing tomorrow and I don’t think the top one is made of the same crinkly crepe…
Remember every top up there is under 20.00 and I won’t be buying multiples of the same style and I’m not so sure about the sleeveless or the red…
Sigh.
I”m going to go ahead and do Zee Reads. My current book is huge and I”m only on Chapter 3. (There are almost 40 chapters)
First off, it LOOKS like I read a lot of books. I did, but they were for the most part novellas or short stories, so I got through them pretty fast.
This is a prequel to a longer series. In short, a recent tsunami has stirred up some ancient bacteria that is laying waste to entire segments of the east coast of America. Rather than quarantine or move people west, when there’s a break-out, our government is simply nuking and firebombing entire towns. The little town this family is from has been ear-marked for the next burn. As they have a friend who is a First Responder, they’re given a heads up. They’ve prepared for this bug out…
Rick Riordan turns his great middle schooled geared mind to the Egyptian Gods. It’s a bumpy, sometimes unbelievable ride. One the kiddos should enjoy!
This is NOT the cover of the original book when I obtained it. This was
This was, but this other one is part of the series and is the prequel. I think this author has read a LOT of Tolkien. Dwarves, men, Orcs, Elves… this particular installment is yet again – a prequel. This particular dwarf has a problem. He picked up a magical helmet and went berserk, slaughtering the majority of his clan. They’ve gone on the run, into literally no-man’s land to escape him. When he removes the helmet, his memories of slaughtering his people is quite vivid. But he can’t remember his name… so he’s following the survivors of the very clan he decimated, just to find out what his name is.
Oh, and the boy likes to fight!
Again, another prequel novella. Alternative universe, a dark wizard, holed up in an abandoned castle and a lone, young knight off on a quest to prove himself. While he wins the day and the girl he loves, he accidentally unleashes an evil so evil…
I’ve read several of his books in other series before. His imagination is extensive and his writing has improved, but this one is another trip through someone else’s eyes of Tolkien.
I was disappointed with this. Supposedly a shifter. I hear talk of everyone’s inner wolf, but you never see it. The sex is mundane and there are too many holes, as if the author was in a hurry to set a speed record. He kept thinking about his ‘dirty’ blood and his father who was considered a ‘monster’ – and they never tell you what. Unimpressed.
I’m job hunting, obviously. Might need to spruce up my resume.
Last year, I was highly enamored with Joan’s Arly Hanks mysteries, although by the end, I was irritated with Arly and all the Buchanan’s. I started this one last year between books as it was on my old kindle for quite sometime and I’ll probably do a run on them next year if I manage to finish this challenge this year. Claire owns a little bookstore in a college town. She is divorced, with an angsty pre-teen daughter. The town boasts of one famous romance author who decides to launch her next book – in Claire’s bookstore. The feminists revolt and picket, all the professors see themselves in between the lurid pages and said author ends up dead. A snarky, interesting who-dun-it.
An accidental read. On occasion, when I”m opening up a book to see where to file it on my PC kindle (with its 143 folders) I realize it’s so short, I might as well finish it. This was a 10 minute, very thought-provoking, melancholy read. A father, celebrating his son’s 31st birthday at his home… even though the son has been missing for 10 years and has been declared dead by the authorities. His wife won’t join him and as he eats birthday cake in the kitchen, he notices the number of dead flies on the kitchen window sill. I had to go out and get a milk shake after this one.
I love a book where it’s obvious the author spent a LOT of time on the cover. (snark)
Level One:
- Madam Malkin’s: Bookish world to revisit ( Magic Kingdom for Sale/SOLD!)
- Flourish and Blotts: Bestselling book (Little Women )
- Ollivanders: Book with magic (A Court of Mist and Fury )
- Magical Menagerie: Animal on the cover ( Pogonip)
- Apothecary: TBR book you need to read (The Spider Stone )
- Gryffendor : Book with red on the cover ( )
- Ravenclaw: Book with blue on the cover (A Court of Mist and Fury )
- Slytherin: Book with green on the cover ( )
- Hufflepuff: Book with yellow on the cover ( )
- Astronomy: Sci-fi/Dystopian (Burn District)
- Charms: Middle grade (The Red Pyramid )
- Dark Arts: Villains or anti-heroes (The Nameless Dwarf – The Antman of Malfern )
- Defence Against the Dark Arts: Dark fantasy ( Frostborn – the First Quest)
- Flying: Around the world ( Wings of a Butterfly)
- Herbology: Self help (Resumes that work )
- History of Magic: Authors’ first book ( )
- Potions: Choose a book with your eyes closed (Strangled Prose )
- Transfiguration: Book with shapeshifting ( )
- Arithmancy: Book with a number in the title ( )
- Care of Magical Creatures: Book with magical creatures ( )
- Divination: Takes place in the future ( )
- Astrology: On a different planet ( )
- Cartomancy: Tarot cards and fortune telling ( )
- Dream Interpretation: Book with dreams and visions ( )
- Muggle Studies: Contemporary Book (Dead Flies )
- Ancient Runes: Historical Fiction ( )
- New Term: First book in a series/duology ( )
- Name in the Goblet of Fire: Recommended by a friend ( )
- Letter from Snuffles: Mystery ( )
- Dobby is Free: Free choice ( )
- Wizard Chess: Book with a contest ( )
- Golden Egg: Book with dragons ( )
- Eat you’ll feel better: Treat yourself! buy yourself a new book! ( )
- Free Space ( )
- Luna Lovegood: Diverse reads ( )
- Black Lake: Book with sea creatures/mermaids ( )
- Harry Potter: Chosen One ( )
- Fred and George: Funny book ( )
- Yule Ball: Fairy Tale retelling ( )
- Neville Longbottom: Brave character ( )
- Hermione Granger: Empowering ( )
- Hedge Maze: A maze or a labyrinth ( )
- Free Space ( )
- Fleur: Romance ( )
- Book from a Jar ( )
- Newt Scamander: Author with your initials ( )
- Cursed Child: Play ( )
- Extendable Ears: Audiobook ( )
- Lavender Brown: Chick Lit ( )
- House: Based on your House ( )
- Fantastic Beasts 3: Book to movie in 2019 ( )
- Beedle the Bard: Male author ( )
- Fantastic Beasts ( )
- Percival Pratt: Poetry ( )
- Avada Kedavra: Horror ( )
- Accio: One word title ( )
- Sybill Trelawney: Female author ( )
- Pottermore: Book club book ( )
- Crimes of Grindelwald ( )
- Dumbledore: Book by a favorite celebrity ( )
- House Cup: Goodreads Awards winner ( )
- Advanced Potion Making: Backlist book ( )
- Molly Weasley: Book your mom loves ( )
- Philosopher’s Stone: Published the year you were born ( )
- Book Hermione would read ( )
- Harry Potter Series: Young Adult ( )
- Mental Health ( )
- Severus Snape: Standalone ( )
- Released in 2019 ( )
- Book of Spells: Classic ( )
- Moody: Based on your mood ( )
- Dursley’s: Nonfiction ( )
- Ginny Weasley: Fierce females ( )
- Free Choice ( )
- Shrieking Shack: Thriller ( )
- Lupin: Paranormal ( )
- Marauder’s Map: Magical book for adults/teens ( )
- Tonks: Character with dyed hair ( )
- Book Harry would read ( )
- Book Queenie would read ( )
- Free Choice ( )
I’m going to see how many of those tops are still left and pick 2 or 3.
Here. If you made it this far…
This dwarf has a name – Hunkahunkaburninlove!
zee's muse 
I’ll take the hunk hunkofburninlove to go!
For what it is worth the orange print and purple tunic are winners and the yellow blouse is a wonderful rich yellow you could wear really Year round in your neck of the woods
I got lost in the second tier of books described. I’m only on book #2 Richards fall hopefully project so I pale in comparison
I’ll still pouting 😒😫
No more red print
Yellow, orange or purple! ❤️😘😘😘
But the red print is soooooo pretty….
And which orange print?
Well there are two: the first one and then the second one where you comment comes in other colors. I like the second one better and upon further ogling well of Richard’s pic but some of the clothes you posted the yellow blouse is really cute. I have something similar color a little duller but same cut. Yellow goes with a lot by the way!!
The poppies! The poppies! Really gorgeous! 😊
Yeah, I like the poppies too, but I”m thinking I’d like to bring the credit cards down a tad more. Spawn had to pay for over half of his tuition this semester and traditional financial aid was no aid at all. So we squeezed the belt a tad tighter. Hoping that is taken care of this month and we’ll be back on track and have a little bit left over come April. We’re both tired of pancakes or beans for dinner.
You guys could eat spaghetti! Also mac and cheese. I am prone to chili and soup in the colder months!!
Spagetti and Mac n Cheese has a LOT of carbs. Too much for me. I’m fighting with my blood sugar and the carbs make it go up higher!
Ok ok semantics, but they are CHEAP. Where is your protein then if it is pancakes (do you eat them bare no butter or syrup) and the beans? That’s worse than me! I thought Spawn was the master chef?
When we do pancakes, we bake up some bacon!
Beans are protein!
Ah hmmmmm ummmm ? I stand corrected. Bacon although yummy isn’t the healthiest choice either..
no, which is why we get center cut (leaner) and low sodium bacon. Sometimes we’ll get turkey bacon.
My brother’s household eats turkey bacon. It tastes like sand paper to me
I’m not overly fond of it. We typically use whole wheat pasta, which I’m not overly fond of either.
Yes pasta is my downfall and pizza and chocolate and wine and bread and yikes…
and cheesecake and Girl Scout Cookies…
Ah Girl Scout cookies, I just ordered some from my gym friend. Which one is your fav? They have smores now!! I’m so behind the times….
I will KILL for Samoias. And Do Si Dos. And Trefoils. And Thin Mints.,
Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold! Great story. I like the dress with the puppies at the bottom. And have you tried any good tofu recipes? It’s less expensive than meat and I like it if it’s done well.
I HATE tofu!!!!
Magic Kingdom for Sale was a great book. Right now, I’m working on Terry’s first book – The Sword of Shannara. I read it years ago and I’m enjoying the reread.
Magic Kingdom book: What are three words to describe why the story is good? Sue chime in here too please..
Funny, Sad, HERO!
More words about the hero – despite over-whelming odds, the hero NEVER gives up. NEVER quits.
So no happy ending? The way I feel right now don’t think I could handle a depressing book. I like funny though and a hero is always a good thing.. Seville Communion Father Quart is a hotty hot hot guy. I fell for him within the first few pages.
It’s a series, but I think the ending is very satisfactory, holds a lot of promise for the future books. Yes, a happy ending for that book.
I somehow knew you were going to say that! I used to say that too, but I’ve found a few good recipes. If I ever have time ever again, I’ll try to post some on the bbbww blog.
I read the Sword of Shannara years ago too. I haven’t done a whole lot of reading lately.
I need to post some new recipes. I’ve been crazy the last few weeks. Maybe Sunday…
I’m working nonstop. All work and no play makes Sue a dull girl.
I have days of hell, company, and concerts through Saturday.
Company and concerts sound good!
Well I’m working the concerts and I’ve not learned the music I’m playing Saturday morning – and they’re hard!
Hope it went well!
It didn’t. I took meds and forgot to eat, so when I started the REALLY hard art song, my blood sugar tanked at the 2nd chord. My poor solosit sang the piece mostly a Capella.
Lucky I had some unwrapped candy in the bottom of my purse, but I felt so horrible, I refused to charge him. I’ve been paid for basically gas, that’s fine.
Oh that sucks! If only you could get it stabilized.
I get it stablized in the summer and then I spend the school year seeing how far out of whack it can get. I”m finally confident enough to go back into the gym and hit the treadmill, and now my knee has decided I”m old… I know it’s the rain.
I’m just very lucky I don’t have blood sugar issues. Work (and sometimes family) sends me into stress eating and I haven’t really been able to do much ever since I sprained my ankle last May. Now i can do stairs, at least, but it still hurts at some point pretty much every day. I have a pulled muscle in the back of my hip too. By the way, I keep meaning to say that your accident at the gym reminds me of the premise of Amy Schumer’s movie “I Feel Pretty”. She falls off a bike in a spin class and hits her head and wakes up thinking she’s the most gorgeous thing on two legs. (I liked the movie.) I guess your fall wasn’t transformative, though…
That fall brought attention to my knee – which is acting up right now. There is rain on the horizon and my knee is telling me all about it.
Rest and relax
Writing is calling you and 2 Netflix shows❤️😘😘
I’m getting ready to bullet out Sir Guy’s 5th reincarnation.
Sue, what is that about WDW?
Lol. No. It’s about a guy who sees an ad in a special catalogue to buy a magic kingdom. He gives up his current life and his transported to a land where magic is real. I love stories where a person lands in something that is very unlike their real life and they have to step up and be a hero.
Another one like that is The Reluctant Swordsman by Dave Duncan. Or Christopher Stasheff’s Warlock of Gramarye series, which is also funny. I haven’t read a lot of fantasy in recent years, though.
I’ll look those up!
Me too!!
Sue, thank you for explaining it. Yeah that would be a book I’d probably read although a series is a commitment hmm. I jotted the other two you mentioned. Seville Communion is very very well written much better than Coben’s The Stranger. So I am taking my time with it relishing the Father Quart character..
Those I mentioned are series too. Yeah I’ve read some Coben. His books are fine, but not amazing. Hopefully it will make a good show.
Sue The Stranger is the first Coben book I’ve read and I did of course b/c The Armitage is going to be in the Netflix show. I read it Armitage fashion in a little over 24 hours. It is written IMO high schoolish. Adam is not well developed which is probably a bonus for Richard to mold the character how he sees it. I did see Safe from last year on Netflix and The Five and thought both productions were pretty good.
I haven’t seen The Five. I saw Safe. I liked it but thought it could have been a bit better. I don’t know… I just though it was missing something. I did think Michael C Hall did a good job with the Brit accent.
Sue I agree. I liked The Five much more. More suspenseful and characters were developed better. Safe- yes I agree I liked Hall with the Brit accent. Maybe Amanda Abbington ? she was a bit annoying…
Yeah, I don’t know. I just started to find it wasn’t as gripping as I’d hoped.
Sue yes I agree with you. I could not binge watch Safe. The Five yes though. I wonder who’s in the cast
I was hoping Itchy fingers would give us some clues
Since he is chopping at the bit to tell!! 🤣👍👏
Can’t wait to find out!
I’ve not seen either…
Netflix shows.
Ah. I’ll have to look them up.
Me too!!!
Sue, sorry you are working so much but you are never dull!!
Reading! since signed up for kindle unlimited I swear I spend my life reading!! If after a few pages don’t hold my interest I just return. I can usually tell by the style of the writing if I will like a book or not. Oh on the tunics, you know I tend to go for solids but I really like the first red printed one. That I might wear. Reg. your kids in school you shouldn’t have to put up with that crap, show them you mean business and if they call you that again, send them to the office. They will know you are not going to be jerked around.
Would you believe the child who brought the condom was suspended. The child who called me a bitch, wasn’t. And an acquaintance on other social media said because I’m Conservative, he had no sympathy for me and I suppose that means it’s okay for children to be assholes towards me.
1. The education system is fucked. It makes wonderful teachers like you miserable
2. I thought you weren’t doing the social media thing and acquaintance well he or she can go shove it up their ass!
Glad the recital went well. Looking forward to Guy Day today. I hope your week got better than mine!!
1. I could say a crapload about the education system, but it would get political.
2. I went off Social Media last year when my mood swings took a particularly low dive and didn’t come up.
3. Guy Day will probably be later. I have performances to prepare for and I”m having a hard time because 2 of the piece are very hard and i broke my anchor pinkie nail down into the quick, making everything painful.
No politics zone so I hear ya. Can you wrap the nail with a band aid?
Hang in there but excited for you on recitals tomorrow!!!
I’ll get paid for it, so I NEED to do a good job. Pinkie doesn’t hurt as much today, but still hurts. I’m going to bandaid it and see if that helps.
You ALWAYS do a great job regardless but getting paid doesn’t hurt. Wrap that bad boy up there!!
It’s wrapped now. So when I have my break, I’ll check and see if I can work with it.
Was this a DIY or did you have the school nurse assist?
It was a DIY. Simple bandaid.
Ouch! about the pinkie. You know sometimes I think our whole world is sick, no I know it is. When people judge you for what they “think” you are, well they are getting their ideas from someone who is as sick as they are. And it goes round and round. Sorry, I hate people who judge others.