Hello my friends, and happy March! February always flies by so quickly and before I know it I’m already stressing about a new month haha. As it stands, February was also the first official month of my job transition and that made it equally fly by. I had a great month though, and I actually got some reading done too, although maybe not as much as I had hoped for. But not setting strict standards has made me less stressed about that, so it’s nice! Anyway I just wanted to pop in to say hi! I’ll get some posts queued…

*emerges from the darkness* Hi…. I’m here! Did you think I disappeared? Oh, don’t worry. Me too. ANYWAY, through a series of really weird things it is February 9th and I have yet to post any of the things I’ve meant to do for the last week. Argh. Life. Why do you just want to fight me? I need to go back to pre-writing posts when I have the bandwith, so I can just post them. LOL. But alas, I did not do that. So here we are. This is just your reminder that is flu season, and please take…

I was supposed to write you all a review for Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail yesterday, but the day was so tiring I didn’t. Instead, I told myself I’d write it today. Then I woke up with a mild migraine and decided today is not the day either. So, you get a rambling post instead. Hahaha. At least I have been keeping up better with posts, and it’s feeling rather good to be honest. Although we’re due for another rainstorm soon, this week has been blessedly sunny. Yesterday the temperature even got up into the low 70s, and I was like…

Man, this week got away from me. I was so proud because I managed to post on Monday and then suddenly I blinked and it was Friday. It’s just been one of those kinds of weeks where the days blend in to one another, and I’m just helplessly dragged along. My transition at work is going smoothly, but it has also been a lot to deal with. Training someone else, while simultaneously being trained? Well, it’s a lot. I’m not even surprised that my brain pushed all things about the blog out. Hahaha. Happily though, I have been reading! It’s…

If you’re on Twitter you’ve probably seen that #LARain and #flooding have been trending like mad, and that’s totally warranted. We’re on our third week of pretty consistent rain and, today in particular, has been a straight up DELUGE. (I love that word.) Living in a place that constantly bemoans the lack of rain, and then is never prepared for large quantities of rain, will never cease to crack me up. *sigh* This is basically our personality now. LA people love/hate rain with their whole souls. Luckily I was able to work from home today, because (see earlier infrastructure notes)…

I honestly didn’t realize how long I’d been away from here, and I apologize for making you all wait for me! There have been a series of weird health things happening with me. They kind of piled up, one after another, and only now do I finally feel semi-normal. Most of my energy has been spent just listening to my body and trying to take care of it. My reading and my blogging took a backseat. Which, honestly, is as it should be. Never forget that you are most important! Always take care of yourself first. That being said, I…

Although I’m not pleased by the recent time change (darn you for taking away my ability to wake up to sunshine), I am very excited about the fact that it’s almost Spring! I actually got some of my plants into the ground last weekend, although most of them need another two weeks before they can start. Still, putting those little seeds into the new dirt, being excited about the little green seedlings that will soon arrive, it has me in a tizzy! I simply cannot wait for the warmer weather. My absolute favorite thing about the warm weather is reading…

If you’re anywhere on the internet, it’s inevitable that at some point you’ll see a debate about audio books. You have the group who insistent that these are somehow “cheating” and don’t have the same benefit as print books. Then you have the group, the one that I fall in, who believes in the power of audio books. I don’t exclusively listen to audio books, I alternate between formats, but I wouldn’t mind if anyone else did! Truth be told, some stories come to life only when told verbally, and I fully believe that narrators are artists. Anyway, this is…

It’s been a quiet, but lovely start to the year so far! I’m so pleased with the fact that I actually finished five full books last month, and that I only bought one new physical book. In case you’re wondering what I chose, I found the most beautiful book ever and absolutely had to have it. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh is a feminist retelling of a classic Korean fairytale. Doesn’t that sound amazing? I know! It sounds amazing. You should go check out the cover and fall in love too, because it is absolutely…

I started out the year by doing what I should probably do every year, but never do… cleaning out my hoards. Every Christmas I am blessed with lovely gifts, and I always mean to go through my extra things and donate them. Then I never do. Hahaha. It’s one of the reasons why this year it was absolutely necessary. I sat down and went through piles of magazines, stacks of books, shelves of clothes, and came out the other side with a bunch of wonderful donation piles and plenty of space for the new things I had acquired. It was…