Top 5

Top 5- Favorite things about winter

Winter is the second best season, to fall. Mainly b/c fuck the heat. Also, Christmas!!!!

First favorite thing would be the cooler weather. I don't have a woodstove anymore, but I loved it when we did have one. There is nothing better than cuddling up with a blanket and a fire going.

Second, I LOVE BLANKETS! I have probably an unheatlhy obsession with blankets, that I have passed onto my child. Sure, you can have blankets year round, but the holiday ones are the cutest!!!

Next, which probably should be first b/c it is the best thing, SNOW!! We didn't get any last year, and I am hoping for another set of storm like we had in 2015/16

Fourth, Christmas. I love everything about Christmas. Getting together with family, the lights the cookie baking, school being out, SANTA! Christmas movies. It's the best. 

Last, The end of the new year and start of a new. I'm not a fan of the whole new year new me bullshit, but I do think it's a nice thought that the slate is wiped clean and you can set new goals.

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Wrap-up-Feelings

Co parenting during the holidays, sucks. Especially with someone like my x. It's downright miserable at times. It's lonely and frustrating and all of the feelings. During one of our many fights last month I came across this article and cried during the entire thing. During on our fights, I pointed out that he was the one that wanted to split up. He checked out years before we actually split, whereas I was still trying to try, while also hating him for not trying. I moved out of state in hopes it would fix us, it didn't bc he didn't want to try. Now of course that is all my opinion and he of course disagrees, but whatever. Either way, I loved that man with every ounce of me. Through everything, he was what I wanted. And this article shattered my heart all over remembering what that felt like, what it still feels like. This article put into words, why after 4 years, I still can't just pick up and move into another relationship.

http://www.puckermob.com/relationships/you-lost-her-and-honestly-its-your-own-fault?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=PuckerMob

November Wrap-up

I started a new job last month (which I hate) and I can't listen to audio books as much. Which is the main reason why I hate the job. I have bad anxiety, and when left to my thoughts all night, it's not good. The books helped me escape from my thought spirals and kept me from literally going crazy.

Once or twice a week, I'm completely by myself and can sneak some headphones.  I only accomplished 2 books last month, b/c on top of not being able to listen to audio books, it was a rough month for me mentally (probably b/c I drove myself crazy thinking all night), and I couldn't concentrate on a book book. 1 book was a DNF after I got about half way. It was too sexual for me and I hated it. I can do erotic books if I can skip the sex parts, which can't be done on audio. Or, if the story is good enough to get through the sex parts, Which this one was not. So I have my first DNF of the year....

After I finally accepted defeat on this one I moved on to a random KU find. I didn't know it, but this book takes place in my hometown!! Well, right outside of it, but it speaks of traveling to my town for the movies and stuff. I loved this book and have already recommended it to all of the people.

Prompt day

The prompt in the group I'm in yesterday was "what authors do you like so much that you wouldn't have top read the synopsis of one of their books to pick one up". For me it's a couple authors.

One. Colleen Hoover. I read her new book last month and had absolutely no idea what it was about. I usually don't read synopsis of books, unless I'm at the book store and trying to find a new book to buy, but with hers I know she's going to rip my heart out and I'll cry and love every second of it.  Plus, how gorgeous are these covers?!?!

Another author for me would have to be Jamie Maguire. She hasn't wrote a new book in a year or 2 but there was one series I was hooked on and kept buying the next book without knowing really what it was about.

Lastly I would have to say a new author I'll add to the list is Tarryn Fisher. I recently got hooked on her books, and wish I had jumped on her books sooner. But you read books at certain times in your life and sometimes they aren't what you need to read and don't enjoy them.

Top 5

Last week, one of the prompts in my blog group was 5 books you've bought based on the cover. I thought it would be such an easy pick! I was wrong....there are plenty of books I've read based on the cover, and I have tons of pretty cover books on my shelf, but they were bought b/c they were pretty and for something else, like who wrote the book. So I went through Goodreads and found 5 books I've read based off the cover.

This one was a book club read, and if I ever find this series cheap I will buy it. The covers are absolutely gorgeous and I need them on my shelf!!  

This is a series as well that I plan on owning. I bought the 2nd one in the series, (the are stand alone) and hope to own the other ones one day.

October Wrap-up

October was a fail month for me. I only read 4 books :( I think I  might be hitting my slump b/c I haven't really gotten into anything this month either....funny, last year this time is when I got *out* of my slump! Even with Deweys the 21st, I failed. But here are the 3 books I read in October.

★★★★

This was our book club pick, and my first Stephen King book. Growing up my dad had all of his books on the book shelf and I always wanted to read them, but my dad said they were too scary for me. I listened to this on Scribd and the narrator was amazing! The book was great, not scary, but creepy. For book club we watched the movie, but I slept b/c I had to work that night. The girls who watched it said it sucked and was nothing like the book. I plan on watching it soon.

★★★★★

LOVED this book!!!! It kept popping up on my suggested reads for kindle and I wasn't sure. A friend read it though and told me I  must read it. I was on a WW2 kick for a bit, so I picked it up and absolutely LOVED it!! It  focuses on the war from a European side, and I don't remember learning about that in school, so I'm enjoying reading books about it. This is the 2nd or 3rd book I've read about that. 

★★★★★

 Colleen's new book for the year! And the only book I read for deweys. It took me about half the book to get into, but the second half sucked me in and I loved it.

★★★

This one was okay....took me 2 weeks to finish it. I started it as an audio the last couple days at the job I quit last month, and then we went to disney. My plan was to listen to it in the car and that did not work out. I think I would have enjoyed it more had it not taken me so long to read it. The 2nd one should be out soon, and I do plan on purchasing that.