Miscellaneous

 I was looking at my blog and the number of posts I've made recently.  It's been a goal of mine to get back into blogging for a while now.  So, what I noticed is that I've posted more entries this year than I have each year - for the whole year - for the last ten years!  So, blogging more?  Check!  ✅

 

I thought today was national pet day but apparently that was yesterday.  I may have missed the day to recognize or celebrate it but if you knew how things are in my house, you'd know that every day is pet day.  Ha!  🐶

I recently discovered a new show.  It's actually one I watched early on when it first started airing.  At the time I didn't care for it so was surprised when it kept being picked up for new seasons.  But recently they started airing the shows on Nick At Nite and so I would catch episodes unintentionally.  Next thing you know, I'm binge watching the show on HBO Max.  The show?  Young Sheldon!  I'm not sure what I saw to make me think it wouldn't be good but I think it's hysterical!  Gotta love that family!  

And speaking of Sheldon, I dreamed last night that he got elected president.  There's an episode where he runs for class president and (spoiler alert!) he wins.  I guess it's possible that was on in the background while I was sleeping and it seeped into my dream.  I don't recall anything else from the dream other than he ran and won, but it seems like dogs were involved, I just don't remember how.  😕

I'm reading a book that was reviewed here (and includes another review of the same book that can be found here).  The name of the book is Leave the World Behind.  I borrowed an e-copy of the book from my library and am slightly more than fifty percent of the way through, it's due in a couple of days and I'm not sure I'm going to be finished reading it by then.  The problem is, I'm personally not liking it.  I don't think it's well written.  I don't think the conclusions that are being jumped to are realistic.  The writing is bothering me more than anything.  In one chapter I noted that in five paragraphs the author had jumped into four of the character's heads.  The character that got two paragraphs didn't have consecutive paragraphs either.  And not all the characters were in the same room or area of the head hopping incident.  And that occurs a lot in this book!  The author even jumps into heads of unnamed, not part of the storyline, character's heads.  I keep reading because I keep thinking it's got to get better, particularly if it's been reviewed twice on a platform I frequent and reviews are typically positive.  I also want to see how it ends.  I want to see what the author does to finish this story. Although, in fairness, making the reader want to see what happens next is part of the plan, right?  But this author is making that very challenging for me and making me unsure I will finish before the library calls it back!  📖

And lastly, I'm scheduled to get the first shot of the vaccine this weekend.  I've been nervous about getting the vaccine but I'm so ready to have things return to some sort of normalcy and I hope this gives me some confidence that it can. One thing I do know, I will continue to wear a mask, probably for a long time to come!  😷💉