A few days behind ...

Saturday’s Thankful for: Found a great book series and have almost devoured this trilogy. I love books like this that complete suck me in. Spent most of Saturday reading book too and then finishing it that night. Thankful for the comfort of my brother Danny’s home and how open he always keeps it for us.

Sunday’s Thankful for: Time spent with family (Sunday Dinners = <3). My beautiful Niece and her smiles/laughter on Sunday. My family. My friends. Laughter and good food.

Monday’s Thankful for: The day flew. I finally got a full and uninterrupted night of sleep and it was amazing.

Tuesday’s Thankful for: I wrote TWO chapters in this book I’m drafting up. I finished book #5 of the year and started on #6.

QoTD: “Anger cannot be dishonest.” – Marcus Aurelius

As someone who often struggles with random moments of anger, I have to disagree with this. Sometimes my anger is not at all justified and therefore, dishonest. Sometimes, jealousy is at the core of my anger, jealousy so strong I see red. Sometimes impatience leads to my anger, again, not justified. But TRUE anger… yeah. True anger cannot be dishonest.

Soooo I have a valid reason for not posting the last two days.. I swear! I’ve mentioned a few times I’ve been drafting a book idea, and between Monday and Tuesday I got the itch to start writing while stuff is fresh in my mind so I did and managed to get two whole chapters done so YAY.

I’ve also been a reading machine! I finished the third book in this amazing series, A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas series. I am so in love with these characters. The world is well built, intricate and dangerous. She’s made some great villains and some truly amazing heroes… and those who are a little of both like our lead couple in the books. I really thought this story was going one way after the first book but so glad it went in a completely different way … truly wonderful reading. I think there’s one more after this and the series is done. I’d start one of her other ones, but I want to wait for more books to be out before I dive in. I hate waiting lol.

Started book #6 of the year last night. It’s a short read (290 pages, compared to the above book’s 699 pages)…but it probably will take me the same amount of time to read it (twoish days) because I’m actually itching to write, which is a shocker. 
So yeah, that is the delay in my posts! I was going to back and post one for each day, but eh. That is time I can spend writing chapters :D

Oh, I also spent a chunk of Sunday night play SIMS4. Finally started my Legacy SIM and uploaded roughly 100 screen shots lol … I’ll definitely have to whittle that down a bit before I post them/story of them. I realized that I cannot decide exactly how many days they get at each segment of age (Toddler, teen, young adult, adult etc), like I could in SIMS 3 and that really irks me, but I’ll make it work. It just means I have to jam pack her life a little more fully per day than I normally like.

Good news is, they leave just enough $$ in the legacy rules for her to afford four walls and a single bed … in a very tight room LOL. But, thankfully most jobs pay half decent in the game so hopefully she’ll be building add-ons to her shack in no time! 

Otherwise, things are good. I have excitement in my heart again for writing. The weekend was gorgeous, with temps in the mid-60’s which is so unlike this time of year, but we’ll take it … and seeing my niece/goddaughter… pure joy… WHO btw, is finally crawling! Bro and sis-in-law sent us a video last night. It’s not a full crawl yet, but she’s definitely crawl-liking a lot more than before. I give it another couple days before no one can keep up with her. We’re all in damn trouble now LOL

I haven’t had much of a chance to truly test out my new camera lately, but hopefully this weekend. I did take some silly photos yesterday of things on my desk (below). I had really hoped to be able to take some photos of the WOLF Moon (Friday), but of course it was cloudy AF here that night and couldn't get any shots. Other that all that… things are good :P
 The random stuff I took at work ... the finger-puppet thing was actually left behind from my friend at work when she used to sit where I sit lol.She didn't want it back so I've kept it (:









And the fog photos were from this morning. It was super foggy, but the closer I got to work (when I finally decided to snap some pics), it got a bit more clear. But can still see it in these, which impressed me.







And lastly, from tonight. Was sitting at the train crossing when I heard all these birds. This was snapped out my passenger window, so not the best pic, but again impressed by the quality considering all that/and night. Plus I was starting to move so might have some blur.