Welcome to SePtEmBeR?? I'm not sure if it's the fact that I've usually enjoyed school, or that I used to work in the schools, or just that I still have kids in school, but September feels more like a new year than January does, to me.
I'm joining in with the Sunday Post at Caffeinated Reviewer, and Sunday Salon at Readerbuzz today. Thank goodness Friday was an 'extra' paycheck (paid every other Friday means two months each year have THREE paychecks!). It's gone. The paycheck went to school clothes, mostly. My looming to-buy list yesterday (after working an extra six hours on Saturday) included yearbooks (one down, one to go), registration for e-sports and twirler for a day (both pending contact), Sweeney Todd tickets (using the second card after a potential fraud alert on the first), new band book (shipping...), candy for work (yes, I did get something for me), and CLOTHES/SHOES!! Still needed: pens, pencils, paper, folders...
What I'm reading this week:
My reading is mostly back to my standard of trying to clear the backlog. I'm going to be picking a couple that I'm just reviewing for here (SweetlyBSquared.com), coming up, as the woman on the blog I usually review for is getting married! I sincerely hope she doesn't spend any of her wedding or honeymoon time posting book reviews!
On my kindle, I've already zoomed through half of You Can Trust Me by Wendy Heard. Great thriller so far with alternating chapters between the two main characters with both current happenings and flashbacks to figure out who everyone really is.
Print books, I don't think I've read another word of Little Women all week, but I'm hoping to finish The Hedgerow today or tomorrow. It's enjoyable enough, but I'm really finding a lot of the characters annoying.
Three Good Things:
- Don't get me wrong - I know how BLESSED I am to be able to buy these ridiculous things my kids want :) It was so great to be able to get them what they wanted while we shopped yesterday. And I'm also so happy to be able to enjoy spending time with my kids. They're pretty cool.
- Yay for a short work week! The company I work for is closed Monday for Labor Day, so I'm pretty determined not to work extra hours at straight-time pay. I'm hoping to work as close to eight hours each day this week as possible. And I've got plenty to do after that in getting ready for the high school's production of Much Ado About Nothing this weekend.
- I got my new paper planner! I had Erin Condren planners for years, but then her behavior during COVID19 led me to decide not to support her anymore. I got Plum Paper Planners for a couple years. This year I picked up a Happy Planner for the first time, because I could buy it and just take it home from Michael's. I always enjoy setting up a new planner, and the school year is really when things start being scheduled for the next calendar year.
Three Goals for this week/month/whatever:
- Finish my Lego house! After I listed it last week, I don't think I've touched it again.
- Work on my office. I've actually got a few things in mind that I know are in there, and I'd love to find.
- I keep saying I'm gonna clean up the kitchen - like, deep clean. Over a few years, we lined the top of the cupboards with all different bourbon bottles. I'm over it. Time to move them on to glass recycling. And while I'm up there, I should get a bucket of sudsy hot water and wash all the latent grease off the cupboards, cuz, why not?