13 October 2024

Sunday Salon/Sunday Post - October 13, 2024: Activate Spooky Season!

 Hello!

Checking in and joining The Sunday Salon with Readerbuzz, and Sunday Post with Caffeinated Reviewer. Quiet house around here this morning - last night was the homecoming dance, and we hosted the regular kids for a pre-party and photos last night. The attendees are not awake yet this morning, but I'm assuming a good time was had by all. The day before that was the big game, which we won, and me and my son got to escort my daughter onto the field at halftime as part of the high school's homecoming court! Because of homecoming week, we hurried back from a family vacation at Mackinac Island last Sunday so she could be in the parade, and then I went with my daughter and her girlfriend to the Billie Eilish show on Monday (that last one had nothing to do with homecoming...we've had the tickets for months). The show was amazing!! It's been a week for the books, for sure.

What I'm reading this week:

As apparently happened the last time I posted updates, I'm between kindle books at the moment. I finished Trouble the Living by Francesca McDonnell Capposela, and will probably start This Time Could Be Different by Khristin Wierman tonight. 

In paperback land, I am still carrying Little Women, and last week started Lightborne by Hesse Phillips.

Three Good Things:

  1. Boy, this feels less easy this week. I have an actual video interview, but I've been burned enough times that I'm trying not to get very excited. While I think I understand what the job is and could probably do it well, there are probably plenty of other people who could too. I'm just too tired emotionally to keep trying, I guess. I'll tread water for long enough to get my kids hopefully successfully to adulthood.
  2. Hubs is only out of town for two nights this week, so he's agreed (and added a reminder to his phone) to pick up our son from school three other days. So I'll only leave work in time to pick him up one day. (Good things on the kids' calendars includes no school Friday!) I'm required to work eight hours this coming Saturday since we're so far behind, so I'd rather rake in all the overtime I can. I'll stay every other night to make them at least 10 hour days.
  3. Homecoming court!! I don't know about you, but when I was in school, this was a thing for the cheerleaders and athletes. Our homecoming court of five girls and five boys had two theatre girls and a girl from band! I don't know a lot about the rest of them, but I appreciated the diversity. My daughter and the other theatre girl didn't want to run 'against' each other, so they campaigned as 'Vote for Maggie or Mia!' LOL Another girl and her boyfriend won queen and king, but I heard they were really nice kids too :)
Three Goals for this week/month/whatever:
  1. Is it bad that I'm starting to feel like my goal is just to get through? Hahahaha... I did finish my Lego Haunted Mansion yesterday :) I still have a villians Lego set, and a gigantic bonsai tree one, which I should try to finish before Christmas so I can justify getting another set.
  2. My son asked, so I'm putting it on my goal list to carve pumpkins this week. We originally were thinking of doing it today, but daughter has to work and then has plans with friends, and I go to bed early when I have to work in the morning. So some evening this week should be good, after we go buy the pumpkins today. 
  3. I want to pick up some counted cross-stitch again. I have at least two projects started (and set aside) from years ago, but I've decided to get back to it. The first problem with that was that my long, painted nails sometimes smudged on the fabric, so I cut my nails short and will only paint with clear or not at all. It's kind of a big deal, since I've painted my nails every week or two for the past few years.

8 comments:

crackercrumblife said...

I would never have thought about nail polish smudging on your sewing!

And yay for Mackinac Island in the fall! I love up north, but especially in the autumn!

Northwoman said...

Wow that is a hectic week. Well you did get through it and now maybe a week with a bit less happening?

Anne - Books of My Heart This is my Sunday Post

Carla said...

What a nice way to get homecoming started. Sometimes just getting through is all we can do and that’s okay. And nothing catastrophic has to happen to feel that way. Good luck with the counted cross stitch. I hardly ever pick up my knitting needles with all the reading and blogging. I need to find some balance.

Yvonne said...

I haven't been to Mackinac Island in years. I loved it. Maybe someday I'll have a chance to go back. You've been busy this week. I hope the upcoming week is a good one for you.

Mae Travels said...

Sounds as if you are in Michigan… me too. Finishing a Halloween themed lego sounds nice — so many ways to make a haunted house. I was thinking those gingerbread houses that are premature Christmas merch would make good haunted houses if you were good at decorating.
best, mae at maefood.blogspot.com

Deb Nance at Readerbuzz said...

What a wonderful time your daughter must have had. What a great attitude she and her friend showed! It is refreshing to hear about this.

Good luck with the interviews. I hope you eventually find something you enjoy greatly.

The Literary Lioness said...

Sounds like you are very busy. I have friends who went to Mackinac Island and loved it.

Nicky said...

Ooh, you make me miss cross-stitch too. It's been quite a while though...