Sunday Post/Sunday Salon - January 5, 2025: Wait, what?

Happy 2025! I can confidently say that I don't ever recall going into a new year so... hopeless. Like, it's a new year - so? I can't name any real goals, or things I want to do different, or better expectations. I'm going to keep doing what I always do, which seems to work out adequately. I do it all for my kids, and while I'm excited to see the great things they do and enjoy, I'm more of a NPC (non-playable character) in my life. And I'm not sad about it or anything. It just is.

Of all the goals and such I listed for 2024, I definitely did blog more consistently/often than other recent years. Huge shout out to Sunday Post with Caffeinated Reviewer, and  Sunday Salon with Readerbuzz. I specifically said I wanted to post more, and something besides book reviews. The majority of my posts in 2024 were participating with their link-ups, and interacting with other bloggers doing the same thing. The posts and following along with other bloggers has truly been a bright spot in many of my weekends. Thanks!

What I'm reading this week:

In last week's goals, I wanted to finish the two books I was reading in 2024, and I came close. I finished Love and Death in the Sunshine State (3 stars) on New Years' Eve, and A Grandmother Begins the Story (4 stars) on New Years' Day. Their reviews will be appearing on Books I Think You Should Read soon. 

I'm excited to have started Damaged Beauty: Joey Superstar by Margaret Gardiner in a print book, and Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix on my kindle. So far I'm really enjoying both of them.

Three Good Things:

1. Food! Manhattan Deli & Grille has opened on the first floor of the office building where I work (or maybe it's next door? Really close!). Before, we had like pop-up kitchens twice a week, or needed to pack a lunch or go get something. When you only have a half hour for lunch, there is not much time to make a decision, so I usually just didn't eat. Which was fine. But now there's a full kitchen, with breakfast, or lunch stuff with real fries, and even a Starbucks counter! It's definitely a good thing for our office.
2. Legos! We're about halfway done with the poinsettia that I thought we would do Christmas Eve. LOL I did the first bag, and then my son sat down to do the second bag and found the pages I'd missed for the first bag (whoops!). I did the third bag this morning (with very few extra parts, so I think I did it right this time). 
3. Out of the 100 or so holiday cards we mailed, only two came back! One, I mis-wrote the address (should have been 100, not 1000), and the other, they must have moved. Statistically great not-return rate ;)

Three Goals for this week/month/whatever:

1. The last couple weeks have contained holidays (Christmas Eve/Christmas Day, and then New Years' Day). While I've enjoyed leaving the office after eight (or less!) hours, it will be good to work until I've finished a bit more, and earned a lil overtime pay. This week I'll probably work 9 - 10 hours on Monday through Friday, and then hopefully put in six hours on Saturday, if I can get a few team members to join me. 
2. Finish our Lego poinsettia, obvs.
3. Get some more stuff cleaned up in the office. The last couple weeks have also been different since hubs and the kids were home, and I was usually at work. So more than once, hubs has asked for my stuff to leave general areas, and it got thrown in a random heap in my office. So, one step forward, three steps back. Hopefully I can at least get it back to where it was before break in the next week or so.