Sunday Salon/Sunday Post - August 24, 2025: And on with the Last Week

Last week of summer before school starts for our son, and our daughter is settling in at university and starts classes tomorrow. Where does the time go? 

In preparation for the new (fall) year, all four of us drove to daughter's new college town to move her in to her dorm. The university schedules move-in time slots, and provides big ole bins to move the stuff in less trips. We made it with two trips for the one-and-a-half cars of belongings. A mini fridge and shelving unit were in hubby's pick-up, and the rest of her packed belongings were in her car (which she'll keep there). She settled in for the rest of the afternoon/evening and made a few new friends. We went out for dinner without her. The next morning, we all met for breakfast at our favorite breakfast place in town, then our son and I headed home, dropped daughter back at her dorm, and hubs headed in another direction for work. Is that all there is, to a move-in? (credit to Peggy Lee)

Luckily, all that occurred over the course of a Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday off of work, so now I'm on bonus weekend time! I'm joining up with Deb at Readerbuzz and Kimberly at Caffeinated Reviewer and for Sunday Salon and Sunday Post.

What I'm reading this week:

I'm going to finish The Lost City of the Monkey God. Probably today. I got to less than a hundred pages last night before bed. So, yeah. I've got about two hours of A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage. So probably today or tomorrow I'll wrap that one up. I also listened to The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich during the drive, and then finished up while I puttered in my office yesterday. I really enjoyed it, and gave it four out of five stars, but honestly would have gotten more from it if I'd read it. I have such a hard time focusing on audio books. 

Three Good Things:

1. Would you believe some of my organizational stuff is falling into place a wee bit? The shelf that daughter took to her dorm used to be in our dining room, so I replace that with the one from the middle of my bedroom (while looking for a space) that used to be in son's bedroom. Win! Except the bins that go in the squares are a lil bigger than they can be in the new space. So new bins are on the porch, and son promised to help get all that in the right places/purged/reorganized today. I love when a plan falls into place.
2. Shout out to right-sized packing! It definitely felt like daughter had mostly the right stuff. I promise to putter in her room and straighten/purge/organize before the holidays, but she got what she needed and the move-in was so smooth! We visit in October, so should probably bring her some of the cold weather stuff she'll need before she needs to schedule a trip home.
3. I'm excited to start my Lake Superior jigsaw puzzle today! There's a table which isn't the one we eat at, and it has a view of the family room/tv, so I think that will be my 'for me' task this afternoon. This probably could have been a good thing or a to-do. LOL

Three Goals for this week/month/whatever:

1. This week we get to go pick up son's eighth grade schedule. His counselor did email me that she got the classes he wanted, but now he can start comparing to friends' schedules. Several of his close friends are a grade ahead of him, since his birthday is close to the cut-off. He did well enough on a computer test last year to be able to skip the computer class the district has eighth graders take, so that opened up some space for choices. Yay!
2. I don't think I actually went through all of my review request emails last week. Whoops! Still gotta do that. 
3. I think at the end of this week (I get paid Friday), I need to update my calendar (I think a co-worker's baby shower and a pub crawl are not on my calendar yet), and I need to order my 2026 planner. I still love having a paper planner, even if I don't get it out every day. I hate trying to really 'participate' in things and review my life on something as small as my phone....