Sunday Salon/Sunday Post - December 7, 2025: 6 7!

Yet another short week. Or was it? I worked overtime Monday - Thursday, and had Friday off to volunteer at the middle school's career day again (for the 7th grade this time) and enjoy the last show of our son's theatre production of Bye Bye Birdie. He was Albert Peterson on Thursday night, and Harvey Johnson on Friday night. It was so much fun, and a great performance! Anyway, after greatly enjoying Friday off, I worked six hours on Saturday. The reason behind my madness is trying to get more goodies for my family for Christmas :) Last week was 40 hours of work, 8 hours of PTO, and 3 1/2 hours of overtime. This week will be as much overtime as I can squeeze in, and then another 8 hours next Saturday. I figure after our daughter comes back home for the holidays next weekend, I'll be working my straight hours more regularly.

It's another Sunday to celebrate the Sunday Salon with Readerbuzz, and the Sunday Post with Caffeinated Reviewer. And their band of loyal-ish bloggers, of course!

What I'm reading this week:

I'm still reading the same two books for now as I was last Sunday: my first holiday book for the HoHoHoReadathon, My Favorite Holidate, on my kindle, and Elyse Myers' That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You in print. Still a few hours left on the kindle book, but hoping to finish up the print one later today. Yesterday while I was supposed to be holiday shopping for others, I picked up a print copy of A Jingle Bell Mingle by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone for my next holiday read.

Three Good Things:

1. I'm putting together a holiday LEGO set to take in to my desk at work. It's the lil gift with purchase that ran over Black Friday weekend. I need something a bit joyful to look at while I'm there so many hours.
2. I finally got my nails done while I was off work Friday. I had tried two weeks earlier, but they were way too busy right before Thanksgiving, so I ran out of time when my appointment got bumped back and couldn't wait. I had a lot of priorities that weekend! This time, I finally was able to walk in and get them filled with a free hour on my day off. The technician suggested this cool 'cat-eye' top coat that she said is popular on Tik Tok. So my nails are red, with this cool holographic look to them.
3. It's just about new paper planner time! I ordered an Erin Condren Life Planner that came in a month or two ago, and now I get to sit down and copy stuff like birthdays/anniversaries into it. My Happy Planner for 2025 wasn't laid out quite what I was used to, so I'm going to dig up my old 2024 planner for more information. 

Three Goals for this week/month/whatever:

1. While I successfully completed last week's errands despite the snow, today I promised our son breakfast out (may not happen since it's snowing again), and he needs new boots (not really negotiable). So today after the video chat/call with our daughter, someone needs to take our son to buy some new boots. Hopefully we can find a pair at Kohl's and use the $15 discount code the emailed earlier this week (I think it's just my Kohl's Cash).
2. There is so much work at my office. And we're still taking in more than we're sending out every day, which can't end well. I need to leave on time tomorrow to pick our son up from his cast party since their show has ended, but I'll do overtime on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Friday I may need to make other plans during business hours and leave after 'just' eight hours, but Saturday I plan to work another eight hours, since hubs and our son are going up north see our daughter's show and bring her home for the holidays.
3. I absolutely have to finish the book review today that I started last week, and even said in last week's post I was going to finish. I mean it this time.