March 12th 2023
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News at Home
Ugh I just got hit with the reminder that it’s daylight savings starting or ending or whatever tonight so I’m going to make this super short so I can get to bed. But I did want to do a quick update. We had a really good week for the most part. Nothing special or unusual really, just a good week. We did just get home from visiting my friend Melissa for an all-day play date. It’s always a great time when we get together and our boys play together-ish. I say ish because Dante doesn’t really play with anyone – he tends to play beside them at best. It’s one of his goals at therapy that we are working on.
I’m sure there’s more to talk about – but it was a basic week for the most part. I did find out that I’m getting a pretty nice bonus next week and I’m researching robot vacuums as my treat to myself with the money (the rest I’m putting in savings/IRA). If you have any you love or hate, let me know 🙂
Blog News
Last week on Because Reading
- [7 Mar] Tell Me Something Tuesday: Travel
- [9 Mar] Bet Me to Stay by Candace Havens ★★★
- [10 Mar] The Best Time by Sienna Waters ★★★½
- [11 Mar] #MyTBRList Results and Linky: March 2023
- [12 Mar] Sunday Post with Berls | March 12th 2023
Challenge update
This week I finished:
I’m participating in 8 Challenges, plus my goal of 150 books (ahead by 5 books!), this year. Here’s how I’m doing.
- COYER Upside Down Chapter 1 – 32 books
- Finishing the Series – my goal is 5-8 series.
- Series In Progress:
- Ice Planet Barbarians – I read book 6 this year, still need to read 7 – 22 (may not finish this year….)
- Iron Druid Chronicles – reading for the readalong so I know I will finish! So far re-read book 1, plus 3 shorts
- Witches of Hollow Cove – read book 6, still need to read 7-10
- The Immortal Descendants – read books 1-2 this year, 3-5 to go
- Completed Series:
- Transplanted Tales – I read book 4 this year, which is all that is published so far (but I do think more are coming, so this is probably going to end up back in progress)
- Spoiler Alert – book 3 was the only book I hadn’t read, so that series now caught up!
- A Stitch in Time – read book 3 and 3.5 this year (more to come though!)
- Well Met – I read book 2 -4 this year! I think that’s it for the series 🙁
- Sean King and Michelle Maxwell – I read book 4- 6 this year and that’s the end of this series.
- Series In Progress:
- Library Love – 19/60 books
- Thrifty Thursday – my goal is 1 book each month:
- January – Just Folking Around by Penny Reid
- February – Marking Time by April White
- 2023 Audiobook Challenge – 23/100 books
- Backlist Reader Challenge – 16/50 books
- Bookish Resolutions – here are my goals:
- Review all books on goodreads within 1 week of reading them. Still very behind here…
- Keep up with My TBR List each month! So far, on track!
- Complete all my COYER tasks on time. Yes! This I am keeping up with thanks to our Trello board!
- Sunday Post at least once each month.2nd for March today
- Set aside minimum 1 hour each week for blogging. I may not have gotten an hour this week… it was rough.
- 12 books from 12 friends – I shared the graphic in my first Sunday Post of the year but here are the books my friends have picked for me: (I haven’t read any yet)
Filthy Rich Vampire by Geneva Lee Albin✔ Read in January- The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
- Morning Star by Pierce Brown
- Slay by Brittney Morris
- Pride and Protest by Nikki Payne
- Blacktop Wasteland by SA Cosby
- A Psalm for the WIld-Built by Becky Chambers
- Discipline is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control by Ryan Holiday Up Next (was supposed to be February…)
- The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky
- What Angels Fear by CS Harris
- The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
- The Darkening by Sunya Mara
#FitReaders2023
Felicia the Geeky Blogger and Jen @ That’s What I’m Talking About co-host this fitness-oriented group and I’m glad to be part of it for another year.
Goals for 2023:
This year I’m just focusing on habits that make me feel good and may/may not lead to weight loss. And rather than over-arching year long goals, I’ll be updating my goals on a week-by-week basis.
This week: This week was much better than last in terms of healthy choices. I’m learning that I really am not hungry most days until about 1:30/2pm and waiting until then to eat a high protein breakfast helps me not start up the snacking that I do all day. I also started doing this DanceBit app that has daily dance exercise challenges (about 10 minutes) that works really well for me.
Next week: I need to improve my water and how I eat in social situations. Otherwise, I want to just continue what I’ve been doing.
I hate springing forward! I feel exhausted for weeks after the time change. We could fall back every weekend and I’d be good but this spring forward stuff kills me! A robot vacuum sounds like a great treat! I know my mother has a Roomba and loves it and she’s typically tough on vacuums plus she has an astonishing amount of pets that the vacuum has to deal with. Have a great week!
I really hate changing the clocks. I wish they would just pick a time and leave it at that. Congrats on the bonus. I hope you find a robovacuum you like.
Take those good week wins when you can!
Karen @For What It’s Worth
Congrats on the bonus!
I hope DST doesn’t mess up Dante’s sleep. It’s so hard on little ones. I don’t like the changing back and forth, but I need Daylight or it is too dark in the evenings here and it gets light way to early. I would prefer that we stayed on DST all year round!
Good job on better choices. I can’t imagine waiting that long to eat. By 1:00, I’ve had breakfast and lunch. I’m one of those who needs to eat within an hour or so of waking.
I hope you have a good week.
It sounds like a pretty good week. You are killing it on your challenges for only 2+ months into the year. I’m enjoying the buddy reads.
Anne – Books of My Heart This is my Sunday Post
I hope Dante will make progresses with his playing-related social skills. He’s still very young, so I guess he’s got all the time to figure it out! And yay for the bonus!
Our daylight savings will happen on the last Sunday of the month, as usual. I don’t care either way, but I’m not a fan of sleeping one hour less when the clock goes forward LOL.