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AuriellaThis is the best book I’ve read all year. Now, I know the year just started so that may not seem like saying much but honestly, I really enjoyed reading it.
If you do not like Shakespeare, then I do not recommend reading this book. It definitely brought me back to my college years of studying the language and looking for more than what the written word says. I was hungry to understand what was being felt by especially the main character, but also all of the friends that the story was about. It was truly a masterpiece.
I spent the last two days reading it. Happy that I had time during a planned yet unplanned week off work. I’ve been burning the candle at both ends as they say and spending far too much of my waking time focused on other people’s problems as well as trying to get my work done. Knowing I deserved the time off, doesn’t make actually taking the time off much easier but reading this book made me happy to have the time to lounge and enjoy.
The words are still circling around in my brain and making me feel giddy for having spent so much time enjoying and relaxing in them. Seriously, if you enjoy a good quasi-mystery and Shakespeare, definitely check it out.
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
It is now the year 2021 and I will attempt to begin this blog again. It’s been years since I’ve had a blog and felt such an urge to write my thoughts more than speak them out loud. Feel free to join me on this journey. First, I shall start with a little bit about me.
I am now a young woman in my mid-thirties, though my brain is sometimes confused and it feels as though I am much younger than I truly am and that I am also at times, much older. My hobbies consist of the mundane and solitaire... I spend time enjoying being alone with myself often crafting of the stitching persuasion - both cross-stitch and knitting. I also enjoy reading, much to my poor husband’s displeasure. When spending time together with him, we enjoy a good movie and also playing board games with each other and friends.
This last year has been trying on all of us. Forced to spend time alone in our homes, and wishing we were using this time to make ourselves better instead of just letting the time run past us and move at both the most rapid pace that time has ever moved in my lifetime and also at the slowest it has ever moved at the same time. Nothing like a global pandemic to make you try to take stock of what is most precious while also trying not to let the most precious in our life out of our grasp. I have not learned any new skills, even though I have had many intentions to do so but instead spent far too much time on social media and watching the television for hopes of escaping reality.
Instead of dwelling on the fact that I have not taken the time to better myself, I have decided to embrace my love of knitting, cross-stitching and reading and perhaps find something to write about again. Though I doubt that anyone will truly enjoy my musings here, I will do my best to make it a regular habit to discuss the things that I read, and perhaps share some of the thoughts that until recently have been trapped in my mind.
Until next time,
A
Well, it's been over a year since I've written on this blog and probably about time I get back into the online scene. A lot has happened since my last post in 2015... though nothing extremely crazy. I still have not successfully completed a NaNoWriMo, finished the Stones' baby blanket, or the Noriega's Baby blanket... I have changed Districts but am doing the same job that I've been doing for the last year and a half or so. I'm also learning calligraphy, and currently participating in 30 days of drills with showmeyourdrills.com. It's been fun, all while trying to figure out how I am going to get promoted to Seattle within this next year. Wish me luck!
Anyway, I was able to complete my 2016 reading challenge through Goodreads.com, by reading 45 books by December 30th, 2016! This year I have upped my goal by 1 and am planning to read at least 46 books just so I can say I beat my last year number. So far, so good, as my challenge widget on the site is telling me that I am 3 books ahead of schedule. If I can keep this up for at least a few more months, I probably won't be depriving friends and family of my love and affection during those last months of the year when it is busy in retail and I still have a ton of books to finish in order to reach my goal.
This year, I want to accomplish something. Be the best that I can be. Excel in areas that I have previously let go by the waste-side. I know that 2017 will be a great year if I keep focused on the important things. Crafts, Goals, Family and Friends as well as work related accomplishments and continuing to hone in on my expertise.
I will do my best to start documenting more, take more pictures and be present!! Let's hope I can stay with it.
However, maybe I mean it!
Maybe I should clarify what it is I am talking about. Today is November 1st and thus it is NaNoWriMo Day, 2015! Today is the day that a bunch of people are starting their 50,000 word novels written throughout the month of November. You can't start ahead and you have to finish by November 30th to win. What do you win? Nothing... Well, not nothing exactly. You get the satisfaction of completing a novel in one month's time. Most of those novels don't get published but a few have. Really, it is winning for yourself - that you have actually accomplished and completed something as big as writing a novel. If you start on the 1st, you only have to average less than 2,000 words per day. That's do-able. But, I work in retail. And I love to distract myself from completing things that are important to me. Take Bennett's baby blanket. He's already 5 months old and I haven't even reached a half way point. In order to finish his blanket by Christmas time I really need to be focused on knitting during my free time. So what have I been doing lately? Watching Gossip Girl on Netflix. A complete waste of time. And yet, right now I am contemplating going ahead and finishing the episode that I didn't finish at 1:30 this morning when I was still awake and watching tv on my iPad.
It looks like I'm fucked. I'm damned if I do, and damned if I don't! Whichever cliche you'd like to pick... On the one hand, I've never even gotten close to writing that novel. On the other hand, I really want to finish that blanket for the Stone's. Plus... I'm not sure I'm ready to write the novel that I want to write so I have no idea what I would write about! I like the idea of having something to do with myself other than work all the time... perhaps I can come up with something. Maybe tomorrow.
There have been a few things that have happened to me in the last few weeks at work and honestly it's probably the last few months, since time passes quickly and yet not quickly enough. I am thinking that I want to try to find something different to do but I have no possible clue for what that could be. Part of me thinks I need a fresh start and a new challenge that could entail leaving the company that I have worked for, for over 8 years now. But when I even consider this it makes me nervous knowing that I have no other work experience. What the hell am I going to do?
Perhaps I should request a pep-talk from my manager or my store manager? I am not sure this would help. Do I want them to know that I am having issues... probably not. Every day that I go to work I feel like time is my enemy and I never have enough of it. I just don't see being where I am for very long. I need a sign.
I'd like to actually write my book that I have been thinking about for 5 years. I have all of the ideas but they aren't exactly free flowing on to a page right now. There is no time. When I get home from work I eat dinner and fall asleep. I'm not even watching any TV shows right now! I need to do something that makes me happy.
I know I have felt like this before but I can't remember how I got out of it. Did I just move on to another job? Did I just find happiness in what I was doing? I can't remember. I wish I could do something, anything, to not feel the way that I have been feeling. One day at a time, I guess.
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