Currently

[Brendazzle]

READING
Just finished Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett and am nearing halfway in We Who Have No Gods by Liza Anderson.

READING and BOOK ORGANIZATION
I have a lot of books that I've purchased, but I still keep going to the library to get more recent releases that have caught my attention. I've really been enjoying getting lost in a book. For a long time after I lost my Mama, I was unable to focus on reading. It's nice to have that escape again. I've started scanning and inputting all my books that are in the house into Goodreads because I have bought several books twice and I want to stop doing that. I mean, it's OK, I just donate the books back to the second-hand stores or pass them along to family members, but I'd rather be purchasing books that I haven't read. Anyway. I have 100 books in my dining room and I have 106 books in my living room (and still have to scan another piece of furniture where I also store books). So I'm sitting at 206 books so far, but I need to add the ones in the office and in my bedroom. It's very satisfying and super easy to check to see if I've read something before or it I already have a copy of it. Am I the only one who does this?

HAPPY PLANNING
I love to decorate my Happy Planner, and I've made double page spreads through the end of August. I'm pushing to finish decorating the remainder of the year because I need to have those weeks ready because so many thing seem to happen in the last quarter. So I've spent a lot of time at my desk working on those spreads

I read Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter a few months back and loved it. I really enjoyed her Emily Wilde series as well.

I'm currently trying to organize my homeschool books so I can find them easier. (The skinnier spines hide between the thicker books and then I'm forever tearing apart the shelf looking for them.) I've only tackled the easier-to-organize nonfiction and a bin of early readers; I have no idea how I want to do all the picture and chapter books yet or what new bookshelves were getting. One of my bookshelves collapsed under the weight of my planners and IEP binder If most of *my* reading habit wasn't supported by my local library, there'd be no space in the house for any of us. (I'm at 111 books for the year currently and definitely do not have space for that.)

 

[Scrap-therapy]

Fun thread!
Watching Actually watching all the seasons of Anne with an e. My daughter discover it and is totally in love with Anne Shirley. I love watching this again.
Reading I'm reading a graphic novel about Father Hamel, a priest murdered during Mass by a terrorist. There's a file on his beatification at the Vatican. And I'm trying to start a novel, but I'm short on time with the end of the school year and everything we still have to do before selling my grandmother's house.
Crafting I received a watercolor kit in a booklet to carry around for Mother's Day so I hope to be able to get started very soon.
Scrapping I'm participating in the June challenges and the Summer Scrap challenge because, unfortunately, I don't think I'll be able to do the July ones since we have to go empty my grandmother's house. It's something I'm dreading... I hope I can enjoy August. And besides, it's only summer after all.
Or anything else consuming your time?
Then there’s tons of stupid stuff that truly consumes my time… I spend too much time on Instagram and the Disney solitaire game app.
Recently, I've also wasted a lot of time dealing with neighborhood problems. One neighbor kept parking in front of my garage, and I spoke to her four times and rang her doorbell twice. I couldn't take it anymore; it was a constant source of anxiety. The police finally intervened, but not without difficulty. And after that, we have a construction site right across from our driveway, and the owner dug holes in front of it without telling us. I'd already been blocked by this man and written to the town hall and the municipal police. But once again, they came and told me that everything is legal and that his municipal order was properly posted, which is false. It's draining me emotionally. I don't like conflict, but I dislike injustice and disrespect even more. I really want to live somewhere else, but I can't afford it.