{"id":239645,"date":"2025-05-13T10:13:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/weekly-wrap-up-223-may-11th-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T10:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:13:37","slug":"weekly-wrap-up-223-may-11th-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=239645","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wrap-Up #223 \u2013 May 11th, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"


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I\u2019m connecting once again with Kimberly at Caffeinated Reviewer<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Sunday morning I was still kind of dealing with our house guest Rolla as he wouldn\u2019t be picked up till the afternoon\/early evening after I went to a movie with some people including his owner\/mom. The plan was she\u2019d come pick him up after the movie. So I did a little blogging in the morning as I could watch them sitting on the couch by me and keep an eye on Dora who I was letting have a little more freedom walking around the house as long as she didn\u2019t try to jump or do anything and the boys kept away from her. It was a chilly morning, but warmed up to my kind of temps later in the afternoon. Went to the movie at 1 pm, then went to have a quick lunch\/early dinner afterwards before my friend followed me back to my house and picked up Rolla. It was nice to have our house back to just us even with me trying to keep Dora from getting hurt. I did a little blogging before hanging out and watching tv with the dogs.<\/p>\n

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Monday I only was at work for a half day because of a doctor appointment in the afternoon. But it was a crazy morning with make up testing in the library. Weather was beautiful! I went and had Taco John\u2019s for lunch when I left work, that was my one Cinco de Mayo thing for the day I guess. Argyle was acting a little like his back leg or maybe his back was bothering him when I got home, so now I\u2019m stressed about him as well. Doctor appointment was okay, they are wanting me to do an MRI, and I think I didn\u2019t do the last one because of cost. So we\u2019ll see. Came back home and had planned to feed the dogs and then go to the library, but I just got to feeling bad about if Argyle is now having issues and decided to just stay home. He\u2019s also now acting kind of depressed I think about his neighbor friends being gone. I also got an email to try to set up a second interview with the principal of the school that I talked to the HR rep last week for. Then, just because I dared to think I couldn\u2019t take much more with worrying about Argyle, my kitchen sink decided to clog up when I was running food through the garbage disposal. I tried calling my dad for advice but he\u2019s out of town, he did have some suggestions that I tried. I then called my brother and he suggested taking the pipes off and I did that, and it drained out the sinks. And a bunch of food did come out, but when I put the pipes back on, it still got stopped up. So I had to call to arrange a plumber to come out on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Tuesday was still a busy day in the library. Make up testing went on in my conference room, and the senior English classes had presentations most of the day. I was able to get the plumber scheduled for between 3-10 pm. A 7 hour window. And actually they\u2019d wanted to do an 8 am-10 pm window until I told them it had to be after 3 pm. I had planned to mow after I got home from work because of rain on Wednesday, but didn\u2019t get to do that. I had also planned to do the phone interview with the principal today, but not knowing when the plumber would come, we rescheduled for Wednesday. The weather was beautiful again.<\/p>\n

Wednesday also seemed busy, still presentations in the library. But no testing for a change. It is also the last week for seniors, so there is a lot of turning things in going on and that will continue all this week and next week as they want their tickets to graduation! After work I stopped by a house to pick up some neat wax flower bouquets that I saw on Facebook marketplace, and I got them for my mom, stepmom, and sister-in-law for mother\u2019s day. I guess a gift we got for Teacher Appreciation week was playing cards? For some reason there were 3 sets and 3 cards in the library mailbox. I stopped by Whataburger on the way to work to get the free breakfast sandwich for teachers this week. I had a 4:30 phone interview, and then had to meet my family for my brother\u2019s birthday dinner at 5:30. <\/p>\n

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Thursday was a nice warm day again. It was a busy morning at school because the person who comes in and then I have to call down students for about 3 hours to meet with her was there. The afternoon I was able to get a few other things done. Then we had a staff meeting after school, followed right after by the retirement reception for the one teacher we have retiring this year. So it meant I got home almost an hour later, and driving at that time means traffic is worse than just an hour before when I usually leave. I got home and finally got to mow. I had been having issues with the latest book. I\u2019d downloaded onto my Kindle, had to read it on my phone at lunch. I finally tried downloading it from Netgalley instead of Edelweiss and that seemed to work. <\/p>\n

Friday was really getting to be May temperatures, and sunny! Work was crazy busy as it was the seniors\u2019 last day and I had to collect their laptops and textbooks throughout the day. I also had 3 hours that I was teaching classes about the databases for research. I came home and took Dora to see the vet for a follow up. She\u2019s been doing better, and he said she looked good, but to keep up the strict crate rest and all of that for another 3 weeks. We stopped her prednisone but are continuing the muscle relaxers. I went and had dinner with my mom at a local favorite fried chicken restaurant then helped her get some things down in the garage to take for our annual Memorial Weekend trip to Branson. When I came home and sat on the couch with the dogs, Argyle was slight sitting on Dora\u2019s back\/butt. So when I went to pick her up, I guess I wasn\u2019t careful and she yelped. I think it was just how sometimes I squeeze a little hard under her legs or something, but I was scared and immediately held her to me and was crying and worrying. The rest of the night she seemed slower and sad. <\/p>\n

Saturday morning we got up and Dora seemed about the same as she had been when we\u2019d went to the vet, so I\u2019m hoping she just was upset and scared because of my overreaction. But I\u2019m being back to the extra careful and taking away some of the little freedoms I\u2019d been slowly letting her have just for my own peace of mind. First thing in the morning since it was pay day I got on the laptop and paid bills. Then I went for the weekly coffee date with my dad, stepmom, sister and now one of my aunts has been coming. Afterwards I went home and fed the dogs before going to meet my author friend for another author event to help her with in the evening. I bought a couple books. She did okay, not as many books sold as at the last event, but still sold some! Didn\u2019t get home till about 9:30, which is when I usually put my dogs in their crate and go to bed myself. But I stayed up for a bit with them.<\/p>\n

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Books Finished<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Both of these were e-galleys. The first one started last week. The second was also from publisher and finished but it took a while to have time to write the review with the busy week. Third was the audiobook I started about a week ago, it\u2019s review will be at the end of the month in my L-L-L Reviews.<\/p>\n

I posted last week about a book I thought I had an e-galley for, but I guess I didn\u2019t, because I couldn\u2019t find it in Netgalley or any emails saying I had it to review, so that was a little sad, but also I was kind of happy because it took one more review book off my plate. <\/p>\n

New Additions to My Library<\/strong><\/h2>\n
ARCs:<\/strong><\/h5>\n

none<\/p>\n

Audiobooks:<\/strong><\/h5>\n

none<\/p>\n

Bookish Stuff:<\/strong><\/h5>\n

none<\/p>\n

E-galleys:<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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First one was the sequel to the Kindred Spirits<\/em> I read earlier this year and enjoyed, it was sent by the publisher unrequested. I haven\u2019t downloaded it yet as I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll be able to fit it in. The second was for the author\u2019s review team. Almost didn\u2019t get it because I guess I missed a form we were supposed to fill out in the Facebook group.<\/p>\n

Free e-books:<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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First was a freebie on Amazon and I think I\u2019ve been reading someone\u2019s reviews of this author lately? Plus it is under 200 pages, so I\u2019ll have to give it a try at some time! Second was also free on Amazon, by a favorite author of mine!<\/p>\n

Physical books:<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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First was a pre-order that I got for the extras. There are two more that I don\u2019t think I will order, I just don\u2019t really need to keep buying these! Second was the book by the author at the table next to us at the book event Saturday night. Third was another author at the event that I thought their book sounded good.<\/p>\n

What I\u2019m Watching<\/strong><\/h2>\n

So with it being the season finale of Ghosts<\/em> this week, I\u2019ll be considering maybe resubscribing to either Netflix or HBO or Apple + TV. But I still have Survivor <\/em>and The Amazing Race<\/em>. And of course my rewatching of Outlander<\/em>. On Sunday I went with my friend Lisa, her mom and a friend of hers, as well as my mom to see Monty Python\u2019s Holy Grail<\/em> in the theater. I\u2019d honestly never seen the movie all the way through before then. But I have been to the castle where they filmed part of it when I was on my Outlander<\/em> tour! It was okay, there are the parts that are very humorous, but I did get kind of bored later on the movie and towards the end.<\/p>\n

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