Finished reading: Eight Kisses by Mindy Klasky 📚
Eight Hanukkah romance stories. I read one each night. My favorites are the one with the Frisky Bean coffee shop and the one with empty nesters reconnecting.
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When people who don’t have fibromyalgia ask me how it feels, I tell them to imagine the last time they had a bad flu, then to picture going shopping, cooking, or exercising while feeling like that.
- Ginevra Liptan, The FibroManual
Me: My heel hurts.
My doctor: Have you tried using that ointment I told to use for pain on it?
Me: I will now.
🔖📚 Read How To Get Started Reading Romance Novels by Stephanie Fallon (The Good Trade).
This is an excellent guide. Also? If you have unkind things to say about romance as a genre, please say them somewhere else. They’re not welcome in my replies.
Me: I’m going to take a 20 minute nap (sets alarm)
Narrator: She took a 90 minute nap. She did not hear the alarm.
I have 3 one -month gift subscriptions to Jami Attenberg’s Craft Talk to give away. Let me know if you want one.
I just don’t feel like writing a year-in-review post, y’all. So I might not.
🍿 Watched Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
My kid’s first time seeing both. Home Alone is, of course, a classic. Home Alone 2 isn’t a revelation but is super fun.
🕎🖖🏻 I would like to thank s-h-a-s-e on Tumblr for this Hanukkah gift of Sarek, Amanda, and Spock celebrating.
In the words of Adam Sandler:
You don’t need Deck the Halls or Jingle Bells Rock ‘cuz you can spin the dreidel with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock—both Jewish!
Book Character, Age 25: Seeing her has me feeling seventeen again.
Me, Age 42: Please. You’re only 25. You’re barely not 17.
2006 Me, Age 25: (shaking her fist at 2023 Me) Stop being so ageist.