Weekly Wrap Up | 3/6/22

Aloha friends!

Just tried to get through my week while worrying about the state of affairs around the world! 😔 I haven’t been in the mood to read much but I am excited that Spring Break for my son is soon. We get a little break so that will be nice. Seems like the days are just flying by.

How was your week? Hope all of you are staying safe! Have a fabulous week!

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I’ve Watched:

Euphoria season finale (Netflix) – Damn…Fez and Ash ☹️. Elliot’s song was so good.
The news…☹️

Games I’ve Played:

My Singing Monsters
Wordle
Quordle – really bad at this one, only got one correct this week.
Old Maid and War – card games I’ve been playing with my son. Apparently the kids at school are all into playing cards right now! I taught him Speed and Solitaire also.

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 2/27/22

Aloha friends!

My week was going good until the news on tv brought my mood down. 🙁 My heart is full of worry for Ukraine and everyone involved in what’s going on there.

How was your week? Hope all of you are staying safe! Have a fabulous week!

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Blog Hopping – Check Out These Posts:

I have been so interested in all these reading book challenges that bloggers are posting. I’ve never done a challenge but maybe I’ll try one out. These are some posts of bloggers and the challenges they will be doing. 🙂

Shows/Movies I’ve Watched:

The Tinder Swindler (Netflix) – be careful on Tinder or any social media! What a wild story!

Games I’ve Played:

My Singing Monsters
Wordle – kind of losing interest but I try to do it to keep my brain active lol.
Quordle – so much harder and I’ve been losing lol…I think I only won one game! I suck.

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 2/20/22

Aloha friends!

What a week! My poor hubby had to get a colonoscopy so Valentine’s Day was him on a liquid diet. I got my kids some Roblox gift cards and sweets so they were happy. My hubby gave me some pocket money for a Vegas weekend trip I’m planning for end of May – gonna see Silk Sonic in concert. I’m so fricken excited, I haven’t been on a plane in 11 years!! It was a week of appointments, why is it never ending? My son has started using Invisalign to correct his over bite and he has so much crowding – he still has some adult teeth coming in and there is no room in his mouth so we are getting all that fixed. Then my hubby and I went to a nice date night yesterday at a steakhouse – and ya know? Back in the day I loved eating steak but at my middle age lol…damn…my body can’t handle salt and butter and just heavy foods. I didn’t even have the steak! Today I have chores to do and then I just want to chill out and read — we shall see if my kids let me. 😅😆

How was your week? Hope all of you are staying safe! Have a fabulous week!

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Blog Hopping – Check Out These Posts:

Why I’m Obsessed With The New Movie ‘Don’t Look Up’ – Hundreds & Thousands of Books

Non Fiction To Read – EvelynReads

18 Books by Black Authors – The Fictional Journal

Shows/Movies I’ve Watched:

Euphoria, ep. 6 – I hate Nate so much. So much dysfunctional relationships in this show.

Games I’ve Played:

Pet Sim X – Roblox – grinding, grinding, just to give my daughter new pets
My Singing Monsters – collecting coins
Wordle – I’m addicted.
Quordle – so much harder and I’ve been losing lol…I think I only won one game!
Worldle – my daughter and I like to do this one, we use her globe to find the answer.

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 2/13/22

Aloha friends!

What a week. I hate when one thing, like my dog having diarrhea for one night, can throw off my whole week. 😢😫 It kept me up most of Monday and Tuesday night, so I lost sleep. But my daughter is now fully vaxxed and my mom and sister dropped off some donuts for my kids as a Valentine’s day gift, so that was nice! Also, it’s Superbowl Sunday – so I’m gonna watch the game and dance to the halftime show since it’s Dr. Dre , Snoop Dog and others hahaha…talk about a blast from my past. It will make me feel like a teenager again. The first CD I ever bought with my own money was Dr. Dre, The Chronic! 🤣 My dad hated hearing the music I played but whatever…when I listened to hair metal in middle school, he thought I was worshipping the devil. Oh, good times! lol…

I also FINALLY got some motivation to do some crafting. I have really put aside working with resin, but I may move away from it anyway because I don’t have a really safe and good space to work on it, plus supplies are pricey (everything is pricey these days). I’m back to metal stamping because that still sells a little. So I’m trying to add more to my shop.

Playing with a new font – I sell a lot of graduation keychains.

Finished polishing up this metal bookmark

These are some resin bookmarks I made but wasn’t happy with how the resin didn’t harden fully so these bend a little. I busted out my Cricut machine and added vinyl words on top of it but I may still dome the top of it?

I was going for a Valentine’s Day kind of red but it turned out darker than I wanted lol…I didn’t add the tassels yet because I may be doming the top of them with resin. I’m undecided yet! Anyway, that’s what I did this week as far as crafting goes.

How was your week? Hope all of you are staying safe!

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Blog Hopping – Check Out These Posts:

My Thoughts on Romance Tropes – AceReader

Shows/Movies I’ve Watched:

NFL Football – Super Bowl is today – may the best team win!
Euphoria, ep. 5 – wow…Zendaya is just amazing in this episode. She’s one of my favorite actresses. Like that whole opening scene is crazy effed up. 😭 And the actresses playing her mom and sister are so fantastic too.

Games I’ve Played:

Pet Sim X – Roblox – grinding, grinding, just to give my daughter new pets
My Singing Monsters – collecting coins

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 2/6/22

Aloha friends!

I can’t believe we are in the month of February. It’s going to be another busy month of doctor’s appointments, but I’m glad my son has a few off days from school, because I need every little break I can get haha.

How was your week? Hope all of you are staying safe!

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Blog Hopping – Check Out These Posts:

Readathin Book Challenge February 2022 – Read Betwixt Words

2022 Reading Challenges – Stuck in Fiction

Pondathan Update ft. A Blossoming Garden & Gen’s Side Quest – dinipandareads

Shows/Movies I’ve Watched:

NFL Football – divisional championship games – congrats Bengals and Rams – good luck in the Super Bowl!
Euphoria, ep. 3 & 4- the character stories are so good

Games I’ve Played:

Pet Sim X – Roblox – grinding, grinding, just to give my daughter new pets
Just Dance 2022 – need that cardio
Ring Fit – some of these exercises make my muscles lock up, I’m in such bad shape

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 1/30/22

Aloha friends!

Well I tested negative for Covid last Sunday and then my son’s school texts me Monday morning telling me he was exposed to a classmate with Covid last Thursday. What a coincidence I thought I had symptoms the weekend my son was exposed (not that we knew that information until later). But I’m good, my son is vaxxed and tested negative with a home test. My family (mom, sister, nephew, dad) are all recovered…well, except my dad who still has a lingering cough. So now I have to get my head back into gear (figuring out Covid exposure and rules had me scrambling around appointments I had this week 🤦🏻‍♀️).

How was your week? Hope all of you are staying safe!

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Blog Hopping – Check Out These Posts:

Why Do Book Covers Look Similar? – Rab’s Bookish Planet

Arc Review: The Read Palace by. June Hur – The Geekish Brunette

Spotlight Post: The Thirteenth Hour by. Trudie Skies – Monogamist Reader

Let’s Talk Bookish: Re-Reading Books? – DiniPandaReads

Shows/Movies I’ve Watched:

NFL (football) – more football, since it’s coming to an end soon.
Encanto – yup, we watched it a few times this week again and the soundtrack is on repeat!
Euphoria, ep. 2- it’s so edgy and violent but so good and complicated. I hate Nate’s dad so much. And I totally related to the girls wanting something dark in their relationships and how sweet was too boring lol – that was me at that age. 🤦🏻‍♀️
Cheer (season 2 – Netflix) – did I really need to binge this one? I don’t know but I couldn’t stop. It was interesting to see how the cheerleaders dealt with celebrity after season one. There were so many sad parts and some major dramas. They did add more to the TVCC vs. Navarro storyline but honestly, when I was nearing the end, I was kind of skipping the parts about TVCC. I was there to watch the Navarro cheerleaders.
Janet Jackson. (lifetime) – I love Janet Jackson, she was my role model when I was a kid in the 80’s and I continued to love her in my teen years. I saw her twice in concert here in Hawaii. I can’t even believe I also saw Michael Jackson here in Hawaii when he came in the 90’s! What a time to be alive. But she always said she had love for Hawaii and would come here when other big names wouldn’t and so me and my friends loved her even more for it.

Games I’ve Played:

Animal Crossing – Happy Homes Paradise DLC
My Singing Monsters
Pet Sim X – Roblox – just because my daughter wants the new pets! 😅
Just Dance 2022 – I haven’t worked out for 2 weeks and my blood pressure shows. Getting back on my cardio grind.
Ring Fit – the ring really works my arms, that’s how weak I am and to thing once upon a time I was a massage therapist making grown men wince and want to cry lol. I have noodle arms now.

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 1/23/22

Aloha friends!

My daughter finally got her first dose of the Pfizer vaxx, and I’m relieved. Also my dad infected my mom, sister, and nephew with covid. He got it from working with my cousin who was positive. My decided on his own that he did not have covid, refused to test or quarantine hence exposing everyone in the house. My brother in law and youngest nephew’s test have come back negative but it’s been quite a week and then some for my family. All I could do was check in on everyone, they live 30 minutes away. I was feeling good until yesterday when I felt like my allergies were acting up badly but also felt a little cold, not quite the chills and an elevated temp, not quite a low grade fever, but since everyone is getting covid, I’m like…I bet I have it. I will go in to test today just to make sure.

I wasn’t exposed to my dad, I haven’t seen them for like 2 weeks and the only places I go to are the grocery stores. My hubby goes into work 3x a week and works at home 2x a week…could it be from him? But he’s been okay so far, and my son tested negative at school on Thursday. My daughter is always with me so…🤷🏻‍♀️. It’s so hard to tell if it’s covid or allergies…but my sister said a very telling sign for her was the fatigue she felt. She had no fever, but she had a very bad head cold and her whole face hurt and she had an itchy throat. Seems like itchy/sore throat was what the ones with positive results had all in common. Everyone in their house has their booster except for my dad.

Anyway – enough of that! How was your week? Hope all of you are staying safe!

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I’ve Watched:

NFL (football) – more football
Encanto – I had to watch this after everyone was talking about it on TikTok! Me and my kids love it. I love the music, my kids love the magical realism, and the story is just so good. I love stories about family. Update…watched this 4 times with my kids. It’s so good.
Moana – and because Encanto was so good, I decided to watch Moana right after since Lin Manuel Miranda did the music for that one too. I love his work. But Moana is my favorite – the grandma storyline always makes me cry and miss my grandparents. Plus Moana is such a strong girl! I love her.

Games I’ve Played:

Animal Crossing – Happy Homes Paradise DLC
My Singing Monsters
Pet Sim X – Roblox – just because my daughter wants the new pets! 😅

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 1/16/22

Aloha friends!

Another week, and dealing with some stress – so many people around us have covid but right now, praying for anyone who is sick to have a fast recovery! I managed to finish some books, yay and I’m so grateful it’s a 3 day weekend. How was your week?

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I’ve Watched:

Good Girls (Netflix) – finished it and by the end I had no sympathy for any of the characters 😅. They could have redeemed themselves so many times but didn’t.
Cheer | Season 2 (Netflix) – I admire the athleticism of cheerleaders, especially the ones that compete – there is so much drama but it’s addicting.
Troy (Netflix) – this is the movie with Brad Pitt but I wanted to watch it because it popped up on Netflix plus after reading The Poison Heart last week, I remembered the name Briseis!!! And her character was in this movie. Plus I miss watching epic movies like Troy and Gladiator.
NFL (football) – because it’s the playoffs and I haven’t really watched all season. But the Eagles are playing (my hubby is from Philly and this is his team) and they are losing right now…🤷🏻‍♀️ but oh well haha, may the best teams get to the Superbowl right?

Games I’ve Played:

Haven’t played much this week, just taking a break so I can read a little more.

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 1/9/22

Aloha friends!

It was a busy week for me. Kids dentist appointments, son back in school with covid cases at about 3,000 a day here, but he tested negative for his covid test – yay! That’s one less worry, for now. My daughter had her annual checkup since she just turned 5 and her DTaP vaccine, and now she has a fever so…dealing with that. Just glad she’s still in a good mood. The sun is back out, hooray! But now it’s like 83 degrees outside haha, feels like spring. I was happy when it was in the 70’s range!

Anyway that was my week – how was yours?

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I’ve Watched:

Good Girls (Netflix) – my friend told me to binge this one so that’s what I did lol and I’m working on Season 2, I love all the plot twists and all the morally gray characters. It gets a little repetitive with everyone digging deeper holes – will they ever get out of this alive?! lol…so much drama but kind of fun.

Games I’ve Played:

Animal Crossing: New Horizons -barely but I got Leif on Harv’s island so I have been making bells at least.

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

💖 ~ Yolanda

Weekly Wrap Up | 1/3/22

Aloha friends!

Another week where I forgot to post a weekly update because who am I kidding it was a busy week! It was raining all week (yay for my grass and plants since our sprinkler system is broken for now) and it did not stop raining on New Year’s Eve either. It stormed – but that didn’t stop the fireworks. No it did not lol. It was so funny I was on instagram dm chatting with an old college friend (she’s in Los Angeles) who I had lost touch with for a bit (life got too busy)…but she was watching the New York Times Square Ball countdown on CNN so we were watching together and I stayed up with her until California hit midnight. So that was nice! My daughter loves the illegal aerial fireworks because they are so pretty, my son does too but the other fireworks where it’s just a bomb sound and nothing else? Is SO annoying. It sets off car alarms and just scares my son. My daughter and the dog surprisingly slept right through it! 😆 At midnight Oahu does what it always does and how weird that the sky stopped raining from 11:45pm – 12:15am…for everyone to light their fireworks. We don’t light fireworks, because I just enjoy everyone else lighting it up lol…I don’t need to spend money that way! HAHA.

Then it stormed again on New Year’s Day and then on Sunday was the combined birthday lunch for my nephew who turned 14 and my daughter who turns 5 today! It rained some more with thunder and lightning but we got through it and she got so many balloons! My sister (her aunt) goes crazy with balloons and confetti lol…since it’s my house and I’ll do the cleaning 😂. Nah, she has two boys so my daughter is like the daughter she always wanted, so little miss is spoiled.

My daughter wanted a Pikmin cake but I wanted a cake that was delicious so I bought my favorite cream cake from a vendor and then printed some Pikmin and laminated them, added toothpicks to them and that was her Pikmin cake. LOL

So that was my week, it was just busy cleaning after Christmas, and now I have to put away our tree and Christmas decorations away this week. Oh also my son’s school has a surge of covid cases (his principal kept keeping us informed all winter break), but today I got a bunch of emails from him saying more people were positive so his school has partnered up with CVS for free voluntary weekly testing for employees/students (and family members!). I got excited about that because those home tests can add up so I signed him up for weekly testing and will sign me and the rest of the family up to so we can take advantage of this free testing. It’s free for us until June. Only a few schools are partnered up with CVS here in Hawaii, and I think his is because there are so many covid cases in our neighborhood. 😣 We are all vaxxed except for my daughter who just turned 5 and will finally be eligible.

So yeah…not exactly how I want to start 2022 but, it is what it is. Stay safe out there!

Anyway that was my week – how was yours?

Blog Posts This Week:

Books I Read:

Currently Reading:

Shows/Movies I’ve Watched:

New Year’s Eve countdown on CNN – they were all drunk lol…which was pretty funny

Games I’ve Played:

Animal Crossing: New Horizons – just a little bit
Roblox: Pet Sim X – just a little bit

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

💖 ~ Yolanda