WWW Wednesday | 11/20/24

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words.

The idea is pretty simple, every week you dedicate a post to the three W’s:

What are you currently reading?

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

It’s been a busy week so far! I had no time to read on Sunday and Monday because I was driving all over the place (uber mom and daughter status lol). I did manage to read at the end of last week but this week, not so much yet. I’m hoping to finish What the Woods Took and then maybe some of the Kindle Unlimited titles I borrowed yesterday, Hate Mail and The Half King. We’ll see if I can get to them!

What are you currently reading?

Bloodguard by. Cecy Robson (KU) – 3% – not much progress

What the Woods Took by. Courtney Gould (arc) – 31%

The Lotus Shoes by. Jane Yang (arc) – 1% just started this one

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

What are you reading right now?

Weekly Wrap Up | 11/17/24

Aloha friends!

I got to eat lunch with my daughter at school on Wednesday because it’s National Lunch Week – and whew…the chaos of the cafeteria lol. It was nice to meet some of her classmates and see who was who. Other than that the week went by way too slowly I feel, even with our day off on Veteran’s day. I did get some Christmas gift wrapping done! Woohoo!

My hubby comes back in 3 weeks (hopefully, still needs to get his plane ticket) but we are excited! He does come back with some new furniture which means we have to get rid of things or move things around. But it’ll be nice to finally have him home.

Today I’m going to brunch with 2 friends I haven’t seen in awhile, so that will be nice!

And by the way WordPress gave me a notification congratulating me for 6 years on WordPress – WOW. 🤯. Thanks for sticking by me and reading my blog – I didn’t even realize 6 years has passed. I thought I was still on 4 or something like that lol.

I hope you all have a great week!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

  • Window Shopping by. Tessa Bailey
  • Dating and Dragons by. Kristy Boyce

Currently Reading:

  • What the Woods Took by. Courtney Gould
  • Bloodguard by. Cecy Robson

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

  • NFL – football
  • Nobody Wants This (Netflix) – I can’t wait for season 2!
  • Emilia Pérez (Netflix) – it’s a musical and I really enjoyed it! Zoe Saldana is amazing in it.

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!

WWW Wednesday | 11/13/24

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words.

The idea is pretty simple, every week you dedicate a post to the three W’s:

What are you currently reading?

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

We are in mid-November and I’m in a slump but I don’t mind. I’m just trying to make it to the end of the year and it’s now the holidays so 🫠 here comes the rush! I’m definitely not in the holiday spirit yet – is it hot in your area still? Our weather feels like it’s shifting a little but it will get a tiny bit cold, some rain, then hot in the day – the ants who were bothering me this summer are still HERE. So annoying…anyway I hope you guys are experiencing some nice, cool, Fall weather!

What are you currently reading?

Dating and Dragons by. Kristy Boyce – 35% – some progress (arc)

Vilest Things by. Chloe Gong – 14% – not much progress (Libby)

Bloodguard by. Cecy Robson (KU) – 3% – not much progress

What the Woods Took by. Courtney Gould (arc) – 1% barely started it but I will be getting into it more

Last Fashion House in Paris by. Renee Ryan (arc) – 11%

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

What are you reading right now?

Weekly Wrap Up | 11/10/24

Aloha friends!

My week started good because it was my birthday on Monday. I had a massage at the spa on Sunday and lunch afterwards with family. Then Tuesday hit (USA Election Day) and I experienced the 5 stages of grief in the span of a few days. It has sucked but I’m glad I’m not alone in my despair. I’m now in the mode of – to quote Taylor Swift “I think I’ve seen this film before…and I didn’t like the ending…”.

I hope you all have a great week!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

  • Is She Really Going Out with Him? by. Sophie Cousens

Currently Reading:

  • Vilest Things by. Chloe Gong
  • Window Shopping by. Tessa Bailey

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

  • Nobody Wants This (Netflix) – my friend told me to watch this one and it’s pretty good so far!
  • The USA election…😒

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!

WWW Wednesday | 11/6/24

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words.

The idea is pretty simple, every week you dedicate a post to the three W’s:

What are you currently reading?

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

I had no energy to read this past week but I did finish some arcs! I think I’m in kind of a slump with Halloween, the USA election and the holidays coming up? I’m kind of mental tired right now!

What are you currently reading?

Dating and Dragons by. Kristy Boyce – 35% – some progress (arc)

Vilest Things by. Chloe Gong – 14% – not much progress (Libby)

Is She Really Going Out with Him? by. Sophie Cousens (arc)

Bloodguard by. Cecy Robson (KU)

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

What are you reading right now?

Weekly Wrap Up | 11/3/24

Aloha friends!

What a week!!! 😅 It was spirit week of course at my daughter’s school so that was fun, plus she had early release schedule all week which she loved AND no school after Halloween. Lucky her! She had a Halloween parade at school which wasn’t as hot as usual (yes even at 8am) so I survived and got a kick out of so many kids wearing the inflatable costumes, it makes me laugh to see them walking in them! After the parade I dashed over the our local grocery and Hallelujah the candies were 75%! So I finally got chocolates.

Halloween evening my son and I wore the hats Mario and Luigi hats we bought at Universal Studious Japan. I was Mario, he was Luigi and I had a little cute Yoshi purse. Like an actual Yoshi plushie purse. My daughter was a Pikmin at her Halloween parade but that night she wanted to be a spider. So she wore a black dress and we put one of the smaller spider decorations on her dress.😅 We went around the block and down a few streets. I felt like our street which used to get all the trick or treaters, had less this year because a lot of my neighbors didn’t pass out candy or decorate which is kinda sad but totally understandable with candy being so expensive. But we also have a bunch of retirees on our street and maybe they just didn’t want to stay up passing out candy.

After we got home we sat outside for maybe 20 minutes passing out candy (we had left a bowl of candy for people to help themselves to when we were gone) but I was SO tired. It was a long day, I had a headache earlier, it was a little humid and so we left the 2 bowls of candy outside and I refilled it every 20 minutes. And then at 8:30pm I noticed one bowl was missing! Ugh – candy thieves! I mean take the candy but at least leave my bowl! 😆 It’s okay, it was a plastic bowl that was $5 I think, but geez…someone was hungry!

Overall, it was an exhausting week and I can’t believe October is over. I’m getting a massage at the spa today because tomorrow is my birthday and I so deserve it. My body hurt this past week so this is overdue! Then we are heading to my parents’ house for some lunch with the family.❤️

I hope you all have a great week!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

  • Burning Crowns by. Catherine Doyle & Katherine Webber
  • Stranger Skies by. Pascale LaCelle
  • The Whispering Night by. Susan Dennard

Currently Reading:

  • Bull Moon Rising by. Ruby Dixon
  • Vilest Things by. Chloe Gong

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

  • Coco on Disney+ I wanted something to watch with the kids for Halloween so we ended up watching this a few days before. It’s the perfect movie to watch for Halloween and it inspired us to do an ofrenda (altar) this year.
  • Martha on Netflix – this documentary is wild! Martha is stone-cold lol, loved it.

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!

WWW Wednesday | 10/30/24

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words.

The idea is pretty simple, every week you dedicate a post to the three W’s:

What are you currently reading?

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

It’s parent conference week and Book Fair week at my daughter’s school so she’s loving it because she gets to shop for books and they get the short day schedule. Today is her conference so I’m excited to hear how she’s been doing in 2nd grade so far. And then tomorrow is Halloween! It’s been overcast and windy and I hope it stays that way for Halloween night – I don’t want to sweat like I usually do while trick or treating. 😅 I did wish I had some spooky reads to read but I don’t know what’s good and usually my spooky/thriller reads that are arcs are published in Spring! Oh well, hoping I can finish Stranger Skies and The Whispering Night since one is witchy and the other is paranormal.

What are you currently reading?

Stranger Skies by. Pascale LaCelle – 51% – why is this one so long? 😩 I will finish by next week. (arc)

The Whispering Night by. Susan Dennard – 23% – I’m working on this one. (arc)

Dating and Dragons by. Kristy Boyce – 14% – very little progress (arc)

Vilest Things by. Chloe Gong – 12% – I got this one on Libby and have been reading this one (Libby)

Burning Crowns by. Catherine Doyle & Katherine Webber – 35%, got this one on KU so I’m glad I can finish the series. (KU)

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

What are you reading right now?

Weekly Wrap Up | 10/27/24

Aloha friends!

Not a lot happened this week, just the usual Sunday school for the kiddos, and school the rest of the week. It’s been warm in Hawaii this week! I’m always wishing it would cool down for Halloween but it never does and I think because the election is in full swing here, I feel like people aren’t in the Halloween mood. My daughter totally is though – we have parent conference this week, then on Halloween morning she has a Halloween Parade at her school and then we go trick or treating at night! She’s excited – but I think my son is over it plus he has school the next day and she doesn’t! 😅 Lucky her!

I hope everyone has a nice Halloween week if you do celebrate and if you are in the USA, please go out and VOTE. I already did my mail-in ballot, woohoo!!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

  • A Queen’s Game by. Katharine McGee
  • The Games Gods Play by. Abigail Owen

Currently Reading:

  • The Whispering Night by. Susan Dennard
  • Stranger Skies by. Pascale Lacelle
  • Bull Moon Rising by. Ruby Dixon
  • Vilest Things by. Chloe Gong

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

  • APT. Rosé and Bruno Mars – because it’s so addictive!

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!

WWW Wednesday | 10/23/24

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words.

The idea is pretty simple, every week you dedicate a post to the three W’s:

What are you currently reading?

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

Is Halloween next week?! I don’t feel like it’s been very Halloweeny this year – less decorations on our street (or maybe more will pop up next week?) – it kinda makes me sad thinking maybe the kids in the homes that used to decorate are now older or something and maybe that’s why there are less decorations. I hope to always decorate even when my kids are over it!! I have a feeling my daughter will never be over it, but who knows when they get older, right? I will do a little more decorating the day of Halloween only because I don’t want my sprinkler system to ruin some of the decorations.

What are you currently reading?

Stranger Skies by. Pascale LaCelle – 23% – going kinda slowly but I’m pushing through!

The Whispering Night by. Susan Dennard – 22% – I’m working on this one.

Dating and Dragons by. Kristy Boyce – 10% – I didn’t finish this one last week, but maybe next week!

A Queen’s Game by. Katharine McGee – 13% – this one is…not what I expected. I may finish this one soon because it’s a quick read, but I don’t know if I love it.

What have you just finished reading?

What are you going to read next?

What are you reading right now?

Weekly Wrap Up | 10/20/24

Aloha friends!

This was a chill week, we are all back to our routine again. Took my kids to school, piano, Sunday school, and did my chores and errands all week. I am doing a little more decorating for Halloween outside, but have been waiting for my items to come in. And I got an Etsy order to do – my shop has been slow – but I almost haven’t added anything new to my shop in a year. I always get a little more orders during the holidays though so I guess some people are starting. I’m actually halfway through my Xmas list – woohoo! Yay me!

Blog Posts:

Books I Read:

  • Darkly by. Marisha Pessl

Currently Reading:

  • The Games Gods Play by. Abigail Owen
  • The Whispering Night by. Susan Dennard
  • Stranger Skies by. Pascale Lacelle
  • Bull Moon Rising by. Ruby Dixon

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

  • Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat – I play it when I’m on the treadmill because since I can’t get to the Sweat Tour, I’ll sweat on my treadmill LOL.

  • APT. Rosé and Bruno Mars – what a SURPRISE! I love it!! It’s got me dancing! Love the video, it’s so fun!

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!