Raw Data:
Novels – 14 ⭤
Short Stories – 0 ⭤
Manga/Graphic Novels – 0 ⭤
Comics – 1 ⭤
Average Rating – 3.60 ↑
Pages – 3031 ↓
Words – 1060K ↓
The Bad:
Cthulhu’s Daughter – 1Star DNF
Basil – 2.5Stars of pansy character being a pansy
The Good:
A Christmas Carol – 5stars of Dickens awesomeness
Virgin Soil – 5Stars of Russian’ness, again
Foundation and Empire – 5Stars keep on rolling!
Movie:
Miscellaneous Posts:
- Cyclopean Mummy – MTG 4E
- Dark Humor
- [Art] Merry Christmas 2023
- Dancing Scimitar – MTG 4E
- [MTG] Experiment Using Aladdin’s Lamp
- Dark Ritual – MTG 4E
- Merry Christmas (2023 Edition)
- Journal the 20th
Personal:
Ohhhhhhhhh, what a month. Mrs B’s wrist stayed in the cast all month. She was on light duty at work and it meant that even little things like grocery shopping she needed help with. That made work time unpleasant for her as she was stuck mainly on cashiering and she hates that. It also meant I did a LOT more of the chores, which gave me a VERY good appreciation for all that Mrs B does. It’s so easy to overlook all the contributions your spouse makes, so this was a good reminder to me to not take her for granted.
Then the week right before Christmas our car died on us. In the church parking lot, after everybody had left, sigh. It made for a very rough hour as we raced around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to get everything straightened out of where to get it towed, how to get home, and how Mrs B was going to get to work, in an hour. If I had had any hair, I would have been pulling it out. Thankfully, a bunch of wonderful people from church helped us out and one of my good friends took me out to lunch so I could vent and settle myself down. I’m so thankful for good friends who not only help us out, but also know what we need after such an incident. Being a words person has gotten me some notorious attention at church but I’m working on not being such a blabber mouth. Thank God they are all merciful to me 😀
Work for me was as busy as ever. We are 3 months out for scheduling and it’s only growing longer. I had a Surveyor’s Conference partway through the month and talked to one of the project managers from my old company. They are 4 months out and growing longer. Every survey company is in the same boat and I feel bad for anyone needing a survey.
I was tired out enough that I had to block out Fridays from blogging, which was necessary and good for me. Didn’t work out 100%, but it did mean I didn’t feel any pressure to blog if I didn’t want to. I did find that I was emotionally ragged most of the month and that made me a bit curt and short on a lot of peoples’ posts. I was not proud of how I reacted in many cases.
Reading-wise, this was the best month I had all year. I had THREE 5star reads. That’s incredible, especially considering how grumpy and out of sorts I was during most of my reading time. Ahhhh, why can’t more months be like this one in that regards?
Cover Love:
Two contenders and I couldn’t choose between them. So two winners! Imperator & Get Me to the Wake on Time.
Plans for Next Month:
Have to finish up the Year in Review post for tomorrow, THEN I can deal with the rest of the month.
I do plan on taking Wednesday’s and Friday’s off from writing posts. I have not been in a writing mood ever since Christmas and I’m not going to force it. Other than that, it will be business as usual.
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