Hello all! I apologize for the long silence. It’s been a busy couple of weeks. After the freak snowpocalypse down here in Texas, I had a rough week without electricity for nearly five whole days, and water off and on as well. It was very cold and very stressful, particularly because my mother and I rescue strays (we have 10 cats and 7 dogs right now!) and it was far more difficult to keep THEM safe and warm than it was to keep ourselves warm. But we all survived, and by the following weekend the temperatures were going back and it almost felt like the whole experience had been some insane fever dream.

It kinda feels like the week didn’t even happen. Like the whole week was some kind of strange black hole.

In any case, after that I had a ton of work to get caught up on and last week and this week I’ve just been working my ass off to make sure I stayed on schedule. Which I did, thank goodness. But it’s been a very exhausting couple of weeks, and I haven’t had the energy to do much reading or writing by the time I get home, so I usually just end up staring blankly at the tv for a couple hours before passing out.

Right now, I’m trying to finish a handful of books, and then I’ll start putting together some reviews. I’m also debating whether or not I want to pay for the premium access (or whatever it’s called) on Disney+ so I can watch Raya and the Last Dragon without having to wait god knows how long. If I do, I’ll make sure to do a review of that as well, so stay tuned!

In other news, I’ve been writing more consistently of late and I started posting a fanfic on Ao3 (Archive Of Our Own). I haven’t written, let alone publicly shared, a fanfic since 2005, so this is a very big deal for me. This fic is also the longest sustained bit of writing I’ve managed to keep up with since 2011 (I’m currently at around 60k words and still going!). I’ve been debating whether I wanted to share a link to the fic here or not because, frankly, I am far more comfortable with people reading my stuff when they can’t attach it to ME personally. Only my two best friends and one or two Tumblr friends even know what my Ao3 handle is. So how about this, if anyone is REALLY curious, its a new fic, and its in the Dresden Files (tv-verse) fandom. If you find it, congrats. DON’T TELL ME, I’ll die of embarrassment.

Oh yeah! And I finally finished this cross-stitch project I’ve been working on for months. So I’ve got that going for me, I guess.

Ok, that’s all I’ve got for now. Hopefully I’ll be back shortly with a book review or two. I hope you’re all doing well! Bye!