Saturday 31 October 2015

Sunday post - 12

The Sunday Post is a chance to catch up - with other bloggers' weeks, and to catch other bloggers up on your own week before and also ahead. Hosted here: http://caffeinatedbookreviewer.com/

I actually managed to blog last week. I'm still mildly shocked but I did it! I did a post of short book reviews here: http://lifetheuniverseandcats.blogspot.co.nz/2015/10/short-reviews.html and a review of the movie Crimson Peak, which is here: http://lifetheuniverseandcats.blogspot.co.nz/2015/10/crimson-peak-review.html

I also finished another book - The Rules by Stacey Kade, which is the first book in her Project Paper Dolls series. I enjoyed it well enough, and there should be a review coming this week (fingers crossed).

I'm halfway through, now, Welcome to Night Vale, the novel based on the podcast. I love the podcast and the book is shaping up to be my 2015 equal-favourite along with Station Eleven. I think listening to the podcast definitely helps with reading the book of Night Vale because it is steeped in weirdness. Also, Cecil Baldwin - the voice of Night Vale - has recorded the audiobook, if audiobooks are your thing.

What else. Last week was pretty quiet around here these parts. I stayed home a lot and watched a fair bit of TV and finished my first Dragon Age: Inquisition playthrough. It was nice, but it's starting to be time to put on my big girl socks and like ... look for work.

Anyway. I did buy books last week, because somehow I keep forgetting that I'm not buying books at the moment. They were the three for $15 sort out of the remainder bin, but. Still. No more books. (Including ebooks. For some reason in my head, ebooks aren't included in the ban. But yes. Yes they are.)

I had a makeover at the local Revlon counter on Friday because I'd bought some makeup there before and accidentally said yes instead of no to the makeover thing, but it was fine. The woman was lovely and it was actually kind of relaxing. I also went up to my old office to say goodbye to a former workmate who is also moving on - to a new job in his case.

I went to my friend's on Saturday night for our weekly stitch and watch, and made a bit of progress on my Grey Wardens pattern. I hadn't picked it up for a few days and it was nice to get back into it.

Anyway.

First on the to-do list for this week, is to study the road code and go and get my learner's licence, and then driving lessons. It's very easy for me to be complacent and stare into the void for far too long because it's cosy and I think the void is actually a nice place, but - no offence void - it's not exactly productive.

So, hopefully, by the end of this week I will be in possession of a learner's permit, and also  have booked some driving lessons.

I'm also going to venture back into baking this week, and I'm going to give the chocolate chippie biscuits another go, and hopefully make a lemon loaf, as we accidentally have too many lemons at the moment.

I'm also also nano-ing this year, hopefully I can actually write something instead of just signing up and forgetting like I usually do.

What are you up to this week?


16 comments:

  1. Glad you had fun playing Dragon Age and I look forward to your review of Kade's book. Hope the week ahead brings surprises :)

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  2. Happy Sunday! I'm curious about both The Rules and Night Vale (I've recently started listening to the podcast), I love how weird it is!

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    1. Greg, The Rules was interesting. The Night Vale novel - and podcast - are both great

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  3. Good luck with NaNo this year, Maree! I hope you'll manage to write as much as you plan to :)
    Also, good luck on getting your learner's permit, I'm sure you'll do well :)
    Have a fantastic week ahead and happy reading.
    Lexxie @ (un)Conventional Bookviews

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    1. Lexxii, thanks! Nano is ..... going, sort of

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  4. Buying books is almost impossible to resist - sometimes you win, but mostly, you fail keeping that temptation at bay ! Fingers crossed for your learner's permit ;)

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    1. Thereaderjunkie: it really is almost impossible to resist. Thanks! :)

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  5. I'm curious about The Rules....it sounds tempting.

    Enjoy your week, and while I'm trying to cut down on book purchases, I apparently think e-books are fine...since they are tucked away on the device or in the Cloud...LOL.

    Good luck with NaNoWriMo...I did it in 2010...and then finished it and published the book in 2014.

    Thanks for visiting my blog.

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    1. Laurel: I have thoughts about Tge Rukes which I'll get around to sharing eventually. Oh wow, that's awesome!

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  6. Oh... lots of good stuff ahead of you - your licence, baking and NaNo. And the commencement of the job search. Perhaps you can start the latter but just subscribing to some sites that send out info re jobs. (Here in Oz we have seek.com.au for example.) It's not a hugely onerous step but something to help you along the way... and you never know what might pop up in your inbox!

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    1. Deborah: thank you, there are lots of good things :) yeah that's where I'm going to start, with job sites :)

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  7. I started Nano today too! I hope you finish this year. It's super exhilarating to hit that 50k line. Then you have a manuscript! This will be my third one! The paper dolls series sounds interesting.

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    1. Pearls: I'm not going to get to 50k but will hopefully have sobering to show. Good luck to you! :)

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  8. Did I know that you didn't already know how to drive? Good luck! Learning to drive was a bit hard for me, but it's come to be one of my favorite things -- I don't drive a lot during the week as I take the bus to work, but on the weekend it can be really lovely and soothing to go for a drive with my music cranked up.

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    1. Jenny: possibly not, I don't talk about it a lot :) Randon road trips is what I'm looking forward to the most, I think

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