2024-The Year of Acceptance

 2023 was a really tough year with selling and buying a homes, the death of my mother, a new job, and the death of my nephew last month. Needless to say, 2023 was a stressful year. I am welcoming in this new year of 2024 with acceptance. Life is what it is I want to choose to meet it as it comes. I'm really hoping to get back into a writing schedule this year. I want to read more! But I also want to be pragmatic when it comes to any reading challenges. I'm hoping to post this week about my reading challenges...

Celebrated 20 years with DH! Still going strong. We were hoping for a cruise...hopefully soon. But we still had a fantastic day together. 

 We also enjoyed a night out with friends to a local distillery! So much fun. We made some fantastic drinks for everyone at our housewarming party a couple of weeks later.

My winter break has been blissfully unaware of everything but family, friends, and cats. We watched all of the LOTR movies with G. This is the first time he sat through all of them and loved them! The one and only awful thing was having to attend my nephew's funeral.

Favorites of the year:

I absolutely loved the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. They had been on my radar for a while now and I decided to give them a go after my mother passed away since they were mostly short stories. The whole series was perfect for what I needed. I can't wait for more!

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin was my favorite nonfiction of the year. It took me a few months since I had to put it aside for a few months, but it was an excellent piece of history and character. The movie was also fantastic and so happy I could read and watch both in the same year!

Slow Horses is probably my favorite series right now. I just started the first book but the TV series with Gary Oldman is so good. I don't know if it's the fave but it's up there and I honestly can't think of another one that stands out as much but it could be the most recent one I watched so there's that recently seen bias coming in...But it's good!

Here's to more good things in 2024!