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Well… I’ll be quite honest.

I haven’t been reading ARCs much this year. I really haven’t. Even the one that I had started earlier in the year? I haven’t touched it since. I guess I could say that I read one gifted book recently because I really enjoyed it, and I was surprised to have the energy to read it. I purposely haven’t been opening up the books I’ve received in the mail because reasons, and now I’m just putting them off even more.

I’m thinking maybe I should dedicate a few of my ARCs to next year… you know? Like make a better effort at reading all of my ARCs and gifted books on time for once? Or at least get through my massive backlog. We will see. Maybe if I write it as a goal and actually commit to it, I may actually get through it next year.

Let’s see how it goes. I mean, I think I’ve been doing a pretty good job with the other goals that I set for myself at the beginning of the year, so that’s a plus! I wonder how I did that.

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So… if you remember when I first started doing this weekly post, this section would have been the book haul section… but since I started working at the amazing library that I am a patron of… well let’s just say I have entirely too many library books in my possession and I’m not going to talk about it anymore.

So I’m changing this section to a reading list, because I’m going to try to torture myself to stick to some sort of list! Maybe I’ll actually do this more in 2024, but I can try to start now, right? So let’s see what’s on my list, and see what I end up reading from it!

Hopefully you can read that. And if not, I’ll probably change the graphic in the next post. There’s a few books that I want to try to read this month, but I know that I haven’t been able to read that much lately. Which of course is okay, and I may end up reading other books that I’m in the mood for instead of ones I assigned to myself, but at least I’m reading! There’s three of them that I want to read because of the book club I’m in, and since I joined, I’ve been doing an amazing job of reading all of them. I haven’t been able to make the discussion meetings, but they aren’t required. I do miss them though, since I miss talking about books with fellow readers.

You may be wondering what I mean about deployment ending. Or you may already know because I may have talked about this. My husband has been on deployment for a while now, and hopefully he will be coming home soon. I can’t post the date or anything, but it’s sooner than I realize it now, and I’ve been waiting for this for months. I just want him to be home already. I think I’ve been getting really homesick for my family this past year, even before he left on deployment, and I think it’s just been harder this year than other years.

For one, my mom and brother moved to Guam and are now with my grandma, so knowing that all of them are together and I’m still alone really hurts. I know that it wasn’t like they didn’t want to include me, but it also wasn’t like I could just uproot my life while my husband was deployed. That wouldn’t have been fair to him or the dogs. *sigh* I’m just stressed and I need to figure out where to go from here.

I don’t remember where I was going with this, but basically I just need a hug. So when he comes home, that’s the first thing I’m doing. Getting a full on bear hug for at least five minutes. I love cuddling with the dogs, but it’s not the same as getting a hug back. But I am so grateful to my dogs while I’ve been alone. At least I’m not completely alone with them here. Now if only they could talk…

You know what time of year it is?

It’s Spotify Wrapped time! Which I love every single year. It’s actually really cool how they are able to keep it fresh and interesting each time around, and it’s so cool to see how my music tastes change throughout the years.

Yes, I am one of those people that shares the graphics that show my stats, because it is so cool to see. Maybe I’ll share a little carousel here! But also, here’s my Wrapped Playlist for your listening pleasure.

Or… nevermind, since apparently it won’t let you embed Spotify Playlists anymore. How dare they.

But I will share the music video of the most listened song I had this year!

I’ve been absolutely obsessed with this song and this music video. Like no joke. Listen to it, watch it, it will blow your mind.

I feel like I’ve been flipping back and forth between different shows, but the one that I’ve landed on again, which I adore so much and wish it would be rebooted is this:

Yep! You guessed it, Castle! Plus, the premise always intrigued me, and I actually had an RP going with this on Tumblr where my character was the author and the other person’s character was the cop. It was actually really fun, and makes me wish I could go back to that RP and continue it. I have to say, back when I was roleplaying on Tumblr, I had the most creative mind in my life. I wish I could get back to that level, for real. I miss it so much.

It’s almost 10:30pm on a Sunday night, but hey this still counts! I hope you’re all doing well. Can you believe December is already a week in? Well, kind of. It’s the first weekend in December, is what I mean. I’m kind of bummed that Christmas falls on a Monday, but at least we get that day off at work. Are you doing anything this holiday season to celebrate or decompress from the year? Let me know in the comments. See you soon, friends.