#5JoysFriday

1. Reading on the dock at a new to me county park
2, Kopps custard while taking college kid back
3. First Badger Football Game, cheap tickets and the band. Man, it‘s all about the band for me.
4. 6 mile hike and coffee with old co-worker today
5. A new ARC that has me feeling all the things, not Bobbi Brown, though I enjoyed that too - A Good Animal by Sarah Maurer

@Kshakal @JenReadsAlot @BethM

#wedonotcare that dinner should have went in the oven and we went out the door for a walk instead. I walk (knit, read, etc) so I don‘t kill people. The country feels like a spiraling shit storm and I‘m tired. I was grumpy all day and can‘t wait to go to bed for a reset.

#5JoyFriday @DebinHawaii

1. My daughter borrowing me a Labubu to knit it a hat, you cannot look at this thing without giggling.
2. Leo scare of storms but freshly groomed
3. 2 meetups with long-time friends including @JenReadsAlot - and I think the caramel apple hard cider counts as extra joy?
4. College kid paying a visit tonight
5. A surprise package from my cross country knitter crew

Tagging @Kshakal @BethM @JenReadsAlot and @KLyn1

It‘s a rainy day but a gift card funded book spree picked me right up. The lovely bookstore is a bit niche. Books I didn‘t know I needed are often the best kind.

Feeling down on myself a little today and Brene pulled me right out of my shit. I need to internalize all of her genius. If I remember nothing but “Be authentic”…can‘t get better than that 🥰

#5JoysFriday - on Saturday… @DebinHawaii

1. Nature therapy on several walks this week
2. 🐶 good vet appt
3. Brene - she is so good
4. Such gratitude at the library, I have to pinch myself
5. Slow weekend ahead. There will be baking and puzzles, maybe a nap, vacation planning.

Thank you for the tag @Kshakal

#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe

1. I have to steal @Kshakal answer, Scholastic Book Fairs. Gosh, the thrill!
2. Playing in the band, being the drum major 🤓 🪈
3. Miss Nancy Lindell, best teacher EVER!

Bonus - seeing friends. I‘m looking sort of forward to a gathering tomorrow to celebrate 36 years? We could not do math.

Tagging all the school kids!

I just finished this. Big Brene fan and this was a great reminder that I am a NYT bestselling author of “shitty first drafts”! IYKYK

I think rewatching movies from the past can be relaxing - Breakfast Club, St. Elmo‘s Fire, Good Will Hunting. Nostalgia and memory lane really soothes my soul. #serenesaturdays @TheBookHippie

So far this book is blowing me away. And… #HappyCaturday 🐈‍⬛

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1. College kids excitement about new haircut. (Joan Jett, anyone?)
2. Girls getaway to Chicago, we‘ve been “knitting pen pals” for 17 years
3. Food tour 🍕 🌭 🥩 🍰
4. Architecture tour by boat.
5. Margaritas and a gorgeous yarn store
Bonus - Getting back home is always a joy

@Kshakal @JenReadsAlot @BethM

#PrinceofDarknessReadalong @BookwormAHN
I am looking forward to reading about and discussing Ozzy, I‘m a metal head at heart and so glad to find others! 🤘🏻I saw him live in 1991 or so, such a wild man with talent.

#tuesdaytunes @TieDyeDude I saw this tag over @AmyG - and I love all things music. I‘m not feeling great today so I‘ve been resting in my Foo Fighters concert tee. Feeling blah is throwing a “Monkeywrench” (favorite song) into my day indeed 🤣🫩

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1. Girls weekend in Chicago with my long time knitting friend from Boston. Us at a Sabrina Carpenter pop up getting merch for our daughter‘s💃
2. 5 ⭐️ book
3. Kevin
4. Food tour
5. Ice cream - Jeni‘s!

Thank you for tag @Kshakal
I‘d love to see everyone‘s joy bombs!

Not so much a review as an exclamation - I loved this!

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1. Favorite local author at my library - Nickolas Butler
2. Leo 🐶
3. Nate Bargatze - his delivery is my favorite
4. Asiatic Lilly (was my wedding flower) blooming
5. Dirty soda discoveries - thanks young co-workers!
6. Always the patient husband!

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1. 2 great books
2. Knitting at the water with my daughter
3. Wicked with a childhood friend
4. Great chat with old boss
5. College kid got a new job!

Tagging @Kshakal @JenReadsAlot @BethM

Finished this week‘s reading at the car dealership. I normally hate waiting here. Not today! #Sundaybuddyread @TheBookHippie

If you enjoyed Broken Country, this was also fantastic. The author writes such beautifully painful characters and their stories.

What a gem of a book.

#5JoyFriday @DebinHawaii

1. Laughing with my husband over a spray bottle my then 5 year old cried to get in Disney. We cooled off with it…15 years later.
2. Having Chicago beef at the place The Bear is filmed and seeing the things we noticed in the show.
3. Magnolia Bakery while sitting on the lakeshore.
4. Pepsi Max - Kwik Trip making dreams come true.
5. Hiking

All please share some glitter of joy! Spread it around 🎉

It‘s been a fortnight of Stephen King. I finished his latest book about the Finder‘s Keeper‘s detective agency, finished socks my daughter requested with yarn inspired by The Green Mile and I saw The Life of Chuck today. 💚 Trifecta!

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1. My little‘s 20! She has always kept me on my toes!
2. Family Wedding 💒
3. Kopp‘s Birthday Cake Custard
4. Book in the sun
5. 5 mile walk with a friend today and lots of gossip🤣

@Lesliereadsalot 🍦
@JenReadsAlot @Kshakal @BethM

#WDNCW @dabbe

We do not care if we took a nap today. The air conditioning was broken at the library I part time at. It was 85 INSIDE! A regular, and not generally creepy, fella said “you‘re hot!” And we laughed. I was tired after all the sweating while joking about being dewy, because I wasn‘t. 🥵🤣😴

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

I look forward to looking back each Friday and seeing others‘ joy popping up here. ❤️🥰
1. Lots of walks despite the heat
2. Kevin
3. Making solstice flower wreaths and attending a sound bath and meditation with a friend - silly fun
4. A purple cone flower I replanted from my mom‘s garden has returned! 💪🏻
5. Strawberry Spoon Cake from NYT easy & delicious!!

Tagging @JenReadsAlot @Kshakal @dabbe

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

1. Kindness, follow through, honesty
2. Maybe now, my 50‘s. I try to believe there is something good about now after listening to my dad say nothing good happens after …insert every year after 30. No glass half full for him and it‘s tiresome.
3. Stuck in the Middle by Stealer‘s Wheel. Every decade has had some version of “clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right” lol!

#chatterday @AllDebooks

It‘s dangerously hot in WI so I took a walk early then we‘ve mostly been inside, napping, reading, playing cards and up next - a movie. I sometimes enjoy a down low day.

Listening to A Forty Year kiss to prep for the author‘s visit to our library next month mostly because, gah, love the author. Meanwhile while walking in 90 degree heat in WI, I heard his great and cozy description of “toasty”. Auspicious! 🥵 I‘m toasty but NOT cozy. lol

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1. Cubs game at Wrigley with my favorite person
2. Strawberry picking with my favorite husband
3. Fun evening with favorite youngest child
4. Custard at my favorite KOPPS!
5. Rhubarb pie with a harvest from my favorite mom‘s garden.
6. Bonus Popcorn with Pascal - favorite actor - he is JOY!

Tagging all! Have a joy filled weekend!!! 🎉❤️🐻⚾️ 🍓🍦🍿

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

1. Games! I have always loved games. Favorite indoor would have been rummy with grandma. Or Monopoly with a girlfriend - literal marathons! Outdoor was epic Hide go Seek on the farm with my cousins…we could go all day! Or kickball, 4-Square, Frisbee (recently resuscitated by my college kid, yay!) or Chinese jump rope.
2. The Boxcar Children, early spotlight on social problems.

Tagging @JenReadsAlot @Kshakal @dabbe

#weekendreads Thank you for the tag @JenReadsAlot

Easter egg! Dr. Patel from This Much I know is True is back. I loved her gentleness with Thomas and Dominic Birdsey, I really appreciate when characters are resurrected in subsequent books ❤️❤️ it has been awhile so I had to confirm with a Google search lol.

#5JoysFriday @TheSpineView
The day late edition

1. A rhubarb peach strawberry pie from scratch that got a thumbs up from the critics ❤️ from my mom‘s rhubarb patch
2. First in line for the hold for the newest Wally Lamb book - already a gut punch in the first pages.
3. The racing sausages
4. Leo‘s smiles
5. Seeing former co-workers in tough circumstances, good to see people show up.❤️❤️

Thank you @Kshakal - any other late birds?! Join along!

Phrase of the day - “quit your job book” - a fellow coworker at the library was talking about leaving off at a tense moment and the director said this is a quit your job book! I totally agreed!! And sewed my lips shut, I enjoyed this so much!

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

1. Tagged
2. It depends - if it‘s an automatic author could be stand alone, if it is series I want to have and loan out, I may pre-order. I try not to buy books often anymore. Edited to add - I forgot I preordered The River is Waiting by Wally Lamb on audible - I couldn‘t wait though I‘m close to the top of the hold list. 🤦🏼‍♀️😃

Tagging @JenReadsAlot @BethM
Thanks for the tag @Kshakal

#chatterday @AllDebooks

Enjoying my morning Nespresso thinking about cleaning because my in-laws are coming for dinner and cards. I‘m 50% looking forward to seeing them. Hoping to up my percentage as the day goes on 🤣🤞🏻

Tagging:
@dabbe @TheSpineView @Kshakal

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1. A great bike ride
2. Leo, though hiding from thunder here
3. Mammogram
4. Peonies popping
5. Frisbee with the college kid

Bonus - Physical therapy!
Thank you for the tag @Kshakal - I‘m a bit late, tagging any other late comers?!

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

1. Give people the benefit of the doubt, be kind, be helpful, volunteer, smile first.
2. 🤪🤓😜
3. My friend Geri ❤️

Thanks for the tags @Kshakal

Tagging @dabbe @BethM @JenReadsAlot

1. Definitely!
2. Little House in the Big Woods, a difficult and also simple time in history to visit.

#Two4Tuesday thank you for the tags @TheSpineView and @Kshakal

I found this brief book intriguing but I feel limited on who to recommend it to. Do you know that feeling? I liked this book but can‘t put my finger on exactly why…Divided into two parts - same characters different roles. I enjoyed the author‘s writing style and her choice of words such as sanguine and pique, words I want to eat they are so delicious. I won‘t say more as it is a #camplitsy pick but I cannot wait to discuss.

Great night for #hyggehourreadathon - on the deck starting #camplitsy book. 📕 made a nice dinner for the family before and felt relaxed during and after my reading session.

@AllDebooks @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit

#chatterday @AllDebooks

Sunny day in WI today - I hope to weed my flower beds while listening to the latest Stephen King. I think I will start the next #sundaybuddyread later as well, had so much fun last month with that. Have a great Saturday!!

Chat? @TheSpineView @AmyG

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1. The fur babies
2. Coffee with @JenReadsAlot where we again don‘t take a selfie - tag!
3. Hike with a friend
4. Dubai chocolate - at last - procured at TJ‘s
5. No solid plans for the weekend 🎉

Tagging @Kshakal @BethM @KLyn1

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

1. Josie …because the Outfield said she‘s “on a vacation far away” - which sounds great! But also the name of the main character in The Sugar Queen. 😊

2. Fozzy, Rugby and Leo are my pups. Best cat ever - Ernest. But also Jasper, Coco, Dudley and so many more.

3. Josie 🥰

Thank you for the tag @Kshakal All please play!

#camplitsy - reposting so I can remember!

#Two4Tuesay Tgank you for the tag @TheSpineView

1. Tagged! An ARC memoir by Jeff Hiller I enjoyed. I realized I had a lot of 3 ⭐️ / middle of the road reads for May when I looked back.

2. Never Flinch by Stephen King came out today and my preorder audio is waiting for me. I won‘t get to it until June. I always look forward to a new King book!!

Tagging @JenReadsAlot @Kshakal @dabbe

3.5 stars - a raw tale of the next steps in sobriety beyond jail, when the risks are extra real.

#5JoysFriday Thank you for the tag @DebinHawaii @TheSpineView

1. Birthday week cake
2. My little family
3. A birthday greeting from my favorite local author solicited by a library friend …🤭
4. A wonderful hike with a friend
5. Two lunch dates.

Strangely my joys remind me I‘m not all introvert, I find joy in people too 🤣

Tagging @Kshakal @BethM @AmyG

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

1. When people are kind to each other and lift one another up I feel inspired to put that into the world. We need all of that we can get.

2. Cecil in The Heart‘s Invisible Furies; Kunta Kinte in Roots - for the depths of their strength

Thank you for the tag @Kshakal
Tagging @BethM @JenReadsAlot @dabbe

#mentalhealthmonday @Kerrbearlib

1. A day late but I was feeling good, spent the day with an old friend waxing poetic about this and that was so uplifting.

2. I am edgy from some nerve pain so I‘m going to try to listen more and not engage in negative talk while I let the medication and PT start to do its work. Lots of deep breathing.