Last night was the first time I was at the “new” house when the tornado sirens went off. Louie was still at work so I headed to the basement alone. Luckily the storms passed by us without trouble.

I thought I should write something, because I’m a blogger, and that’s what bloggers do, but truthfully, there’s not much going on. I have abandoned (for now?) many of my fun goals from the beginning of the year (cooking, crafting, baking, etc) in order to either read, scroll (bad!), or simply to spend time researching travel on the internet. I guess planning trips is actually considered a hobby, so I shall embrace it. We have a trip to New York and Pennsylvania planned in addition to our “big” trip of going to Sweden and Finland. Now, I’m still flossing and doing my DuoLingo, so I haven’t abandoned my goals entirely, but the year is as usual knocking me on my behind and I feel like I am just keeping my head above water.

We’ve been working on the old house a bit, getting it ready to do something with, but this is easier said (well, not terribly easy to say either) than done. Louie is still torn on what he wants to do and we get a lot of rude and disparaging comments from people around us (hey, we actually did live there for a long time, so cut it out) about the house. It’s amazing how rude people can be, knowing or unknowingly, and how much unsolicited advice they like to give. Do you feel like people are constantly telling you what to do with your life as if you are a complete idiot? I hate to think we are special.

I do find that when I have larger chunks of time free, I don’t want to do anything except read a book. Some days I simply embrace this, other days I wonder, is this a sign of burnout? It’s not that I’m not getting things done, because I am, but I’m not getting things done beyond the things that really do need to get done. Summer is approximately 6 weeks away, and probably if I just get done what needs to be done between now and then we are fine. If I get anything extra done, wonderful. I have managed to get rid of a few things on the Buy Nothing Group, but I’ve been annoyed by some of the people there for not picking up and leading me on about it. I need to be stricter about timelines, I think.

Book wise I’ve been reading the Mistborn books lately, in the fantasy genre. A colleague recommended them and I thought it would be a nice change. I go back and forth on how much I am enjoying them but my latest one has been a lot of fun. I am also looking forward to Tana French’s new novel which I just got from my library. My book club read Anxious People last month and I also started watching it on Netflix. TV wise we watched the Gentlemen (okay) and Beef (good, but ridiculous) lately. We are hosting Movie Club next week and still need to watch the movie (Poor Things) so we will probably do that later this week or over the weekend.

Once I get writing I realize I have likely been more productive than I think: sometimes I feel like I need to be constantly DOING rather than allowing myself time to rest, is this capitalism or a personal problem? It’s not to say that I don’t rest, because I absolutely do, but that I also have so many things that I need and want to do. This week, thankfully, is a little easier than some: a few students are gone and I don’t have anything extra going on during the week. We even got this morning off from school, which was amazing.

How’s your April going so far? Did you get any damage from the storms/did you experience any storms yesterday or last night?