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In Progress: Daily and Monthly Challenges, Week 4

 This week has been another busy one.  I have been getting more writing done, but not as much reading.  I actually haven't finished one book in the last week, which is a very unusual thing for me.  I've done some re-listening as bedtime reading - I'm going through Annette Marie's Guild Codex series again.  I don't usually count those because they are strictly bedtime listening and I miss large swatches of them.  If I keep being unable to read or listen during the day, I may start counting them again.


The audio book of Whispers Under Ground, the third book in the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch, came in so I've been listening to that lately.  The next book in the series, Broken Home, is sitting in my Libby waiting for this one to finish.  I did read a little more in Marathon Man and started re-reading Undiscovered Country by Scott Snyder.  I'm not sure why I've been unable to settle in to reading.  I think it's because I'm wanting to do something else at the same time rather than just find time to curl up with a book.


My writing has been a combination of short bon mots and longer pieces. Nothing fictional, beyond a fictional self in one of my groups talking about the school shooting that happened here yesterday.  Part of me wants to start writing fiction again, but I'm not having any good ideas of what to write.


No fast food has been an easy one.  I haven't been out of the house much so it hasn't been a temptation! It also helps that money is a bit short right now.  It's hard to buy fast food when you need to make sure you've got food in the house.


I didn't expect it, but taking my pictures has been the easiest of my goals to keep up with.  Sometimes I don't get my picture until right before bed, but I do remember it which is what matters.  Here's my pics for this past week!


One of the last minute pictures
I prettied up for Sunday Assembly

I needed to get out of the house,
regardless of the cold!

I don't know why I open my eyes so wide

My newest shirt says, "If I was
skinny and mentally stable I'd be unstoppable.
Y'all are lucky I'm squishy and
unstable."


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