Lazy Sunday

I find I'm much less productive when the husband is home, even if he spends most of the day napping.  But it was a lazy day, the most excitement was finally putting the insurance cards in the vehicles, and getting my mail from the mailbox.  It was nothing but junk mail, by the way.

I started the day off with a call to Mom (it was Mother's Day, after all, though I probably call her fairly often anyway.  And ever since she has retired, I feel bad for calling her before 10.  But I do it anyway sometimes.  I finished organizing that one shelf, and I found a couple of other projects that need to be finished.  I actually did "finish' one that I found -- I had made a pair from the yarn recommended and in the pattern recommended by Jane and Ninya at last year's Jamestown conference, but I had never woven in the ends. I think I knit most of them at the beach up in Michican with Mom.  So I did that and popped them into the tub of garters and stockings. I had, immediately last year, cast on a new pair, but that project has been languishing for ages.

I also worked some on the Janesville second edition, I finished the first grey segment, and started on the first black segment.  I do think I will need ONE more skein of the grey, but I am going to wait to order that until I run out.

Oh! I also got to work on the pile of laundry that had accumulated.

I then spent the rest of the day reading, and not getting very engaged in what I read. So here is the listing.  Be warned, most of the reading was kinda speed reading, to see if I found the stuff engaging, and mostly I did not.  I don't know if it is the stories or me. Most of these where either from KU or the library.  I had come across an list of recommendations, and borrowed whatever was available, figuring I would get to it if I felt like it, if not, the borrow would expire.

-The Duke and the Dandy Highwayman by Zakarrie - The language was... I saw what the author was doing, but to me it was too distracting.  It was cute, and if the next book was in the KU, I would probably borrow it, but I did not like it enough to buy the next one.

-Prosperity by Alexis Hall - I'm not the biggest fan of steam punk except in a very few exceptions, and this one just did not get me to feel too involved.  It was good writing, but this author was also doing stuff with his language that I found distracting and did not help me get involved.  I think other's could really like it.  I won't avoid this author, some of his blurbs for his other books at the end sounded interesting, but I don't think I will go out of my way to find them.

-The Poison Within by Kasia Bacon - This one was quite good, engaging, and I felt attached to the characters.  I would enjoy others by this author I think, but the blurb with the chapter long intro (I think it was the next book coming out) did not grab me. So I am being lazing and not bothering to find others.

-Of Dark and Bright by Kate Sherwood - blah.  I mean, it was written well, and maybe if my mood was different, but right now, I could really care less what happens to the characters next.

-Starting Long Shadow by Kate Sherwood, we will see how that goes and if I am awake much later then that.
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I plan on going walking in the morning, M will fuss at me about that because I'm still not totally well, but I miss my walks, and if I listen to M all the time, I will always have an excuse to not exercise.

M turned in his part of the uber grant, I think that is why he is sleeping so much this weekend.

OHOHOH!!! and exciting news,  B and J asked me to babysit the baby on Tuesday!!!! This is so exciting!
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Oh, listening : I finished Hidden by Kendra Eliot and started Chilled by the same author.  I do have to say, as I said before.  Contrasting Hidden (her first book) vs her latest book, I think she has improved as a writer a great deal.  I also remembered the second point that bothered the feminist in me. Here are two quotes from the pos of the main male protagonist.
First quote
"If he ever had a daughter, she would live at home during collage, with her bodyguard"
Second quote - this one is describing a young gymnast who was photographed doing a routine
" Would he want his daughter posed on a billboard like that, Hell NO"
Now, I know that this is not the viewpoint of the author, but it always makes me uneasy when the male leads in romance novels (or males in real life) talk about locking up their daughters or in other ways restricting their life because men are so bad.  It seems like it is taking agency away from women.