Not Much Today.

I ended up starting Top Secret by Sarina Bowen after I finished writing last evening, and could not sleep well, mostly because I kept waking myself up by coughing.  But I got off to a slow start, and worked some of the blanket for L.  I also discovered that I need to rip out all the work I have done, because I can't seem to crochet straight back and forth.  I either loose stitches or gain stitches! I have a friend who does crochet for pay, and can use the extra money so I have a "secret" plan now.  Bring the whole mess to her and pay her to finish it! In the below picture, you will see that the circled in red was the part already done, and how the blanket curves in after I start it.  Also, It is very narrow, so I asked J how she wanted me to deal with that, and I have included the plan for that also.

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 I then decided, instead of working on a project, I would start organizing one go the shelves one of the craft closets.  The bottom three shelves are much more organized, but I have a mess to clean up, and I still have the upper shelves to deal with!

Then I spent some time on the computer working on the ever necessary and never-ending task of cleaning up my photo roll.  Then we went to a work part at Rich and MaryLou.  It was a wonderful evening, I do like the people Mike works with. I reestablished contact info with MaryLou, and I got S and J's contact info. I have been wanting to invite them over for dinner for ages, and M keeps not doing that.  So sometime in the next week or two, I will text S and hopefully we will set up a dinner evening.  I need to make cannoli, as J seems to love them!  I also got contact info for G, because I thought that maybe A would enjoy seeing all of G's dad's farm equipment, but he suggested that we also just try going to the John Deer store.  Oh, and I suggested that one of the young men there look into the SCA and if he wanted to get into it, I would introduce hie to the local people.  

And now I'm home, and ready to go to bed.  Well, I am actually writing this FROM bed, but I mean settle into reading and sleeping.  

Read today: Finished Top Secret by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy. Definitely an enjoyable read, it was well written and fun.  just enough pathos to be gripping, but not so much that it felt like a soap opera.  And the smart people acted smart, and there was no making the soon to be ex girlfriend into a mean girl, which I appreciated.  

Listen to: Continued with Hidden by Kendra Elliot.  This is the first book, as far as I can tell, written by this author.  You might remember that I Just finished listening (for the first time) to her latest two books.  I have listened to this book, but it was several years ago, and her writing has definitely improved.  This book is also much more ... I don't know exactly how to describe it, but in this author's latest writing, it seems like she has matured into to her writing and is writing more what she wants to write, instead of going purely for the genre's rules.  There are several things that bug me, mostly my "feminist" side, but there is even the wealthy billionaire as the love interest if we are noting how well the author keeps to the genre's "rules".  The two things that bugged me, on the feminist side -1) It is always the female daughter who is in charge of the billionaire's family forturen's  charitable arm, and the son of the family who is the business tycoon.  I would like it sometimes if the the female scion could be the the business tycoon and the son be in charge of the charitable arm! 2) ...oh, shoot, maybe I should take notes as I think about these things, because now I remember there were two things, but I can't remember the second one!...wait a moment and let me think.  Oh, well, I probably will remember as soon as I go back to listening.  If I remember, I'll come back and type it in.