Month: January 2025

A year of books

My reading got massively halted this summer and fall, due to the intense nausea of the pregnancy. I could not read for a long time, and I could hardly stand listening to anything at all for a few months. So, it took some effort here at the end, but I reached my goal for the year, nonetheless. So, yippee(!).

I am exhausted, though. Haha I only stayed up, because we have our friend’s dog, and she clearly didn’t want to be alone, what with all the fireworks (and gunshots) all the Mexicans have been blasting tonight. We are like the grumpy old man in the neighborhood – we both just wish the police could knock down everyone around who has these utterly illegal fireworks going off like crazy tonight. Ugh… It’s not merely annoying – it is dangerous. We don’t have enough space and we have way too many trees closely packed for fireworks to be safe. Let alone the stupidity of many of the people using the fireworks in the first place around here…

But my husband is now home from the gym and studying a bit before his lesson tomorrow, so I am off-duty for the dog now, and can go to bed.

So, goodnight. Happy New Year. 🙂

God, bless us in this year, please. All of us. Beautifully. Help us to be your love in the world and to be our best selves, all of us. Make me and the baby and my husband well, please, and keep us safe. In your name, I pray. Amen.