• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, YA)
• “Taking the ‘shoulds’ out of reading“.
• Chocolate is about to get more expensive.
• Look out of random windows around the world.
• Knit a chain mail helmet and cowl (coif).
• I hope he’s right.
• Converted ice house.
• Mostly just included due to its unusual shape.
• This one’s shaped like a large boat/ark.
• Must really like orange.
• How odd.
• You could own a partially collapsed castle in need of renovation!
• Do not trust.
• No.
• Definitely form over function.

Polly making biscuits.

Sleepy, goopy-eyed Harry.

Mayhem looking out the window.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best out this week, SFF)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Mini books and mini book kits you can order.
• Minnesota has a bill to ban book bans in the works.
• Apparently William Gibson’s Neuromancer is going to be a TV series.
• “The difference between WordPress and WordPress.com” – good to know if you have concerns about Automattic’s plan to sell users’ data to AI companies. Tumblr’s also included and I have already opted out.
• “this is your gentle reminder to stop fighting against your adhd and instead structure your life around it“.
• Cat language.
• Nice condo in a former MCM desert motel.
• Sweet little cottage.
• Nice condo in a converted school.
• Cute train depot conversion.
• Also cute, but has some weirdness.
• I kinda like the pink and orange in the kitchen.
• Quaint cottage.
• I like the very last picture of it squatting ominously in the neighborhood.
• Lots of murals.
• Hmm. It’s weird and looks like a small earthquake away from no longer being on the hillside.
• Partially converted church with too many beds in the main living space.
• Must like water features.
• Not a fan of the kitchen in particular.
• You could own a dilapidated frontier town attraction.
• Too much stuff!!
• A villain’s lair.
• Absolute kitchen fail.
• Ouch. My shins would be bleeding all the time.
• I guess you grip that pipe for the black stairs.
• I don’t like stairs right by dishes like that.
• Slippery when wet.
• Flimsy.
• The molding doesn’t make it less terrible.
• Eeeep!

This goofball has conjunctivitis in one of his eyes and is getting eye ointment twice a day, so he’s kind of a mess right now.

Polly, slightly annoyed that I am taking her picture instead of petting her.

Very Serious Kitties Are Very Serious.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best books out this week, the best books out last week, nonfiction)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Some alternatives to the Book Depository, which is going away in a week.
• What if an NYC apartment block got transported into a fantasy realm?
• Sad ficlet.
• Charming microstory.
• Behind the scenes of The Fifth Element.
• Well, now that you mention it…
• Square-wheeled bicycle.
• Just a shift in perspective.
• What “the exception that proves the rule” actually means.
• Alpacas vs llamas.
• The story of Murphy, a bald eagle who was incubating a rock.
• Junkyard dragon.
• A joke.
• Carrot cheesecake bars.
• Strawberry lemon blondies.
• Spam and tater tot casserole/hotdish.
• April Fool’s Barbie house.
• A stately manor house.
• Very castle-esque.
• Castle on the outside, not so much on the inside.
• This looks like a movie set.
• Lovely historical condo.
• Another lovely one.
• Nice houseboat.
• I love the wallpaper in the second bathroom.
• Over-the-top, but not in a bad way.
• The kitchen exhaust system is wild.
• Skull house.
• Plain on the outside, not so much on the inside.
• I bet you’ll figure out why it hasn’t sold…
• Mysterious basement.
• Has its own strip club.
• So many little oddities.
• That’s a lot of money for a hot mess.
• Umm…
• But where are those “stairs” actually going?
• Huh.
• Yikes.
• Yikes again.
• Those shelves aren’t very wide toward the top.
• Relic stairs.
• I don’t think anyone will survive long enough to use the permanent stairs.
• Oh dear.

Polly sitting like a people on my lap.

Silly Harry!

Guess who thinks their dinner is late?!

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below. You can catch up on everything on my Tumblr, if you’d like.

• Rainbow scribble doodle.
• “…through the eyes of no one else.“
• Too late.
• Fancy letters. Green.
• Ruling pen rainbow scribble doodle.
• “Words unravel…“
• Walking in London.
• Beauty.
• Fanciful. Pool lounge chair.
• More thinking.

“I really don’t wanna get up.” -Mayhem

Such a belated holiday party this year! But in December, when we usually have it, we were buried in disaster recovery and not feeling very festive at all. Much more fun having it now. 🙂

“Dinner was unacceptably late, Mom. You need to stop this gallivanting around and focus on being home on time to feed me.” -Chaos

Remember Friday, when I was crabby? Yeah, I got called in to work on the fallout from that whole mess. I am not sure when I’ll even be able to go home, much less put together a post. Just keep your fingers crossed for me, ok?! Thanks…

Apologies, all! I would much rather be doing linkity than what I’m doing right now.

:weeping:

“Hey, is anyone out there? Hey??” -Chaos