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What about you? By the wonderful Grace Farris.
P.S. Another Friday night, and Grace’s beauty uniform.
Friday Night Plans
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But mine are the same exact ones as Grace!
A trip to my neighborhood bookstore to pick up my weekend reading- Tell Me Everything. Reading it on my new chaise with a cup of tea. Cooking dinner for my two kids home from college. Shrimp scampi and a glass of cold wine (for me not the kids ha ha).
Watching my son ride a bike for the first time! He just figured it out tonight and is so, so proud and excited.
My kids gave me a pedicure and my husband have me a foot scrub and massage after a long day of teaching. Then I took a NyQuil and headed to bed. Laying down next time my kids and reading Cup of Jo is my idea of a perfect Friday night for right now.
I just started a new job and,—well, you know the Ira Glass quote about the taste-talent gap? (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309485-nobody-tells-this-to-people-who-are-beginners-i-wish) I am living in that gap! Totally my own fault: I was offered a perfectly good lateral move, but no, I had to dream big! This week has been a fiasco, with a capital F-word, and my weekend is full of catching up on work tasks that I still do too slowly to fit in during the workweek, plus studying for a stressfully big exam on Wednesday. Also, I have had Jenny R’s new cookbook on hold at the library since JUNE and there is no sign of it arriving. Rude! So we are looking at pizza, sugary soda, and an engrossing book I have already read so I don’t have to pay too much attention to it before I fall asleep on the couch.
I’m not “creative” and can’t totally relate to that quote but I can relate to beginning a new job and feeling inadequate! It’s the worst part, for me. Learning the ropes and figuring out what we are supposed to be doing. Hang in there! Take one week (or day) at a time.
Tea on the couch with my pup next to me, finishing my book – The Wedding People.
Been enjoying it but am REALLY excited to dive into spooky/fall reads next!
I am here for any and all of your spooky fall recommendations!
Yes, would COJ hive recommend some spooky/fall reads? Not horror for me, but spooky would be great! Thanks, all.
I am reading Thistlefoot and loving it as a spooky-adjacent read!
Yes! Bring on the fall recs. Here’s a list I’ve compiled.
– The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
– Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
– The Secret History
– The Unmaking of June Farrow
– Practical Magic
– Murder on the Orient Express
– A Discovery of Witches
– The Very Secret Society of
Irregular Witches
I just finished and loved reading The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley. Spooky for sure!
Add “The Change” by Kirsten Miller to your list. It’s about witches, it’s about menopause, it’s about feminism. IDK, it’s spooky & amazing.
just this morning I got an email that a library book hold was available!
This is spot on, but I’d propose substituting tater tots and siracha mayo for the artichokes. I work in health care, and even though I love my job, I’m peopled-out by Friday night. My husband is a lawyer who works at a desk all day, and his dream Friday would be staying out until midnight…
I grew up in Northern California and we ate artichokes all the time! For my Friday night, I’d add a home made craft cocktail, taking off my bra as soon as I get home, and my comfy slippers!
I’m planning to finish The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning narrated by Amy Poehler.
It was released in 2023, but I didn’t get the chance to start it until recently.
I’ve already seen two episodes and was totally unprepared for how many emotions I would feel while watching it. It’s made me cry and laugh and cry-laugh and sob and snort and giggle.
I just bought a big box of tissues so I can get through the remaining episodes without getting slobber all over my t-shirt.
I’m watching this after I finish Deadloch! I loved the book and had no idea it was a show. Thank you, stranger friend 🤗
Hahaha the exciting face wash ! I do that too, wait till I use something with a lot of excitement 😂. Friday night on the couch watching some movie my kids chose…having a drink with my husband , after cleaning the whole house cause tomorrow we have family coming to stay for the weekend ( they come from Holland, we live in northern Italy) so it will be a nice weekend with two more.kids in the house, a good opportunity for my own kids to practice English ! ( The Dutch girl’s father is from USA ) Have a lovely weekend :*
For me it’s pizza, snuggles with my kids, a bath, and then Only Murders In The Building. Looking for something similarly cosy to watch, so if anyone has any suggestions I’m all ears!
Astrid! It’s a French procedural with the main character being autistic and becoming employed to help with police. I loved it! It’s on pbs via Amazon too.
Temps are cooling where I am–perhaps beginning the wardrobe switcheroo whilst listening to this: Small Rain by Garth Greenwell. Just came off my Libby holds! Fridays in this house are almost always for nesting.
I read a couple days ago that “Clutter is nothing but delayed decisions.” I need to make some decisions, STAT! I took a personal day off of work so that I could declutter and purge some things around my house (and therefore relax on Sat and Sun with my hubby and kids). I got motivated with an iced latte, took shoes i’ve been meaning to have resoled to the cobbler, shipped a box off to ThredUp, packed up bags for Goodwill, bought a couple frames for things I’ve been wanting to frame, decluttered counters and the pockets of my room where I shove stuff…ha!
That sounds like a day well spent – you’ve inspired me to do something similar!
This is what I have been thinking, take a few days off work to get it done. Also, where it states “By the wonderful Grace Farris” I read that as BE the wonderful, so that’s what I’ll take with me this weekend, to be the wonderful for someone.
Tonight I’m making zucchini risotto and starting Love and Other Conspiracies. <3
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