Happy New Years Eve

Tonight I'll bead a new bracelet I think. I've got a lot of purple beads, maybe it's time.

And I'll do my traditional viewing of Casablanca.

I'll be up at midnight because of the fireworks that will inevitably go off in our neighborhood so I'll have to pacify Ryker.

 A new release today which I think I'll be starting tonight, AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW by Darcie Wilde. 3rd of 3 in series featuring Rosalind Thorne, a minor heiress in Regency London.

Trust is a delicate thing, and no one knows that better than Rosalind Thorne. Lady Melbourne has entrusted her with recovering a packet of highly sensitive private letters stolen from her desk. The contents of these letters hold great interest for the famous poet Lord Byron, who had carried on a notorious public affair with Lady Melbourne's daughter-in-law, the inconveniently unstable Lady Caroline Lamb. Rosalind is to take up residence in Melbourne House, posing as Lady Melbourne's confidential secretary. There, she must discover the thief and regain possession of the letters before any further scandal erupts. However, Lady Melbourne omits a crucial detail. Rosalind learns from the Bow Street runner, Adam Harkness, that an unidentified woman was found dead in the courtyard of Melbourne House. The coroner has determined she was poisoned. Adam urges Rosalind to use her new position in the household to help solve the murder. As she begins to untangle a web of secrets and blackmail, Rosalind finds she must risk her own life to bring the desperate business to an end . . .

 Published 2019; 352 pages. 

No plans for tomorrow except to nap and keep working on getting rid of this cold. Our service manager is out for the fourth day today -- hasn't worked now since Christmas Eve -- which adds tons of stress at work the longer this goes on. Hooray.

Happy New Year

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

Can we go yet?

Monday.

Nothing on TV tonight. Still in hiatus.

I'll bead tonight since I'm almost done with the black bracelet.


Currently reading WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? by Jodi Taylor. 6th of 11 in the Chronicles of St. Mary's series.

Max is back! New husband, new job, and a training regime that cannot fail - to go wrong! Take one interim Chief Training Officer, add five recruits, mix with Joan of Arc, a baby mammoth, a duplicitous Father of History, a bombed rat, Stone Age hunters, a couple of passing policemen who should have better things to do, and Dick the Turd. Stir well, bring to the boil - and wait for the bang!

Published 2015; 300 pages. I will totally NOT be making my reading goal this year by double digits. Beading took over my life in April.


Have a great day

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

Weekend face

Friday! Our receptionist and service manager and sales person were out yesterday so I was doing both jobs. Service manager and sales person out today. I'm fighting a stupid cold. I'm ready for a weekend.

I have no plans for the weekend. None. Sleep. Some cleaning. Some beading. Some reading. Mostly napping so I can rid of this cold.

Because I'm really tired of coughing.

Nothing really on TV at all this weekend so maybe we'll check around on the streaming stuff. I think we're having hamburgers tonight. Steve's been jonesing for Five Guys for several days. Otherwise, we're in Leftover City.

Have a good weekend

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

Back from holiday ....

Nothing on TV tonight. I'm working on that bracelet I posted yesterday and need to watch something but I don't really know what it will be.

Tomorrow is already Friday which is a good thing.

Christmas went well. The roast beast on Christmas Eve was wonderful -- even Steve ate it and liked it. The Christmas Day turkey wasn't as successful - I think the lid wasn't on tight so it turned into more of a buffet-eat-when-you-want thing.

We watched most of The Mandelorian via Disney Plus. Finally found out the fuss about "Baby Yoda".

Have a good day

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

Ah, man, do we HAVE to back to work?

Monday. I had a pretty good weekend. The party at the bead shop was nice; it was good to see friends. My cold is still with me. It doesn't seem to be getting worse-worse, just a bad cough but I'm blasted tired because I can't sleep at night because my breathing rattles.

I'm just about done with the Christmas bracelets. I just have to finish off the receptionists' gift for her sister-in-law after her approval of the design this morning.

I think the next one I'm going to do is going back to a pattern for a quick bracelet. Like this:

I've done even-count peyote stitch. This is odd-count peyote stitch which has a different end-of-row doohickey. I like the incorporation of the different shaped beads in this.

I finally finished the book I was reading. I'm now doing a re-read of THE OUTLAW'S TALE by Margaret Frazer. 3rd of 17 in series featuring. Dame Frevisse, a medieval nun in Oxfordshire, England:

Leaving the safety of her nunnery walls behind, Dame Frevisse is drawn into an unholy web of treachery and deceit. Waylaid on the King's Highway by a band of outlaws, Frevisse is shocked to discover that their leader is her long-lost cousin Nicholas. When he pleads with her to help him obtain a pardon for his crimes, she finds herself trapped between the harsh edicts of the law and the mercy of her vows. But even as she struggles to restore his fortunes, Frevisse must fight to save his soul... and his life. Before the outlaw's tale can be told, the saintly nun will find herself trapped in a manor house of murder, caught between the holy passions of the heart and the sinful greeds of man.

Published in 1994; 217 pages. I just wanted something simple and a sure thing.

Nothing on TV tonight. But mostly ...

Have a good day

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

Weekend now, yes.

TGIF!

Ran out of time again!

This weekend I have the party at the bead shop. Otherwise I'll be working on the two bracelets I'm commissioned to do. Hang with the boys. Sleep and try to keep this cold from getting any worse. I don't have time for it and it's the holidays.

I'm nearly finished finally with the book I'm reading -- if you can call it that. Reading. I haven't been doing that much of it which astonishes me.

Have a good weekend

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

Smoosh face and raspberry

Sorry, I ran out of time today.

Nothing on TV. I didn't bead last night so I need to bead today. I sold my rose quartz bracelet. We're having leftovers for dinner. My cold is progressing nicelythankyou. I'm glad tomorrow is Friday.

Have a good day

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

Yeahhhhh...

Wednesday.

Steve has the gun range. Tonight I have the two hour (TWO HOURS?!?) finale of The Masked Singer. It's down to the last three.


Rottweiler, who the consensus thinks is Chris Daughtry:




And Flamingo, who commonly is thought to be Adrienne somebody:



And Fox, who people are pretty positive is Wayne Brady:



The first hour if not more will be recapping all the previous episodes.

I worked on Tanner's bracelet for his girlfriend last night and finally hit upon the right combination to make a very pretty one, just about all black.

So maybe I'll be finishing that one while I watch TV. What I'd like to do is take a running start at sleep. The last couple nights I've woken up in the middle of the night and not being able to fall back asleep for a couple hours. So then I'm super tired when the alarm goes off. Bah and humbug.

I'm thinking of making a copy-cat recipe of Olive Garden's Pasta e Fagoli soup.

The cold is getting me and this just sounds good.

Have a good day

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster

Waiting to go home and bead

Tuesday. Only Tuesday.

The bracelet for Holly turned out very cool, I think.

The double spikes are much blingy-er in person. Very shiny. I have requests for two other bracelets to make similar to this for Christmas presents. One for our receptionist for her sister-in-law and one for our service manager for his girlfriend. Similar but different beads than the spikes.

So I think I'll be starting on the one for the girlfriend tonight. We'll be watching The Curse of Oak Island. "Things That Go Bump-Out":

The team unearths a new wooden structure under the sea bed at Smith's cove and a fresh lead may bring Rick closer to the 90-foot stone.

A cold is trying to get me I think. I've got a cough trying to happen.

On other news, Steve got me a huge bouquet of flowers which I found when I walked in my office this morning. No reason. The last time he got me flowers was a couple weeks ago when he bought a gun. I'm thinking from the size of these that he's mortgaged the house to get a new one. Or a tank.

At least my hobbies aren't as expensive.

Have a good day

Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster