It sure has been a while since I shared anything here. Almost 5 months since I last put fingers to keyboard.
I've 3 more reviews to complete for my #aww2014 challenge (Franklin) and looking back thru my Goodreads list I've definitely got enough titles to choose from...
Dancing on Knives by Kate Forsyth
Beams Falling by P. M. Newton
and a selection of romance titles by Sara Bennett
It's weird. After being way ahead in my Goodreads 2014 Reading Challenge, I'm now 2 books behind. I read Brent Week's The Broken Eye last month. It's the third book in his Lightbringer series. I didn't read anything after finishing it for four weeks. I couldn't. I almost didn't know how to. Four whole weeks. Yes. He's that good. His characters are that good. The story is that good.
But then I simply picked up a book (Melissa Marr's Carnival of Souls) and found myself back on track. Immediately followed by John Scalzi's Lock In. And just last night I finished Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl. It seemed only appropriate to follow up such a big book with such amazingly talented authors.
And that's what has led me here today. I realised as I was reading Fangirl that is simply ages since I've blogged anything. Life has caught me up in its crazy fast lane and I've forgotten how to get off. So today, my first rostered day off in ages when I have made myself simply stay at home and potter around; when I have cancelled all appointments and ignored all my to-do lists; I have simply been. Been in the moment and in the now. I even refused to take my kids to school (I asked my eldest to do it instead, he was going in anyway).
It feels wonderful. Like breathing in the sweet smell of freshly brewed herbal tea. Like smelling that proverbial rose.I've still done things. Yes the washing got done and most of the dishes are drying and okay I did completely reorganise the linen press but they're small inconsequential things. Things that needed doing anyway. It's been lovely. Every day should be like this.
Open windows, music cranked, sunshine, breezes, the smell of freshly brewed coffee....
* happy sigh *
CatyJ
