What's Happening...(03-23-19)

So I'm doing things a tad bit differently this year and will be combining all of my regular weekend posts.  This will enable me to add more content on Fridays and it is just starting to make more sense.  I'll still be linking up with Stacking the Shelves at Tynga's Reviews and Sunday Post at Caffeinated Reviewer.  Both blogs are awesome so make sure you check them out.

I can't believe that March is almost over.  March Madness has started and while I'm not a huge college basketball fan Mr. Barb and I always play a bracket against each other.  After the first round, we've each won 24 games.  I've already done better this year than last.

So hold on for a vent.  Mr. Barb's gall bladder has healed nicely and he has been able to eat some foods he has missed without an issue.  That's all great but darn it, he's hurt his neck and shoulder muscles somehow and then made the injury worse by using too much heat.  We went to a medical express place today and he got a prescription which will hopefully help but man, I'm about to either run away from home for a week (and take the dogs - maybe) or lock myself in a room and ignore everyone.  I'm a caretaker by nature but between my Mom and her dating madness, Mr. Barb and Gpa, I'm running on fumes!  Okay, rant over and I still love them all.  

We've not found too many new movies to watch this week so we started watching an older series - Sons of Anarchy.  We really only watched the last 3 or so seasons so we missed a lot.  It's giving us something to fill the time during the evenings when we would normally stream new releases.  Of course Season 2 of Sabrina starts in 2 week and next week Season 3 of Santa Clarita Diet starts so I'm excited about that.

I've got two books I'm focusing on this weekend.  Stormi and I have both started out second buddy read of the month, "In the Valley of the Sun," which I'm about 23% into and then I'm about 24% into "The Homecoming" by Andrew Pyper.  I'm actually liking "The Homecoming" better at this point but there's still plenty of book left in both so my opinion may change.

I managed to pick up two holds from my not-so-local library (which is still less than 5 miles away) on Thursday.  I can't wait to pick up "A Curse So Dark and Lovely" especially since Stormi really liked it and it is a Beauty and the Beast retelling.  I am also curious about "The Dead Queens Club" since it's a mix of Mean Girls and The Tudors. 

And finally, I grabbed a few books from Penguin's First to Read program the past few weeks.  I'm excited for them all but don't know when I'll find time to read them.  But I will!  "The Den" was already on my wishlist so I couldn't resist.  I'm not sure I'll like it but it's fairly short so we will see. "Waiting for Tom Hanks" is not a type of book you normally see here but I do have a fondness for the man and grew up with his rom-coms in the 90's so I do think I'll enjoy it quite a bit.  "The Affair of the Mysterious Letter" has tentacles on the cover so need I say more?  And finally, I've been wanting an early copy of "The Department of Sensitive Crimes" so when I saw my chance I took it.

So I hope you all got lots of good books this week so you can share them with me.  I may need more if I plan an escape.  Of course, I may need bail money too :)