Ramblings of a Thirty-Something

I have an ugly baby. Not a literal baby, friends. Calm down. Sorry if I spooked you. No, this ugly baby is not a living, breathing human. It's a book. Well, it's like the precursor to a book. It's a draft. An ugly, ugly, ugly draft. Let me back up a little bit. If you are a "regular" reader of my blog, you might recall back in November I said I was participating in something called National Novel Writing Month {or NaNoWriMo for short}. The goal of that project is to write 50,000 words in 30 days - or the first draft of a novel, essentially. I "won" NaNoWriMo, but I didn't finish the novel. I wrote all 50,000+ words, but the story just wasn't finished yet. So this April, I participated in Camp NaNoWriMo. Basically, that's just a shortened version, where you set your own word count goal for the month. And so I pushed through the month of April, and I finished my draft. It is done, and the beautiful thing {the only  beautiful thin

I can't believe it's the first Wednesday in May. It feels like I just wrote my April list... Oh well, moving on! Maybe I will be able to write the June entry not from my house. I don't know where I'd go to do it...I'll just go to a random coffee shop simply to do it from somewhere else. My Current Books Right now, I'm rereading Anne of Green Gables . Such a good, wholesome, nostalgic read! And since I got the 1980s mini-series on DVD a few Christmases ago, I am definitely watching that when I'm done! Now I have done a lot of reading during the quarantine time, so while I'm not reading these right now, these are the books I have read in entirety during this time: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell The Reluctant Warrior  by Mary Connealy Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate Sophia's War  by Avi Don't Overthink It  by Anne Bogel The Lost Lieutenant by Erica Vetsch Twisted Twenty-Six by Jan