I just finished wrapping presents for Christmas morning. It isn’t ALL the presents I need to wrap, just all the presents for now… I don’t love wrapping because I start off with dreams of beautiful bows and perfect edges and end up not wanting to waste paper and taping together multiple used edges to make “leftovers” paper, jagged edges be damned. A package from me is either beautiful or hideous. There is no in between.

I also just finished an audiobook and reviewed it over at GoodReads:

The Coroner’s Lunch by Colin Cotterill
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book was included in my Audible membership, and I needed something light (but not without intrigue) and less than a billion hours long to get me over a recent reading/listening slump. This was the PERFECT book. Less than an 8 hour listen, a mystery with many layers, and even some political and historical lessons thrown in for good measure.

I liked it so much that I am going to start book #2 in the series right away. Hopefully I won’t burn though all 15 of the remaining installments too fast…

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How do you read series? All at once or spread out between other books, just one here and there to stretch your experience for as long as possible–assuming, that is, that the series is complete and you can read it all at once in much the same way you can binge a Netflix series these days???

I’m an all at once girl. If I’ve been fully invited into a world of characters and places that I enjoy, I don’t want it to end. It’s like when you get to the end of a book and realize that you’re going to miss the people you’ve come to know, but in the case of a series— you don’t have to! Just jump into the next adventure.

Speaking of adventures, I tried to find marshmallows today. Actually, I’ve been looking for marshmallows and hot chocolate for the past few months. Trader Joe’s hasn’t had its normal hot chocolate selection, and tbh I’m not sure if it’s because it’s sold out or just not available. But hot chocolate hasn’t really been in other stores much either. And marshmallows?!?!

What’s up everyone? I guess there’s a run on hot chocolate fixings a lá hallmark channel? Comfort is in big demand and short supply this year. I hope y’all have enough though. Happy holiday & merry Christmas Eve ❤️