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All the Little Liars by Charlaine Harris My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was an interesting continuation of the Aurora Teagarden series. Charlaine Harris is a strong writer and allows the reader to focus on the details of the mystery in all her books, this is no different. There are a lot of events unfolding in this mystery, and as a reader it's easy to follow along with all of the moments. Aurora's pregnancy adds to the interesting pieces and details. I love seeing how the Aurora's life is unfolding View all my reviews

C is for Cthulhu: The Lovecraft Alphabet Book by Jason Ciaramella My rating: 5 of 5 stars I loved this book and know at least one little boy that will love it just as much. The drawings are beautiful and make scary things look adorable. The descriptions are brief yet apt for anyone that enjoys lovecraft. If you have little ones in a house filled with tabletop games or other Lovecraftian impacts, I can't encourage a book any more than this one. View all my reviews I don't normally add on to my reviews, but for this one, I have to.  Board games are an important part of my life.  I love to play table top games, cards, dice a little light role play, it is all amazing and fun.  Table top games have been a part of many of the most important moments in my life.  They were how I got to know (and later marry) my husband.  I talked to my mom over skip bo the first time that I sex.  My family played board games every holiday and birthday growing up.  Play

I feel like I am recovering well from my hysterectomy .  The first post op appointment went well, and the next one is in a couple of weeks.  I am struggling with how long it takes to recover from the hysterectomy.  I know its a #FirstWorldProblem, but    I am so ready to move on with my healthy life, and don't want to wait for my body to catch up.  Also, there is a piece of my mind that says it's basically the same surgery as a c-section and those women have babies so there is no way they wait for their bodies, why wait for mine?  ( Please don't tell me that I have chronic pain conditions and thats why I got the surgery.  I know, but it is hard) the only migraines that I've had have been related to medication change.  I had to change the dosage on hormone replacement because I was on the estrodial patch and it was literally burning my skin.  I switched to the estrodial pill, and after three days of migraine have been fine ever since.  I am really excited about the pos

Skin Game by Jim Butcher My rating: 5 of 5 stars Every time I read one of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files I feel that it is the most significant book in the series, and Skin Game is no different. I believe that it could be read as an individual book, but I wouldn't recommend it that way. There are a lot of backstories going on in this book, pieces that at end do all fit together into one large complicated puzzle. Don't get me wrong, Butcher still left it open for another book, one that I will be more than happy to read. There is clearly defined action, adventure, mystery, magic, monsters and just more than a smidge of romance. I fell back in love with the old characters and was enticed by all the new ones. Everyone is holding on to their piece of the puzzle that is this book, and it was truly magic to put it all together. It was a fast read, the perfect length to satiate the need for answers. View all my reviews

Today I had what I really consider to be day one of EMDR.  EMDR is a type of therapy for trauma.  It uses your own eye movements to take the emotional charge out of traumatic moments.  I've had two sessions with this therapist, and today we worked on setting targets.  Targets are the emotionally upsetting moments of the client's (my) life that EMDR is going to focus on.  We start at the beginning and build a timeline of my life staring every upsetting thing that ever happened in my life.  I have... a lot.  I think most people have several upsetting events, even traumatic.  Not everyone can get diagnosed with PTSD.  The difference between being diagnosed with a mental disorder and not getting diagnosed comes down to one question: Is it interfering with your life?  This is true when it comes to ANY diagnosis really.  I've heard lots of people say "I think everyone is a little ADD sometimes."  What they probably mean is everyone has a little difficulty focusing so

I like to say that my hysterectomy journey began about a decade ago.  Truly, it began during the first year I had a period.  I was 12 years old, and taking a drama class.  I was about to give a presentation (pantomime)  when my head started hurting.  The pain preceded to get worse as I gave my presentation (so glad it was silent).  By the time I excused myself from class, the pain was piercing and I could hardly see.  The lights of the school hallway seemed to stream and glide off every surface and stab into my eyes.  As the pain increased, I was suddenly, and violently, nauseas. I tilted my head back and tried to run to the bathroom, but I didn't make it in time.  I went to the nurses office with some vomit lingering on my clothes.  I prayed the entire way there that no other middle schoolers would see me in my haggard state.  I would only know that the horrifying experience and pain I had was a migraine later that day when my mom was able to get off work and we discussed my sympt

Elevation by Stephen King My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book was a short, beautiful, Stephen King novel. The entirety of the novel was quaint, endearing, and at times a little mystifying. The characters were captivating, and I often wanted to reach out and hug them. Everything about it created a nicer, better world (in Castle Rock). The writing was very Stephen King, very descriptive, without any clarification around whys. Stephen King fans will be surprised at the definitive ending, I know many will be relieved. Elevation as a story was, in short, elevating. View all my reviews