We spent fall break in Costa Rica, and when I tell you it was amazing...y'all, it was amazing. I mean, feast your eyes.
It was very hard to narrow all my pictures down to only four, but I tried to pick a nice sample of all the incredible things we saw and did. There is balance in all things though, so as lovely as this trip was...of course the day after we got back, I got sick as fuck and missed my entire book fair. It wasn't COVID, so that's a plus, but I do have some kind of weird, never-ending stomach bug, so that's very much a negative. Whatever it is, I needed something to fill my time between naps on the couch and what better way to fill time than rewatch Ted Lasso for the millionth time and then rewatching it again read a bunch of books?
I started off ambitiously with a new non-fiction book I was really excited about, Yonder Come Day by Jasmine L. Holmes. VERY good, incredibly emotional. Then I realized I was probably too tired to hyperfixate on another non-fiction book, so I finished listening to an audiobook I'd started on my trip, Gemina, and moved on to the audiobook for the third book in this trilogy, Obsidio.
Now, the tricky thing about audiobooks...can't listen to them while Ted Lasso plays in the background and pretending you're absorbing both. So between audiobook listens, I also read Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett and Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills (my love for both of these is well-documented), interspersed with chapters from The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon, which is fantastic.
And while I did manage to work a half day today, today being...about a week and a half before this post is published, I am still very much sick. I'll be off tomorrow so I can go to the doctor and hopefully figure out wtf is going on with my stomach (please, I'd really like to climb again at some point, not to mention just generally be able to eat and feel normal), and while I wait for my appointment, I'll be rereading Starry Eyes, also by Jenn Bennett, my love for this also well-documented. So hey. If you have to be sick, at least there are books. And Ted Lasso.
