Welcome to the Sunday Post, a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer to share weekly news and updates on what we’ve been up to on our blog, with our books, and book-related happenings.
Our Music is Out!
Last week my husband and I finally released some original music that we’d been working on for ages and ages and ages!! It’s our first collaboration album under the band name SpaceBlaze; we released three songs on Monday but there are more coming soon, so please take a listen and if you like it, please bookmark and come back for the rest!
I have been so excited to share this for such a long time but there have been so many unexpected delays and setbacks because we’re doing everything on our own; from conception to creation, to recording, post-production, and publishing. We had no idea what we were doing!! But we made it, finally!
It’s not perfect, obviously, but I hope you’ll enjoy the effort and I appreciate any feedback!
We’re also on other music platforms, so if Spotify doesn’t work for you, feel free to listen on whichever ones you use. My husband has also released some instrumental covers under the name GuitarLone, if you’re interested in checking that out!
In other news, I had my first exam on Wednesday and got my results back already! The bad news is that I made some silly mistakes, the good news is that I got an A anyway! Yayy! And the next exam is in two weeks… yay…😅
I’m still struggling a little with time management and I’m falling behind on almost everything but I’m feeling just a tiny bit better about it this week because the instructors have graciously extended the due dates for a couple of assignments that were originally due this weekend.
I need to chill and remind myself that as long as I pass the courses, I’m happy! I don’t need to have perfect grades! I don’t need to have a clean house! I can wear my dirty clothes several times before they start smelling! I’m sure the people covering their noses when I get close were just having allergies! I can make my husband cook every day for the foreseeable future, or just eat bread and cereal! For every meal! Sounds like a plan.
The Books
Books I read last week:
- Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman – The second book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. More fun, more hijinks. I already love Carl and Donut, but I also love that we are seeing more of other characters. I’m not sure I can say much without giving away spoilers, but I have to say that I can’t imagine a more adorable pet for Donut than Mongo!
- The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook by Matt Dinniman – This one was a lot more emotional for me than the first two. Yes, the books are fun and hilarious, but the things that happen in the book are also kind of f’d up and traumatizing, and I think it’s good that they take it seriously and remind us of that occasionally. I love how we are seeing the characters grow and develop more depth.
Books I’m reading:
- The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman – Just started at Ch 2. I can’t seem to stop reading about Carl and Donut!
- A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher – I love Kingfisher and I really want to read this book but I’m on a roll with DCC, and the only reason I also started this book is because it’s a borrowed library book and there’s a deadline, and I want to make sure I finish it before I have to return it!
Last Week on The Blog
Just the Top Ten Tuesday for the week.
This Week
At this point, I’m not sure if I’ll get to any of my intended TBR for the month since I have been very engrossed in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series and absolutely loving them! I would love to finish the whole series back-to-back, but I do want to finish A Sorceress Comes to Call before I have to return it, and I also have an in-person bookclub happening the coming weekend and I need to read the BOTM!
How was your week? I hope you had a great week last week, and I hope you have a great one again this week!
I’ve been contemplating reading Dungeon Crawler Carl, but wasn’t sure if it’d be my thing. The library has it and it works for a challenge next month, so I guess I’ll put it on hold and give it a shot!
I really need to get round to A Sorceress Comes to Call, too…
Well done on getting an A. And yikes, another exam already?!
Thank you! I really hope you do end up enjoying Dungeon Crawler Carl. I’m on Book 5 now and it’s just been getting better and better for me!
Congrats on the musical releases! I’ll add SpaceBlaze and GuitarLone to my list of stuff to give a listen to – I leave my headphones on for most of my 50+ hours of work each week. LOL And great job on the first exam! My daughter’s program cuts some classes in half to go with others, so she’s already on final projects somehow! :O
Final projects already?! I’m not at final projects yet, but I am doing the accelerated courses because one is a pre-requisite of the other.
And thank you! I hope you enjoyed the music if you managed to get to them! It’s scary putting stuff out there but if even one person enjoys them, it’s worth it!
Happy Sunday!
Thank you!
That’s exciting about your music releases. I’m glad you are doing well in school. Your time management choices may not be mine. But dusting – that can be left for months! We are also fans of snack meal – bread or crackers, cheese, sometimes summer sausage, apples, or grapes, peanut butter, etc. Sandwiches are pretty easy too.
Anne – Books of My Heart This is my Sunday Post
Thank you so much for the tips! It’s an adjustment for sure, and a real examination of how to take care of the real priorities!
Congrats on the music release! Love that you and your husband do that together.
Thank you!! Our love of music is one of the things that brought us together.
Congrats on the music release and getting an A. Just febreeze your clothes and wait until the semester is over to catch up on laundry!
Thank you! And yes, that’s a great idea! Laundry can wait 😂
How wonderful that you have released three original songs! Do you need a guitar player (albeit not a very good one)?! lol
Congratulations on making an A! I think you are doing remarkably well on time management.
Thank you! I would be so happy to have you play guitar for us!! 😍
Congrats on the music, yay! I just signed up to Spotify to follow your songs. Like them! Keep going with the music …. and good luck with school. Cheers.
Thank you!! I hope you enjoy the music!