Unfortunately I am sure I'd enjoy this a whole lot more if I wasn't ment to have finished it by class tomorrow :( but no hahahha once again I have procastinated it, also I may be in need of a family tree

Now that I'm in university, I've started tracking textbooks on book tracking apps, too. It seems a bit like cheating to me, but considering that they take up a large part of my reading time and that they are very discursive essays so... What do you think? For those who are studying, do you take them into account too or am I the crazy one?

What this book really highlighted for me was the importance of community. And maybe if you live in a small town it can be all of your neighbours, but if your like me and live in the city with too many people around (and ironically no direct actual neighbours hahaha) you might have to look somewhere else for it, but it is still so important. For me, this is my church community.

For me this was extra evident in that I read this book the day after a (church) friends wedding. And while our community deffenitely has a lot more we could be doing, there are so many tiny ways that we support each other that I'm so greatful for. Wherenever someone has a baby, a meal train is organised. People bring boxes of extra fruit from their trees to share. And for this wedding, so many people did so many things to make the couples dream wedding come true in a way they could afford. I, and others, baked. People set up and packed down the venues. The dresses and dinner (though still paid for) were made by friends. I currently have the bride's bouquete hanging in my laundry to dry. And one day, when I get married, I don't expect her to bake. But I don't need her to. I didn't do it in the hope that one day she might do the same for me. But I know that she, and so many of the others, will do what they can for me when that day comes, and on so many days before and after.

I guess I'm just super greatful for my community, and hope to keep growing a gift economy in whatever ways that I can.

"There was a dead girl in my aunt's bakery."

Now that's a good opening. And I already like Mona, she has humour.

DAMN! No need to call me out like that! 😭

“You shouldn’t lie till ten. There’s the very prime of the morning gone long before that time. A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o’clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”

Am I the only one that got the ick that instead of subtly alluding to their appearances, in half a page we get told flat out that Nick is a blonde Scot Foley and Anna is Audrey Hepburn 😓 I like to do my own casting 🥲