Living a Joyful Life

  This blog link up went up last week but I was away visiting my family so I am late to the link up party. What We're Eating This Week... I ate out a lot this week as I visiting my family. Monday, July 27th: Late lunch (sushi) Tuesday, July 28th: Out to dinner with family. I had filet mignon and mashed potatoes and we split a bunch of appetizers. Wednesday, July 29th: Caesar salad & side of pasta Thursday, July 30th: Late lunch. I went to Cheesecake Factory with my dad and a had a delicious BLT with French Fries. Friday, July 31st: Late lunch of sushi Saturday, August 1st: Early lunch of Caesar salad with grilled chicken and then at the baseball game my dad and I split a hot pastrami sandwich. Sunday, August 2nd: Hamburger with grilled onions What I'm Reminiscing About... My trips to the lake. Unfortunately, in the fall, we were informed that the place we've stayed at since I was little, was closing. We ended up not booking a new place for this summer and not going to t...

  ^Thank you to Farrah for hosting the link-up!^ I didn't read as much as I wanted to in June as I was busy watching sports but I loved all of the books I did get around to reading this month! Good Grief -Sara Goodman Confino My Rating: 4.5 stars This was Sara Goodman Confino's novel that came out last year. Her novels are so good. I would say that her books are a good mix of fiction/romance and they usually take place earlier in history. This novel takes place in the 60's. A few years ago, I downloaded one of her books for free on Kindle Unlimited that looked interesting, loved it, and then read her backlist. " A mother- and daughter-in-law. To move on, one of them will have to move out in a hopeful and hilarious novel about widowhood and family friction by the bestselling author of Don’t Forget to Write ." I thought this novel was beautiful. Sara Goodman Confino's writing is just so wonderful. Off the Record -Sara Goodman Confino My Rating: 4.5 stars This i...

  What We're Eating This Week... Monday: Cheeseburger, salad Tuesday: Pizza Wednesday: Chicken burger & steak Thursday: Chicken parm Friday: Penne alla vodka with chicken & salad Saturday: Chinese Sunady: Ravioli and pork chop What I'm Reminiscing About... My trips to the lake growing up and as an adult. What I'm Loving: The NY Knicks won the NBA Championship! What I've Been Up To... Watching the NBA and MLB, filming for my YT channel. What I'm Dreading... Nothing at the moment. What I'm Working On... My content schedule for July and August for my YT channel. What I'm Excited About... The Knicks winning the NBA Championship, my new obsession: Off Campus. What I'm Watching/Reading... Watching: NBA finals, Off Campus, Every Year After, Sweet Magnolias, MLB, college baseball. Reading: I've only read 2 books so far this month due to some eye problems I've been having but I'm hoping to squeeze in one or two more books this month as well as...

  The Anniverary -Alex Finlay My Rating: 5 stars Alex Finlay does it again. This mystery novel is so good. I love his writing. " The Anniversary is an utterly compelling story of the hunt for a serial killer. But it’s also a heartfelt—and heartrending—novel about fate, innocence lost, and two souls who find that sometimes being broken is the only way for the light to get in." I highly recommend all of his novels. To All the Boys I've Loved Before: the Graphic Novel -Barbara Perez Marquez (adapter), Jenny Han, Akimaro (Illustrator), Li Lu (Illustrator) My Rating: 3.5 stars This is the graphic novel based on To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han. I thought this graphic novel was so fun. The summer of Second Chances -K.L. Walther My Rating: 5 stars K.L. Walther is one of my favorite young adult authors and this year she came out with two novels. Her writing is so good. I love all of her characters. This is Me: A Reckoning -Hayden Panettiere My Rating: 4 stars ...

  What We're Eating This Week... Monday: Steak & salad Tuesday: Salad Wednesday: BLT Thursday: Chicken Caesar wrap Friday: Salad Saturday: Pizza Sunday: Zaxby's Chicken Bacon Ranch wrap What I'm Reminiscing About... All of my trips to visit my family while my nieces and nephews were growing up. What I'm Loving... Spending time with my mom and my cats, reading, watching sports. What I've Been Up To... Spending time with my mom, filming for my YT channel, watching lots of sports. What I'm Dreading... Nothing at the moment. What I'm Working On... My content schedule for my YT channel for June. What I'm Excited About... The NBA playoffs. The Knicks won the Eastern Conference Championship and are in the NBA finals, which start June 3rd. What I'm Watching/Reading... Watching: Never Have I Ever on Netflix, We Were Liars on Prime, season finales of tv shows I watch, NBA, Mets, Lifetime & Hallmark movies. Reading: I read 4 books and a graphic novel th...

  Thank you so much to Farrah for hosting this link-up every month! Here are the books I read in April: The Housemaid -Freida McFadden My Rating: 4 stars  This novel was so great. It was a really great thriller with lots of twists and turns. This is the first Freida McFadden novel I've read and I definitely want to read more of her novels in the future. The Housemaid's Secret -Freida McFadden My Rating: 4 stars This is the second novel in the Housemaid series and I loved it just as much as I loved the first novel. I really like this author's style of writing. Heartstopper: Volume 5 -Alice Oseman My Rating: 3 stars I was in Barnes & Noble and decided to sit in the café and read this novel. I don't like to buy graphic novels because I read them in one day and I don't find myself wanting to re-read them. Unfortunately, there's a lot of graphic novels I want to read but my library doesn't have a lot of them. I need to make a list of the ones I want to read...