The Last Vestiges of Christmas
Jan. 2nd, 2025 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cornerofmadnessMom and I headed into Pittsburgh to the Phipps Conservancy to see their holiday display before it gets dismantled over the weekend. My SiL was meant to come but she was having a bad health day. My young cousin met us there. It was a minor miracle that I drove straight into the heart of Pittsburgh without slowing down once. If you're from around here you know how that never ever happens (all the traffic gets funneled into an old two lane tunnel then across our multitude of bridges).
It was gorgeous as I expected and what wasn't expected was the ropes and signs shunting people along so they must have had HUGE crowds at this. Today wasn't bad. There was a group of caregivers who were taking around a group of developmentally delayed people, one of which who attached himself to me, very concerned he had shut a door that was meant to remain open and he would be in trouble. I got him calmed down and back to his caretaker.
Three generations, my cousin, mom and me
I forgot this yesterday
What I Just Finished Reading:
Once Upon a Seaside Murder - this was...not great
Murder on Marble Row - I liked this one
What I am Currently Reading:
The Lost House - icelandic noir arc, I want to slap this protagonist
To Slip the Bonds of Earth - a historical mystery, basically a RPF (which is funny since I won't read that but I'll read historical people being turned into sleuths but they're rarely good. This one isn't bad)
What I Plan to Read Next: starting on the popsugar challenge, 50 books to get thru
December's Books. You know the drill. I love talking books so let's talk about whatever strikes your fancy off the list
Wormwood mystery
Blue Baby mystery
Devil's Food Cake Murder mystery
Dinghai Fusheng Records Vol. 1 danmei fantasy
Murder on Marble Row mystery
The Vanishing at Smokestack Hollow: A Missing Family, a Desperate Plan, an Unsolved Mystery true crime
And the only community rec I have right now is one I've done before![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
lyricaltitles is running a new writing challenge and ooo yeah another repeat comment_bingo
It was gorgeous as I expected and what wasn't expected was the ropes and signs shunting people along so they must have had HUGE crowds at this. Today wasn't bad. There was a group of caregivers who were taking around a group of developmentally delayed people, one of which who attached himself to me, very concerned he had shut a door that was meant to remain open and he would be in trouble. I got him calmed down and back to his caretaker.
Three generations, my cousin, mom and me
I forgot this yesterday
What I Just Finished Reading:
Once Upon a Seaside Murder - this was...not great
Murder on Marble Row - I liked this one
What I am Currently Reading:
The Lost House - icelandic noir arc, I want to slap this protagonist
To Slip the Bonds of Earth - a historical mystery, basically a RPF (which is funny since I won't read that but I'll read historical people being turned into sleuths but they're rarely good. This one isn't bad)
What I Plan to Read Next: starting on the popsugar challenge, 50 books to get thru
December's Books. You know the drill. I love talking books so let's talk about whatever strikes your fancy off the list
Wormwood mystery
Blue Baby mystery
Devil's Food Cake Murder mystery
Dinghai Fusheng Records Vol. 1 danmei fantasy
Murder on Marble Row mystery
The Vanishing at Smokestack Hollow: A Missing Family, a Desperate Plan, an Unsolved Mystery true crime
And the only community rec I have right now is one I've done before
lyricaltitles is running a new writing challenge and ooo yeah another repeat comment_bingo
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Date: 2025-01-03 12:40 pm (UTC)I'm glad you got there with no issues.
(Isn't it just two generations? *g*)
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Date: 2025-01-03 03:49 pm (UTC)actually no it's three, my cousin's mother and I are the same generation, my cousin T is the one that comes behind me by 25 years or should I say three gen adjacent. There will be no third direct gen in my line. Neither me nor my brother had kids
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Date: 2025-01-03 10:20 pm (UTC)There's a definite resemblance between you and your mom.
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Date: 2025-01-04 05:34 am (UTC)Yes some, though I tend to take after my father more
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Date: 2025-01-04 08:49 pm (UTC)Oh, I see!