The Weekend + A New Car!!!!

 The Weekend....who doesn't love the weekend? I guess if you work weekends, than I get it, not a fan of the weekends.

Me...personally, I love the weekends, now that I am not having to work every Saturday from April through the end of October. You know how much you are missing out on, but you don't really know until you are no longer working them! I will say, I the people I work with at my old job, but I do not miss the 6 days a week from April through October. The paychecks were also nice, but I missed out on so much....not just the big things, like the oldest football games, soccer games, etc, but the smaller things. The spending the afternoon with the nephews and niece, the being able to run to the store when needed rather than after work, or making a last minute shopping trip and not having to worry about trying to get it off work or taking the day and going to Fort Wayne car shopping and spending the day with the hubby.  On that note.....

I GOT A NEW CAR!!  LOL. well, not a car, but a new van. We were leasing a 2018 Chrysler Pacifica and we ended up going down to start at the Kia dealer and we ended up at the Toyota dealer and they bought out my lease! YAY! because I did not want to buy the Chrysler. My husband and father in law worked for a Chrysler factory and they closed their doors and shipped it to Mexico, so I refused to give Chrysler anymore of my money, plus...this deal was too good to give up.

So, I ended up with a 2021 Toyota Sienna Hybrid in white (we live on a dirt road). 3 days in and I am in love with it! It has a 12.5" screen, a moon roof, a larger storage area behind the third row seat. Yes, it is considered a van, but let me tell you the front, looks nothing like a fan. It is soooo comfy. Bucket seats, rubber floor mats. I love it.

I also get to start it, lock it and unlock right from my phone! It is sooo cool. (As you can tell, I am easily amused..LOL). 

Back to the weekend....I am hoping to get my potatoes into the garden this weekend. They were suppose to be in by Good Friday, but that definitely was not going to happen!

Books

 Let's talk books, shall we?!

I have many favorite authors, that I buy without reading them! Does anyone else do that besides me? LOL.

You should check out some of my favorites below!

Please submit your favorite books in the comments below. I always love to find new authors!

I will warn you I do love romance books with lots of sex. I mean like dirty, sexy, sex!

BUT...I also like good characters and a story. I rarely ever DNF (do/did not finish) a book! The story and the characters have to be really bad for me not to finish a book. I do love a series of books, but I am really into stand-alone books right now, just because I hate cliff hangers, especially when I go to find out the damn book doesn't come out for another few weeks, months or even the next year! I mean COME ON....A FREAKING YEAR...I have to deal with that cliff hanger. LOL

So here are some of my favorites, they are not all romance, but a good majority are!

Also, real quick side note....if you are an avid reader and love keeping track of your books you read. GOODREADS.COM is where I keep track of all my books. They also have a new reading goal every year. Mine is 100 books this year! We shall see. I did really good for about the first month of the year and than I tapered off. LOL. BUT...most importantly leave those authors a review and rating, even if it's as simple as "loved the book" "great characters!" Each review helps those authors.

I personally review on Goodreads, Amazon and Bookbub.

Okay....

Back to some of my favorites.....

Mia Sheridan - Archer's Voice

Ilsa Madden-Mills - Fake Fiancee, I Dare You, Not MY Romeo, Not My Match, Dear Ava...ANYTHING & EVERYTHING BY HER!!! ( I honestly have not read a bad book by Ilsa MAdden-Mills Yet!!!)

Penny reid - The Winston Brother Series

REbecca Yarros (Pre-Warning....her books have made me cry) - Flight & Glory Series

Tijan - Ryan's Bed, Anti-Stepbrother, Enemies, Cole, Teardrop Shot, Rich Prick & Hate To Love You (She has a ton more, but I have not read them all...yet)

J.k. Rowling - Harry Potter Series

Stephanie Meyers - Twilight Series

Nalini Singh - Rock Redemption Series

Christina Lauren - Beautiful Bastard Series

Aurora Rose Reynolds (ARR) - ANYTHING BY ARR!