Netgalley FTW

I did call out today. I stayed home and listened to audiobooks while I did some cleaning and tidying. I’m not quite finished turning my spaces into non-disaster zones yet, but they’re definitely a lot closer to looking like safe areas to walk and live than they were when I got up this morning. It was nice listening to romances while I worked. I do love my trashy romance novels. I finished one book this morning and then listened to another two novellas over the course of the day. I’ve started another one that I’m hoping will be fun--it’s a gay pirate kidnapping someone romance and honestly, I am just here for these things. Today I finished a book with a romance between a guy in the closet and his mom’s younger husband’s best friend. THE SCANDAL. It was glorious. It was also super hot because it was totally a Dom/sub erotic romance and just yes, yes, yes. So hear for it. One of the other’s I listened to was a sequel to a fireman romance novella I read a few weeks ago. The other one I read was a cute little rebound romance. So cute. 

I do kind of want to read the other books in the Soulless series and I’d rather listen to them because it’s so much easier for me to find time to listen to books than it is for me to find time to READ read books and I have so very many books to READ read as it is. I may or may not have requested more books from NetGalley and then gotten approved for them. Which means I’ve gotten like three… or four more books from them to read and review. And I have also been checking to see if the next book in the Custard Protocol books got added to the available to request list because I’ll sure as shit be requesting it if it’s on there. I know I’ll probably need to post a few more reviews before I’d get that one if it even does become available. Both Prudence and Imprudence, as well as several other titles by her, were available for request at some point so I have high hopes that the next one will be as well. I feel like the odds are good which means I just have to get my review rating up some more and make sure I look like I’m actively reviewing books. I feel like with those two things combined, I should have a good shot at getting the book I’ve been surprised by some of the opportunities I have had--two of Molly Harper’s new ones, one of Nalini Singh’s new one, a bunch of Annabeth Albert’s, and several of Shelly Laurenston/G. A. Aiken’s books, not to mention a mess of other books. It’s wonderful. I’m so thankful to have this opportunity. 

I forgot to mention that yesterday I went to get my measurements done by the nurse yesterday. I haven’t lost much more weight BUT I have lost ¼ - ½ inches off every part of my body she measures and 1% body fat which means that even though my weight hasn’t really changed much (like .2 pounds lower) it means I’m still doing good things and I’m headed in the right direction. I still need to do better about sugar overall and watch my calories better, just in general. I haven’t been watching them at all the last couple of weeks and I’ve been eating pretty indiscriminately as well as nearly nonstop and as they say, “you can’t out train a bad diet.” I never intended to make myself go on a great diet or anything, but I have been eating excessively poorly the last couple of weeks and that’s just no good.

I really need to head to bed. I’m getting up early for the gym with dad in the morning, likely before I go back to bed, lol. Maybe take a shower first.