The Sunday Salon: Trying to Get Back In The Habit and A bit of Reminiscing

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I haven't been here in a while, but am slowly getting back in the thick of things. I had a horrible readers block and struggled being here and even reading anything. I guess I just needed a break because since I have been back, I have really enjoyed writing here and also reading. I guess everyone needs a break on occasion.

Things never seem to slow down here, 2024 was a year. My husband found himself without a job for the first time since he left college ( and that was a while ago lol ) but starts work at a local bank on Monday. I have gotten used to him being home, so I feel like I am going to be lost for a week or so, but I know I will be able to get so much more done around here. We have a horrible way of talking each other out of doing things that need to be done and watching a movie or going somewhere. 

Atlas celebrated his 9th birthday not long ago. We took him and a friend from school to Incredible Pizza and they both had a great time.

They had so many games and even rides there, it wasn't really expensive so it will be a great place to go on an off day also.

We also got snow, which is not really common here, especially enough to shut down the school. It was very pretty, however, it was quickly gone

WHAT I HAVE BEEN READING....

**I have an audiobook I am listening to titled The Snowbirds by Christina Clancy

**My Voyage book from our Traveling Book Club I am reading is Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren 

** I am reading We Need To Talk About Antisemitism by Rabbi Diana Fersko ( because it is greatly needed )

I am really enjoying them all

WHAT I HAVE BEEN WATCHING...

We don't watch much TV, well if we are sitting down and doing something like I am now we watch something like Are You Being Served, but we did recently watch a really good movie 

The movie starts with Herman Melville visiting a sailor who was on the Essex Whaling Ship and hears the story from him to get inspiration for his next book. The rest of the movie is the actual story of the Ship. I did look up some facts on the ship...

The Essex was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in November 1820 in the South Pacific

It has set sail from Nantucket on August 12, 1819

The 20 crew members who survived spent three months adrift in three whaleboats, finally making it to the coast of South America

The actual sinking was the inspiration for Moby Dick, especially the story of the Essex's captain George Pollard. He also used his own experience as a whaler to write the book.

The movie was taken from the book of the same name written by Nathanial Philbrick

Have you read Melville's Moby Dick? I was never assigned to read it in either High School or University so I took it upon myself to read it at one point in the 80s. I loved it. But my family is made of sailors, maybe not whalers, but on the sea never less, so I have always loved boat stories ( I can hear my dad yelling at me through the universe " It is not a boat...it is a ship " ) I heard that so many times growing up =0)

My dad who spent 30 years in the Navy on ships and then most of the rest of his life in an actual boat, died 9 years ago on Feb 16th, he was laid to rest 9 months later in the South Pacific Ocean where he spent so much of his life and my childhood. It was his only wish, that he be buried at sea. Every year once or twice a year we drive to San Diego where I go to the Pacific Ocean to pay my respects to him. I grew up in San Diego so it feels like the right place to go!

Anyway enough of me reminiscing...I can't wait to read how your week has gone to be sure to leave your link so I can come by and visit...