President's Day Weekend's Sunday/Monday Post

Welcome to this week's Sunday/Monday Post, where I will be linking up with:

Sunday Post
Sunday Salon
Stacking the Shelves
Mailbox Monday
It's Monday, What Are You Reading?

Had a fairly quiet week.  Nothing too exciting.  In fact, I got a cold this week, so I even worked from home more than I normally would have.  I did go in on Thursday.  Ironically, Thursday was the day I wound up feeling the worst.  I'm still congested today, but I'm definitely feeling better.  If this cough would go away, I'd be completely fine.

Fortunately, I have a long weekend this weekend.  My current company is the only place I've worked where we got President's Day off.  So I get to chill over the next few days and hopefully completely kick this thing.

My cable box decided to cut off the sound this morning, which makes watching the Olympics pretty silent.  Fortunately, other things are working, and my cable box in the bedroom is working.  The cable company will be out on Sunday to take a look at it.  I was happy I could get them out so quickly.

And, as become tradition, I spent the Friday early evening of President's Day Weekend doing my taxes.  Do I know how to party or what?

Pun of the Week:

A dad took his six-year-old son to his first football game.  Afterward, he asked the boy what he thought of the game.

“It was exciting,” he replied.  “But I don’t understand why they were killing each other for twenty-five cents.”

“What do you mean?” the dad asked.

“Well, everyone kept yelling, ‘Get the quarter back!’”

This Past Week on the Blog:

Sunday - Sunday/Monday Post

Monday - Book Review: Something Whiskered by Miranda James

Tuesday - Movie Review: Sharknado

Wednesday - Book Review: Burdened Bloodline by Sarah E. Burr

Thursday - Movie Review: Adam's Rib

Friday - Book Review: Murder by Invitation Only by Colleen Cambridge

Saturday - Weekly TV Thoughts

This Coming Week on the Blog:

Sunday - Sunday/Monday Post

Monday - Movie Review: Romantic Rewrite

Tuesday - Book Review: The Queen of Poison by Robert Thorogood

Wednesday - Movie Review: Kingsman - The Golden Circle

Thursday - Book Review: The Big Boat to Bye-Bye by Ellis Weiner

Friday - Friday Post

Saturday - Weekly TV Thoughts

Book Haul:

I've got another five books to tell you about today, and they are all physical books.  They're all books I'm very excited to read and are next books in series I already know I enjoy, so expect to hear more about them soon.  As in they all went directly to my nightstand.

Up first, Alyssa Maxwell was kind enough to send me Murder at Chateau sur Mer, which is book five in her Gilded Newport series.  I'm very anxious to get back to this series.

For these next three, I took advantage of Barnes and Noble's stamp promotion a couple of weeks ago and ordered next books in series.

Up first is Fatal Fried Rice by Vivien Chien.  It's book seven in her Noodle Shop Mysteries.  Yes, I'm only about half way through the series, but I need to work harder on catching up.

I'm also trying to make some progress on Liz Milliron's Laurel Highland's series, so I got Broken Trust, which is the third in that series.

Rounding out that order, I got The Ninja's Illusion by Gigi Pandian.  I'm hoping to catch up on this series this year.  After this one, I'll only have two more to go.  This is book five in her Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt series.

My final book of the week is Europa, the newest City Spies book from James Ponti.

What I'm Currently Reading:

You know how I said I couldn't wait to get to those books?  Well, currently, I'm about half way through Europa.  I'd hoped to get a little further into it than I am today, but either way, I suspect I'll be finishing it up on Sunday.  I'm enjoying it, and I can't wait to see how things are going to wrap up.

The next book I plan to read is one I talked about getting in last week's post.   Pompeii, Paccheri, and Panic by Traci Andrighetti is a novella being used to introduce a her new series.  I haven't read anything from her, but she's been on my radar for quite a while.  This is a free story available via her newsletter.

That's it for me.  Hope you have a good week.