Chey’s Lounge

I haven’t been as stressed and overwhelmed today as I had been feeling most of the past few weeks. I haven’t really recovered any brain capacity, but I don’t feel my brain actively overheating, so maybe that will come in time. That is, of course, as long as the stress stays at this more manageable level. I’m  about 1/3 of the way through my book. I may as well divulge the title, it isn’t really an embarrassing book. It’s called Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson. I’m enjoying it so far. 

When I was younger, I’d feel like nearly every book I read was my favorite book. I really enjoy when I’m able to get into something. I’m not one of those people who never does, but sometimes I fool myself into thinking I’m too busy to read. That excused worked when I was in school, but right now, there’s really no excuse to not be reading a book. Well, I think I may have just realized why I haven’t been reading as much lately. I am technically in the middle of a different book, but it’s more dense than I’m accustomed to for a leisurely read. I feel like I need to be in the right headspace to read it. Another thing… I don’t love reading multiple books at a time. (I want to add a kind of aside here… I basically use ellipses the same way LLMs spit out the em dash). Anyway, sometimes I block myself off from reading for months at a time because I just don’t want to start another book, but I can’t bring myself to finish the one I’m reading. Well, I guess I may as well divulge the name of that book too! It’s actually the second book of a trilogy. I feel like if I get through like 50 more pages, I will get to a point where my desire to know what happens next outweighs my indolence. Okay, okay, my bad, it’s the second book in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series, Children of Ruin. I don’t remember exactly when I finished the first book, but it was definitely over a year ago. Maybe I should try to read it again soon. 

Omg, you’re not going to believe this (you likely will, actually). I just had the thought, “I wonder when I’m gonna have time to get into that though?” LOL. Like girl!! Make time, all you need to do is do it, you have hardly any real obligations. I’m easily distracted and am addicted to social media. I need to force my brain to do “hard” things more! Imagine I actually tried to read something really dense? Well, I mean, that’s just a leisure activity, isn’t it? That’s for retired people. I hope I can retire one day… I have a lot of reading to do.