Prank Wars

LB3 and I have an ongoing prank war. It starts pretty petty. He calls me "little sister"(totally ignoring the fact I'm older) or I poke him. Then we're off. The back and forth can last for days and I don't even remember who won last time.

If I'm honest, I enjoy it. I can't explain why. I just know that even though we try our best to one up each other, we have each other's back just as much.

But I am still devoted to winning. As older sister, I have an image to maintain. Like, they may be bigger, taller and stronger than me but that doesn't mean I can be pushed around. I can hold my own. So what if he towers over me?

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The Second Open Letter to the Ladybug in my room

  

Dear little bug,

If it's not to much to ask, can you stop exploring my room after midnight? Also, can you not fly into my ear? I almost killed you. Why were casually strolling on my PJs? Again, almost killed you.

Please just rest somewhere not on my body. It's late and I don't have the energy to play with you. I want to rest, not hunt for your tiny body in my bed. That's not my idea of a good night.

 

I do hope you are still alive. I was too tired to keep looking for your body. Here's to another night where you hopefully act more like the other ladybugs I came across in the house. I do thank you for not slamming your body into my light. That was nice.

Sincerely,

Your Reluctant Roommate

P.S. I don't want to cuddle with you. So stop trying to crawl all over my body.

We can be fans separately

  

The other night, my father was so eager to watch season 4 of Bridgerton that he started watching it without my mother. They had planned to watch it together but..... What can I say? It has good writing.

 

I was telling LB2 that there is not enough money in this world that would make me to a Bridgerton Watch Party with my father. In all truth and honesty, I can sit next to him and watch the entire Godfather Trilogy. Just not Bridgerton. If I was with my besties, we would squee through those parts. But with my Father......just open up a hole for me to slip into.

 

This is the man who covered my eyes during a kiss scene in a PG13 movie, who would yell out "Bad Word" whenever someone cussed on TV, who let me stand on his feet as he danced around the living room, who used to tell me I couldn't date until I was 30 (Huh, maybe that is why I'm still single?), and who then gave me the world's most awkward dating advice (I think we both wanted the moment to end and No, I will not share what was said). I get that my Father might have a romantic side. I just don't think either of us would be comfortable with me seeing it. He is my Dad. I'll let my mom handle that. Just as my title said, we can be fans separately.

 

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Cozy Mystery Month Matchmaker Mysteries

 I promise you all that I truly am not in to decapitation. Honestly, I'm not. I just so happened to have read this book around the same time as Losing Your Head.

Elise Sax is a talented writer who writes cozy mysteries and contemporary romance. Both are delightful journeys into fiction but today I'm going to focus on the Matchmaker Mysteries series. It is a complete series with its own completed spin-off series.

An Affair to Dismember Book 1 of the Matchmaker Mysteries series by Elise Sax

Gladie Burger just entered the Matchmaker business by letting her beloved Grandma Zelda talk her into becoming a co-owner of her business. Personally, Gladie has doubts that she can even succeed as a matchmaker as she has never even been on a date (facts,facts).

When her neighbor across the street dies, Gladie finds more than a few things weird. No ones mourning his death and his son is putting holes in the walls of the house looking for "termites". Like an itch on her brain, she just has to dig deeper to find out what happened. Only the very hot, very new police chief would rather she just set people up instead. While a brand new neighbor wants to set himself up with her. Not that she's complaining about it. But she really, really, really wants to find out what happened so...... She should be able to find out how her dead neighbor died, go on a date with her living neighbor and finally get a match made, right?

Gladie is that bestie who you know will have your back. As long as she hasn't passed out from seeing a dead body or encountered something so embarrassing, she's planning on moving into her attic and never leaving. Which, I for one, totally get. I just have a higher threshold for embarrassment. Siblings do that to you.

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Cozy Mystery Month Charlie Davies Mysteries

 This series is one that I read book one a long time ago. I didn't read more because it's an ongoing series and I hate waiting for the latest book to come out. It's demoralizing to be the sole person counting down the days and hours til a book drops.

Anyway, sorry for the mini-tangent. The Charlie Davies series is currently up to 13 books. The best way to describe Charlie is Hot Mess with anger management issues but in a endearing way. She's that snarky, argumentative bestie who life loves hating on in all the smallest, pettiest ways so she kinda plans how TP life's house and then set the paper on fire while in the heat of the moment (pun not intended). She didn't get to do that but she did key life's car.

Losing Your Head by Clare Kauter Book 1 of The Charlie Davies Mystery Series

Charlie Davies was a 19 year old cashier at small grocery store who is one bad customer away from torching the place. She decides to quit instead. She gets a new job at a private security and investigation firm and weirdly enough her first (very unofficial) investigation is to prove her childhood nemesis innocent of shooting and chopping his cantankerous uncle's head off. You know, normal stuff. Soooo, that's what she sets out to do. Hopefully, without getting herself killed. That's a bad look.

I hope you get to enjoy the madness that is Charlie. As always, feel free to leave me a message below.

Cozy Mystery Month Cambria Clyne Mysteries

 I read the first book before it got its current name. I remember laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes. When I saw that Erin Huss gave that book (and series) a rewrite and a fresh name, I had to read it.

French Vanilla & Felonies book 1 of the Cambria Clyne Mystery series

 

Cambria didn't expect to be framed for murder. She was just trying to do her job as an apartment manager and you know, avoid eviction. 'Cause being a homeless single mom was not on her to-do list. So finding out who offed her tenant is topping her to do list. That and trying to figure out how to be a apartment manager.

So, that is a very short synopsis, courtesy of yours truly. I hold this story close to my heart as it was one of the first ARCs I received and reviewed. If you can, give this one a read. It's worth it.

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Cozy Mystery Month Jane Ladling Mystery Series

 Sometimes, I like a good mystery. I don't need a nail-biting thriller that will leave me a sweaty mess (Although I could stand to lose a pound or three). I need a something warm and cozy. Hello, Cozy Mysteries!

Gena Showalter and Jill Monroe's Jill Ladling series is what we will talk about today. Do you have a mildly inappropriate sense of humor? Do you love retro fashion? Do you like to watch Ask a Mortician? Are in charge of a private graveyard? If you answered yes to any (or all) of those questions, this series is for you. I honestly think Caitlin would like this series. Just me though.

Romancing the Gravestone book 1

 

 

Jane Ladling is just doing her Grounds keeper rounds when she comes across a dead body. Well, a freshly dead body. In a grave. A hundred year old grave. So, she does what you're supposed to do. Fed her murder cat and called the sheriff.

She didn't expect the extremely hot Special Agent Conrad Ryan to show up and discombobulate her. Now she has a mystery to solve and a family curse (that exists in her mind alone) to hopefully break.

Jane is best described using a quote from the book. She is "organized chaos". She's funny, quirky, cute, and gives secondhand embarrassment out like it's participating trophies. Jane feels like that quirky friend who's social filter is half broken. She's adorably awkward.

I also suggest reading book 5 of the series after book 1 as it tells the tale of book one from Conrad's POV. His side of things is just as good.

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