#sodalife

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2.23.25

Saw this today with my mom. I wasn't gonna let any dating app trash take her. My parents named me after Jimmy Page so it's a birthright thing to take mom to this movie since Dad died.

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My time with HSN is coming to a close. I am so fucking thrilled. I was offered a position with better everything in another WFH setting. Many people advocated for me along the way, as well as my own experience, the bump in pay is absolutely life changing and phenomenal. July continues to provide insane life changes.

I am terrified, but lets see what else happens this year.

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Nabbed some much needed time at my in-laws lake house for the weekend. I would never leave but it's 3 hours away from my home and surrounded by nothing but corn.

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I saw this ad on Facebook and was like..... I want that color!

What is wrong with me lmao. My current color is the photo on the right. Close enough

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Tumblr desktop sounds so crazy. I forget it exists. I've been using my phone for Internet for the last 10 years and have no idea now anything looks on a desktop.

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I'm probably going to start Infinite Jest and the raisin bookmark just doesn't feel right. He should be framed for his services and commitments to Anne Rice.

I guess I'll be browsing bookmarks for a while, or just make my own since I habe a zillion stickers that should be used for something.

My husband has hinted this book may require multiple bookmarks. (77 pages of footnotes, apparently.)

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I finally finished Prince Lestat. We are finally on the book that fucking restarted this all back in 2019 when I unboxed Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis at my old thrift job. I was like wow. I have no idea what's going on in the Vampire Chronicles and now is a good idea to restart the series.

I have posted before about the journey. But here we go with Raisin Bookmark in hand.

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I am pretty disappointed in this copy of Prince Lestat. I've never had bad luck with thriftbooks before. And they did refund me for this pretty sad condition. I'm just gonna rough it out until it's time to shelve and then replace with a nicer copy.

This morning I thought about how it's kind of fitting. I started this Vampire Chronicles journey when I unboxed Realms of Atlantis at work. I hadn't really kept up with the books as a while series and had read Interview and the Vampire Lestat a few times. So I figured it was time for a proper go through.

That was probably in 2018. I took The Vampire Lestat with me to visit my family in California in 2018 and had to keep replacing it once home because every accident happened to it.

I also had 3 job location upheavals, one promotion and two car accidents. I started working from home. I started the Witching Hour the day Anne Rice and my father passed away. I read Lasher and Taltos while my husband went through one of the toughest bouts of depression I've ever witnessed. I started Blood & Gold and endured a job loss. My copy of the Vampire Armand is missing half the cover from being shoved in an enormous purse With Things. I survived since 2018 and these books have helped me through it.and Hail to the Raisin. It's been here since Queen of the Damned. We're re not done yet.....