My opinion of TicTok: Spend hours and hours watching hundreds of really stupid videos then you’ll be rewarded with one clever or funny video! Then repeat. HaHa! But the hide-the-duck TicTok idea has been kind of a fun activity!
While we were in Scandinavia, my daughter-in-law gathered some other family members together and basically recreated this TicTok video at our house (Link to video here).
We got home and after being gone 2+ weeks we immediately started some laundry. My husband found a small plastic duck in the Downey UnStoppables jar. He thought that was a bit weird but thought the company added it for some reason. Then…we found another duck in the cookie jar…just sitting there alone at the bottom. Then we knew something was up! We texted our family and asked what was going on. They played dumb!…”What?”, they said!
We’ve found about 85 of the 110 ducks so far. One son says we probably won’t find all of them until we move out of this house! Goodness! I keep trying to have one son play “Hot & Cold” with me for a few of the remaining ones, but he refuses. Too funny!
Have a fun Friday. I hope you do or learn something NEW!
It’s been a while since I’ve participated in Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness photo challenge. I thought I’d try these bikes that were parked on a bridge over a canal in Amsterdam. Passing under the bridge on a boat and being almost under the bridge gave me the vantage point of not getting other buildings and whatnot in the shot. Now I want to go dig out my bike and go for a spin!
Have a great day! I hope you do or learn something NEW!
I’ve noticed a few #WOYBS What’s On Your BookShelf posts lately, so I thought I’d write an update on my quest to read a book from every genre listed on GoodReads (original blog HERE). I started this challenge/quest around the first of July.
Unfortunately, I haven’t read anything that has overwhelmingly WOWED me (yet!). Here’s hoping that book is right around the corner! Here’s what I’ve read/listened to so far, plus my GoodReads star rating (looks like A LOT of very average 3 stars!).
Art: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon (3 stars).
Biography: Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman (3 stars)
Business: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance (3 stars)
Chick Lit: Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks (3 stars)
Children’s: TBR
Christian: Forgiving What You Can’t Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That’s Beautiful Again (2 stars)
Classics: TBR
Comics: TBR
Contemporary: Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid (3 stars)
Cookbooks: TBR
Crime: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara (3 stars)
Ebooks: TBR (although I’ve read multiple books via Ebooks!)
Fantasy: Six of Crows (currently listening to)
Fiction: Homecoming by Kate Morton (3 stars)
Gay and Lesbian: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (3 stars)
Graphic Novels: TBR
Historical Fiction: Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill (3 stars)
History: The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s Ten-Year Road Trip by Jeff Guinn (3 stars)
Horror: TBR
Humor and Comedy: How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur (3 stars)
Manga: TBR
Memoir: TBR
Music: TBR
Mystery: Little Big Lies by Liane Moriarty (3 stars)
Nonfiction: The Tale-Tell Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human by V.S. Ramachandran (3 stars)
Paranormal: TBR
Philosophy: TBR
Poetry: Three Stories and Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway (3 stars)
Psychology: TBR
Religion: A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (3 stars)
Romance: TBR
Science: This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin (3 stars)
Science Fiction: TBR
Self Help: Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brene Brown (3 stars)
Suspense: TBR
Spirituality: TBR
Sports: TBR
Thriller: The Whistler by John Grisham (3 stars)
Travel: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts (3 stars)
Young Adult: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (3 stars)
And that’s it! Feel free to recommend any great books in the genres I still need to read.
Have a great day and do or learn…or READ something NEW!
We’ve been back home from our 16-day trip to Scandinavia for a week now. This will be a short post because I’m still very busy trying to catch up with work etc., but I wanted to upload a few photos {but how do I choose!?!).
I guess that’s “a few” haha! These are all SOOC (straight out of camera), so when I get time, I’ll grab more that need a bit of editing and post those.
It was fun to visit somewhere NEW to me. Have a great day and do or learn something NEW to you!
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