Thank you for the recommendation. It sounds like a book I would really enjoy. My library doesn't have it, so I'll have to put it on my wishlist. 📚💗

Hi, hello~ I remember you telling me you liked My Side of the Mountain. It was a cute story. This year I'm going to read another children's classic to fit a prompt. I know it was read to me, but I don't think I've ever read it myself, unless I read it to Prometheus. I know what you mean, most content creators post the "best books of" or "top" books or best 24 books of the year or best 10 books, etc. ad nauseam. I know my video won't get into the algorithm, but I wanted to post something different and more thought provoking for viewers. I hope you have a safe drive home. No rain, and only light traffic, with zero accidents.

Hi, hello~ I'm so glad you responded. I needed to verify that the dates you gave are for 2025. Because some people are trying to cheat and use past years and line up all of there books before the year starts. Waiting for the months is part of the challenge imo.

LOL I read this to Prometheus and we had a great laugh. He knows I will kick his behind if he doesn't keep in line. From our home to yours; God's blessings and comfort always. Erion and Prometheus.

Glad you liked it.

Thank you Peter. The compilation was from a couple of years. We haven't had that much snow this year.

@@BookZealots That's fun to know. The picture in the thumbnail is a great one too. Nice eye glasses. lol

I will let Prometheus know. Thank you. All of that snow was from January 2022. Feb 2021 was worse, because it was in single digits with ice and we lost power for three days; no food, no tea, hardly any heat. It was bad.

Hi Angie~ I'd love for you to join in on the Bingo challenge. I'm looking forward to TBK. (I like the abbreviation).

I looked up your old account and found this book: The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo, John Michael Cohen Is this it? I'll check to see if my library has it. It sounds interesting. I put it on my tbr on goodreads, but my library doesn't have it. =/ I might go to them and put them to the test and ask them to help me find a book set in Mexico. 😁 thank you for the middle grade book rec. That one the library does have! 👍👍

The Midwife's Apprentice

Thank you Linda. I think it will be a good challenge. And shockingly, my library actually has the book you recommended. I put it in my reserve. =)

@@BookZealots I would join in but... I've done challenges like these for years... like the PopSugar Reading Challenge... 50 prompts, which I did every year from 2016 until 2021, then in 2022 I did 104 prompts with the Visual Theology Reading Challenge.. and I did some of those prompts the last 2 years. Now this year I've got something different planned. I do hope you enjoy reading books to fit all the prompts you got. I look forward to seeing where it takes you.

@@Eldertalk I've heard about the popsugar prompts, not at all Christian, that's a challenge indeed. I tried doing the theology one, but I was not impressed with it. Looking forward to what you have planned. Happy reading.

@@BookZealots The Christian prompts - he used some prompts repeatedly... within the 104. And I just don't want to read that many again. And PopSugar was okay for a few years but it got too woke for me. That's when I quit it. I like the prompts normally, but was already planning to do something different this year with exploring some specific genres in depth.

Thank you Tanya. It was fun to look back. Of course this isn't everything I learned, just a snippet. Everyone talks about, "the best 10 books I read in XX year" and I wanted to do something a little different.

The challenge is finding books I already own to fit the prompts, because my library rarely has books I want. However, because of the prompt suggestions, people are recommending books I have not read and of course the library has them. I shouldn't be surprised, but I still am. LOL I'm sure Prometheus has books regarding the Texas territory and skirmishes, but isn't that kind of cheating? 🤔 If I' desperate I'm totally calling it though. It's a challenge alright.

@ we will call it not cheating!!!!! At least I will. !!! I was looking up books on Amazon best seller list and nyt best seller list and I have some of those. Some books I have fit more than one prompt. Done prompts I have no clue.

@@user-iz6cc6lz3j-Vickie 🤣Our game, our rules? LOL The trick with the NY and Amazing best sellers are the specific months and so I have to wait to see what they are. I'm trying to do a book per prompt and not double dip. What are done prompts?

@ can it be the same month but in a past year for nyt and amazon bestsellers. Ok!! No double dipping!!!!

@@user-iz6cc6lz3j-Vickie No, the challenge is for this year. LOL You have me cracking up Vickie.

Thank you for the recommendations! I appreciate them. Shockingly my library has a copy of both books.It had crossed my mind to test the librarians with some of these prompts. It helps open their eyes to what they are missing. this has happened twice at two different library's. One was zero books about the Magna Carta and the second was zero books on the Great Depression. Crazy, right? I think I've seen the show Call the Midwife. How close is it to the book?

@ You are welcome! It was fun to think of some prompts. It’s been a while since I’ve read the Call the Midwife trilogy. I think there are some broad stroke similarities, but I don’t remember recognizing any specific characters or situations. I live in a small town. The library is beautiful but the shelves have more empty space than used. It’s a shame I can find more books to read from the jam-packed shelves of The Friends of the Library. I know you get headaches from ebooks. Have you tried changing the color - I read white print on black background and it has made a world of difference for me.

@@nancyegee2804 I don't know how to change the backgrounds on ebooks, it would be read on my computer. I could try it. But the ebooks still come from the library and my library is very much like yours. The town we're closest to is about 2600, so we go to the bigger library and that town is about 12k, but the magna carta issue was in a town of over 300k: Lexington, KY. I'm going to try and figure out how to change the background on my computer. Thank you for the suggestion for that AND the books. 🤗

That sounds fun. 👍

I'm willing to consider kid's books. Thank you Elizabeth! I'll check my library. 🤞

Thank you James~ I appreciate your enthusiasm. I already have On Hallowed Ground on my goodreads to read. If you talked about it, that's probably why it's on my list. Sadly, my library doesn't have it. Would you happen to know how much acreage was given back to the Lee descendant? This is great news. In the book I read, the Lee's weren't offered money for the house/property and their tax payment was refused. I know the home was used during the war. But it was illegally seized. Now I'm curious about why the gov offered money for the home/property. They knew they had illegally seized it. And it sounds like the descendent was a sell out. I would have taken the home and property and just left the soldiers. It was 1100 acres and the civil war cemetary was about 200. Absolutely I would have taken it back.

@@BookZealots If I remember correctly the Government rewarded Him (the descendent) back the land. He now owned the land. The reason they offered him money was because the Government now wanted to buy and own the land because by that time the cemetery was well established and it would have cost a fortune to dig up every grave and move every monument to different land. Plus that section of land was so conveniently located near Washington D.C. The Government at first didn't consider it illegally seized because of the war and then they said Mrs. Lee didn't pay the taxes, but she did TRY to pay the taxes and that is how they won it back. I considered that book to be my number one favorite book of 2024. -James. edit: And the descendent did what was considered the Right Thing by selling it back. If I remember it was by then around early 1900s?

@@BookZealots P.S. I have misplaced my copy of the book( The Black Hole) so I can't remember everything about it.

@@Littlebiglibrary That black hole is so dangerous. Don't fall into it. No worries on the book. I still plan on reading it; when I can find it. =)

ah racing in TJ? I had no idea. I'll check to see if my library has it. Thank you. Cheers to your smart kiddo who recommended it to you.

I have the pirate prompt! And my husband swapped out a couple others and said "you'll like these much better". I'm missing 8 for a blackout. A couple we have books, we just can't find them.

Who will you be reading about for priate prompt? My library is a bust. I might not be able to get a black out. It will depend on them entirely. I might go to the librarians and show them how deplorably inadequate their selection is. LOL I'm feeling salty today.

@BookZealots We actually had a pirate section in our bigger library. Who knew? (I need to go through there more often!) We have a book called "The Mammoth Book of Pirates" by Jon E Lewis and it has a section on women pirates. Apparently, they were deadlier than the men. The whole book is about 450 pages.

@@Fernie4243 🤣📚📚 Oh my goodness you'll never need a library. You have all the books. LOL You're going to have to start making videos, (I'm singing thist), because I want to hear about all the awesome books you have. LOL

@BookZealots I made one a couple weeks ago to see how I'd do and I did better than I thought. I made Joel watch it and he said it was good, that "you sound calmer than you are in real life". LOL I'm trying to figure out the technical bits.

That's wonderful. I'm happy to hear you were able to do that at your library. Did they charge you extra for it? I heard the public library was starting to do this. I hope you find each one worth reading.

@@BookZealots, no. My library is part of a statewide system that transfers book free of charge. It is wonderful and allows greater access to books.

@@ExieB Mine used to be like that, but my smaller library said they're now charging for requests. =( wah, it makes more sense for me just to buy; they already get my tax money and now I have to pay extra? smh. 🤷‍♀

Hi Sweety. It's so good to see you.I hope you're having a fabulous rest of your year.

Yes, Samuel was a troublemaker. John Adams certainly wasn't perfect, he made bad decisions, but he was more upstanding, imo. I wonder if lord Darnley was a narcissist and was able to woo and trick Mary queen of Scots? Yes, I agree about the union gov stealing the land from Lee and his wife. The gov is wicked. I don't think I'll ever go visit Arlington, but now, I don't think I even have a desire to visit. Hopefully more people will start questioning the myths taught as facts. The propaganda was in full force, even then. I still need to read The South Was Right. thank you for watching and your encouraging comments. 🤗

Thank you Linda. Yes! there is so much to learn. 📚📚📚📚📚📚

Thank you Tahlia. 🤗💗

I have one more Sowell book in my inventory and it's Race and Culture. Uncle Tom's Cabin is a bit dramatic (as per books of that time), and there's one part that was written in newspapers. I was familiar with that part and had to look it up when I read it in the book. It's a book I kept and I plan to re-read it.

Wow, all of Goldsworthy's books. That's impressive. It took me so long to read Devil in the White City. My California bookworm friend told me about it ages ago. Probably close to when it was published. I can't imagine re-reading it though. I have three other books by Kearns that I want to read. there are so many good books, it's hard to decide which ones to read.

It was the first book I'd read solely about Samuel Adams and I'm glad I read it. I like Schiff's writing. But yeah, not a great man. A bit of a trouble maker. Interesting question that I don't think I've thought about before. 🤔 I don't think I end up vehemently disliking someone that is long gone. I'll need to think on it. I do get passionately upset if the person is still alive and they're wicked or prefer to stay ignorant or liars. yes, them I get vehemently frustrated about. I know what you mean about the attacks against Washington Roebling though. I'm sure I wrote notes in the book or underlined parts.

Thank you. I hope you enjoy all the books you read. 💗📚

LOL I don't think it was that far back. That's the WAY BACK machine. 1999 maybe?

Thank you. It sure was. It will be made again.

Hi Sue! My first "health" video explains why I started this. It's to show support for another content creator Little Big Library, who wants to get to 199 by his birthday in February. And some of us are encouraging him. My main goal is toning my muscles. And in order to see the definition, body fat needs to be lost. 💪😁 Glad to see you drop in and glad you were able to find what worked for you. Did your doctor give you a diet for the hypothyroidism?

Have you watched the documentary of Forks Over Knives? Prometheus and I watched it for his health education for homeschool. We borrowed it from the library but I think it's on youtube. All this to ask, do you know if the book is very much like the documentary? Will you do a video on the books you've been reading? Hooray for new books. 🤗📚

@@BookZealots ... yes, I watched that documentary years ago right after it was made. I should watch it again though, if I'm going to try this. The book I just read wasn't just like the movie - but it covered the issue from many angles. I'm hoping the next books I get will explain more. And yes, I'll be talking about this in videos. I'm nearly ready to try making videos again but am experimenting with a new camera setup (bad learning curve) etc... I seriously have SO MUCH to talk about - I hope I get my hardware setup issues fixed soon.

@@Eldertalk Hope you're able to get everything (tech =P) squared away. Looking forward to your content.

Hi Tahlia! I've never heard of activity intolerance. It made me think of when a physical trainer told me I was stressing out my body everytime I ran (for excercise) and that's why I wasn't losing weight. Back then I thought she was crazy. LOL She was actually ahead of most doctors. the other day I had to make a really hard decision and schedule the even and I was super sad and grabbed a licorice. Then I was whining about how awful it tasted then that started the conversation of "how do people eat comfort junk food when they're sad?" The food tastes awful. I remember this as a kid too.

@ Warning: I kind of wrote a book here… I believe that activity intolerance is the nursing diagnosis, whereas doctors tend to use exercise intolerance as the diagnosis. It’s essentially the same thing. A lot of times, nursing diagnoses for our patient careplans have a different wording so that it doesn’t sound like we are giving an official physician diagnoses. Nursing diagnoses tend to more descriptive, so as to better guide patient care for that shift, as well as to create a clear paper trail and paint a picture for why certain measures were taken for that shift. Physician diagnoses, in contrast, tend to be more technical in nature, and are the official diagnoses. Exercise intolerance is the limited ability to perform physical activities in the way that a healthy person of your age group would normally be able to. Things like heart failure and copd are common causes of exercise intolerance. For me, the cause is probably the combination of my three main diagnoses, with pots (dysautonomia) being the worst offender, closely followed by my mcas (an immune system condition). Because my autonomic nervous system does not perform normal functions (like circulating blood, for example) the way it should, so I’ll get lightheaded or feel unwell quite easily, initially because of the dystautomia, but quickly followed by my immune system letting me know that it is displeased by whatever activity my body decides is too much that day. On my worst days, the symptoms will show up when I’m attempting to do the activities (like cooking, cleaning, or even recording videos), and very often, even during normal day, I will be wiped out the rest of the day if I do more than my body deems reasonable… which can change with weather, type of activity, or when my body just decides that it doesn’t want to play nice. Activity or Exercise intolerance can look different for different people with different diagnoses, and sometimes even for people with the same diagnoses. Someone else on booktube shares my diagnoses, but I could not go on walks the way she does unless I want to pay for it after (or even during) the walk. Someone with copd or with heart failure might not be able to because their conditions would make them short of breath with a certain level of activity. If someone is unfamiliar with the terms activity or exercise intolerance, I think that they can initially sound like another way of expressing laziness. They just aren’t terms used or heard by most people outside of the medical field. Sorry for the essay; I got carried away! 🤓 Comfort food is a funny thing, and can be so different from person to person! Licorice wouldn’t personally be my idea of a comfort food either, but I’m sure that there is someone who considers it one. I think a lot of time, besides sweets of some sort, comfort foods tend to be heavier, warm foods (mashed potatoes, Mac and cheese, chicken noodle soup, etc). But I can see where if someone really likes orzo salad (for example 😁), it could be a food they might find themselves going to when they feel sad or unwell. And mood eating can be soooo bad for weight (and health) management! It’s so important to develop good eating habits when young, to make it easier to have healthy eating habits when one is older. While fad diets can help in the short term, a lot of times it’s just about eating a balanced diet and calories in being less than calories out. If you read all that, I applaud you. Let’s see if KZbin lets me keep the comment…

@@tahlia__nerds_out LOL I'm so glad youtube allowed the comment. it's so persnickety. A lot of what you wrote described my husband and his MS. Some days he gets wore out just going about his normal routine and other days he's fine. Yes, the temperature can also play a big part in that as well. Blankets also can't be too heavy. He and I were talking the other day about exercise. He needs to exercise, but at this point would it do more harm than good? He did, however, get lazy and should have exercised early on when he was first diagnosed. Then he got lazier still relying too much on his scooter. And yes, everyone will have differing experiences with their health issues. Both of his parents had MS, but to varying degrees. His father had it much worse, but outlived his wife, because she got cancer. Regarding the comfort food, I don't think I have any. 🤔 I'm curiouse about that. I want to ask everyone what their comfort food is.

Oh no. I'm sorry to hear about your husband's back! I do hope he heals from it quickly and that it isn't serious. LOL I had to chuckle about the chocolate. My brother is like that. If he buys junk food and opens it up, he eats the whold thing that day. I can eat just one and be fine. But I'm not a chocolate person. It's so hard to find good quality chocolate. LOL That's funny about the RK jr picture. 😬 Better eat right or he'll give you a scolding. Hmmm, I wonder what his weakness treat is. Based on what you told me about your dh going to the fast foods, I believe that you're not the one buying the junk food.

@BookZealots He'll be fine. Arnica cream heals amazingly fast. Coincidentally, I started reading an Anthony Trollope book Christmas at something (I don't have it handy, sorry). The husband is complaining he's sick, acting like he's on deaths door and the wife has no idea if he's really caught a cold or if he wants to get out of a gathering with the inlaws. 3 of the 4 of us have colds now and one is just like the husband and one is just like the wife in the story. The other of us sickies is on my computer reading library ebooks since we haven't got to the library for her 15 books/week habit.

@@Fernie4243 That is very good news. I had to look up Arnica cream. I've never heard of it. I think another content creator mentioned having osteo something or other and maybe the cream can help ease some of her pain? I saw your Trollope book on goodreads, but your telling about the characters and your family is hilarious. 🤣 Good thing your dear daughter can read ebooks. Has she exhausted your home library?

@BookZealots osteo means bone and I don't think it seeps into the flesh enough to heal bones, at least in the cream or gel. There may be another way of using it. I'll check my herb books. Arnica is widely used in Italy. A friend's son had an accident there and that's what they gave him. One of my sisters told me about it5 or 6 years ago and I have sung its praises several times a year. Don't know what I'd do without it. There is a herb that heals broken bones, but I can't remember what it was. I've never needed it. I'll look in my books tomorrow and if possible find a video with the information. Em has read all the kids and middle grade books we have, plus some classics, finance, medical, sci-fi in our library multiple times. She also has a stack of books we said she should/recommend her read and she is working through them. I think I mentioned she moved her bed into our smaller library which has Roman and Greek history, plus a lot of our Catholic and Christian nonfiction, Russian, Youth classics, books of speeches, and homesteading which she is welcome to read without asking. She likes lighter stuff too and that we lack.

@@Fernie4243 Yes, yes, I'm aware of what osteo means, but when I looked up the arnica cream you mentioned, part of the search that came up: arnica gel improves pain and function in osteoarthritis. 🤷‍♀ Maybe the gel is more potent than the cream? Maybe it only works in certain parts of the body? Maybe the doctors are lying? The search also mentioned side effects and I discovered I wouldn't be able to use it due to allergies. And an herb that heals bones? I've never heard of that either. Oh yes! I do remember you mentioning your daughter moving her bed into the library. Brilliant. What does she want to do when she grows up? It seems like she has a massive thirst for knowledge. I LOVE that. 💗

Well done on your progress! How do you feel? My older son lifts weights. He's one of "those" guys if you know what I mean? Up at 4:30am etc. LOL I have a great story about him though, so I'm glad he is one of those guys. But wow! Twenty pounds. I want to lose about 20 pounds. But it's not so much a number, more than how toned I get and so yes, lifting weight is part of my workout. But the muscle definition can't be scene if the fat doesn't drop off. Walking is great exercise. Well done! I hope you reach your goal. 🎉

It's literally a weight off my shoulders and it does feel good! It hit me at one point at my highest weight last year I was always just out of breath and it was hard to sleep so that pretty much motivated it. The diet is the hardest part for me and always has been since I love my sweet treats too much lol

@@holt_arr At least you did something. My brother has sleep apnea and was sleeping with a machine. He and I argue over health all the time, but I had to tell him, if you're not willing to put in the effort to improve your health we can't talk about it anymore. Good news, he is now finally starting to make improvements. Yay. Hopefully you'll find a method that works for you, of satisfying that sweet tooth while keeping it under control. 💪💪

I always drink a ton of water, but I tried water with chia seeds and lemon water yesterday. I doubt it's that. It's most likely the pasta. I'm not worried about it. Please share your orzo salad on your channel. Have you had an orzo salad before? I usually use it for a soup.

@ I’ve had it as a packaged deli salad but I’ve never made it. Yours looked delicious

Are you referring to a lettuce salad? I love mixed green salads. We didn't have any grape tomatoes. I love the yellow ones, not so much the orange ones. I've never put corn in my green salads before. My husband loves beets. He's the only one in the family. LOL I'll put green cabbage in our spring rolls, but that's about it. I love hearing about other cuisine. Did you eating habits change when you left England?

@@BookZealots My eating habits are very different now from when I lived in England. My wife being Georgian is familiar with Georgian Cuisiine which is quite different to Englsih cuisine.

@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff doing as the Georgians' do? Is there any cuisine you miss from home and is there a favorite Georgian cuisine that is your favorite? My mother is law was from Manchester and we all joked that the English cuisine is very bland. There's a channel on youtube of two guys who taste other foods and there was one he asked about the spice and it was pepper. So that's a running joke in my family. My husband is first born American on his mother's side. =)

@BookZealots There are things I miss from UK like custard. I saw a ranking of 48 European Cuisines and #1 was Italy, #4 was Georgia and #13 was UK. My father was from Halifax, so we had some dishes from Lancashire and Yorkshire growing up like Lancashire Hotpot and Yorkshire Pudding. You can google "Georgian Cuisine" And "English Cuisine" To see the variety of dishes. Georgians use walnuts, pomegranate, cilantro and dill a lot. When I cook I usually cook spaghetti bologna use or chili con carne both sound foreign but we're common for us growing up and done in an English way. Today Chicken Tikka Massala is the most popular British dish, first created in an Indian restaurant in Glasgow. My mother wasn't keen on spicy food so like your mother in law pepper was the principle spice in her cooking. Georgia is also the birthplace of wine, archaeological evidence shows wine production in Georgia goes back 8000 years. I first drank wine when I moved here, growing up in the Methodist Church the communion 'wine' was very sweet and non-alcoholic. I could write more but this is already a rather lengthy comment.

Wow that is amazing. Thank you for sharing. I've heard of the Mediterranean Diet and have heard good things about it. How did you hear about it and what made you want to give it a try?

@@BookZealots My doctor recommended it. I was doing Keto and he thought I might enjoy the Mediterranean over Keto. It’s a vegetable and fish based diet. I get Chicken on Sundays, and red meat on special occasions. Mostly did a diet change to lose weight and help my joints.

@@Adventures_in_Literature This sounds wonderful. I'm glad it's working for you. I wish my brother liked seafood. I think this way of eating would be really good for him. I know he's complained about his joints. Is it the omega 3 that helps with that?

Hello Peter! Yes, that chicken house is wonderful. My husband calls it the taj mahal. It cost a lot of money, but it has held up quite well. Next month is the 7th year since we bought it. Only two things on it are broken that Prometheus needs to fix. 😂 I've had to add screen and wiring to keep birds out and weasels and/or raccoons. Who knew raccoons could squeeze into such tiny spaces? How is life Peter? How are you doing?

@BookZealots It's beautiful. The first thing that came to my mind when I saw it was like, "Oh my goodness. That building for chicks? Looks like they're enjoying luxury compared to the poor ones I raised some years ago" 🤣🤣 Yes, I'm doing very fine. In the middle of festive season. And I'm getting ready for my relocation to England. Did you see my message about a GoFundMe Campaign my friend helped me organized? I left a comment of it on your video about Long Way Down but I think it was probably taken down by KZbin. Looks like this platform doesn't support link sharing. I was endorsed by the Art Council of England as an "Exceptional Promise" in the field of literature and as such, I'm been invited to come live and work under the field of literature in England for 5 years. It's a whole lot involved. How can I share you the link? It has much information and my mission statement contained in it.

@@P.EnglishLiterature No, I didn't get your message. =( KZbin sucks. They're constantly shadowbanning my comments and even when I respond to comments on my own channel. They're pathetic. Well done on being endorsed by an art council. I've not heard of them. That is so incredibly exciting Peter. I literally have goosebumps/chills of excitement for you. Can you email me the link? bookzealots at gmail HUZZAH!!! What a wonderful opportunity!

@@BookZealots Thank you so much. I am honored to have been endorsed by the Art Council. I'm taken aback and excited as well. Yes, I just sent you an email with the link. You will see my mission statement in the links and be able to read more about the endorsement and what it entails. ☺️☺️Thank you so much.

That sounds like a wonderful plan James. Thank you for sharing with the rest of us.

If I knew how to knit well, I'd do it. I'd like to know how to weave in the different colors to make patterns. If I could do that, I'd make myself a sweater. =) I have found out that I knit Russian style. I don't throw the yarn and the yarn has to be on my left hand. Bulletproof. LOL That's awesome. No drafty wind is sneaking in those blankets. 🤗 Hey, tension is hard.

Yes! I'm so ready for our buddyread. I have My Dearest Friend already off its shelf and in my January pile. Do you want to converse about it on storygraph? Sadly, Agnes Grey has been missing for too long for her to turn up. =( Soooo sad. I really liked her.

@ How do we converse on StoryGraph? There doesn’t seem to be a way to message you there… EDIT: I started a buddy-read for us on StoryGraph so we can converse. I figure we can tweak the details as we need to on there.

@@tahlia__nerds_out ! I'm glad you figured it out. I went to go check it out and realized you had already figured it out and then I see that this comment was edited, but I didn't see that part until I clicked it to respond. Was it easy to set up?

No rest when there are animals on a farm. I cannot tell you how many times I've had to run 🏃‍♀️💨out to lock them up in between lightning strikes. LOL I'm excited to see what you plan for your reading plans. I don't want to be overly ambitious, but you know how that goes.

When I lived in San Diego I worked a little on Spanish in high school. I did better with the written word than the spoken. Go figure. But then I worked near the border and I was surrounded by it and accidentally picked up on things. My coworker tested me once. She was having a conversation with someone else and then asked me "what did I just say?" I don't know I wasn't listening. She says, what did you hear? Something about the border patrol? She says yes and that she had said it all in spanish. I didn't believe her, but the woman she was conversing with did not like me and she was also bilingual and she was surprised and nodding her head. LOL If you, and I highly encourage you, go back to school for your masters, you should take a spanish course too. =) What would be a bigger regret? Wishing you did? Or actually getting it? OH no, I got a masters degree, oh poor me? 🤣 Do it, do it, do it! PC, PS5, GTA6? huh? Are they all games or gaming systems? I'm clueless. hahaha, outsmarted by a rice cooker. Did it come with instructions? You're right, rice can be cooked in a pot just as well. We've already made the chicken korma again and tweaked it a bit so it was more flavorful. It was much better the second time.

Right! Even just being around another language is so much better than doing the apps or using KZbin videos PC is a gaming computer (personal computer), PS5 is the PlayStation 5 and GTA is Grand Theft Auto it's kind of a big deal in the game world lol And I think I did the instructions right, the tub even has measurements! Maybe I did do it wrong though

@@holt_arr Ohhhh, okay. I've heard of the full names of the games. Drive it like you stole it. That's how I drove in Cali. LOL Nah, it was obviously the rice cooker. It was flawed. Prometheus cooked regular rice the other day and it was acting weird, spewing water. He had already cooked in it three or four times without issues. who knows. In our world, it's never one thing. It's never just "cook the rice" or "mow the lawn" or .... LOL From day one in this house there have been issues. Once, Prometheus's teacher at college noticed he looked especially happy and asked why. He said, "nothing has gone wrong." 🤣 What are you going to do when dudemas is over?

@@holt_arr I have responded to this THREE TIMES and stupid youtube keeps deleting it. It's my own stinking channel. Okay, one more time, because it's never one thing. It's never just respond to a comment. I have heard of the full terms of the games/gaming stations you have mentioned. I wasn't hip with the lingo you kids are now using. LOL Drive it like you stole it. I drove like that in Cali. 😁🏎 I'm so glad I live in KY now. We can tell who's from out of state. Prometheus had issues with his brand new rice cooker the other day and he's already used it 3-4 times without issues. Didn't do anything different. We'll blame the cooker. It wasn't you. It was the machine. Stupid machines.

Oh no! I hope I didn't jinx your rice cooker too! And ugh KZbin, I see two so far but yeah there's no need to be censoring or hiding comments here so they can go somewhere else with all that! I'll probably just go back to filming my regular content (content in the loosest possible sense of the word there lol) and do little vlogs or capture neat things I see throughout the month