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So we did not get up at 6 to go run a mile. Husband and I both didn't sleep great last night. It's kind of normal for me, but I feel bad for him.
I was awake on time, technically, but I really wasn't alive enough to function yet, and I wasn't going to make husband get up and be motivational with me if he wanted extra sleep before work. I may break out the Ring Fit or go down to the gym by myself later and power walk on the treadmill, and hopefully make my steps today.
Honestly, I'm so tired. I was doing really good a few weeks ago. I was in a rare groove where my fitness was improving and I was happy to do it, even though fitness traditionally isn't a fun activity for me. Then we got the covid vaccine and it took me out for a week. It's been a slog ever since, just trying to get back up to that level and it's so demotivating.
I started A Hunger Like No Other last night while I couldn't sleep. It's the first book in the Immortals After Dark series, and oooohhhhhh Fated Mates was not lying when they said the beginning was problematic (that's putting it lightly). However, I'm going to push through it. From what I gather, it's a little dated even for being written in 2006. But on the flip side, they make it sound like the author is really good at writing complicated characters and flipping old tropes and expectations on their head. And by old tropes, I mean the rape-y tendencies of romances from the 90's and prior.
Fated Mates manages expectations really well. They're really clear about how enjoying something in books does not automatically equate to being okay with that same thing happening IRL. I'm a ways in now, and on more than one occasion, they've stopped in the middle of gushing about a character or relationship event to state that if someone did it IRL, you should absolutely not get involved or stay involved with that person.
The romance genre and community is a hell of a thing, I'm learning. "There's something for everyone" is what people usually say - and it's true! - but the other side of that coin is that there's also a book that deals with pretty much any issue imaginable. Whether it's done well is up to a reader's personal interpretation, but it's all there. Romance is all about wish fulfillment, and sometimes that means using books as therapy. And to me that's one of the coolest things ever.
I was awake on time, technically, but I really wasn't alive enough to function yet, and I wasn't going to make husband get up and be motivational with me if he wanted extra sleep before work. I may break out the Ring Fit or go down to the gym by myself later and power walk on the treadmill, and hopefully make my steps today.
Honestly, I'm so tired. I was doing really good a few weeks ago. I was in a rare groove where my fitness was improving and I was happy to do it, even though fitness traditionally isn't a fun activity for me. Then we got the covid vaccine and it took me out for a week. It's been a slog ever since, just trying to get back up to that level and it's so demotivating.
I started A Hunger Like No Other last night while I couldn't sleep. It's the first book in the Immortals After Dark series, and oooohhhhhh Fated Mates was not lying when they said the beginning was problematic (that's putting it lightly). However, I'm going to push through it. From what I gather, it's a little dated even for being written in 2006. But on the flip side, they make it sound like the author is really good at writing complicated characters and flipping old tropes and expectations on their head. And by old tropes, I mean the rape-y tendencies of romances from the 90's and prior.
Fated Mates manages expectations really well. They're really clear about how enjoying something in books does not automatically equate to being okay with that same thing happening IRL. I'm a ways in now, and on more than one occasion, they've stopped in the middle of gushing about a character or relationship event to state that if someone did it IRL, you should absolutely not get involved or stay involved with that person.
The romance genre and community is a hell of a thing, I'm learning. "There's something for everyone" is what people usually say - and it's true! - but the other side of that coin is that there's also a book that deals with pretty much any issue imaginable. Whether it's done well is up to a reader's personal interpretation, but it's all there. Romance is all about wish fulfillment, and sometimes that means using books as therapy. And to me that's one of the coolest things ever.
