6 stickers laid out on a white sheet of paper. 3 stickers in the top row. First one has a red band at the top with DANGER in white, red band at bottom with DINOSAUR AREA in black and KEEP OUT in white and in the middle is a black and white T-rex with mouth open in mid-roar. Second sticker is blue with PTERANODON NESTING GROUND in white letters and 5 flying pteranodon silhouettes in various sizes. Third sticker is yellow with a black drawing of a T-rex roaring on the right and a person in the act of falling back on the left. 2 stickers in the second row. First sticker is black and yellow. In the center is a yellow profile of a T-Rex head and at the bottom the words RULE THE EARTH. Second sticker is red with PELIGRO in white at the top, CAUTION in white on the bottom and in the middle some kind of raptor dinosaur on the right and a cobra snake on the left. Bottom row has just one sticker, made to look like a Windows window. The top bar has Warning in white letters and is a sparkly blue to green gradient. On the left side of the window is a datebook and a clock. To the right the sentence The time will pass anyway. At the bottom is a button that says Accept.

While ordering get out the vote postcards on Etsy I was somehow sidelined by stickers. I ended up getting a pack of dinosaur stickers, because who doesn't need dinosaur stickers, and a somewhat enigmatic sparkly sticker.

I used to collect stickers when I was a kid (as did all the other kids in my 3rd grade class). I was kind of a stupid kid, though, because I'd unpeel the stickers from the backing and stick them onto one of those old-fashioned photo album pages that had sticky lines. This, of course, meant the sticker was now a permanent part of the page. I can't remember but I guess I must have not actually traded many!

I have somehow amassed a new sticker collection in my not-so-old age. I didn't mean to, it wasn't intentional, but you know how it is - you go out to a brewery or a coffee shop, they have free stickers, you take one home! You buy something online and they send you some free stickers to go with whatever you bought. And pretty soon you go from accidental stickers to actually seeking them out. I have .... a lot of stickers. And I may have bought some more today while I was leaving reviews on Etsy for the previous batch of stickers.

I may have a problem.

Right now most of my stickers are just hanging out in baggies and envelopes but while I was ordering stuff on Etsy I also got some silicone sticker sheets. Once those come in I'm going to make an official sticker binder.

Here's the rest of what I had gathered in one spot (I know I have stray stickers elsewhere!) a collection of stickers a collection of stickers a collection of stickers a collection of stickers a collection of stickers a collection of stickers a collection of stickers a collection of stickers

Listening

I only listened to one podcast this past week and that was Absolute Units - Who Owns England?

Reading

I finished Faces of the Dead by Chris Nickson. I am really liking this mystery series! The author just released this book, though, so I'm going to have a bit of a wait before the next one comes out. He has several other series which I think are all set in Leeds, just in different time periods. I checked out what my library had available through the Libby app and picked The Hanging Psalm, set in the 1800s. The main character grew up in a workhouse until he fled at a young age. He ended up becoming a thief-taker and making a life for himself with his wife, their twin sons and a young girl who they have taken off the streets. This book had a much darker tone but the mystery was just as good and I'm looking forward to reading more in that series.

After those back to back historical mysteries I decided to pick something off my Libby wishlist that's been there for a while, Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship by Catherine Raven, a biologist. This is the story of her relationship with a young fox she met.

Watching

I've been keeping up with the new Matlock series. I told myself I'd wait until the season was complete so I didn't have to wait for episodes but here I am, liking it so much I just couldn't help watching it so I'm waiting for episodes. Being able to binge shows has spoiled me!

One of the people I follow on YouTube, Tim Watches Movies, has a neat little channel. His videos don't get a ton of views which makes me kind of sad because he's so passionate about movies and has a lot of good insight into them. He made a Top 10 movies of 2025 video and one of the movies on my List of Movies to Watch is on there, The Mastermind. His top movie pick of 2025 is a Chinese animated film, Nobody, and that is going on my list, too. The animation just looks so gorgeous!

Link Lagniappe

OK, that's it til next week!

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