Julie
@twiglt.bsky.social
programmer, obsessive audio book consumer who pretends to cross stitch or crochet while doing so, and woman trying figure out life. She/Her
My family is confused about my choice of birthday plans. I just want to stay home, read, listen to audiobooks and put together lego flower kits
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
My family is confused about my choice of birthday plans. I just want to stay home, read, listen to audiobooks and put together lego flower kits
I'm in need of a comfort book right now. I'm enjoying the book I was listening to, but listening to a mm romance at the spicy part is not calming at the moment.
August 28, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I'm in need of a comfort book right now. I'm enjoying the book I was listening to, but listening to a mm romance at the spicy part is not calming at the moment.
I was getting ready to fall asleep. Under my covers, audiobook sleep time set. Then a thunderstorm started. And now I'm tired, awake, and stressed out because we had a thunderstorm last utah and I ended up displaced for 3 weeks due to flooding.
August 28, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I was getting ready to fall asleep. Under my covers, audiobook sleep time set. Then a thunderstorm started. And now I'm tired, awake, and stressed out because we had a thunderstorm last utah and I ended up displaced for 3 weeks due to flooding.
I've made mini books of every book I own - physical or digital - that I'm still interested in reading. I put them in a candy jar. Mostly so I don't forget what I own and want to read
August 16, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I've made mini books of every book I own - physical or digital - that I'm still interested in reading. I put them in a candy jar. Mostly so I don't forget what I own and want to read
The other I realized I have a middle-aged woman's name. And my perception of the age of names have shifted as well. Like grandma names when I was a girl are normal baby names now, but the mom names then are now grandma names, and the names of my friends now feel like middle aged women names.
August 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The other I realized I have a middle-aged woman's name. And my perception of the age of names have shifted as well. Like grandma names when I was a girl are normal baby names now, but the mom names then are now grandma names, and the names of my friends now feel like middle aged women names.
So I signed up for a month to @nebula.tv to watch something. I watched it and there's not anything else to pull me from my reading at the moment, so I canceled. And they didn't ask me why after. Just let me cancel. It was great.
July 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
So I signed up for a month to @nebula.tv to watch something. I watched it and there's not anything else to pull me from my reading at the moment, so I canceled. And they didn't ask me why after. Just let me cancel. It was great.
The worst part of getting older is collecting little traumas that you mostly forget and move on with, and then wonder why you get tense and insomniatic at the same time every year.
July 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The worst part of getting older is collecting little traumas that you mostly forget and move on with, and then wonder why you get tense and insomniatic at the same time every year.
Went to my local credit union today to deal with some banking issues. There is a good chance I've been banking at the institution longer than the teller helping me has been alive. I feel old.
July 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Went to my local credit union today to deal with some banking issues. There is a good chance I've been banking at the institution longer than the teller helping me has been alive. I feel old.
I'm at a phase in my reading life where I've been reading in my kindle for a while, so when reading an interesting quote in a paper book I tried to long press to highlight it.
June 21, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I'm at a phase in my reading life where I've been reading in my kindle for a while, so when reading an interesting quote in a paper book I tried to long press to highlight it.
I went into the library today to renew my card. It's a library a bit out of the way, so I just maintain my cars there for digital resources. But while I was there I find this book on the sale shelf, I've been interested in it since @swilua.bsky.social's BYU honor code story about it
June 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I went into the library today to renew my card. It's a library a bit out of the way, so I just maintain my cars there for digital resources. But while I was there I find this book on the sale shelf, I've been interested in it since @swilua.bsky.social's BYU honor code story about it
Up late, crying to romance books, wondering why I can't just go to sleep. Then i remembered that this is often an early sign of a more long-term depressive episode for me. Bawling over romances and absolutely having no time for my old standby genres of mystery/ thriller/ horror/ fantasy
June 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Up late, crying to romance books, wondering why I can't just go to sleep. Then i remembered that this is often an early sign of a more long-term depressive episode for me. Bawling over romances and absolutely having no time for my old standby genres of mystery/ thriller/ horror/ fantasy
Remembering the time some dude at the thrift store was mad at me because i had a 'no hardback' rule when shopping used books. Like dear stranger, what does it matter to you that I'm odd and prefer mass market paperbacks on my shelf.
May 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Remembering the time some dude at the thrift store was mad at me because i had a 'no hardback' rule when shopping used books. Like dear stranger, what does it matter to you that I'm odd and prefer mass market paperbacks on my shelf.
Reading my ereader without glasses on, font enlarged, and left eye closed. Realizing this is why I can't close only my right eye. My left eye is far sighted and my right is near sighted, so when I'd read under my covers without glasses as a kid I'd close my left eye to make it easier to focus.
April 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Reading my ereader without glasses on, font enlarged, and left eye closed. Realizing this is why I can't close only my right eye. My left eye is far sighted and my right is near sighted, so when I'd read under my covers without glasses as a kid I'd close my left eye to make it easier to focus.
Sometimes I miss having b the mental capacity for crime novels. Romances are fun and all, but once in a while leave me in tears despite the happily ever after because I just feel so desperately alone.
April 15, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Sometimes I miss having b the mental capacity for crime novels. Romances are fun and all, but once in a while leave me in tears despite the happily ever after because I just feel so desperately alone.
I'm in the middle of re-reading a favorite book series, but I'm on the last released book and dreading what's coming next. The next book in the series hasn't been announced yet (will probably be surprise dropped this year, it's by a self pub author who has hardly any social media presence)
March 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I'm in the middle of re-reading a favorite book series, but I'm on the last released book and dreading what's coming next. The next book in the series hasn't been announced yet (will probably be surprise dropped this year, it's by a self pub author who has hardly any social media presence)
I just got an email from one of my representatives with the subject line "Untitled Campaign - All Contacts". Probably should have had someone double check your email campaign before hitting send on that.
February 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I just got an email from one of my representatives with the subject line "Untitled Campaign - All Contacts". Probably should have had someone double check your email campaign before hitting send on that.
I'm so tired. I spent too much money this month. It didn't help, though now I can stay in my room and make pretty much anything. Do I need two printers? No. But some projects do better laser printed and others better ink printed.
February 15, 2025 at 6:49 AM
I'm so tired. I spent too much money this month. It didn't help, though now I can stay in my room and make pretty much anything. Do I need two printers? No. But some projects do better laser printed and others better ink printed.
In very related news, I have managed to not buy new, and have spent on average $2.44 per book purchased this year.
I am still awake because I was ironing books to remove stickers from them after depression/world is burning retail therapy this week. I've got to get my spending under control but also I'm not feeling very motivated to do so.
February 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
In very related news, I have managed to not buy new, and have spent on average $2.44 per book purchased this year.
I am still awake because I was ironing books to remove stickers from them after depression/world is burning retail therapy this week. I've got to get my spending under control but also I'm not feeling very motivated to do so.
February 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I am still awake because I was ironing books to remove stickers from them after depression/world is burning retail therapy this week. I've got to get my spending under control but also I'm not feeling very motivated to do so.
I lost a crown today. I have some dental anxiety from a pediatric dentist who used to strap me down and having had over $30k of work done in about 6 months (brush your teeth people). The emergency appointment has been scheduled, and I have no idea how much it's going to cost or how to pay for it.
February 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I lost a crown today. I have some dental anxiety from a pediatric dentist who used to strap me down and having had over $30k of work done in about 6 months (brush your teeth people). The emergency appointment has been scheduled, and I have no idea how much it's going to cost or how to pay for it.
I know it's going to come as no surprise to anyone that it's been a long, rough January. For the like 0 people who follow the 'difficulty of the year is measured by how much Julie reads' scale... I've finished books 48 and 49 for the month today, and am on track to hit 50-52 books read/listened to.
January 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I know it's going to come as no surprise to anyone that it's been a long, rough January. For the like 0 people who follow the 'difficulty of the year is measured by how much Julie reads' scale... I've finished books 48 and 49 for the month today, and am on track to hit 50-52 books read/listened to.
I'm tired and stressed and turning to my comfort Zombie apocalypse novels.
January 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
I'm tired and stressed and turning to my comfort Zombie apocalypse novels.
I think what I'm struggling with the most right now is that my parents raised me to anticipate the potentialities of this situation as a bad thing, then gave it to me as a good thing. And that they don't see it.
January 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I think what I'm struggling with the most right now is that my parents raised me to anticipate the potentialities of this situation as a bad thing, then gave it to me as a good thing. And that they don't see it.
New goal: Read a physical book each week this year.
January 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
New goal: Read a physical book each week this year.
My goal this year is to read at least 15 books physically or on my kindle this year. I think I pulled that off last year, so it shouldn't be to hard, and I've already read 1 so we're off to a good start.
January 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
My goal this year is to read at least 15 books physically or on my kindle this year. I think I pulled that off last year, so it shouldn't be to hard, and I've already read 1 so we're off to a good start.