podcasts, fic, and perfumes

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I have been listening to episodes of The Happiness Lab podcast to brush up on my science-based happiness skills. It's actually kind of great? Dr. Laurie Santos has a great voice for listening to while doing projects and knitting, and I have now almost finished the Happy Twin Scarf. Pictures forthcoming in a few days. Also pictures of masks and other projects, since I have been a busy little bee. I have also been sitting outside on warm days and getting sun while listening to Levar Burton Reads, which takes me right back to my childhood of Reading Rainbow, but this time with stories for adults mixed in.

Speaking of the transition between childhood and adulthood in reading, is anyone else reading Shuofthewind's All Waiting Is Long?
Witches and wizards are taught from their infancy to never meddle with time. And Hermione doesn't mean to. After her brush with the Time Turner her third year, she has no desire to change the past or to alter the future.

But staying in Grimmauld Place leads her to discover new—and dangerously grey—magic. When Sirius Black falls through the Veil, Hermione disappears from her own world, pulled by ancient protective spells on the Black family that she picked up completely by accident. Now trapped in the year 1975, with no feasible way of getting home again and the world already forever altered by more things than her mere presence, Hermione must find her own way of coping—and a way to survive a war which already promises to be much darker, much longer, and much, much more dangerous than the one she left behind.

Right now I am about to update the list of my collection of tiny, hard-to-open perfume vials in preparation for selling them. I will be sad to see them go, but I will use the money to replace them with larger screw top vials of my favorite scents. It should do wonders for my coffee table storage space as well. :crossed-fingers:

I should be getting an unemployment check soon, so wish me luck with that as well.