Hello everybody and welcome to Books Unbound, the podcast where we Unbind Books to get to their hearts with your hosts.

Us, it's Ariel and.

Raylene. Hello. Hello. Hi there. Stranger. Just as you said your name, a cold draft of air came out of my vent.

That sounds like something out of Animal Crossing. I don't know. Just like, cold draft.

I'm so happy to be here today. I have lots to tell you about, really? And lots to tell, therefore,

the listeners about. How has your week been, though? Or your weekend. You celebrated your

birthday. Yeah, it was a lot. It was a big week. I mean, it was a lot, but at the same time,

I also didn't do that many things. Like, I actually took the entire week off of work, like my regular job and stuff. So I was just like, you know what? I'm just going to relax, going to big chill as I called it all week long. I was like, I'm big chilling. That's what I'm doing. The big chill. I was just really chillaxing, which was really nice, honestly. Like, I don't like being busy. And when I'm too busy, it really, like, scares me. And I just need to, like, unwind in a big way. And so I got to do that, which was really nice. I did a bunch of reading. I watched a ton of my favorite movies, which was something I wanted to do during my week off. I was like, you know what? It's my birthday week. I'm going to just like do my favorite things. So I did that and it was really fun. But I also had my birthday party with my friends. So as I've talked about me and Julia planned a big party for our friend's birthday in October, and then they planned a party for me. And that was just a couple of days ago, and it was so much fun.

They did, like, an astrology theme because I'm a Scorpio.

It was kind of like a Scorpio-themed party, but it was more broadly just like astrology.

So there was like stars everywhere, and like the vibe was really nice.

There was lots of blue light bulbs.

Everyone needs to go to your Instagram because you posted some photos and the vibes are so cool at this party.

Yeah.

Yeah, I walked in and I was like, whoa, it's so like groovy in here.

And like, yeah, just like low light blue stars.

The drinks were made with like charcoal so everything was very like cool looking it was a lot of fun it was a lot of fun did that go on your teeth um

i don't know i didn't look at myself you just felt your teeth in that moment you're like oh i don't think so

no i don't think so i think it was safe i think it, I don't think so. I think it was safe.

I think it was okay.

But yeah, it was a lot of fun.

So I had a good time. But yeah, other than that, it was a very relaxing week. I didn't really do much. I kind of just laid around, which was really nice. I love that. One other thing I wanted to say that I did, though, throughout the past week and a half-ish, I went to two trivia nights at a pub.

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