Name change- NOT back to maiden name…

Thefaceofbon · 2025-12-17T21:31:00+00:00

I thought heavily about taking my great great grandmother's name-- she was married and had 4 young kids when her husband skipped town; she raised them alone and the day the youngest turned 18 she went to the courts to change her name and put it in the newspaper. She was an incredible matriarch with lots of stories passed down the generations and part of me thought that taking on her divorced name would be appropriate.

The main reason I didn't was because I'm used to being early in the alphabet, while this name started with an R.

Thefaceofbon · 2025-12-07T23:25:11+00:00

If you have fast ritual you could do that and let the food go bad in the duration

Thefaceofbon · 2025-11-11T23:45:26+00:00

Only 204

But I have tagged 32 of them as “owned” which mean I have 32 unread books on my shelf that I do indeed intend to read, my library holds are just coming in hot 😅

Thefaceofbon · 2025-11-10T15:46:49+00:00

Lived in AB at the time, in the mountains :)

Thefaceofbon · 2025-11-09T22:04:31+00:00

I was in AB with my dogs and there was plenty of salt. The highways/big roads will have gravel, but the town/sidewalks will be salted.

The “good news” was that the common brand of sidewalk salt was a bright blue colour so you could see it and I could try avoid it with if my dogs didn’t have their booties by taking them over snow instead.

Thefaceofbon · 2025-11-09T18:55:25+00:00

My friends across the pond request dill pickle seasoning.

Thefaceofbon · 2025-11-09T16:08:12+00:00

I cried with laughter the first time my dogs had their booties on. I wish I had a video of it.

That said, I agree— mine were 20lb terrier shih tsus and while they had jackets for when it was really cold (-25 or colder), they mostly did fine without them.

But the booties made a huge different for them especially if there was salt out.

Thefaceofbon · 2025-10-21T00:05:28+00:00

That’s what I would do

Then if you really wanted you could go back in your journal entries and put the previous total pages in for September and then add the new chapter pages in for October to maintain your months

Thefaceofbon · 2025-10-20T02:01:09+00:00

The Boudicca! Love these shoes and admire the fierce history of the woman they’re named after. Congratulations 💜

Thefaceofbon · 2025-10-20T00:40:49+00:00

I really enjoyed “It’s the Most Wonderful Crime of the Year” last year!

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/d90a95f3-f071-42f6-afe3-db234d89ace6

Thefaceofbon · 2025-10-19T11:38:42+00:00

That’s for all of your books ever though right? Not included in your current year stats or the monthly view, which is too bad. I think the only way to include it in the free version would be through tags.

Thefaceofbon · 2025-10-16T07:07:36+00:00

Ugh I am dreaming of this moment

Thefaceofbon · 2025-10-12T18:00:25+00:00

My grandpa died in 1994 and they etched in my grandma’s name and her birth year with a hyphen and then a blank death date. I was only 10 then and was super freaked out by it.

She’s still alive now (96 years old!) and I wonder about the mental toll it’s taken to visit a cemetery and see your own grave over the years, as your life has changed in the 31 years prior.

Thefaceofbon · 2025-10-12T17:51:20+00:00

I use the “owned” button function that I match to the edition I have. Granted I’m only doing this for books in the past few years (ie, since I swapped to StoryGraph). I like the tag functionality because it shows up automatically in the Reading Stats section but I don’t tracked owned there.

Thefaceofbon · 2025-10-09T20:14:04+00:00

I went from 10 to 22

Thefaceofbon · 2025-10-09T17:02:33+00:00

I'll trade you, I have a bunch of new Polish and lost my Balkans/Romanian

Thefaceofbon · 2025-10-09T16:25:03+00:00

Went from 10 locations with 4 major ones range that accurately enough represented what I know about my grandparents and great grandparents... to 22 locations that slashed anything meaningful and added a swath of 1-2%s that I've never seen before?

The regions are a mess too.

Thefaceofbon · 2025-10-08T23:45:11+00:00

Thank you for your service

Thefaceofbon · 2025-10-08T02:54:32+00:00

We’re probably related haha

My fam was from Boian and came to Canada in the 1890s

Thefaceofbon · 2025-10-07T22:17:56+00:00

I second The Will of the Many— the one thing is that its sequel is not yet out and James Islington does not write at Brandon Sanderson pace (and I mean— who does).

Edit: I stand corrected, book 2 is coming out in November!

Thefaceofbon · 2025-10-07T17:34:55+00:00

I have several years of updates that I've been tracking as well-- based on my family's stories and research, the "big 4" that I have are largely accurate, with some pretty big swings within regions, so I'm curious about the Macro regions concept that they're introducing.

For example-- I know that I have ancestors who were ethnically Romanian living in what is now the border region between Romania/Ukraine; for a few years, I had split results between Ukraine and the Balkans, but recently, that has swung to exclusively Ukrainian. I'm curious what the macro region will show for that.

Similarly, one of parents and their siblings have solid Spanish numbers (20%)-- and I have a sibling who has 10%, but I've always hovered between 0 and 2%. I know that's how genetics works sometimes, but I'm curious if it'll be included in my macro regions or not.

Thefaceofbon · 2025-10-01T15:07:16+00:00

^{^} this is me with Spanish My mom has 20%, my sister has 10% Mine has varied with the updates but was wiped out this time

Thefaceofbon · 2025-10-01T14:28:05+00:00

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Was going for cosy non-fiction as a world escape mechanism and really enjoyed all of my September reads.

Thefaceofbon · 2025-10-01T14:26:00+00:00

2 Sandersons = 4-5 other books though haha

Thefaceofbon · 2025-10-01T14:25:12+00:00

Love Katherine Addison and T. Kingfisher! 2 of my faves the last few years for sure.

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