This was a pretty quiet week for me. I didn’t have any appointments and I didn’t have to take Michael anywhere other than work. On Friday, I did have a friend over who had a rough week and needed some company. We ate Chinese takeout and did a puzzle, which was nice.
I only finished one book this week – Nobody’s Perfect by Sally Kilpatrick. It was one of the Amazon First Reads I got for free back in late 2024, and I finally got around to reading it. I stopped getting those over a year ago because I have so many books I am more interested in on my list, but I am trying to read the ones I did get.
The story was enjoyable and had some funny moments. It was a good entry into the “finding your way after divorce” genre. Here’s the blurb about it:
Vivian Quackenbush enjoys a typical life. She has winesday evenings with her two best friends. Her son is in college. She and her husband, Mitch, are planning the next move for their empty-nester future. But to Vivian’s blindsided surprise…not together.
After nearly twenty-five years of marriage, Mitch wants a divorce. He confesses that he doesn’t love her anymore. He never even liked her chicken salad! Brutal. What is Vivian to do but channel her anger, frustration, and pain into a video she posts online. Ill advised? Perhaps. Cathartic? Absolutely. Overnight, Vivian goes viral. Millions of views and counting—to Mitch’s fury, her son’s embarrassment, her mother’s support, and the media’s delight. For Vivian, it’s a moment of hide or lean into it. Vivian 2.0 chooses to lean—maybe even toward the younger single father next door.
Now Vivian is wondering where she goes from here. She’s discovering that somewhere in her trending if upended life, she’ll have to figure out who she really wants to be.
I have to go into the office to do some more training on Monday and Tuesday, but then I have Wednesday off, which I am looking forward to.
