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Things that I am currently using/perusing (Updated May 23, 2016)

Mobile Devices
-HTC One X+ (Nov 2012)
-Nexus 7
-HTC Desire Eye (Feb 28, 2015)
-Samsung S8 (Aug 9, 2017)
-Kindle Paperwhite Gen 7

Laptop
-Lenovo Thinkpad T500 (2010)
-Lenovo Thinkpad T440s (Sept 4, 2014)

Book(s)
-The Book Jumper (Feb 2019)
-The Hunger Games Trilogy on audiobook (Feb 2019-June 2019)
-Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick on audiobook (Feb 2019)
-A Simple Favor (Feb 2019)
-How to Stop Time (Feb 2019)
-The Atomic City Girls (March 2019)
-everything by Fiona Davis
-The Lying Game series on audiboook 
-Crazy Rich Asians triology (April 2019)
-Again, but Better (May 2019)
-Sweetbitter on audiobook (May 2019)
-everything by Lauren Graham
-everything by Beatriz Williams
-The Reaping series by K. Makansi (Oct 2019)
-Harry Potter on audiobook (May 2020 currently on book 7)
-Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter. Young adult spy novel. Book 1 is called I'd Tell You I Love you, But Then I'd Have To Kill you (as of May 2020 I am on book 5 and there are 6 books in the series)
-Pride and Prejudice audiobook on repeat (Jan 2021)

Shows
-Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist on NBC. Season 1 ended May 3, 2020. It's like Glee but for adults
-Prodigal Son on FOX. Season 1 ended April 27, 2020 and has been picked up for a second season. Great for binge watching.

Youtube things I'm Loving

-Minecraft videos (they're back I hear) mainly by Hermitcraft members (updated May 24, 2020)
-How to Make Everything
-Tabletop games mainly by Geek and Sundry
-Keith! Gaming vids but I do pick and choose (Still love him May 2020)
-The Chateau Diaries (added May 2020)
-Doing It Ourselves (added May 2020)
-The King of Random (added May 2020)
-Taskmaster (added May 2020)
-Baumgartner Restoration (added May 2020)

-Gardening videos! So much gardening videos! I started following these people in mid to late 2020 but am compiling this list in Jan 2021:

  1. Used to be called California Gardening and was the reason I clicked on it but now he has renamed his channel to be called Next Level Gardening to broaden his reach. I fully support it. He has so many videos on growing tomatoes

  2. Epic Gardening has pretty useful and informative videos on so many things you could think of growing. He recently got a new property and started Epic Homesteading.

  3. Gardener Scott is a wise and experienced gardener who always seems to post right when you need to look up a specific topic

  4. Charles Dowding is legendary to say the least. He popularized the no dig method. Lives in a lush part of Europe and grows crops for selling. He doesn't mind getting his hands dirty and always carries a knife in his pocket for harvesting.

  5. MIgardener based in Michigan has simple and informative videos. They work really well if you put them together with one of the other guys' videos on the same topic. He has a seed selling site that used to have packets for 99 cents but went up to $2 for the year 2021.

  6. Not really gardening, more homesteading. Justin Rhodes is a father of  4 (soon to be 5) amazingly active children. They grow crops and livestock on their land just to feed themselves and to be just a little bit more self sustainable especially during the pandemic. Their kids wake up early in the morning before the sun is even up to help dad with the animals - they were an inspiration for me to get off my butt during the pandemic.

  7. Hollis and Nancy's Homestead are a very adorable couple who post videos of growing things from seed to harvest. They post other things too but those are the only ones I watch. I find them very useful because as someone who has gotten into plants in 2020 sometimes I can be unsure about the size, shape, and overall color of a plant. 

-Candy making! Hercules Candy based in Syracuse. The candy is what drew my attention but the personality of the people were what kept me around. (Added to this list in Jan 2021 but subscribed in 2020)

-Bernadette Banner - I don't know how to describe her but her videos are so lovely to watch. She makes and recreates historically accurate or inspired clothing. And has a background of study in historical costuming (of only a certain ear obviously not the entire history of clothing) and often gives us her research in the videos alongside the sewing. (Added to this list in Jan 2021 but subscribed in 2020)

-Dylan is in Trouble needs no introduction. If you like his videos, you do. If you don't, you don't. He reacts to videos and they're funny. (Added to this list in Jan 2021 but subscribed in 2020)

(I'll only remove these if they haven't uploaded anything noteworthy or that resonated with me lately)


Last edited October 6, 2019 May 24, 2020 Jan 24, 2021