I got a LOT of new books recently! 

For Christmas, I got four books: Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy, With Every Letter by Sarah Sundin, Entwined by Heather Dixon, and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein. All of which I have read already, but many were due for a reread. 

And then my birthday was this month! And...I got spoiled. I got the ENTIRE Ranger's Apprentice series (all 12 books!!!). And also I got United We Fall by Brooke Riley. This is equally as exciting, because of her new book that is coming out this year! 

And, of course, I started graduate school again, so I got another half a dozen textbooks. 

- For Christmas, I got a DVD that has been long on my list. It is The Inspector General, which is a Danny Kaye movie from the early 1950s. I had watched it (albietly, illegally) when I was in college and really wanted to get a copy of it. I did watch it with the family and while I did enjoy it....I kind of like The Court Jester a little better. 

- My family got a few more shows over Christmas. One of the most notable was the show The Young Riders, which is about the Pony Express. I have quite enjoyed it so far. 

- With all the new videos, my Mom and I rearranged our video cabinets. We packed away many of the VHS documentaries and some of the kids movies and brought out some of the adult movies that had been banned (but not all of them, phew).   

- TWR's word count is currently sitting at 25984, which is over 3000 words since my last total! That is a huge accomplishment, considering how little I have worked on it recently. But, unfortunately, I'm now stuck again. I'm working on trying to introduce the Tournament Court (the group of maidens that Janina is friends with) and the pacing is all wrong. This is when re-using old snippets really worked against me. I really should just leave it to simmer. 

- Inspired by my recent experience with the March for Life, I created a pro-life playlist. Now, some of these were songs either from pro-life movies or specifically talk about motherhood or babies. You can listen to it here:  

In a twist this month, I started making my own music! Some of you may remember that I bought my own hammered dulcimer back in September. Just before my winter break expired, I finally was able to tune it and play it for a while. I managed to record my first "music video" using my phone, which is here: 

For Femininity from Scratch, I wrote only one post: How to Protest with Charity. I have some plans for this blog. For one thing, my About Me page needs to be overhauled again, it is much too text-filled. I am also trying to figure out what I should do for a wrap-up...maybe a letter?

For the Rebelling Muse, I wrote no posts in January, but I did write a Christmas Tag and a 2021 wrap-up in December.