Happy Eighth Night of Hanukkah!
We made it! The smoke alarm is giving me the side-eye treatment and it’s rather warm in here, but gosh is it beautiful.
Ready for our final night of Hanukkah giveaway? I hope so!
Today’s prize is: a Kate Spade Mulberry Street Lise in Dusty Blue!
I love this color so much. And the compartments!
Want some specs?
- The bag measures approximately 7.8″h x 11.5″w x 4.5″d
- The strap length is 22″
- It has a zip closure across the top of the satchel
- It also has front and back slide pockets with snap closures
Want to enter? I hope so!
Just leave a comment and tell us what you are most looking forward to in 2022 – book, film, event, celebration, trip, another book? We want to know!
Standard disclaimers apply: I am not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Open to international residents where permitted by applicable law. Must be over 18 and ready to look forward into the future. Not responsible for sensations of optimism.
Comments will close 5 December 2021 at or near 12pm ET, and winner will be announced shortly afterward.
Good luck, Happy Hanukkah, and thank you for being part of Smart Bitches!
Thanks for celebrating with us this year!
Winner update: Congrats to Kay MH! Please check your inbox shortly.
I’m looking forward to Emma Chase’s, “Getting Real,” book. Reading is getting me through this pandemic! Thanks for the giveaway.
New Downton Abbey movie!
It’s coming in 2021 but I won’t be watching the final season of the expanse on Amazon until 2022. It is such a good adaptation of the books and I love how it foregrounds relationships so welll!
I want to go on vacation again! We had a Star Wars Day at Sea cruise booked for February which I just sadly canceled. We are now looking at either summer or October for new cruise dates.
I’ve missed live concerts so much. With the pandemic still causing so much uncertainty, I don’t know if it’ll be possible for me to go to ones I want to in the near future, but I’m both looking forward to ones in the future and looking back and re-appreciating the ones I’ve experienced in the past.
Happy Hanukkah, SBTB!
Ridiculously excited for Obi-Wan Kenobi!
Another for Ruby Fever by Ilona Andrews. And Storm Echo, the next Psy/Changeling by Nalini Singh.
I’m looking forward to July, when my extended family will be getting together in the Southern Utah mountains for a camping week. It’s a glorious time, gorgeous scenery, relaxing, not quite off-the-grid. Just a really wonderful time, and I can hardly wait! It’s been too long since we were last able to do this.
In 2022 I’m looking forward to getting to know my new home state of Maine a little better. Also looking forward to the work I’ll do in the position I just got promoted to!
Looking forward to Bridgerton season 2!
I am looking forward to hopefully finally taking my tween to her first Broadway show! We had to cancel a trip to NYC in 2020 so fingers crossed for 2022.
I’ve been in a cozy mystery mood more, so Meri Allen’s Mint Chocolate Murder!
Thank you for this topic, I needed the reminder that there are indeed things to look forward to next year. And thank you to everyone who shared their joy!
At first I drew a total blank, but after caffeine and chocolate and some googling I can contribute:
Books and talking about books with the SBTB community. I don’t do preorders or even series anymore, never know when my brain will decide we’ve had enough of that, time for something completely different! I love discovering new-to-me stuff here. Y’all give the best recs.
EUROVISION song contest – first peeks at songs and artists are starting to trickle in already. Bananapants entertainment incoming!
Animated movies – THE AMAZING MAURICE based on the Terry Pratchett story with a stellar British voice cast; Pixar’s TURNING RED starring adorable fluffy red panda; and like 30 more according to the internet rabbit hole in my browser tabs.
Live action movies – LEGALLY BLONDE 3 – I hear Mindy Kaling is involved(!), THOR Love and Thunder – would watch Chris Hemsworth in anything including the weather forecast, which he did do once, the video is out there on the internet; also I really enjoy Thor’s worldbuilding.
Happy holidays to all, thank you Sarah for celebrating with us!
The 2022 book I am most anticipating is Rachel Reid’s LONG GAME, the sixth and final book in her Game Changer series of m/m hockey romances and the one that apparently will give Shane & Ilya from HEATED RIVALRY their HEA. Can’t wait!
I am looking forward to a family vacation to Asheville, North Carolina, in Summer 2022. Covid permitting, of course.
I’m looking forward to my 50th birthday. We will sent “Rent” a few day earlier, then we are going to go on a trip (place still undetermined).
I’m hoping for a reunion with my 2 best college friends and spouses on Nantucket. I think we can make it happen!
Looking forward to my second son’s graduation from high school!
The next Wayward Children book. I love Cora and want to know what happened to her.
Fortunately, it’s not a long wait.
I’m excited for the return of Stars on Ice! I love figure skating and SOI had been canceled since 2019. I hope it’ll be held safely and responsibly!
My sister, BIL, and I are going to the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark. (We hope!) This trip was inspired by seeing the Sparks documentary in July and seeing that they’re on a European tour and we built it out from there.
I look forward to being selfish. This last year has been all about sacrifice and caregiving and putting others over self. Don’t get me wrong, I do that sort of things on the regular, just not to this degree. Nor do I regret a moment of what I gave or gave up. I’m just looking forward to putting myself first. Being lazy of a Saturday morning, not doing laundry for two weeks – much easier now that all my underwear is in one place – binge watching all the Marvel programs I missed now that I have figured out the Roku thing.
I’m looking forward to running more road races! Not a specific event, but I did the 5K in the Rock N Roll Marathon race series in my city yesterday and it has me craving to lace up my running shoes for more. 🙂
Midnight Dunes, next installment in Laura Griffin’s Texas Murder Files.
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter. I’ve had the book for months but haven’t started it yet.
S2 of Bridgerton!
I’m looking forward to new Alexis Hall, new Cat Sebastian, and new Ilona Andrews books, and a new film version of Persuasion on Netflix!
I’m looking forward to visiting my brother since I rarely get to see him or spend time with him!
In books, I’m looking forward to the new Mercy Thompson, Psy-Changeling, and Guild Hunter novels. In general, hoping for the end of this (expletive deleted) pandemic! Hope all have happy and healthy holidays and new year!
Happy Eighth Night of Hanukkah!
I hope that I’ll get the opportunity to spend in person time with my sister and daughter and book group and friends and ….
Happy holidays to all!
I am excited for my new nibbling being born! All my family has birthdays close together except me but now I’m going to have a birthday buddy since their due date is the day before me birthday!
I haven’t seen my family for over two years (they’re in Nepal) and I’m so very much hoping I can see them in 2022.
Also, thanks for being one of the best places on the Internet!
I’m moving back home to Florida (from California)!
I hope to be able to move back to my home.
Looking forward to season 2 of All Creatures Great and Small and Thor: Love and Thunder!
I am going to Spain for a month in January and I’m barely ganging on in the wait!
I am so looking forward to moving into a larger place! Covid and surgery kept us in our lease another year, so next summer we’re moving up!
I’m looking forward to seeing my family all together again for (hopefully) Passover and/or (more likely) High Holidays, maybe even for a party for my mum’s upcoming 80th birthday. Yesterday, I saw my cousin for the first time in over two years, and despite having so many ways to communicate at a distance, it brought home how long it’s been since we’ve all been able to get together and how much I miss the shared, in-person celebration of important times. Crossing fingers we’ll be able to do that again soon.
Thank you to SBTB for the fun this week, and happy holidays to everyone celebrating!!
The next season of Picard! And hopefully getting some overdue work done on and around the house.
All I can think of at the moment is how much I’m looking forward to my puppy being potty trained.
I am looking forward to my husband no longer being on the school board!