We are already at the end of the first month of 2019 !
I gotta say .. compared to December, January was kinda āmerhā on my side š Ā so iām kinda happy this month is coming to an end (though a rather good one for reading, nonetheless!) and February is bringing quite a few events for us aswell, that weāll discuss later :3
Habit tracker ;
Clearly, it wasnāt a good month to walk with all the storms/cold and ice.. neither myself nor the weeins wanted to go out xD apart of that, I think I did pretty good ! Reading some Fantasy in english is making it harder for me to read in daytime, as of course I need to concentrate more, but as you can see iām nonetheless doing progress for that !Ā
Januaryās events ;
Firstly, go peak at my āupdate postā Iāve done on the 13th to have a little look onto what happened on the start of my month.
ā¤ļø I just finished reading my 4th book !! A new record for me, As I never went beyond 3 a month in the last year šĀ Iāve finished 3 tomes out of 9 of āLe journal dāAurĆ©lie Laflammeā, and also the poetry book āWitchcraft & Monstersā that I had gotten out of Netgalley.
ā¤ļø Winter seems to wanna hit us all at once .. weāve been having snowstorm after snowstorm, and two mixed with rain/hail which made the roads supper slippery and dangerous. Dad was saying how itās not a law to have winter tires here (Iknow!) and it was taking him an hour to get to work after said storms because after a red light, people without winter tire would stay stuck and couldnāt get driving on the green light, for the ice ātrappedā themĀ š
ā¤ļø I had a Ā ā¦ *aherm* Television accident .. I decided to used super long glued-on nails as I had a two days off, and the next day mom wanted me to help her lift the television she had sold and bring it in the living room .. yeah, bad idea š
I lift it fine, but I wanted to sit it and my hand kinda.. slipped. Iāll just let you imagine what happened to my nails .. two of them removed themselves fine while the third one decided to bring my real nail with it xd So we finally got into the ER to hopefully get them to pull nail out, waiting 8HOURS in the waiting roomĀ to finally have the Dr say āOh, weāll just tape it and youāll be fine, wait that it fall itself and itād grow backā š¤¦š½āāļøĀ I was not really impressed.. worst part; Of course it was my right hand and iām a righty!
Hereās how said nailās look, 12 days after it happened. The fingernail finally got out and we need to wait that it grow back! Note that the bubbles actually is air filledā¤ļø At work, itās still somewhat chaotic but iām finally onto the daytime shifts !! Hopefully iāll stay on them from now on (We know only 2 weeks in advance), and that myself and Alex will finally get to see eachother way more with thoses ! However ā¦ yikes, we start at 630am š Ā Definately quite the change from my months on 230/3pm, though I have a few 1-9s aswell.
ā¤ļø Also! In case you havenāt noticed yet, the blog got a little bit of a makeover šĀ Posts now have a header picture, I switched the blogās header aswell as the menu bar and widget bar ~ Iād love to hear your thoughts on it !
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This monthās posts showcase ;
Please know there was alot more posts that I adored this month! But weāre only gonna mention a few here as we will be still reading this tomorrow š
ā¤ļø Clo @ Book Dragon wrote quite some amazing posts this month ! My faves were: 5 things book dragons do before leaving, the basics of book blogging & Why she schedules so much.
ā¤ļø Shruti @ This is Lit gave us quite the handy post with what to do when a Netgalley title get archived before you load it.
ā¤ļø Sophie @ Beware the reader gave us quite a different top 5 tuesdays posts with her Top 5 reasons why she loves reading. Posts like this are why I love her and her blog so much!
ā¤ļø Ruthsic @ YA on my mind is implementing a new posts series on her blog called āShouting from the shelftopsā, and I SO love that concept!
ā¤ļø Austine @ Novel Knight posted what her blog in 2019 should look like, and I gotta say, I loved how heartfelt this post was. Sheās talking the real talk here and setting a nice set of goals that I so wish her to accomplish!
ā¤ļø Becky @ Uptown Oracle was also one of my fave blogger this month ! Besides all of her āBlogging 101ā about SEO, My faves were All roads lead to coffee and How to beat procrastination.
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New month, new pages !
For february, I got out the flashy pens (pink) !! And iām happy to report they do not leave ārunny marksā as much as my metalic ones did. I also added a little space for āReview Requests/Netgalleyā readsā deadlines, although I do am technically on break, I do have a Blog Tour coming for āThe blood Princeā by Josie Jaffrey, eek !! šš¼Ā
Pretty much same here, but I added a āNetflixā row ! Pretty self-explanatory, but I do think they have some good series available and I donāt watch it enough xd So I should invest more into ānot-so-bingingā series instead of gaming so much *aherm*Ā
So this was supposed to be a flower bouquet.. not quite how I wanted it to turn out but š Ā we are gonna go with it .. I only have one post idea so far, which is my postĀ for the Blood Prince tour on the 21st Feb !! ĀĀ
Lastly, I finally went ahead and switched my weeks to be from Sunday to Saturday! Thatās how my work schedules has always been posted and I gotta say having my weeks from Monday to Sunday was getting kind of confusing xDĀ
I kinda wanna add more monthly pages to my Bujo but alas .. I havenāt got any ideas as of what iād need for now. Soon iād be done with this one and can start a new one; This blue Leuchtturm Bujo have maybe two months top remaining!
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How has your January been ? Do you have any recommendations as to which pages I donāt have that can be useful ?
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Can I just admire your pen? Itās such a beautiful colour xo
Thanks ! Itās a gel pen :p
I got a huge pack of Metallic/glitters & Neons pens for a couple of bucks at our dollar store ! I just had to have it ahah
Thatās amazing! Do you find that some of them smudge loads and take ages too dry? I know I got some and they do that, they smudge so badšxo
Urhh yeah ! the metallics did that alot.. that neon still smudged a bit, but way less than the metallics Iād used before !
Hey, congrats for getting through January. That accident looks painful ā I hope it is better now!
Finally! ahah hopefully February is better š
it was so painful at first! of course on my good hand so I kept bumping it .. Now itās just wierd as itās my āgo-toā finger to scratch things ahaha but it doesnāt work as i actually donāt have a nail on it yet xD but no more pain!
XāD I shuddered from the soul outwards about your accident. Also, you shared some amazing blog posts, good choices!! Sounds like youāre really keeping tabs on everything and I hope February is awesome for you!
Thankyou !
You shouldve seen me while it happened.. I was like uhoh!! then I look at my fingers two had came off and then there was that one where the fake nail was still on. So I knew something was bad..
Omg that is my name and fave blogger in the same sentence?!? Thank you sooo much for liking and sharing my little blog! š
Also good luck for a productive book filled February!!
hehe, of course ! ā¤ļø
Thank you ! So far I have two Authorās posts; a cover reveal and a blog tour ā so, hopefully! :p
Omg the nail incident sounds so painful! I hope itās better now.
Iāve been rubbish at blog hopping this past month (thatās why I didnāt notice your new graphics until now š). Iām glad January is over. *sighs*
it was ! though the nail still hasnāt growned yet, it doesnāt hurt ā so thereās that !
ah no worries ! I only changed it at the end of January, like the 27th? xD so itās just been a couple days ahah ā omg yes, same !
Aaaaaah your nail looks so painful! I hope the pain went a way a bit :'(. But amazing that youāve read more books than usual! It always gives me such a content feeling when that happens š also.. why does it say sausages in your tracker? (hasnāt had French class in ages sorry)
Oh, it means the same in english xD itās just how I calls my dogs *aherm* as theyāre wiener dogs, ahaha ! I have plenty of variations like that x)
Yes !! Such a nice feeling, I have exceeded my record!
I hope your nail situation is better now š
Congrats on reading 4 books š Thatās pretty great. I always love your trackers. And sorry that I havenāt visited your blog in a long time. I have been so bad in blog hopping these past months š But I loved the new blog look.
Have a lovely February.
AW no worries dear xx
it still looks somewhat terrible, but atleast im not in pain anymore, so thatās great!
Thatās good to hear āŗļø
I hope your finger has healed. Thatās my biggest fear when it comes to artificial nails but thankfully it hasnāt happened yet.
I have a weekly self-care page that I put in at the start of the week in my bujo with water intake, self-care goals and reflections.
mainly in that situation, it was mostly the tvās fault *aherm* if you donāt lift a tv or something as heavy, you should be fine !
hmmm, thatās interresting !
I canāt imagine the pain you would have went through and I am so sorry that it happened. But also kinda hilarious right? Ok sorry.
Yay to the new pages on the BuJo and day shift!! I loved how you spoke about your dad and winter. Great post as ever.
Kinda yeah š specially the way i say it ahah
awwww, I hope your February goes better and that youāre staying warm! congrats on setting a personal reading record, and your bujo setup looks awesome ā yay for pens that donāt run! my monthly setups are pretty minimal too (most of what I write down goes in weekly/daily), but Iāve found that if you need a spread youāll add it in ā¦ no use setting up spreads you arenāt going to get much use out of, though of course theyāll look pretty š
Yes! I do that too š i keep my weekly mostly like a journal of what ive done hahaha
exactly! if Iām not gonna get to some of the things on my to-do list, Iāve gotta write down all the little things I get done so I donāt look too unproductive š
I hate looking at empty pages šš I feel so bad ahah
Oh damn the nail incident made me wince, Iāve started growing mine back out again since Iāve never had them done with acrylic nails. And probably never will, I hope it grows back alright š
As for bullet journal pages, something Iāve added in for this month is a āpost status trackerā idek what to call it, but basically Iāve drawn boxes and put in the names of the posts Iām putting up in Feb. Then below the title, Iāve written featured image, written, formatted and scheduled. Once Iāve done one of the things for a post, Iāll highlight it. Iām testing it out, just to see if it can help me keep on top, of what posts Iāve written and where each post is at in terms of being ready š
Thank you so much for sharing my posts! <3 I hope February is a better month for you lovely
So far i have no idea what itās doing xD ithink its growing back..
Yeah! Thatās my blog planning for me! I fill up what I wanna post on my set days, where i was tagged and what ideas I got that month. I will put what I scheduled in my weekly spread.
Thank youu ā¤ļøā¤ļø you aswell xx
Youāre so good with the whole bullet journaling <3 It really inspires me! I see a little revamping over on your blog and it's so cute š That nail incident must be painful, I can only imagine! I hope it grows back again and healthier. January seems like it was good for you and I hope Feb would be just as amazing!
Aww thank you very much! Iām trying, ahah ā¤ļøā¤ļø
It wasnāt so bad on the spot.. but the aching afterward and me keeping bumping it on stuff that was š thanks again! I hope your feb is amazing too š