End of May, early June
Here we go again, time to say goodbye to May and welcome June!
This month has been kinda “erh” – Despite not knowing wether it was something wrong with myself and my mental health in particular, or rather an impact of how our weather was lately (Raining alot – even SNOWED!), I passed my month being terribly tired. Specially on my days off, among all days, where i’d spend my day mostly sleeping and not doing much .. 😓 I can only recall two really nice days, one that I was working 1-9pm and the other I did a morning shift and the temperature reached 23℃ !!
All this aside, let’s jump into this post!
Habit Tracker;
You may recall that a few months back I had added a “Netflix” area.. well I removed it again as I in fact un-subscribed x) Part of why I was tracking it was to see if I was paying for something I was indeed using and well ..Though Alex was using it aswell as me, it was not something I was watching anymore. Probably gonna restart it back in the winter time once the colder weather would be here or iknow there’d be something I wanna watch.
The rest of the tracker looks pretty good to me, although we had times where the blog didn’t received any comments (so no reply/returning happening) and owning dachshunds, walking them while it was constantly raining was just NOT happening. Slowly looking more and more filled within each new month!
The events;
❖ The most important thing that happened this month, was of course that I finally jumped into Self-Hosting !! 😇 You heard me talk about it here and here.
Quite the difference with the free wordpress one, where my views would turn more around 1,2K but that’s pretty normal in the beginning; as i’m still linked to the other one and not everybody necessarely know I moved yet. This had bring me so much anxiety in the beginning .. 😅 Specially for re-claiming my blog on Bloglovin’, and figuring out why Alex didn’t had access to the website anymore. But all shall be alright now and I even went and fix all the posts’ links and made new post covers !!
❖ Next, May being for Mental Health Awareness, I had guest posted on Crimson’s blog for her “Let’s talk about mental health” serie – Though I originally intended to share more, you’ve heard me talk of my experience in retail with anxiety, Anxiety-filled moments or the difference between panic and anxiety attack, My personality change after my crisis and finally, my personal path of recovery. Don’t forget to go check them out if you have forgotten! 💫
❖ I finished three books this month! First, I finished Supermarket – Alex’s book that he lend me as he wanted me to read it aswell. Then, I finally finished a book that was sitting in my shelf for quite a while, another thriller, Trust in me. Lastly, I just finished “Letters to the Lost” that I had borrowed from the library, review to come up in June 2nd. With that, I have now completed my goodread’s goal of reading 15 books !!! 🥰
❖ I booked my first vacations from work !! One that i’ll be spending with Alex to go see his family from the 12th to the 21st of july. First we are taking a bus-ride to get us to a nearby province’s airport, and then taking the plane to land on the isle his family is from. I’ve never taken the plane before and it’d be my first time meeting his family.. so that shall be interesting. I’ll be posting a post in the next month to ask about recomendations of books and blogging tips when in vacation !
❖ Lastly, On the 23rd it was Sheik’s birthday !! My little girl turned four years old; as I had the day off, we took them both to the pet-Store to get her a “cake” aka one of thoses fancy dog treats and settled for thoses “unicorn poops” 😂 as of which she wanted to eat on the spot! Alas, we couldn’t find a nice toy for her but we went to my work’s drive thru and got them tiny cups of whip cream (only allowed on special occasions or after nail trimming to reward them to allow us to do it). Mom wanted a birthday photoshoot with her but she was just NOT playing along, so this is mostly the only picture I have of her birthday xD
Sharing the blogger love! ;
♥ Dani @ Perspective of a Writer shares 5 ways to start easy with bookstagram, aswell as the difference between graphic novels/mangas/Webtoons!
♥ Heidi @ The caffeinated Bibliophile shares how to read faster, which can be quite handy!
♥ Nicole @ Feed your fiction addiction shares other-than-bookish things that she loves to see on book blogs!
♥ Lauren @ Northen Plunder started her Patreon !! Donations will go forward her self-hosting and return some kindness in the community. You know how I just love Lauren, she’s everywhere; kind and helpful too – so go support her if you can !
♥ Eline @ Lovely audiobooks gives us some recs for Online romance books; A kind of love quite popular in our world now, that aren’t so written about. I’m always a taker for thoses !
June, here we come;
I wasn’t happy with how colorful the last month was.. so I opted for a blue/grey color pattern. However it ended up a bit too much in the same tone for my liking XD Sadly, the grey-ish pen was taking a long time to dry and when I was writting I kept “sploching” my pages with the running ink 🤦🏽♀️
Still working on my “one page” spreads, adjusting the things to be bigger and such .. doodled a bit.. trying to make it into something I like.
Again, more space in-between “just in case” I might wanna add something along the way and also the “Netflix” removed.
I tried something “summer-y”… this was supposed to be little surf boards 😂 which *aherm* .. I may have failed that but whatever, it’s not too too horrible – i’m liking it.
Lastly, the weeklies ! I feel like I did a better job with dividing into seven squares this time, allowing me more space to write. This picture also allow you to look at the “splotches” of my hand on the fresh ink too xD
Also you’ll notice that the 4th of June will be our first year anniversary with Alex 💕
How was your May? Anything special planned for June?
Your organization and bullet journal is unfreaking believable! Sounds like you had a good month!
My May was great! Broke some records! I’m holding my breath on June. I have never done anything like this Summer Fling undertaking! I’m scared and excited in the rollercoaster kinda way!!!
Thank you!
It was in-between id say. Among thoses things I was just feeling more like sleeping than anything else 🤷🏽♀️
Woohoo! That’s awesome! Hopefully you’ll break some records in June too !
Hope June is great for you! Loving your little surfboards for your blog planning – my blog plan page is just a list! Lol.
Aew ahahah well that works too xd i try to have it not so blend so I try my hand and doodling and trying ti have some kind of thing going on .. sometimes it works and sometimes not at all xD
Congrats on going self-hosted! That’s awesome!
I feel you on the being tired. It’s been really bad for me too this last month. Always, always tired. I even had some afternoon naps which I usually avoid.
And thank you for linking to my online romance book list 🙂
Thank you! Xx
The most twisted is when I worked for 630 in the morning I was usually fine and not needed to take naps, but when I worked at 1 or 3 pm where id have woken up at 9/10am I did needed a nap before I go. Go figures 😂
Let’s hope we have a better June!
I’ve found that weather /temperature can definitely affect my mood, tracking them in my bujo (weather forecast + mood) has been an interesting experience! and sometimes I feel like a month has been meh but apparently I had more good days than I thought, so that’s nice to look back on too – but of course what you want to track is totally up to you 😜 still, I’m sorry you had such a “meh” month and hope June is kinder to you!
congrats again on going self-hosted! i’m sure your stats will naturally rise again as you keep doing your thing, though I can only imagine how it feels to see them drop so abruptly. and I’m glad you’ve gotten so much of it figured out, that’s awesome too.
nice job with your Goodreads goal, especially considering the year’s not even half done yet 😮 I hope you have tons of fun on your vacation, and happy belated birthday to Sheik!
Oooooh, i actually didn’t thought of that one ! My only concern is totally forgetting about it 😂😂 which I would totally do- but it should be quite interesting indeed!
Thank you! My only concern with my vacation is that my dogs won’t follow me… and I haven’t been as long than a day without them in five years so a whole WEEK, yikes! 🙈 but once i’m there i am literally stuck, cannot go back and i’d also have Alex with me of course.
aww thnak you for the shoutout,
as always seeing your bujo is inspiring me to keep workionmg on my own
No prob ❤️❤️
It sounds like you’ve had an AWESOME May and I love your BUJO! Your pictures are great from it and I’m jealous lol it all looks so adorable. It also seems like you’re going to have a great summer to look forward to, I’ll say happy anniversary closer to the day!
Thank you!
Funny story I had quite the trouble to get them 😂😂 I ended up giving up raging. Hahah
Congrats on going self hosted! I can only imagine it took a lot of work! And wow your organisation level is BOSS haha 💚🌻
Aww thank you! 💕
Kristina I don’t know what is happening but it seems that I have missed most of your posts these last weeks!!! EEEEEp! Did you change something and it does not show up on the WP reader anymore or have I been so distracted???
I did changed website for going self-host, but I DID transfer all the subscribers 🤔 i even have the wp follow button so it SHOULD appear.
What Ive seen though, is i’d go bloghopping in the discord’s chat or even bloglovin’ and for whatever reason it tells me im not following anymore ?? Which I should be ..
I will add you again on the WP reader as a “followed” site (but your WP button tells me that indeed I am following you) …
Well then 🤔 I dont know. But usually unfollowing/following back should do the trick!
It’s smart of you to track how much you’re using Netflix and canceling if it’s not worth it. I tend to let things like that go and then realize later that I was wasting money!
Thank you!
Yeah that’s the thing xD the « original » purpose was to make me watch it more as there so many series that looks good but it didnt quite worked.. ahaha
congrats on self-hosting!! i’m not actually sure what that means but it sounds like a milestone 😀 and thank you so much for participating in the mental health talks I WAS SO HAPPY even though i kinda disappeared at the end there Orz
i really like your bullet journal! also that’s a really smart way to keep track of subscriptions :00 i was very bad and didn’t keep up with my bullet journal. first bc i lost my notebook and then later bc i just wasn’t feeling it. i’ve noticed that I keep dropping it about halfway through the month so maybe i need to make some adjustments :/
and happy birthday!! all of our pups are having bdays soon too! one of them is at the end of summer and the other two (twins) are in the fall xD
Thank you, it is ! Basically my blog isn’t managed by WordPress anymore – i’m the one to do it myself (adding plugins, more themes, add stuff with HTML codes and etc.) My domain name belongs to me as I pay for it now, aswell as the security and SSL. But that also means if anything goes wrong somewhere I’m the one who need to figure it out xD
Ah no worries ! I could’ve participate more in posting aswell, I had a blast ! At some points your guest posts were more planned than my actual blog posting.. ahaha !
awh :/ yeah it can be quite hard at first specially if you aren’t used to journalling and planners and such.. which I wasn’t xd even at school I didn’t even used it HAH! but what’s nice is that with a Bujo you basically create your own pages, so if something do not work you just need to modify and drop it !
Yep, here’s the pup season! ahaha I have one in March and one in May.. a year apart 😂 Which is quite funny if you think about it – one is the 21st while the second is the 23rd.