Aloha friends!

Another week is over and here’s what happened:

+. Went to lunch with the whole family to celebrate my nephew turning 20!

+ Started to do some back to school shopping for my kids since they go back in August – summer is going by so fast for them.

Blog Posts:

• Tenderly, I Am Devoured by. Lyndall Clipstone | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the Second Half of 2025 | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday | 6/24/25
• New Book Releases This Week | 6/24/25
• WWW Wednesday | 6/25/25
• You Between the Lines by. Katie Naymon | Audiobook Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• These Summer Storms by. Sarah MacLean | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Let’s Talk Bookish:  Mid-Year Check-In | 6/27/25
• Predatory Natures by. Amy Goldsmith | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• The Knight and the Moth by. Rachel Gillig | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Books I Finished

• You Between the Lines by. Katie Naymon – audiobook
• The Knight and the Moth by. Rachel Gillig
• Of Flame and Fury by. Mikayla Bridge
• The Homemade God by. Rachel Joyce
• Tricks of Fortune by. Lina Chern

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Currently Reading:

Wrath of the Dragons by. Olivia Rose Darling

Soul of Shadow by. Emma Noyes

Roots of Darkness by. Demi Winters

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

• K-pop Demon Hunters (Netflix) – why was the ending tragic?! Ugh. Loved the music!
• We Were Liars (Amazon Prime) – trying to see if I remember anything of the story, since I have an arc of the sequel to read this year.
• The Buccaneers (Apple TV+) – of course they only show one episode a week when I’m so used to binging shows. But I do love that I have something to look forward to and I enjoy this show!

Videos I Posted to Youtube:

My May monthly reading wrap up video which is SUPER late I know. There was just too much happening in May and June to put together a video, but I did it before June came to an end. 😅

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

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Aloha friends!

Another week is over and here’s what happened:

+ This week went by kind of fast as I took the time to recover from my trip. Plus there are two kids to kind of entertain so we’ve been going out to the mall, hitting some arcades, and my daughter has all these art projects she wants to do so we’ve been working on that. My son is I think FINALLY kicking the remnants of the cold or virus he caught at the end of May. I’m bummed that he’s been congested for almost a whole month! He only has 7 more weeks of summer vacation left. It’s kind of crazy to think summer vacation is so short now.

+ I definitely miss being on vacation and having buffet breakfasts all week! 😅 Back to cooking for the family.

Blog Posts:

I didn’t post much this week it seems!

• Embrace the Serpent by. Sunya Mara | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Books on My Summer 2025 to-Read List | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday | 6/17/25
• Top 5 Tuesday | Top 5 series I wished never ended | 6/17/25
• New Book Releases This Week | 6/17/25
• WWW Wednesday | 6/18/25
• Enigma by. RuNyx| Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Den of Liars by. Jessica S. Olson | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Summer in the City by. Alex Aster | Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Let’s Talk Bookish:  All About Audiobooks | 6/20/25
• A Magic Deep & Drowning by. Hester Fox | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
• Stacking the Shelves | 6/21/25

Books I Finished

• Warrior Princess Assassin by. Brigid Kemmerer
• House of Hearts by. Skyla Arndt
• Enigma by. RuNyx
• A Magic Deep & Drowning by. Hester Fox
• Summer in the City by. Alex Aster

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Currently Reading:

Throne of Secrets by. Kerri Maniscalco

The Homemade God by. Rachel Joyce

Wrath of the Dragons by. Olivia Rose Darling

You Between the Lines by. Katie Naymon – audiobook

The Knight and the Moth by. Rachel Gillig

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

Videos I Posted to Youtube:

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

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Aloha friends!

Another week is over and here’s what happened:

+ I had two Saturdays yesterday. I ended Saturday in Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, boarded our flight home at 9pm, Saturday. And landed in Hawaii at 9:45am, Saturday. So I was all messed up and dealing with jet-lag!

+ I was in Seoul, South Korea all week – and I LOVED it. What a fun tour group we had, a mix of retirees, families, some seniors (which was kind of hard on them with all the walking). But it was a great group!

• Making our own Tal Masks (to ward of bad spirits/ghosts) at the Bukchon Art Center – made this one for my hubby! Then a walk through the neighborhood, it had lots of hills but loved the old traditional Korean houses.

• DDP (Dongdaemun Design Plaza) – we had a chance to explore, while most of the group went shopping in the area.

• Cheonggyecheon Stream – my sister and I at this really pretty stream.
• Gyeongbok Palace – my sister and I again at the palace. It was a warm day, glad we brought our umbrellas for shade but wow did I sweat and my feet were killing me after this long day.
• Girls in the Hanbok dresses at the palace! They looked so pretty!

• After the a day of going to the stream, Gyeongbok Palace, the National Folk Museum and the Blue House and walking a LOT – we were all so hot and tired BUT we still had one more thing to do. We had a cooking class with Food & Culture Korea. The woman who runs this class, Ellie is the food styler for shows like Squid Game (Season 3), Pachinko on Apple TV and other K-drama shows. She is amazing, full of energy and so much fun! We learned to cook japchae (we cooked this) and bulgogi (we watched a demo). Everything was delicious and we got a copy of the recipes and a certificate with our names written in Korean on it.

• For one of our free days on the tour, my sister and I booked us hair appointments at Juno Hair in Myeongdong (I think she says there are 3 of them in that area alone). We had a haircut at the scalp treatment which was over a fun and relaxing experience! Judy (@juno_judyy on instagram) my stylist was the sweetest. Then we did a LOT of shopping before m sister had a facial at Muse Clinic. I sat and waited with all our shopping bags. After dropping the bags off to the hotel we ended the day with dinner at bhc Chicken to eat some fried chicken and my sister had beer.
• Our last free day we went back to Namdaemun Market (which is across from our hotel, the Courtyard by Marriott Seoul Namdaemun. We did our last minute shopping, but we also checked out the smaller palace up the street called Deoksugung. It was another day of a lot of walking but we ended the night with our last tour group farewell dinner which was a buffet.

It was such a great trip, and I definitely want to go back again to explore even more!

Blog Posts:

I didn’t post much this week it seems!

• Top 5 Tuesday | Top 5 series I wished were shorter | 6/10/25
• New Book Releases This Week | 6/10/25
• All Paths Lead to Paris by. Sabrina Fedel | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Let’s Talk Bookish:  Traveling for Literature | 6/13/25
• Birthstone Book Covers: June – Alexandrite/Moonstone/Pearl

Books I Finished

A Spell to Wake the Dead by. Nicole Lesperance

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Currently Reading:

A Magic Deep & Drowning by. Hester Fox

Throne of Secrets by. Kerri Maniscalco

The Homemade God by. Rachel Joyce

Wrath of the Dragons by. Olivia Rose Darling

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

• Movies I watched on the airplane:
  • Wicked
  • 27 Dresses
  • My Best Friend’s Wedding
  • Inception (but I fell asleep for parts of it)

Videos I Posted to Youtube:

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

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Aloha friends!

Another week is over and here’s what happened:

+ Today I fly out to South Korea with my older sister and we’ll be gone for a week. It sucks to lose time traveling, because it’s a day ahead there so even though we leave on Sunday we get there Monday night. So we’re only really there for 4 real days to explore. Then fly back on Saturday! Hopefully I’ll have some interesting things to post about South Korea next Sunday.

+ My son’s piano recital is today and I’m sad I’ll miss it. He is still getting over a cough, so I hope he does okay. I know he’ll do great.

+ Did my annual breast MRI on Wednesday and everything looks good – thank god! Being in an MRI machine is like being in a rave lol…it’s so loud and the beats are thumping. I always choose Taylor Swift for my playlist in there but this time around I could barely hear the music and at one point something was tickling my nose – grrr…and you can’t move for like 25 minutes! But I got through it…at least I don’t have to worry about it for another year.

+ My son picked up his new Nintendo Switch 2! He saved money for and he’s been having a blast playing the new Mario Kart game. And yes he has been sharing it with his sister, but she’s not as much as a gamer as he is. Her ipad is still her favorite thing to play Roblox on. Though she does have my old switch, which I actually want back because I want the Hello Kitty game! 😅

I hope you all have a great week!

Blog Posts:

I didn’t post much this week it seems!

• The Beautiful Maddening by. Shea Ernshaw | ARC Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• Summer Vibes Book Covers | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday | 6/3/25
• Top 5 Tuesday | Top 5 standalone books I wished were series | 6/3/25
• New Book Releases This Week | 6/3/25
• WWW Wednesday | 6/4/25
• Pigeon-Blood Red by. Ed Duncan| Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• On Wings of Blood by. Briar Boleyn| Book Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️
• The Bond That Burns by. Briar Boleyn| Book Review ⭐️⭐️💫

Books I Finished:

I haven’t been in the mood to read much – maybe because I had so much to do before my trip.

Where the Library Hides by. Isabel Ibañez (audiobook)

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Currently Reading:

Smoke and Scar by. Gretchen Powell Fox

Throne of Secrets by. Kerri Maniscalco

The Homemade God by. Rachel Joyce

Wrath of the Dragons by. Olivia Rose Darling

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

• Addison by. Addison Rae – I need a few more listens but I love New York and Diet Pepsi

Videos I Posted to Youtube:

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

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Aloha friends!

Another week is over and here’s what happened:

+ It is JUNE! 😳 How?….lol

+ My daughter received her academic award (so proud of her)🥰. And she had her class party and had just the most relaxing and fun last week of school. As for my son, he came home from school with a fever on Tuesday, stayed home on Wednesday and Thursday – so he missed his Lilo & Stitch movie field trip with his class (the fever was over but he was dizzy still and didn’t want to chance the school bus ride to the theater). But he did go to school on the last day of school. So what a week…

+ I’ve been packing for my S. Korea trip. My sister wants to book a scalp spa treatment that seem to be very popular there. She also wants to do some skin treatments but I’m skipping that, I’ll just do the scalp thing and I think the deal she found on klook comes with a haircut. I honestly don’t know what to do with my hair – I use box color because I still can’t handle all the white hair around my temples 😅. So my hair frustrates me and I don’t even wanna deal with it! I might get bangs. 🤷🏻‍♀️ But I don’t want to get something done in S. Korea (because it’s affordable) that’s going to be hard for me to maintain when I come back to Hawaii (because of cost – why are hair services so expensive these days?).

+ This week is going to be busy before I leave for S. Korea next week. I have a breast MRI appointment, I have to pick up my son’s Nintendo Switch 2 and then bring him to the orthodontist and buy him clothes for his piano recital that I’ll be missing. I feel a bit anxious – and have been having such weird dreams lately I think because of the anxiety. But I’m sure I’ll be fine by the time I go to the airport because by then it’s all out of my hands and my hubby has to watch the kids for a week 😅. And mind you he was gone for 2 years…and here I am worrying about him with the kids for 1 week. This is the longest he will be alone with them since I gave birth to the both of them!😂🙄. He’s lucky they are older now and mostly self-sufficient!

I hope you all have a great week!

Blog Posts:

I didn’t post much this week it seems!

• Animal Companions | TTT | Top Ten Tuesday | 5/27/25
• Top 5 Tuesday | Top 5 books with no pictures on the cover | 5/27/25
• WWW Wednesday | 5/28/25
• Fallen Court by. Geneva Lee | Audiobook Review ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Books I Finished:

Mayra by. Nicky Gonzalez

Fallen Court: Filthy Rich Fae by. Geneva Lee

Arcana Academy by. Elisa Kova

Love at Full Tilt by. Jenny L. Howe

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Currently Reading:

Smoke and Scar by. Gretchen Powell Fox

Throne of Secrets by. Kerri Maniscalco

The Homemade God by. Rachel Joyce

Wrath of the Dragons by. Olivia Rose Darling

Shows/Movies/Music I Watched/Listened To:

• The Wild Robot is on Netflix! And I loved this movie so much last year but it made me cry a lot in the theater. Even watching it at home made me emotional – all the themes of motherhood and found family. UGH…my heart.💜 This movie will always make me cry I think.

Videos I Posted to Youtube:

How was your week? Did you get a lot done? Watch anything good? Read any amazing books or books you didn’t finish? What are you reading?…Leave me a comment below!

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