Half of November I was sick with what I think was the flu and then it flared into allergic rhinitis but I got better in time for my trip to Osaka, Japan! And that was the highlight of my month.🥰
What I Posted: 7 Books
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As you can see, I barely did any reading this month. I was just too sick and unmotivated, plus I had to get ready for the trip. But I’m hoping I’ll have more motivation and energy to read in December when my kids get a break from school and my hubby comes to visit for three weeks! I’ll finally have some ME time.
I am finally 99% better! I say 99% because I still sound stuffy but that could just be allergies. I’ve been doing last minute shopping for our trip and making sure I have everything set before we leave on Tuesday. I’m excited but also already exhausted lol…why is going on vacation always so exhausting? Especially when you are the one planning the trip!
I’ve been so busy thinking about the trip that I forgot that Thanksgiving is next week and Black Friday! I guess I’m going to do my Christmas shopping late this year. But I’ll worry about that when I come back. There is just so much to do plus my mom has surgery a week after we come back from our trip.
I hope all of you have a good week and thanks for reading!
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!
Okay well this week was better but my coughing got worse so it was another miserable week. My kids had a 4 day weekend but I did manage to go to urgent care after I was just tired of coughing. Apparently I’ve been dealing with allergic rhinitis on top of the virus that I was dealing with and the wildfire smoke made it way worse. So all that post nasal drip from my nose was just aggravating my coughing. The wildfire is out though and the doctor prescribed me some flonase because she said my nasal tissues were just inflamed. So let’s hope this will speed up my recovery before my trip! I feel better already!
I’ve been waiting for copy of the special edition of Fourth Wing and the Iron Flame books from Amazon and both have been delayed. Then I saw on tiktok how so many people were getting misprinted books and that made me cancel my orders, since I wasn’t getting them anytime soon anyway. Oh well, so I bought the Iron Flame ebook instead because I don’t have to wait for that!
I hope all of you have a good week and thanks for reading!
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Ah October – you were something! I spent half the month worrying about my mom’s procedure which was successful but they found more cancer – small tumors – the best option now is to have her do major surgery to remove her right kidney and ureter. 🙏🏼 Other things that happened was my son’s youtube channel hit 1,000 subs and it’s something I’ve been working on for him (because he sort of gave up on it)…but now he’s rejuvenated again and started posting content. So that was something good that happened this month. Then my kids got sick right before Halloween – and then I got sick. I survived Halloween trick or treating but after that it was like a truck ran over me. I don’t know if I had the flu or what. At first I thought it was just a bad cold I caught from the kids (also there was smoke in the air from a fire nearby) and that trick or treating just exhausted me. But the next day I had body chills and aches and really bad coughing.
So that was my October and as for reading this is what I posted on my blog:
What I Posted: 20 Books
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I posted 20 book reviews which is surprising and a lot. I think I read 14 of these this month which is still pretty good. How was your reading month wrap up?
Well, I was sick all week. I got a sore throat on Monday – but got through parent conferences. Tuesday was Halloween and I got through trick or treating but wow right after I was super exhausted and started to cough. I woke up Wednesday with a bad cough, congestion, body aches and chills. I tested negative for covid so I think I had the flu. The body aches and chills stuck around for 2 days and I even lost my voice but the coughing and congestion have been the worse. I barely had a fever but had lots of sweating (but it IS hot here in Hawaii). My birthday was yesterday and I didn’t have energy to celebrate but that’s okay because we leave for Osaka, Japan in 16 days. I’ll celebrate there! My main priority is to get better and get rid of this cough and congestion.
That was my miserable week and I didn’t get much reading done – but I did have fun with my kids on Halloween at least!
I hope all of you have a good week and thanks for reading!
+ The Hunger Games ~ because The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes comes out in theaters soon, and I still need to read the book. But the Olivia Rodrigo song for the movie, “Can’t Catch Me Now” sounds amazing!
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I felt like my brain wasn’t functioning this week because I was worried about my mom’s procedure to remove her cancer cells. I was so relieved when I saw she was home and doing good but the next day my sister talked to the doctor and he gave her bad news. The camera inserted into her to help scrape off the cancer cells found smaller tumors that the CT Scan missed. So we are devastated but trying to think positive as we consider her options and she has a few but the one we are learning towards involves major surgery. But we want to get ahead of the cancer and eliminate it – that’s the goal and I feel like she’s in the early stages enough that she can beat it. 🙏🏼 So that was on my mind this week and weekend.
Then of course my son got sick, but I took him to urgent care and it’s not strep throat…or at least not Strep A which is what they test for. Anyway so we had a quiet weekend but a nice surprise last night when my parents came to sleep over. I was thinking they wouldn’t come over this weekend because my mom’s procedure and how she’s still in a little pain, but she’s feeling much better.❤️
I’m not in a reading slump but my mood is definitely in a slump hence why I haven’t been finishing a lot of books lately. But this weekend is my birthday and the book I’m looking forward to getting the most is Iron Flame!! So I hope my mood improves by then! Just have so much on my mind…sigh…and it’s the holidays, which is stressful enough without dealing with all my loved ones dealing with health issues. 🙁 Anyway I’m trying to get into the mood for my kids because Halloween is on Tuesday!
I hope all of you have a good week and thanks for reading!
+ The Nightmare Before Christmas (the sing-along lol)
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I didn’t have a busy week but I don’t know where my time went! I think my heart has been heavy with all the things happening around the world. 😔
Also I am busy planning our Osaka, Japan trip which is in 4 weeks. My mom is having her procedure to remove her cancer (they found it on her ureter) this week so I’ve been thinking about that and wondering if she will be okay to come on the trip. Oh and I’m trying to get back to working out and eat better because my blood pressure was a little bit higher in my last doctor appointment. SO yeah I gotta work on that – self care and all that! That means I’ve been more tired so I think I finished only one book this past week. I’ve been reading slow…
I’m hoping I get get through more reading this week, but we shall see. Anyway, hope you have a good week!
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+ Baseball – and I really don’t really watch baseball unless the Phillies are in the playoffs since I try to support my husband’s favorite teams lol
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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!
Where did September go?! I thought August was tough because we all got sick but September was mentally rough because so many of my loved ones are dealing with health issues. I just did what I could this month in terms of reading and posting on this blog. I almost took a break but I do have a break coming in November when I go on vacation to Osaka, Japan. Here’s what I posted in September…
What I Posted: 19 Books
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I posted 19 book reviews which is probably the most I posted this year! A bunch of these were read before September. I think I read 12 of these this month which is still pretty good. I hope all of you had a good September!
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