When I Should Be Studying

Reason for Reading This Book My main reason for reading this book is that I am a ReadHead, a member of  The ReadHeads  podcast book club and the book of the month for August was We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange . I was excited to read this book because the host who chose the book is a young-adult genre fan. I have also liked most of the books chosen by this host. I had no expectations going into this book. I read a majority of the book on my travels from California to Texas, and finished it in my destination of D.C. I read this book during 10 days of intensive work training and it was the perfect light read to pull me away from reality each day. Content of this Book One night Sunday Brennan makes a decision that changes her life forever. She gets behind the wheel after drinking, which results in both a crash and a DUI. What now? After the accident Sunday moves from Los Angeles back home to live with her family in New York. Sunday is now faced with the reality of being with ...

Reasons for reading this book The simple answer to why I read this book is that my best friend and I trade books all the time. She read this book and thought I would like it so she lent me her copy. Prior to her giving me the book I had heard the title but did not know anything about the story. So shout out to my best friend for recommending this book and letting me read her copy. I started reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid with no expectations and no knowledge of what the story was about. I tend it just start the book without reading the back. I read and reviewed this book back at the start of June and it was the perfect time for me to read this book as I had little going on and could completely immerse myself in it. Content of the book After stepping away from the spotlight Evelyn Hugo is ready to tell reporter Monique Grant her life story. She breaks down both the truth about her glamorous life as a Hollywood icon and the many scandals she found herse...

Something that I started to do right when I moved into my first apartment 3 years ago was meal prep. I started with dinners and some components of dinner. Doing this helped me to have healthy options ready to go, reduced my chances of eating out, and allowed me to know have to think about what I was going to eat for each meal.  Getting Started How I start meal prepping is by deciding what I want to eat that week and making a grocery list for the items that I do not already have. For me I have two different breakfasts that I eat, I eat the same lunch and then I have a list of my favorite dinners that I rotate between. I also rotate the type of snack that I eat. Once I have a list I only buy those items at the grocery store. This helps to eliminate buying excess food and creating more waste. Below are pictures of the grocery list and dinner meal plan that I make for each week.  When making your list order it in the way you move around the store. Start with produce, then move to ...

My Reasons for Reading this Book My main reason for reading this book is that I am a ReadHead, a member of  The ReadHeads  podcast bookclub and the book of the month for July was  Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro . Going into this book I had no idea what the book was about. I also set no expectations for this book.  Content of the Book  This book follows the 'life' of Klara an AF, Artificial Friend, and how she navigates the life of her outside of the store walls. Klara learns what emotions are, what is and is not appropriate, and how to react to certain situations by observing the humans around her. Klara's experience in the outside world is with a middle-aged woman and her chronilcally-ill daughter, Josie. Together Klara and the family experience the ups and downs of life. Can Klara become programmed to love Josie and fight for her to have the best life possible? Themes What does love mean? What is family? What does it mean to be fully human? What I Liked A...

My pervious Social Media Bullet Journal Spreads and Trackers were more focused on trackers and insights into followers. This blog post is focused on the administrative and content side of blogging and social media. Honestly I have not used those original spreads in over two years because I find the insights given on the social media platforms informative enough that I do not need to track them in my bullet journal. I plan digitally, using an iPad and the application  GoodNotes   Adonit Dash 3 Stylus  ( similar since no longer available ) from Amazon. These spreads were made on GoodNotes5, but are easily exported to be used on GoodNotes4. If you are curious to why I plan digitally check out my blog post  Switching to a Digital Planner-Paperless Planning . One of my best tips for keeping your blog and social media organized is to have a separate digital notebook that is only used for blogging and social media. I downloaded a digital notebook from The Pink Ink . A...

Reasons for reading this book The reason I read The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner is because it was the July book for  The ReadHeads  podcast book club. Since I am a member of this podcast book club I read the book. When I began reading the book I only knew that is was about the San Fransisco earthquake. I was excited to read this book because I start my year of service with AmeriCorps NCCC FEMA in July in California and reading about a natural disaster in the area only seemed fitting for the adventure I am about to embark on. Content of this book Without ever meeting, Sophie agrees to marry Martin Hocking after responding to his newspaper advertisement for a wife and mother to this young daughter Kat. As an Irish immigrant living in New York Sophie is desperate to get out of the city and live a better life. That is why she agrees to marry Martin. From Sophie's understanding Martin has one agenda for this unusual marriage, to look professional and like he has hi...

One of my favorite things about planning digitally is that I can create a template page and then copy and paste it into my planner to use over and over again. This not only saves time, but also allows for my planner to look cohesive from start to finish. To learn more about how to make your planner cohesive check out  Elements to Make Your Bullet Journal Cohesive . I plan digitally, using an iPad and the application GoodNotes   Adonit Dash 3 Stylus  from Amazon. These spreads were made on GoodNotes5, but are easily exported to be used on GoodNotes4. If you are curious to why I plan digitally check out my blog post  Switching to a Digital Planner-Paperless Planning . In this blog post I share the bullet journal templates that I use yearly, monthly, and weekly. I also included links to all of the original blog posts that these spreads come from. Those links provide more information on the spread and how to create your own. What I do with the templates that I have creat...