This has been an emotional couple of days for me, but I’m doing much better since this afternoon. In fact, I feel like I’m finally moving on from a chapter in my life that was holding me back from living it to the fullest. I got some much needed rest today as well.
I’m determined to finish Till Summer Do Us Part this weekend. I only have 21 pages left.
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I’m still not reading much, but it’s definitely more than last week thanks to a friend’s recommendation of Till Summer Do Us Part, which is not from a genre I typically read. I certainly wouldn’t have picked this book up on my own, but I’m glad I did, even if it’s making me blush a lot.
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This has been a very emotionally tough week for me, and I don’t know what else to say about that other than I thought I had fully processed my relationship ending back in July. I discovered that wasn’t the case, and I have been focused on dealing with that.
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I’ve been resting as much as possible this week. Dealing with all of the stress from last week has exhausted me in every way. With the exception of reading for a while in the evenings, I haven’t done much beyond going to work, going back home, getting ready for the next day, and then going to bed.
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This has been an extremely rough and stressful week. On top of the extreme cold weather and moving out of the apartment, my car was hit and spun into a snowbank while the other driver sped off before I had a chance to get out of the car. I gave as many details to the police as I could, but since I wasn’t able to get even a partial plate number, the chances of them finding who did it are pretty much nil. Then, the day after my move, I had to prep for a colonoscopy, getting no sleep in the process, only to find out that all procedures were cancelled due to a water main break. Today was the first day I finally got a little bit of normalcy back into my life. My bed and desk are finally set up (which is why I’m able to write this post), and my living room is mostly done. I hope I’m able to veg out a bit this evening with an episode of “Friends” and then wind down with one of the many books I’m currently reading.
My reading has been nearly as chaotic as my week. I’ve started several books and have only read a little bit of each because I can’t make up mind what I want to read and I’ve been too stressed and exhausted to stay focused. Hopefully that will change as I get settled into my new, though temporary, home.
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My back decided to flare up last weekend, so I spent Sunday and Monday doing basically nothing. I then struggled to find the energy to do anything beyond going to work for most of the week. I had a friend over on Thursday to help me get caught up on packing. Then I did some more packing on Friday while I waited for my groceries to be delivered ahead of the Winter storm that is supposed to be starting this evening. I haven’t gotten much done all day thanks to my neck flaring up and causing my hands to go numb on and off since early this morning. The stress of moving combined with very low temps are really doing a number on my body, so I’m doing my best to just rest and have faith that I’ll get everything packed in time.
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I had very little energy this week and didn’t do much of anything other than use another of my remaining Audible credits. I didn’t even have the energy to read much more than a few pages several days this week and went to bed early instead. I’m hoping that I’ll finish at least a couple of my current reads over this long weekend, though. I have Monday off from work for the holiday, and while I’ll mostly be packing, I plan on taking plenty of rest breaks for reading.
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I finally finished my first book of the New Year. While I’m reading for at least 90 minutes every day, I’m also reading multiple books, as usual, so 2026 is off to a slow start.
My number of books also went up by one because I used a couple of my Audible credits. I won’t be renewing my Audible subscription this year since I had planned on canceling it last year but renewed after I was offered a significant discount I didn’t want to pass up. However, I have far too many audiobooks that I still haven’t listened to, and I’m not happy with Amazon’s business practices in regards to authors, so this is definitely the final year. I also have a Libro.FM subscription that I have paused for three months. At that point, I will decide on whether I will keep it or cancel it until I use up those credits and actually get through a significant number of the audiobooks I already own.
While getting through my audiobook collection won’t reduce the number of physical books I own, nearly all of those books are now packed up, with the exception of a basket of books I want to read over the next few months. Other than those, I won’t be reading any of my physical books until I’m settled in a place where I can fully unpack. Hopefully that will be by June.
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I managed to finish one last book before the New Year, bringing my total books read in 2025 to 104. I’m setting my reading goal for 2026 fairly low because I really want to focus on reading what I’m in the mood to read instead of picking shorter books. However, I’ve added a new goal of reading for a total of 90 minutes every day. Over the last few months of the year, I noticed that I wasn’t reading much after I got home for work. Instead, I was scrolling on my phone or bingeing TV. I want to return to quiet evenings with a book and a mug of tea after dinner. I already know from first-hand experience that doing that helps me.
I gave myself permission to buy some books for my Birthday. I was only supposed to buy one, but I ended up buying 4 physical books (1 of them is used) and an ebook.
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Yule was quiet and wonderful, just how I wanted it. Spending Christmas Eve alone was difficult, but I made myself a giant mug of hot chocolate and a bowl of popcorn, and watched my favorite Christmas movie, “Mickey’s Christmas Carol.” After that, I settled in on the couch with Wolf Winter, my cats, and a big mug of tea. Christmas morning was also a bit difficult, but I’m glad I had plans to have a late lunch with a friend, as that helped me a lot.
I did next to nothing yesterday, and at first I felt guilty about that. Then I realized that I haven’t had any real time off from work just to relax since March. Any time off I’ve had since has been either only a day off in which I ran around trying to catch up on everything or because I was sick, injured, or dealing with something stressful. So, the only productive thing I did all day was to set up my 2026 Reading Tracker.
In addition to doing another year of my #ShelfLove reading challenge, I’ve decided to try the Reader’s Gauntlet:
I will be doing this challenge on “Easy mode,” and even then I have no idea how well I’ll do, but my only real goal for this challenge is to have fun by gamifying my reading. What I like about this challenge is that it’s not entirely made up of specific reading prompts. I’m too much of a mood reader to succeed at those challenges, unless they’re very short-term seasonal ones, and even then it’s iffy. Instead, just about every book I am likely to read will fit into the Reader’s Gauntlet somewhere, and the real challenge for me will be to fill in the “blanks” as I go along, similar to unlocking an achievement in a video game. That sounds like a lot of fun!
Over the remaining days of 2025, I’ll be doing my best to finish all of my current reads so that I’m starting 2026 fresh.
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