Antonia Bernardin

I usually only ever do end of the year summaries, but I thought it’d be fun to try and write one each quarter to look back on at the end of the year, so this is my three quarters of the way through the year one.

I am a little late getting to this post! October was crazy.

Life check-in

Last check-in I said life was pretty busy and to be honest this update isn’t much different! Since you’re getting this update a little late, I can tell you that now my holiday and birthday are done things have slowed down a little.

If Id’ve done this update actually at the end of September/ October, I would have just whinged about how busy I am but that was mostly because I had multiple plans every weekend in October, which is really not a bad problem to have; it just didn’t leave a lot of time for relaxing and doing chores. Things are a little better in November. However, as I’m still going to be away most weekends visiting my partner in London, which is my biggest time-consumption, it’s not like I suddenly have an abundance of free time.

That being said, mission ‘slow the fuck down’ now involves trying to get to sleep a little earlier and giving myself more time to wind down in the evenings and get ready in the mornings. Basically just trying to stop rushing from thing to thing. I feel like I’ve really gotten on top of the eating properly part, the planning/managing my time part (as best as possible under time constraints), it’s just my complete inability to sit still and do nothing that I need to work on.

Writing check-in

Stay tuned for some writing coming soon, I’m done procrastinating. I’ve had a lot of ideas for my WIP percolating and I am at a point where I miss writing. While life was quite stressful I completely lost any desire to write and zero inspiration. Now time is getting a bit more flexible, I want to put more energy into it and I want to take advantage while I want to do it.

Reading check-in

Overall, I’ve read 77 books, so I’m doing well for the year goals (100 books)

Let’s break it down with the Storygraph stats:

(Ignore the minutes listened counter, it’s not accurate atm)

If you care to follow me on Storygraph so you can see what I’m reading before the review appears on the blog, here is a link to my account.

I’m still working on my secret secondary mission to read 50 book books, for that I’m up to 39 books, so getting to 50 is looking pretty possible at the moment! Especially with the ‘wind down for bed’ plan, which give me more reading time.

There you go, if you care to read these posts, I have no idea why, but I’m grateful you are here! I hope you are all having a good year.