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July seems like it passed by in a total blur if I’m to be honest. Like, I feel like I haven’t been homes in days—that sort of blur. My temp job ended this week (sort of) and I just feel a lot lighter. I did agree to stay on for two more week at a part-time schedule to help train others in what I do there because we had some abrupt department changes, but I feel good about this decision. Full-time work just doesn’t work for me and that’s okay.
Anyway, despite feeling like I had absolutely no time for myself, I still found a few gems and moments of job is all the busyness. I managed to read THREE books this month after all. So here are a few things I found myself enjoying this month:
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WATCHING
The Mysterious Benedict Society on Disney+!!! I’m so utterly excited about this show. It’s based on one of my favorite YA/Middle Grade book series by Trenton Lee Stewart. I didn’t even know Disney was doing a show out of it, so you can imagine my surprise when I saw it as a new release on Disney+. Of course, I watched it right away! Only four episodes have been released so far and the show is so good! It definitely has A Series of Unfortunate Events vibe to it—which I don’t remember the books ever having—but I can see why they would take that approach. But either way, it’ becoming a new favorite.
CREATING
in my Summer Stories journal and participating in Junk Journal July. So I decided to try out the Junk Journal July challenge in this journal because I’ve been so busy that I haven’t had any time to make any sort of memories this summer to document in here. I figured these prompts would get me going in at least making a few art journal style pages…and you know, to document the little things. So far, I’ve been having fun with it. I haven’t done all of the prompts yet, but that’s okay. I’ll definitely take them into August to help jumpstart my journaling.
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READING
Signs Point to Yes by Sally Hall. Not the best book I read this summer—not by a long shot—but the better book out of the last two books I read. I gave this one 3 1/2 stars. It was cute. I also got through it really fast too. I’m just not a fan of Sally Hall’s books. While this one was better than the first one I read of hers, it still left a bit to be desired. It was simple and cute. The parent dynamics were frustrating and weird, but compared to the other two books I read this month, this one was good.