A hit and several misses: august holiday bucket list results
It is the end of August and I feel like I had no character development whatsoever (lol). I am still job hunting (finding one is super hard during the pandemic) and I don't really know if I enjoyed this month as I thought I would.
So here is a recap of the list of things I wanted to do and seeing if I ticked them off the box or not (spoiler alert: most of them are not ticked off).
1. create a morning routine
Ha! This was a big failure. I think there were like two days in total where when I got up for Fajr I did not go back to sleep. And there wasn't anything routine like for the other days. Apart from doing the chores. This was super frustrating for me especially after my brother started school. His school starts at 7.30 in the morning and he does the online school in my room. This means I don't really get my room until about 1.30 and then sometimes he has classes in the evening too, so that's another hour or two gone. (in case you are wondering why I can't stay in the room, his camera is usually on for most classes, so I can't even stay in the sidelines). Not being able to spend time in my room is putting me off so much. Anyways I am going to try again this month, not that I started off great. we shall see.
I managed to read 6 books this month (and reviewed them all on my blog too!). You can check my wrap up post here. I am not too disappointed with this one though because I am happy that I even managed six. I am going to keep the 10 books goal for this month too (: Here is the link to my wrap up incase you are interested to know more about the books I read this month.
3. make 2 new things
I made an apple crumble and this strange prawn curry thing. the apple crumble was good especially with the ice cream, I think I ate half of the dish lol. The prawn curry I didn't take any pictures of but it tasted good but it was also weird. idk.
4. cook more?
Yes definitely cooked more this month than the past few months. I didn't take much pictures though because they were like basic curries, chicken, beef, some veggies. But am glad I cooked more.
5. take more pictures
Well I didn't learn any new tips and tricks but I did put my camera to good use because of the book shoots I had. I re joined bookstagram after a long break so I have been taking more pictures with regards to that. Apart from that I haven't done anything. Still am glad snickers got to be of use again.
6. blog
Yesss I blogged this month. 9 posts in total. Mostly book reviews but I did it. I want to brainstorm on more posts that aren't simply just reviews, I have one in mind regarding my thoughts on writing. and I should do a wip update too. Haven't done one of those in ages.
7. edit videos for fun
I edited like one video for the family regarding a trip we went on. That's it. but I guess its better than nothing.
8. paint
Well I didn't paint, but I did undry all the paint (😂). Maybe it means I might paint this month? we'll see.
9. fix that captain america building blocks thing
I did do this for like a week. A little bit everyday and this was my progress. I lost interest a bit after that. Its too tiring because the blocks are too small but it was also nice in a way. This is definitely a project that I do based on my mood. and my mood has been plummeting since midway of august 😐
10. make a 1000 piece puzzle
I did find the site but am broke so I kept this for another time. I don't know when that will be.
11. write at least 10,000 words
I didn't reach this goal T-T I really really wanted to but I didn't start writing until the last ten days of August and even then I was so frustrated with my writing. This demotivated me so the total word count that I reached this month is 4678. it is like almost halfway to 10k so its good, I guess. Yea am reaching over here (😂). Here's to more writing in September.
12. Fix my sleep schedule
HAHAHAHAHA. This obviously didn't happen. I ended up having an average of five to six hours of sleep this month. Its not bad, there were a few days where I did sleep less than four and I was pretty much an angry zombie for those days but overall its okay I guess.
13. unhaul? maybe?
I decided that I don't want to unhaul just yet. I have a goal of rereading my books and seeing if I still want them or not. So we shall leave this for another time.
14. Get a library card/ e-book subscription
Ha this did not happen because of the lockdown. But I am considering getting an e book subscription once my tbr pile is at a good amount. Right now its ridiculous. I stacked it one day to see how tall it was and its taller than me. And am quite tall okay. This is definitely ridiculous. My reading goal for this year is to reduce my tbr so hopefully I get to finish at least half of it by the time 2022 rolls around. Do you know that we are in the final quarter of the year? like how did we get here so fast?!! (yes I know I keep talking about it but I am still trying to figure out where all the time went!)
So out of my 14 goals I only ticked off 5. Kinda pathetic but most of these were also like halfway done so not bad I guess. Here is to a much better September (I hope).
Take care and stay safe.
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