That’s what it feels writing a blog post after four years—a tad awkward.
After an unintended four year hiatus, I am excited to return to writing on this blog!
Continue reading “Why Taking A Break from Blogging Was Good for Me // and returning to the blog”I haven’t done one of these posts since 2018 (three years ago!?!), so I thought I would finally do one in the spirit of 2021 being a better year than 2020 🤞.
The overarching theme that I’ve set for myself this year is: I can do difficult things. It’s pretty much the same as my 2018 theme to “push myself outside of my comfort zone”, and as it silly as it sounds, it’s actually effective having something like a saying that I can remind myself of all year. (It’s better than not having anything to guide me like last year 😅.) Although my resolutions are very general and don’t appear to fall under “I can do difficult things“, it’s all cohesive in my head 😂:
Continue reading “My 2021 New Year’s Resolutions // reflecting on last year and starting a digital reading journal”Truly, the only reason I can’t count the number of movies I’ve watched this month on one hand is because the number is zero 😅. But, I’m not letting that stop me from recommending a meager number of three movies that you should watch before May ends!
Couldn’t tell you.
But, I do know what a K-drama is. K-dramas (or Korean dramas) are all I’ve known lately.
These incredibly addicting television series are made up of sentimental OSTs, extremely satisfying character arcs, and seriously drawn out close-up shots.
Now, in line with my recent pattern of avoiding the books, here are six K-dramas you should watch 💃 (spoiler: they’re mostly mushy romance series because I am mostly romance mush 💩):
Continue reading “6 K-Dramas You Should Watch // aka the only k-dramas I have seen and can recommend”To start off, I received some good news today about something that I’ve been working at for quite some time now. Realistically, the news is very good. But, because my mind likes to wander and worry, I was thinking over how the good news is not completely good and maybe a little bit bad 😬.
It was a waste of time and energy, but those thoughts occupied my head-space the entire day. I felt off-beat, like a sort of fog blurred everything else that happened to me, including when I won my first giveaway!
This question, or rather, something similar to it, was posed by one of my favorite (and grossly underrated) Youtubers Nathan Zed.
In a recent video, he spoke on end about how people, specifically creator-types like musicians and internet personalities, want to claim the number one spot in their respective fields. Nathan went on to cite how some of these people pine for first place so bad that they resort to moves like buying followers or making public pleads to their fans to help them achieve just that.
It’s all a bit disconcerting. As creators, they rightfully want to be acknowledged, but don’t they also want to be genuinely impactful? What will people remember of their work if they never even connected with it in the first place?
While listening to Nathan’s points, my mind predictably began applying them to the blogosphere. I questioned myself,
Wow, *ᴵ ᴴᴬᵛᴱᴺ’ᵀ ᴾᴼˢᵀᴱᴰ ˢᴵᴺᶜᴱ ᵀᴴᴱ ᴸᴬˢᵀ ᴰᴱᶜᴬᴰᴱ!
Ah, how history repeats itself. Just like last year, I am /very/ late to the cumulative, end-of-the-year wrap-ups. I recognize the blogosphere is probably over-saturated with everyone’s favorites of the past year—and now decade—but, somewhere in my ꜱᴍᴀʟʟ, ᴅᴀʀᴋ corner of the web, my Non-Bookish Favorites of 2019 (Part 1) is sitting alone and lonely. We can’t have that 🙅♀️. So, here’s the long, not-particularly awaited second half of my 2019 non-bookish favorites!
Let’s be honest, it would be a dream to make money from home by blogging. Consistent bloggers know that it takes a butt-load of work to post regularly (my inconsistent blogger butt knows that too—only a fraction of it, but still 🙋) and being compensated monetarily would certainly add some value to the effort. But, I think most bloggers, especially the book type, are cognizant of the fact that there’s a slim chance that their blog will one day pay their bills.
Yet, there are still whispers in my head that all of this, this whole blogging thing, is a waste of my time. It’s silly because what would a good use of my free-time be then?
Fortunately, I know where this feeling that I should be doing something else is coming from: it’s coming from an obsession with making money from hobbies.
Continue reading “Finding Value In Your Blog Even If You Don’t Make Money From It // and the obsession with making money from our hobbies”This time it’s not because I’m not interested in reading or haven’t been able to start a good book (I’ve actually been reading Feed by Mira Grant on and off for the past two weeks, and I really like it so far!). Lately, I’ve been more interested in other hobbies and life things (cause binge-watching TV shows is totally a hobby).
Since I haven’t been in the bookish mindset, I thought it would be fun to share some of the non-bookish things I’ve been enjoying this year. If you’re like, “ᴛʜɪs ɪs ɴᴏᴛ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɪ sɪɢɴᴇᴅ ᴜᴘ ғᴏʀ, ʙᴇʟʟᴇ—ɪ ᴇxᴘᴇᴄᴛ ᴍᴇᴅɪᴏᴄʀᴇ, ɪʀʀᴇɢᴜʟᴀʀʟʏ–sᴄʜᴇᴅᴜʟᴇᴅ ʙᴏᴏᴋɪsʜ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ɪ ᴄᴀɴ sᴄʀᴏʟʟ ᴘᴀsᴛ!,” then let me redirect you to My Favorite Books of 2019 (Part 1) post (also, friend, that was so aggressive and unnecessary 😭).
Belle Can Read 