And it's done! This was a pretty quick project - took less than a week. On to something more complicated! #crossstitch #Icantadulttoday

My previous #crossstitch project is officially complete! Trimmed and framed my pumpkin this morning 🤎🖤 I'm so happy 😊

I failed to post in time for #WIPWednesday so I'm posting today 🪡 Started a new #crossstitch project this week! A much simpler - and faster - design ❤️

I am so excited This Gilded Abyss was picked up by Tor!!! I LOVE this book 📖 While Rebecca Thorne is better known for her cozy series, I will never stop recommending her venture into the horror-fantasy genre. Let's go lesbians! @rebeccathorne.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social

Prior to last night, I can't remember the last time I wanted to throw a book... Why?! Just, why??? 😭 I had a feeling I was going to love this one - and I was right - I just didn't know it would wreck me like this💔 #booksky

Gah, I love books and stories 😍 One moment I'm reading about body-snatchers, the next I'm teary over one character asking another to teach them how to read 🥺 #booksky

I really hate being chronically ill 😓 I've got a body that doesn't recharge, aches constantly, and gets dizzy when the heat goes on (landlord controls it and I can't get it to be lower in my apt) 😫 Add nausea every morning to the point that I can't eat and it's the perfect recipe for misery 😢

85! Bumping my #readinggoal up to 90 📚

Went to the grocery store and forgot my list 😬 Managed to forget only two items 🙃 Sadly, it means no cake today...

Spilling 30 servings of instant coffee was not how I wanted to start my day... 🙄 I hate my hands some days #chronicillness

It's done!!! After 5 months - including a brief hiatus while I packed my life up - this buffalo plaid pumpkin is finally complete 🖤🧡 It needs a frame but the last stitches are stitched 🧡🖤 #CrossStitch

Having an "I need mom" kinda day 🥺❤️‍🩹 but in a "I need the version I knew as a kid before things went to sh*t" way #nocontact #healingjourney #innerchild

#WIPWednesday #CrossStitch 🧡🖤 Finished another skein of the orange! Next step, completing the black. I'm hoping to finish this project before the end of the month 🥰

I dunno if it was a neighbor or the postman.... but it's here and it's safe 🧡🧡🧡

Hoping I have nice neighbors who bring packages past the locked lobby door 😬 Got a notification my #TSTheLifeOfAShowgirl cardigan arrived and I won't be home for another 5 hours 🧡

I LOVE this album 🥰 It's giving Reputation vibes, which I love since she was also in love while writing those tracks, but this feels like a more secure love she's experiencing. There's also a bit of "unless you know, you really don't, so don't judge" and "my life has been worth the pain" ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

Only on track 3 but.... OMG THESE ARE SUCH BOPS!!! I'm LOVING this album 🧡🧡🧡 #TaylorSwift #TSTheLifeOfAShowgirl

Time to start planning a vacay or two 🥰🏒💜 #pwhl #hockeyseason

I hit 80 today!!! Yay 📚🩷

Picked up my #CrossStitch project this week for the first time in over a month 🤎 Not much progress made but it's nice to be stitching again 🥰

Second day at the new job and already crying in the bathroom 😭 I miss my old coworkers and that feeling of belonging. I know I'll get there but I'd forgotten how rough beginnings can be. I didn't change companies or job descriptions but I did change locations, and the things I lost I'm grieving ❤️‍🩹

I am ONE book away from reaching my reading goal!!! I want to read a minimum of 80 books this year and I'm nearly there 📚 Question for my fellow readers: When you reach your goal, do you... bump it up and aim for a higher number or... do you count everything read after as a bonus? #booksky

How does the saying go...? When you feel like everyone hates you.... dissociate into a book all afternoon 📚 #booksky

Some days self-care is lazing on your bed with books 📚❤️‍🩹 #selfcare #booksky #startingover #healingjourney

That book started out as a cute fall romcom and turned into unnecessary billionaire smut 😤 I was disappointed...

I moved across the country this week and now my body is reminding me I am disabled 🙃 Today is a "loopy on pain meds so I'm gonna bed rot" kind of day 💚 #chronicillness #disabled

Was approved advance copies for not one but two highly anticipated reads! I'm living my dream already 💕📚

Thought I would be spending my morning at the dealership cuz by brakes were squeaking - was given a suggestion on how to fix them (which worked!) and saved $200+ ❤️ Instead, I get to spend my morning reading in a coffee shop ☕️📚

Questioning how I ever made it to a 6am shift 😩 Woke up at 630am to make it to an appt and now I'm struggling to make it through the morning. Another couple of hours before I can get home for a nap 😴

I'm so excited for Taylor! While I've had a feeling this was coming, it's still so exciting to know this is happening 🥰 #ItsBeenALongTimeComing #TaylorSwift

Filling out apt applications and realizing how small my village is 🥺 #healingjourney #nocontact

Oh, yeah, that's right... I'M FINALLY MOVING OUT ❤️‍🩹

Packing today is feeling so lot like cleaning out one spot just to move things into it so I can clean out another spot 🙄 #healingjourney #startingover

Finished reading The Night Ends With Fire by K.X. Song this morning 🧡 A Mulan retelling with a fantasy spin I'm giving 4⭐️ . . . #booksky #bookdragon #somanybookssolittletime

Currently apt hunting and I'm seriously questioning some of these design layouts 🤔 Studos with the only place for a bed right next to the kitchen. One bedrooms with poor doorway spots - the should be across from each other, not diagonal...

It's not Wednesday but I wanted to share the progress I've made on my #CrossStitch project 🧡 After a couple of weeks of not feeling like picking it up, I finally put down more stitches. I hit the bottom of the pattern on one side and am more motivated to get it done!

I was packing my fabric stash and came across the title to my vehicle... I'd wondered where I'd put that 😅 Haha, whoops...

I went back! And today I became the girl who reads in coffee shops ☕️📚 Cozy vibes, small crowd, large windows for lots of sunshine ☀️ I only wish I had started doing this sooner 💕 #booksky #coffeeshop #shoplocal

Chronic illness is weird... Like, what do you mean I won't be able to sleep because my ankle has gone numb and my brain can't ignore the pain no matter how tired I'm feeling?? 😴🙄😩 And I'm going to end up with heartburn because I'm still awake after midnight??? #chronicillness #fibromyalgia

This your sign to go to book signings!!! I had the privilege of meeting Sarah Beth Durst and Tricia Levenseller this evening 📚 I had a marvelous time 🥰 One of the best bits was Sarah's comment about cheese always creeping toward death 🧀 #booksky #booksigning 🩵📚 @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social

It is rare that I want to annotate books, and I've never annotated a physical book - but this one really made me want to start 💙 A Demon's Guide To Wooing A Witch by Sarah Hawley is an enemies-to-lovers witchy romcom about a witch and a demon on an unexpected quest to restore his memory. 4⭐️

Wandered into a local coffee shop and now I'm wondering why I haven't been in sooner! It's on the same block as the farmer's market, cute and cozy vibes, and was easy to order for someone who hadn't been in before 💕 They even sell trinkets made by local artists! I'll be back, for sure! #shoplocal

I'm watching Beauty and the Beast and wondering... So, we know the enchantment affected the village - they have no recollection of the castle or those inside - and I'm wondering if they're all stuck in their routines as part of the enchantment... and that's why they find Belle so peculiar?

My favorite indie bookstores are a bit of a drive so I love that I can support them through @bookshop.org 💕

It's hot and I'm stressed 😫 And my POTS is definitely letting me know it. Two hours into my shift and I already know there's a high chance I'm going home early... #chronicillness #pots #dysautonomia

pangobooks.com/bookstore/ha... If you're looking to add to your hoard, consider helping a fellow reader and purchasing secondhand 📚 Also, I'm moving in a couple of months and would love to thin out my hoard and move fewer books 📚 #booksky

I love when queer relationships are casually thrown into stories 💕 Even if they're only minor side characters, it still makes me giggle with glee on the inside 🙃 🌈

Why did I think it was a good idea to schedule myself to come in early the day after a holiday? I'mma get through my workload before we're even open and be bored all day... Good thing I carry a book with me everywhere I go 📚

#WIPWednesday 🤎🖤 I got bored with the black so I've started filling in with the orange. Not gonna lie, it's been nice to stitch without looking at the pattern 🙃 #CrossStitch

60 books in 6 months! When I set my reading goal in January I originally set it at 60 books 📚 I bumped it to 80 after a massive reading binge in February. It feels so good to hit that original goal! 🥰📚 #booksky #bookdragon #somanybookssolittletime