Funing for this video is brought to you by viewers like you thank [Applause] you what’s up punks and welcome to video we’ve got another nice and long chatty reading and living Vlog for you today if you’re new here hi my name is Ally I’m an American living in Belgium and around these parts be balanced daily life longside disability celebrate my daddy
And read a whole lot of books if that wasn’t abor obvious we do have some quick housekeeping some very exciting housekeeping first things first the blo and readathon is happening this year which is a readathon from this channel I’ve been hosting it for 3 years I drew
This cute little Bingo board with my own hands it’s a monthong readathon from the 1st of November to the 30th of November it’s chill it’s lowkey there’s a story graph I will link the videos from past years that break it all down down below if you’d like to plan and prepare a
Little bit in advance I see you I feel you I am the same I’m going to make another video for it but for now nothing has changed so if you peek at any of those older videos you’ll get all the information that you need I love reading with yall thank you for participating
And making it what it is that is that most excitingly however is that the shirt campaigns are re opening opening opening opening y’all have been so patient the snail shirts are available once again to pre-order we’ve got the there’s no rush shirt to remind us that
We’re all in our own timelines and we shouldn’t compare our progress to anyone else we’ve also brought back the little Victory shirts to encourage us to celebrate every little thing possible because life is hard but we are harder so two oldies have returned but also a new design it seems simple however what
You are technically looking at is an embroidered spoon we figured out how to embroider on shirts I’m so excited and we also have some very exciting shirt options that were not available before I have heard your please and I have met your demands because we have hoodies now
Baby and black options for all the cool emo people that watch the videos it’s me I’m emo people I’m so excited I’ve had this spoon embroidery design on my mind for over a year now it’s based off of Spoon Theory which is a theory that people who have chronic illnesses and
Disabilities use the too long didn’t read aition is that we’re all given a metaphorical set amount of spoons every day to spend on tasks but with disabilities sometimes you’re given less spoons than your average person and or tasks cost more spoons so you have to constantly play this balancing game to
Stay healthy and alive and also meet your needs and it’s a whole lot and so I’ve shared in Vlogs about my spoon days and the days where I’m recharging my spoons because with chronic migraines and autism I catch myself spoon a lot so I know that wearing a spoon isn’t going
To actually give you spoons unfortunately but I think it’s a nice thought that you have a spoon even on your spoon days that’s what this is for you’ve got one on Deck so this round everything goes up to a 5xl six shirt options three different designs and one
Great cause because since everything is designed with autism in mind we always donate 10% to an autistic organization I went a lot smaller and more local this time around and we will be donating 10% of the proceeds to the P which is a day school for autistic kids here in hog
Garden Belgium I particularly am so excited about this school because they have little like Escape rooms with a bunch of comforting objects and quiet for kids this warms my heart because when I was in high school I had an English teacher who had a small office with blankets and cozy lights and she
Would let kids go in there and I genuinely think that I got through high school because of that room so when I heard that the school had rooms like that oh my heart but running a school is expensive so I’m super proud and super excited to be sending over money from
Our fall campaign to this great organization school education place now all of the shirts are made and sold through this company called everpress which I’ve been using since 2021 they work on a pre-order method which I love because everything that is ordered has a loving home which is a great system that
Does mean that we have to put our patient pants on however for this campaign especially with the holiday is coming up they will be open for pre-orders until the 26th of November however every 2 weeks the pre-orders will close and then immediately reopen so then those two weeks of orders can be
Made and sent out so we can have a good flow going what this means though is that if you want to have something as a holiday gift I would highly recommend you get your order in in this first batch of two weeks so then there’s enough time to make everything and ship
It out I super super highly recommend that you double triple check the size chart compare it to your other shirts so you can get something that you’re happy and comfortable with because every country sizes things differently so please make sure that the size size that you order is the size that will make
Your body happy I cannot help you with your orders I’m sorry I’m just the snail and Spoon drawer all you have to do is contact everpress because they’re super speedy and communicative with their customer service I don’t make the orders I don’t process the orders I don’t handle the orders this means that
Everything is private I don’t have any of your information if you want to return something please do if you don’t get your order please let them know I want you to be happy okay great is that all the information is that all clear for everybody that was a whole lot of
Business if you’re still here that is wonderful in today’s Vlog we will mostly just be chatting and baking and read a little bit these are the books that we’ll be reading as well we flip-flop between cozy and spooky we start with in the company of witches by ore Wallace
Which is a cozy mystery about an Airbnb with a cute magical witchy family it’s great we also read Daphne by Josh mman which is about a ghost girl who’s slowly murdering everybody on the basketball team in her small town also pick up pumi and makos Tiny life in the woods which
Follows these tiny little best friends who live in the forest and they ride bugs for transportation and it’s very cute and wholesome I might have found a new favorite series I don’t know stay tuned and finally we read my best friend’s exorcism by gry Hendricks this
Is also about best friends except one of them gets possessed and so they have to execute and exorcism to get that demon out does that sound good great so we’ve got another nice long Vlog for you are you ready are you strapped in do you have your beverage and or snack let’s
Read suffer survive and thrive together as friends take it away past me hello it is the end of my Sunday and I’m so excited to get some very serious relaxing on I’m wearing outside people clothes and that’s about to change real quick the sun is out which is lovely
Thought we could go outside and get some reading done I am a little over 100 pages into in the company of witches by ory Wallace which is a cozy mystery as if Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Gilmore Girls had a baby it’s really cute it’s really sweet it’s really simple I like
It so far there is some sad stuff but the Cozy stuff is bringing us home safely softly I have so many cozy fantasies that I want to read so many cozy things it’s fall time legally fall Happy fall exciting stuff but it’s also spooky time as
Well that’s what I’m I’m saying well why are we Screaming you want to help me find a scary book we should at least read one scary thing right at least one let’s consult the TBR these are all my test prints I’m so excited we’re going to be putting one on for our cozy time I know you’ve already seen it because I told
You in the beginning of the video but anyway I feel like out of all of these books stne by Josh malerman is one that I believe will actually scare me the most oh wow it’s really short it’s like 250 pages and the font is ginormous and
Then I feel like the one that I have to read the most is a best friend’s exercism by gry Hendrick this is about a high school and it follows a basketball team or something but there’s a girl who was killed and she’s haunting everyone pretty straightforward stuff this one is
About two gal Pals and one of them gets Poltergeist it and then as the title suggests the other one has to give her best friend an exorcism but I’m just not feeling spooky I’m feeling cozy but that’s okay cuz we’re in the middle of something cozy now so we’ll see if our
Mood changes we’ll leave these out and we’ll get to reading this now Hello it is Monday morning for me I have a case of the Mondays Garfield style I would love to do a bare minimum Monday but we have a video to film but it’s one that I’m really excited for and I’ve been planning and prepping and researching and organizing and blah blah
Blah for so long so we are slowly sipping our go go Bean Juice we are doing some admin work we sent some emails before 8:00 a.m. we are very professional individuals that’s about it no that’s a lie I forgot my book I’ve got like a 100 pages left of
In the company of witches by ory Wallace the Cozy mystery that takes place in the magical Airbnb it’s basically just our protagonist walking around this cute little town asking everybody questions and I’ve loved it cuz it’s been easy for my little brain that has been so tired
Lately so that’s that the good bad news is that last night we were watching with malice SL the hardback quarters live stream and she was playing spooky games and I just happened to ask her if she had read dapne by Josh malerman and she said no but I have it and so we’re
Starting a buddy read and like I know that the spooky girl is giving Samara from The Ring you know long spooky hair like I’m not emotionally spiritually physically prepared in the slightest but alas I have a friend to read it with that’s that today shower get ready film
Video Edit a little bit of video finish this book start this book does that sound good yes happy Monday hey hello I’m ready for the day look at this little setup that we have here made this corner of my office as cute and cozy as I possibly could for the video look at
It oh my gosh this took a strangely long time and then we have all of the books stacked here it’s going to be a cozy fantasy cozy mystery cozy sci-fi just all the Cozy books for fall reading guide red over 50 plus bucks we are
Going to be filming for a long time I blew out my hair that also took a long time I know that everyone prefers the Vlogs I understand I’m a vlogy Gil myself but for the sit down videos I like to go all out so then it’s an enjoyable viewing experience let’s do it
Who I’m sweaty I’m so sweaty we did it now we just have to put the office back together cuz holy smokes what a mess we have Made SC Wow hi today happened today came and went so fast we did get a little bit of reading outside we’ve got this much of in the company of witches it is 8:00 p.m. we might be pushing it but I think we can finish this today because I go to bed very Early unfortunately it has been confirmed that Ally and I two Alys will be reading dapne by Josh mman I’m so frightened but the good news is is that since we have so much of this book we will not be starting this one before bed because how ears responsible would that be
Extremely that’s it I’ve got some Berry hibiscus tea and I’m going to end this day happy Monday hello I finished in the company of witches is past my bedtime this was actually so so good and so so cute it was a fun simple time and everything but then the end got so sweet and a little deep and the themes all came came together and the last couple of pages
Were so beautiful oh my gosh this was such a nice reading experience we really navigate some serious Waters like grief and trauma but then we weighed through them with the power of community and how helping others is healing to yourself wow that was really just quite delightful that was a lovely little time
What a skill that is to write a book about a murder which is so stressful but keeping it so soft wow I want the second one I want to read the second one but I have so many books to read as we’ve already established how awful it is
Going to be to go from this cute little time to scary ghosts haunting me that’s for future me to deal with I’m going to go to bed it is late Bye-bye a that’s all I have to say just the peanut butter baby grunt does it feel good okay welcome back today Lawrence didn’t have to work and so we decided to take a day trip to gent so I could exchange my helmet the reason that I need a helmet
Is because she’s skating again baby wow I grew up on Wheels I biked a lot roller skated a lot ice skated a lot All That Jazz then when I was in college I did like 6 months of roller derby I just love skating and then I moved here I’ve
Been scouting for outdoor skating and getting my courage back cuz I don’t like to be perceived but I found some spots that work for outdoor skating and if I go early enough there are less people out and about that’s a win for me here’s the thing story time because I did Derby
I didn’t have outdoor skates or wheels and so I was going outside with not the most proper equipment strike one strike two I have knee pads and I know how to properly fall seeing as I did the roller derby training however one of the knee pads was in the basement and Lawrence
Had the basement key so one day instead of waiting I decided to skate a little bit I got a little too cocky and I ate fully ate and I had the thought in my mind oh I need to fall on my knees but I couldn’t fall on my knees cuz it didn’t
Have knee pads and I knew that that would have been a disaster and so I did one of those slip land on your tailbone kind of thing except I rolled and tumbled headphones One Direction sunglasses the other direction my tailbone still hurts it’s been almost 3 weeks might have cracked it might have
Chipped it might have broke it doesn’t matter there’s nothing that a doctor can do about a broken tailo anyway the point is is that that was a serious humbling wakeup call to get some outdoor skates and wheels so for my birthday because I turn 29 next Friday by the time you see
This video I’m in my last year of my 20s Baby Woo Woo so I finally got fancy pair of moxies and I’ve been outside skating with them and it has been a delight I’ve been working on my transfers from skating forwards to skating backwards practicing just skating backwards in
General and also spin and dribbling I’m really bad at the fancy footwork stuff I’m just good at going fast and I’m trying to learn how to do fun stuff with my feet we have been skating outside it’s been so magical for my mental health it is such a fun form of exercise
I just love it so much so delightful to be tuned back into that so that’s my story time and that’s what you missed hungry so we went again got the right Siz helmet then we just puted around we did get lunch at this magical Cafe
Sandwich shop called me V if you’re in G you got to go there it’s fully vegan apparently they make their own vegan cheeses I struggled so hard to Che shoes I got the Caesar wrap because I’m a for Caesar salad and I’m a for wraps so you combine those two things
I’m topless it was Exquisite it was divine Lawrence looked at his Warhammer I looked at my books I may or may not have come home with some it’s fine cuz I went to my favorite book shopping Dent okay par vont trya I just love it there The Vibes are Immaculate I got some
Cards for my friends Sally and Alex watch out I also got the new Mona aadu rou because I’m just so curious I loved Bunny and I wasn’t the biggest fan of all’s Wells this one seems really up my alley it’s feminism it’s beauty standards it’s mother daughter relationships and grief and all that
Jazz plus all the hot girls online have been reading this book and you know how I feel about being a hot girl oh my God Ian reur the back we are set it’s technically horror so we could read this in October and I peaked inside of it and
It seems like it’s written really well we’ll see I also got the sequel and the third book in the sheets graphic novel series I read sheets back in like 2021 like over 2 years ago and I thought it was pretty good the colors are so good
But the thing is a lot of the times with graphic novels and just a lot of my favorite books in general the first one is like that was good that’s at the scene and we can then really flesh out the themes and go on some serious adventuring in the rest of the books
These are about a laundry what are those called my brain is soup what are those called laundromats this is about a laundromat and there’s a little boy soul and he haunts this laundry M but he’s just there he’s not there to scare anybody and one day he like puts a sheet
On and befriends and the girl who lives at the laundromat or works at the laundromat or both I got to revisit the ultimate test is to see if the first one in this series is the same size as these cuz I’m nervous that it’s not so let’s see a moment of truth
Yes well that is satisfying all is right with the world so that’s what happened new Mona award and two cute graphic novels we are set I read the first 80 pages of Daffney is really quite spooky I’m really not looking forward to facing this ghost guys it’s apparently a 7ot
Tall girl with long black hair but luckily she’s dressed in denim from head to toe so she’s got a bunch of like metal band patches all over her and for that it makes it a little less scary to me personally but also if I were actually face to face with a 7ft tall
Ghost with long black hair I don’t think I would actually care what she was wearing I think I’d be scared no matter what the bad news is is that she comes if you think about her she seems to be a metaphor for anxiety which uh you know
That’s going to concern me I’m just kind of finally getting a grasp on my sleep as you have seen in previous Vlogs the insomnia is insomnia so will I be up all night fearing for my life maybe I’m a big big baby baby boy so don’t take my
Word on it don’t think that like oh this is the scariest book ever no I’m just big old scaredy cat shaking in my boots but the good thing is is that it seems as though she is here to hunt the athletes at her school one I don’t go to
Her school two I’m not an athlete or at least not I’m not on a team I do skate in circles outside sometimes so I think I’m safe is what I’m saying I hope I’m safe fingers crossed that’s that I’m going to make some tea I think think get
Some editing done and then I guess we’ll read oh God no oh God no Lawrence has plans with his friends tonight I’m going to be home all alone what’s the best course of action here everybody oh no oh no cuz like if I read this now I will
Have all the scary things in my brain and then he’s going to leave and then ah you know or he’s already gone and then I’m reading them and it’s like what do I do what do I do there’s no winning here I guess I could just pick something else
Up but that also feels like cheating you know do we just read it right now do we just read it right now you’ll hang out with me right after he leaves so I’m not alone let’s knock this out oh what have I Done no no no no no I made the wrong choice we should have switched books but now we are here we are in it oh my God no no no [Laughter] No hi I’m on page 131 and I think something bad is going to happen again so let’s read together as Friends these deaths are gory they’re quick but they’re brutal got a little over 100 pages left got about 2 hours until Lawrence leaves so hopefully we have some comfort time let’s get this over With 50 pages left [Applause] Wait That was very anticlimactic um okay here’s the thing not a big Sports girl I don’t like to read about sports great themes about anxiety the power of thought the power of belief it kind of felt like stranger things in that anthological way of you are with the group trying to take down
The bad guy and then you bounce from the group to somebody being killed by the bad guy to the group to somebody else being killed by the bad guy and a lot of the times it felt like I was just reading to get to the scary scenes and
When we were with the group it was just pretty repetitive but it was still really entertaining somehow good themes repetitive chronically readable no chapters by the way which I thought would make it harder to read but I think it made it easier to fly through actually will I be scared tonight
Absolutely 110 10% but could it have been scarier yeah do I wish it was no kind of glad to be in this boat but it’s done not a fan of the twist not a fan of the ending but enjoyed reading it nonetheless very confusing feelings all right well comy book down scary book
Down what next probably something comfy probably something with pictures as well H we’ll see yes who got absolutely no sleep last night this girl and shockingly enough it wasn’t about being afraid of that book I will not lie I was a little afraid of the book I was looking over my shoulders
From time to time and I was actively trying not to think of she who must not be named but what kept me up was a vomit inducing Migraine hello you’re on camera oh Hi I love love I don’t even remember what I was saying oh today we are just going to be in a grout fit luckily I have a spoon on Deck because guess who has none this guy we will be grout fitting we will be editing we will be
Reading comfy cozy no brain cell things today and that’s it that’s it there are a few options for reading I do believe that I’ve made too big of a TBR but that’s okay we have hakum and makoi which is a cozy manga talking to a frog that seems great that’s about a tiny
Little life in the woods I wish this had color so badly because the cover in the back have some really sweet sweet color choices and there’s also delicates the second book in the sheet series which we just got yesterday this seems cozy and nice I think if we’re going to read
Anything it’s going to be one of these too but I do want to get a lot of reading done there are so many wonderful things the sky is crazy Sky’s crazy cool again oh my God C candy Sky we’re going to have another monage today Folks beautiful full moon lighting up the sky so if you’ve been planning something Special Hello sweaty I didn’t practice any fancy footwork today I was not in the mood I just wanted a zoom so I just skated in circles for 35 minutes straight and it felt so good I’m a rat of the rank at hard sometimes you just got to zoom got
To go fast there’s still a lot more work to be done oh where’s my book kumia makoche tiny little life in the woods is the cutest thing I’ve ever read oh my gosh this is right at my alley this is everything I look for in a cute little
Story within the first like 10 pages these two little Woodland folk had already ridden a beetle as it means of transportation and fed a bird subin a journey soup I don’t need to say anything else I can totally see myself collecting all of them I wish they were
In color so bad I will never not say that I know that that’s not a manga thing but like look could you imagine the possibilities the Comfort but it’s really good that’s really my only complaint is that I wish that there was color that’s it so I’m a little under
Halfway done with that and I’m sad that it’ll be over I’m going to have to go to my little graphic novel shop in town and that’s that editing reading class shower most importantly let’s shower and eat some food and drink some coffee that would be great yes man starting your
Morning skating really fast to MOA like depression cure depression who never heard of her that’s a lie but you know what I mean let’s e hello I do not remember the last time we have spoken I do not know what day it is what day we checked in last where I
Am in timer space or what is happening she’s struggling a lot with having full-time responsibilities and also school I love both I really do they both bring me so much joy but I really struggle with the balance of it all and also just like feeling okay doing all of
The things everything makes me have a meltdown anything social anything anything it’s so much easier to say to somebody else oh you know it’s okay just live your life based off of your limits and boundaries and blah blah blah blah but then the second I have to apply that to
Myself I just have people asking to hang out which is lovely I’m not complaining about that like I love to have friends and I love to see friends but I feel like a bad friend because I can’t see people as frequently as I would like to
First of all so much time is being lost to being in pain like if I have a migraine usually that whole day is gone but then because that day was gone now I’m playing catchup with work and everything which gives me even less time because the time that I lot to have free
Time is no longer that free time I don’t like to say that like I don’t belong anywhere I don’t think that’s helpful I don’t want to believe in that or manifest that or whatever but you know when I get down and out when I’m having a meltdown over having a lovely time
With my friend and like I can’t even understand myself I can’t help but think like oh I was born a little bit broken and I’m tired and I’m kind of sick of being tired I’m really sick of being tired like I’m trying so hard to do all
The things and I have to set up boundaries for myself so I don’t die that’s the thing I’m consistently comparing myself to younger versions of myself that like did more I’m like oh but 19-year-old Alie was doing this and 17-year-old Alie was doing that but also those alleys almost die and that’s not
An exaggeration like those versions of me almost did not make it so maybe I should not be basing my current life off of that well intentioned very excited but overall pretty ignorant to the situation girl and I don’t know where the balance is I don’t know when to say
Yes and I don’t know when to say no I don’t know how to listen to my intuition if she’s not making any noise or if that intuition is to just people please and not take care of myself and I don’t understand why my body can’t understand the difference between like like
Positive stress and negative stress because I could be having so much better of a time you know by the way people often ask I have some Freckles but the second you know you put some makeup on and stuff they’re not as visible so this is what I use this is an old eyebrow
Mascara that didn’t match my skin eyebrow color whatever and then I’ve been refilling it with this other eyebrow product that’s just trash no offense Patrice but like who the heck is painting on their eyebrows with a sppy brush like this you know so take this
Dip it in here kind of like fill it this is basically what that freck product is that like 20 $30 Freckle product and you just beep beep tap tap tap tap tap tap tap anyway these are just some things that have been on of my mind and have
Been causing me to spiral ever so slightly because it makes me so mad to think how hard we’re all trying and how hard it all is how hopeless it can feel sometimes despite our best efforts you know I’m sure you do I’m sure I don’t
Need to explain that to you and I don’t know how to fix it I journal and I exercise and I try and schedule my day days so there’s as few surprises as possible the transitions can be as easy as possible like I feel like I’m doing everything by the book and I think
That’s what makes it the most frustrating is that even when so much effort is put forth It’s still like this and then it’s hard to have the motivation to keep seeing those things through when you know that you’re still going to be punching yourself and crying
At the end of the day something that helps me I guess is at least recognizing how far I have come I used to be a much angrier sadder more unraveled person there were so much I didn’t know about myself and that made it so I couldn’t be
A good version of myself and even though there’s still a lot of hard times it’s still so much better than it was and So based on math which yeah sure maybe I’m really bad at that but according to my calculations that just means that it’s going to keep improving hopefully maybe
So it really is all about taking it one day at a time when you are having it meltdown even though it doesn’t change anything remember that it’s going to end and I guess just think about the things that you can do for yourself to care for yourself after you have a big feeling
Like that cuz feeling is exhausting oh my goodness that’s what’s been on my mind lately that’s what I’ve been struggling with a little bit a lot of bit um I know that this has nothing to do with books oh Well Oh hello well this video has been all over the place we haven’t gotten too much reading done well we read like a book in two halves so maybe we just need to be nicer to ourselves you know but as far as a reading Vlog is concerned we’ve
Just been doing a whole lot of chatting and not the most reading but it’s fine I’m sure today’s my last day of class for the week so we will be getting so much reading done this weekend I just need to finish editing my video got some
Work to do got some patreon stuff to upload for youall which I’m really excited about and then it will be fullblown Halloween Comfort spooky time I promise we just have to get our responsibilities out of the way do you like my new hoodie well new to me one of
My favorite skaters Nemo I pulled a full I saw Nemo wearing army pants and flip-flops so I got army pants and flip-flops there’s this clip of her online going backwards down this insanely steep San Francisco hill and in that video she’s not only wearing a thrasher hoodie but a green Thrasher
Hoodie and I just thought like wow what a cool person what a cool hoodie I want to be cool like this person brand spank new it’s like $50 to $70 some places are like it’s vintage and they’re selling it for over 200 but I found it on a
Secondhand website for like 10 bucks yeah wo I love thrifting today is our substitute teacher’s last day of class we’ve had a sub for the past month and she’s so nice and she’s leaving today and my actual teacher is also very nice everyone’s just very nice it’s a very
Good life the point is is that I want to bake something because when I told her I was going to bake something for my birthday she was really bummed that she’s not going to be there so I’m like surprise surprise I can bake twice I have the abilities we have the
Technology so I’m going to make my spiced chocolate chip banana bread from My Vegan baking Bible book so if you want the recipe it’s in that book the only issue is is that we don’t have chocolate chips so we have to make a quick run to the grocery store is the
Point bake some bread while the bread’s in the oven finish editing and then go to class and have a fun day does that sound good okay let’s go let’s go let’s Go oh I need deodorant I forgot Deodorant So obviously not only did it get chocolate chips but I also got this guy let me get some batteries party I think it’s too dark to oh there’s a party in there too what’s the second one does it stop it doesn’t that would just go all night if you let it we are
Totally decorating for Halloween this weekend starting with this let’s at last make our chocolate chip banana bread from this book The vegan baking Bible which means I cannot share the recipe because I think that’s illegal but I do recommend this book first sports mode ding second give your cat a kiss oh he’s
So big let’s do this Yeah Oh hello I’ve got some chocolate chip banana bread that I heated up in the oven real quick delicious we haven’t checked it in a little bit since I made this banana bread in fact it was a big hit at class although barely anybody was there that day so everyone got really
Big pieces and my teacher got to bring like basically a whole loaf home as you saw this morning we did some skating inside because the place that I normally go to was full of children and I really just wasn’t in the mood to be perceived it’s my birthday week all I knew was
That I wanted to Roller skape preferably at a roller rank so on Wednesday LA’s now going to go to the roller ring to celebrate my birthday just because that’s a day that they’re open that hopefully it’s not as busy then Friday is my actual birthday I do have a class
That day so I’m going to bake some stuff and Saturday we are going out to eat with my in-laws it’ll be lovely it’ll be a lovely little time I also want to get a cheesecake the goal is cheesecake also I finished hakum and makoi tiny little
Life in the Woods by takuto kashiki oh my God this is everything I look for in a book I loved this so much it’s a manga that feels like cartoon episodes you know so you can Bop in any time if you put it down for a couple days and then
Pick it up it’s okay it’s so sweet it’s just a bunch of gals being friends in the woods I think they’re like this big and it’s so cute and they’re cooking and they’re making friends and it’s just the coziest most nourishing thing ever I want to get more really bad so we might
Have to make a stop to our cozy little graphic novel shop in town I know that they have these I hope they have the second one I’m going to get some more work done and let’s get some reading done thanks for checking in with Me hello the sun is really impressive today I’m 100 pages into my best friend’s exorcism it isn’t just very 8s in the sense of ET is being referenced the music that is mentioned the clothes that people are wearing the setting is very 80s but also the way everyone talks
Box is very 80s you know when you watch an old say come and you’re like ooh wow we sure have come a long way definitely giving that I think it’s going to start getting spookier the possession has taken place which isn’t a spoiler because it’s literally called my best
Friend’s exorcism it’s all just pretty good for now like it’s okay it’s not blowing me out of the water can’t complain I’ve got a bowl of fruit full of items that are either too ripe or not ripe enough because I’m almost 30 years old and still don’t know how to manage
Produce but what can you do I’m going to keep reading now bye [Applause] all right here’s the thing I’ve got like a 100 pages left of this book one kind of bored got to be honest with you um on the positive side I do like the themes surrounding class I like that what I fear most at this point are rich high
Schoolers like I said before the characters talk very 80s characters just calling things the r word or our best friends saying love you dearly not queerly but there are things that are just thrown in there that I don’t think are oh this is just how people talked in
The’80s kind of thing like our best friends went fishing once and a lady taught them how to do something with their fishing net and in the narration it said a black lady taught them this and it’s like is that really necessary there’s just a lot of linguistic choices like
That and it’s really giving manw writing women characters like with Riley Sager I kind of get the complaints cuz they’re always women and sometimes are not making the most wise decisions in spooky situations but that’s the thing with the genre in my opinion people are making really dumb decisions that’s kind of
Been a meme before memes were meing you know don’t go in there and then they go in there this is like high school girls counting calories and assault being discussed quite ad nauseum and it’s like just a little icky it’s not terrible like it’s no hidden pictures but it’s
Just rubbing me the wrong way and the fact that it’s also not bringing the greatest story to the table I’m just not that impressed but let’s finish it and make final decisions at the end I suppose I’m cooking there’s like 20 pages left let’s do it this book was so overhyped in my
Opinion I’m so sorry to everyone that loved it I was truly so prepared to love it as well just wasn’t as thrilling or spooky as I would like it was more so just endlessly frustrating because our protagonist was just desperately trying to get help from all walks of life
Anyway one that would listen and everyone was just so painfully frustrating exhausting and like it’s okay if that’s present but then I’m really going to need you to up the Thrills and up the Fear Factor in order for that frustration to like be worth it I really liked everything that happened
Before The Possession TM but once we were in the thick of it it was just really frustrating and repetitive in my opinion it just kind of didn’t Splash in many ways for me if this is five star new favorite and this is like I hate it
Should have dnfed it and this is like right in the middle I’m like just like a little bit like one foot in this kind of didn’t like it but it was all right kind of I don’t know but yeah hi buddy we’re going to be hanging out in bed now
Trying to make the best of this day trying to regain our strength so we can do some birthday celebrations fingers crossed that we are able to celebrate without any or at least minimal pain hone I do have Animal Crossing you know my migraine could be worse you’ve got a
Big storm you win some you lose most until tomorrow it could always be worse coming hello I had the worst migraine that I’ve had in over a month last night and it’s still not really gone I really wanted to have a fun comfy spooky Vlog with y’all it’s been such a nightmare of
A couple weeks but I have nurse Albus here yeah me too Bub Hi we’re still not feeling great it is the day after yesterday which was suffer Central today suffer light um we were supposed to go to the rollering today for my birthday and I’ve been looking forward to it for like two weeks but I totally don’t have it in me to fulfill
That goal and dream but I’m still going to bake cookies for my class so not all hope is lost I put on some makeup to pretend that everything was fine we are gaslighting ourselves ever so slightly we are instead just going to walk around the city just to get some fresh air I’m
Just going to pop into some book stores to provide the Illusion for myself that I have an active lifestyle full of activities and exciting moments you like my Halloween outfit I decided to break out the spoons cuz I’m really not feeling it today but again life is an
Illusion and I’m here to partake and we threw on our orange corduroys to bring bring some spooky to the table and now that we’ve made these tiny little goals to have some little victories we can feel a little bit better I hope does that sound good I really want to turn
This week around we started on such a high we were so ready to have the best week ever and we had some hard days but you know what dare I say it’s not over so let’s Go Hello little haul for you so I needed some extra butter for my cookies because my cookies are mostly butter I got this at the thrift store for like two bucks last winter she needs to be washed she’s a little dusty but this holds hot beverages so I think what I’m going to
Do because my sugar shortbread cookies are kind of plain they’re great warm drink cookies so I think I’m going to make tea bring the tea in this and then I got little cups you can have a little cookie you can have a little tea it’ll be a party be super fun Halloween
Napkins I mean come on we’ve got a really cute plan here I think it’ll be lovely and nice we did kind of strike out at the book shops though two of the three bookstores had hakum makoi but very further down the line editions in
The series so what I did was I at least got the third and I’ll have the second one order yes [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] I took the next couple of days to try and recoup to take in the little moments and be thankful for what I have I find it difficult to find the fine line between toxic positivity and healthy gratitude between pushing yourself where you can and harming yourself into what
You can cuz sometimes I think we need to moreor in the moments lost like the memories stolen and opportunities that were set up but snagged from our grip because of the cards our bodies were dealt we have every right to be angry and I think we should be angry but
Alongside that I also find it important to recognize the things that our private pain can never take our loved ones enjoying some good food Embracing the change of seasons a Sunset and even though we don’t deserve the bad days I’d be lying if I said they made it impossible to appreciate the good ones Birth so I turned 29 happy birthday to you and life gets more better and more sweet with each passing day and I think it’s important to embrace both sides I hope you’re doing okay despite the C circumstances despite the horrors TM I’m here to remind you that everything is temporary myself included
Because every time I have a bad day I feel like it’s forever but there’s always more Comfort around the corner our next video is also going to be a vlog and we’re just going to try and take it as slow and soft as possible because it has just been so chaotic and
Discouraging with health but we’re going to keep on keeping on and have more fun in our next video on October 29th if you like to join us we’re going to be reading cozy fantasies that y’all have recommended to me to enhance our cozy time I’m really excited friendly
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Few weeks as well videos link Down Below on what that is if you’d like to participate as well it’s a very fun Community event also as always super big thank you to everyone on patreon.com I love reading something new with you every month in the book club I love that
You guys make the discore such a magical comfortable space you really make this Cozy Corner of the internet what it is you keep it alive so thank thank you thank you thank you thank you forever thank you and that’s that we did it we survived another few weeks great job
Great job and as always thank you for clicking thank you for caring and thank you for being nice I will see you in two Sundays with another reading Vlog cozy fantasies it’ll be great bye
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