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🍋 What has been going on with my life (and blog) recently? 🍋

First of all, I'm not dead! 

Idk where to even start 😂 This post will probably just be me rambling about everyday stuff and nothing of great importance, but if you're curious about my whereabouts and generally why I haven't posted anything in...almost a month wow...(I can't believe so much time has passed 😂) then keep reading!

Basically, I planned on taking a lil break (as in 10 days tops) because I've noticed that in the past several months I've been getting mild headaches every 2nd or 3rd day and it's been driving me insane. Not the pain itself because it truly wasn't that bad most of the time, but the fact that whatever I did, it didn't go away - I drank more water, changed some food habits, I even started exercising 😂

While I do plan on keeping these healthy habits bc, of course, they're good for me and all, I was frustrated that the headaches didn't disappear. So then I did the unthinkable...I stopped reading and reduced my screen time to see if it had something to do with eye strain 😂 Well, the only thing this accomplished was the fact that I HAVEN'T READ A SINGLE PAGE IN A MONTH AND FEEL ASHAMED IN FRONT OF MY FELLOW BOOKISH BRETHREN. 

This also meant that the minimal time I spent "on screen" I dedicated to my more relaxing activities aka watching comfort shows or playing cozy games (which was amazing, and I have so many new games to talk about with y'all, yay!). In any case, I finally decided to go to my doctor, where I got some blood work done, and apparently everything they checked was perfectly fine 😂 All of my iron, hormone etc. levels were perfect, and even my blood pressure is ideal. 

The only thing left for me is to go visit my eye doctor (which I'll admit, I haven't done in 2 years), because maybe it's my glasses. Either my vision worsened without me noticing, or maybe there's some other condition that the doctor will see, or maybe it's literally nothing. Maybe I'll just have mild chronic headaches, and I'll have to deal with them 😂 I'm just glad it's nothing serious, and bonus points, I finally met my new family physician (he started working here a year ago), who was so nice and dealt with everything swiftly.

Now back to the topic of blogging...I'll admit the headaches weren't the true cause for the longer break 😅 After the 10-day period passed and I noticed the lesser screen time didn't change anything, I wanted to write something so badly but I didn't know what. I got into the worst uncreative slump EVER. 

I could've posted the Monday memes (but I haven't been reading so it'd literally be empty) or TTT (which actually could've worked, but alas) but I wanted something different, something more. I had the desire to write, but zero ideas on what to actually write about. This went on for one week, which turned into two, and so on 😂 In all of this time, I've constantly thought about this blog and all of y'all's blogs that I missed reading about but the thought of returning and actually doing the work seemed so hard. I had this thought in my head that too much time has passed and that I'm getting behind, which is absolutely ridiculous...it's literally been just a month, not 10 years. The human brain is weird sometimes. 

After contemplating some more, I realized that maybe this break wasn't a bad thing - I truly had the best rest which helped me when I started working again a few days ago. Also, it helped me appreciate our online community (and my blog as a space where I can say whatever I want) even more. Not only that, but now I'm feeling exciting to start reading and blogging again, kinda like it's a new thing in my life. 

The fact that I'm writing this post today is not a coincidence 😂 This week I've been brainstorming in my lil journal and I've thought of a few post ideas that I really wanna try writing! I knew I had to start with something easier so I wanted to do this "life-update" post first and a couple of my regular ones before I dive into these new ideas. I'm also thinking about "autumnifying" my blog with some details, but we'll see if I actually manage to pull it off. 

In conclusion, you can expect me to binge-read all of your blogs in the next couple of days and I can't wait to catch up with everything!