30 Books in 30 Days/SimsAThon {Week 4 Progress // June 22-30}

TBR for Week 4

🔩 Fullmetal Alchemist, vol. 16-18 by Hiromu Arakawa
👨‍❤️‍👨 Heartstopper, vol. 1 by Alice Oseman*
😱 Carrie by Stephen King
🏠 Fun Home by Alison Bechdel*
☁️ Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire*

🎆 Fireworks by Katie Cotugno*
💗 i love this part by Tillie Walden*
🤪 Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Andersen*
🔗 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne*
👨‍👦‍👦 Friends With Boys by Faith Erin Hicks*
⚰️ Skim by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki*

☀️ On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden*
☮️Lost Soul, Be At Peace by Maggie Thrash*

*not on my SimsAThon TBR

DAY 22

🔩 FINISHED Read 385/576 pages (576/576 total) - Completes the Pay Your Bills challenge // Book 18/30
👨‍❤️‍👨 FINISHED Read 288 pages - Book 19/30

😱 Read 87/290 pages

Day 22 Totals

Pages read:760

Books completed: 2

SimsAThon challenges completed: 1

SimsAThon points earned: 2

DAY 23

😱 FINISHED Read 203/290 pages (290/290 total) - Completes the Become a Ghost challenge // Book 20/30
🏠 FINISHED Read 232/232 pages - Book 21/30

Day 23 Totals

Pages read: 435

Books completed: 2

SimsAThon challenges completed: 1 

SimsAThon points earned: 2

DAY 24

☁️ Read 52/174 pages
🎆 Read 60/336 pages
💗 FINISHED Read 68/68 pages - Book 22/30
🤪 FINISHED Read 112/112 pages - Book 23/30

Day 24 Totals

Pages read: 292

Books completed: 2

SimsAThon challenges completed: 0

SimsAThon points earned: 0

DAY 25

☁️ FINISHED Read 122/174 pages (174/174 total) - Book 24/30
🎆 Read 188/336 pages (248/336 total)

Day 25 Totals

Pages read: 310

Books completed: 1

SimsAThon challenges completed: 0

SimsAThon points earned: 0

DAY 26

🎆 FINISHED Read 88/336 pages (336/336 total) - Book 25/30
👨‍👦‍👦  FINISHED Read 220/220 pages - Book 26/30
🔗 Read 61/224 pages 

Day 26 Totals

Pages read: 369

Books completed: 2

SimsAThon challenges completed: 0

SimsAThon points earned: 0

DAY 27

⚰️ FINISHED Read 143/143 pages - Book 27/30
☀️ Read 108/533 pages

Day 27 Totals

Pages read: 251

Books completed: 1

SimsAThon challenges completed: 0

SimsAThon points earned: 0

DAY 28

☀️ FINISHED Read 425/533 pages (533/533 total) - Book 28/30

Day 28 Totals

Pages read: 425

Books completed: 1

SimsAThon challenges completed: 0

SimsAThon points earned: 0

DAY 29

Day 29 Totals

Pages read: 0

Books completed: 0

SimsAThon challenges completed: 0

SimsAThon points earned: 0

DAY 30

☮️ FINISHED Read 192/192 - Book 29/30

🔗 FINISHED Read 163/224 pages (224/224 total) - Book 30/30

Day 30 Totals

Pages read:

Books completed:

SimsAThon challenges completed:

SimsAThon points earned:

WEEK 4 TOTALS

Pages read: 3,197

Books completed: 13

SimsAThon challenges completed: 2

SimsAThon points earned: 4

OVERALL TOTALS

Pages read: 8,251

Books completed: 30

SimsAThon challenges completed: 16

SimsAThon points earned: 61

Sloooooooooooooooow

While summer is my absolute favorite time of year, I find it to be the most boring time in my work life. Students are gone, summer projects (which equates to LOTS of reading and writing) are in full swing, and things are less demanding. I know my mind needs this rest but sometimes (a lot of times) it's just too dang slow for me! Once I have time to recover from the spring semester (which honestly is like a month and a half) I'm raring to go once again. Why do I do this to myself? 🙃

Everyone has a colleague that will come to mind when they see this 😂

This week has been my first week back to formal marathon training. I'm only two training runs in so far but I'm feeling very motivated to stay on top of the training runs I need to do. I haven't had a successful training cycle in YEARS and it would be awesome to see how I perform on race day if I actually act like a somewhat committed runner and do what I'm supposed to do while I train. 😂 I have noticed that I'm much more exhausted this week so my body is really confused as to what I'm doing, but it's a good tired! Even though I have tomorrow off from work, I'm still going to get up early for a long run before the sun pops out and melts us all. (Usually long run days are on Sunday, but we have friends visiting this weekend so I want to get some mileage out of the way so I can spend time with them! I've even roped one of them in to coming to the gym with me on Saturday morning before we go play in Boston. SEE! COMMITTED! 😂) I'll be posting my training updates on Sundays for anyone who is interested.

I'm really enjoying being a little bit more on the townie side these days. We lived in our hometown for three years between 2012-2015 before returning in late March. We live right in the downtown area and I'm loving the fact that I can walk almost anywhere that I need to get to. Our local library is a nice 10 minute walk from our house so I've been taking full advantage of that, we're surrounded by parks, and there's a solid number of restaurants and shops that we frequent. We're truly integrating into our hometown and I'm loving it! 

On one of my library walks the other day I came across a youth art project called Kindness Rocks. The idea is that kids in our area paint a bunch of rocks with kind words or scenes on them and lay them out in a public place and you can take one for yourself, give one to someone who needs one, or place one in a spot where you think someone who could use one might see it! As I was admiring the artwork I found one that - oddly enough - had my name on it. I had to take a photo!

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One big positive of the slower times in the office is the fact that I have time to be a bit more social with my colleagues. Today I was able to reconnect with my friend Tyler who works in the ResLife department over coffee. I was already feeling caffeinated enough to get through the rest of the morning, so I opted for the new KitKat Coolata (left) that Dunks has released for the summer. Oh my goodness. If you like sweet treats, I would HIGHLY recommend this delightful beverage! It's vanilla and caramelly with chunks of KitKats throughout. *DROOL* I don't think I could handle any more than a small size of this because it is so sweet but it's super delicious and totally worth a try!

I really can't believe we are at the end of June already. I don't know if it's the fact that I had a vacation in the middle of the month, the fact that I've been so hyper-focused on completing 30 books (as of writing this I'm 4 books away from achieving this insane goal! 😱), or just that life is unfair and your downtime goes by so much fast than your busy hectic times 😂 but I hate the thought that in less than two months we'll be back up to our eyeballs in the insanity of the school year! I'm really excited for what the rest of the summer has in store, though. I'll be focusing on my training mostly, but our friends from NJ are visiting over this upcoming weekend, we'll be heading to New Hampshire for the 4th of July next week, we'll be going to a concert the week after that, I have a few half marathons planned, and I may even have some more time to fit in some more time off, encouraged by my boss. I want to do everything in my power to recharge my batteries to full capacity ahead of the end of August. Things will be crazy again before I know it!

Currently...

Watching: Brett and I are planning to start the new season of Are You the One? when we get home tonight and I am SO EXCITED FOR IT. I've been saying since I started watching that it would make the show 100,000x better if all the contestants could be anyone's Perfect Match so this season is going to be FIRE. 🔥🔥🔥

Listening: I'm loving the song Lovers by Anna of the North. Such a beautiful, chill track!


Reading: In the middle of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne and IT'S RIPPING MY HEART OUT, YOU GUYS.

30 Books in 30 Days/SimsAThon {Week 3 Progress // June 15-21}

TBR for Week 3

🤫 The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
🚗 Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
🍫 Charlie & the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

😏 Josh & Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren

🔩 Fullmetal Alchemist, vol. 16-18 by Hiromu Arakawa

👗 21 Proms edited by David Levithan

DAY 15

🤫 FINISHED Read 192/370 pages (370/370 total) - Completed the "Have Your Birthday/Age Up" challenge // Book 13/30

Day 15 Totals

Pages read: 192

Books completed: 1

SimsAThon challenges completed: 1

SimsAThon points earned: 3

DAY 16

😏 Read 43/309 pages

🚗 Read 66/344 pages
🍫 Read 76/208 pages

Day 16 Totals

Pages read: 185

Books completed: 0

SimsAThon challenges completed: 0

SimsAThon points earned: 0

DAY 17

🍫 FINISHED Read 132/208 pages (208/208 total) - Completed the "Get Married" challenge // Book 14/30
😏 Read 140/309 (183/309 total)
🚗 Read 33/344 pages

Day 17 Totals

Pages read: 305

Books completed: 1

SimsAThon challenges completed: 1

SimsAThon points earned: 6

DAY 18

😏 FINISHED Read 126/309 pages (309/309 total) - Completed the "WooHoo!" challenge // Book 15/30
🚗 Read 54/344 pages (153/344 total)

Day 18 Totals

Pages read: 180

Books completed: 1

SimsAThon challenges completed: 1

SimsAThon points earned: 3

DAY 19

🚗 Read 138/344 pages (291/344 total)

Day 19 Totals

Pages read: 138

Books completed: 0

SimsAThon challenges completed: 0

SimsAThon points earned: 0

DAY 20

🚗 FINISHED Read 53/344 pages (344/344 total) - Completed the "Cook French Toast" challenge // Book 16/30
👗 Read 108/304 pages (150/304 total

Day 20 Totals

Pages read: 161

Books completed: 1

SimsAThon challenges completed: 1

SimsAThon points earned: 2

DAY 21

👗 FINISHED Read 154/304 pages (154/154 total) - Completed the "Make a Friend" challenge // Book 17/30
🔩 Read 191/576 pages

Day 21 Totals

Pages read: 345

Books completed: 1

SimsAThon challenges completed: 1

SimsAThon points earned: 4

WEEK 3 TOTALS

Pages read: 1,506

Books completed: 5

SimsAThon challenges completed: 5

SimsAThon points earned: 18

OVERALL TOTALS

Pages read: 5,054

Books completed: 17

SimsAThon challenges completed: 14

SimsAThon points earned: 57