Birthstone Book Covers: March Aquamarine Edition!

Hello friends, I’m back today with another month’s edition for The Birthstone Book Covers series created by one of my favourites, Leslie. She began this at the start of 2022 and it was born out of her curiosity about birthstone colours. It’s fun to show different book covers/titles corresponding to that month’s birthstone. 🙂

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Spontaneous Hiatus

Sorry to anyone reading this absolute moan of a post, I just need to let my feelings out!

This post isn’t really book related but it’s me announcing a spontaneous hiatus for at least this week and depending on how next week goes, maybe another week, too. Work is really affecting me and I have no capacity to think of anything else right now. I’m so fucking exhausted and feeling incredibly hopeless and I hate it. I know it’s just this phase of work I’m in right now, but I feel so unsupported by the people I need the most support from even after continuously voicing my concerns.

A meme of a shocked possum at the bottom of the image, with the following text above it:
Me: no problemo
Narrator: But it was all problemo
That’s me. I am this possum.

Not to sound dramatic but today was a day that had me trying to hold back tears as I discussed with colleagues this annual report that I barely understand what I’m doing with anymore—completely smashing what little I understood of it to begin with.

I barely held back the tears on the long and seemingly endless journey home this evening while simultaneously trying to avoid having a full-blown panic-fueled anxiety attack.

And it finally ended with me being unable to hold back my tears when I got home and made it into the shower, all throughout dinner, and as I continued to figure out what the hell I need to do to get this thing done by the deadline next week.

I am so so so incredibly exhausted. I just want to keep crying. And I hate that it’s making every moment miserable and affecting my reading because my brain just can’t compute.

Blog signature that reads: Let's Chat! xoxo, Dini

Magical Readathon 2023 Challenge – Choose Your Own Adventure: Year in Aeldia

Hey, friends! Today I’m back with another reading challenge post and this time it’s for the Choose Your Own Adventure: Year in Aeldia Magical Readathon 2023 Challenge. I find it hard to keep up with all the different challenges so despite following and being subscribed to the Magical Readathon on Twitter and YouTube, I still somehow missed this announcement.

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