March 2020 shall always be known as the month that lasted approximately 500 years. It was so long that I had a mid-March update and still gonna do an end of month recap!
Along with just about everyone else, I’ve been under stay at home orders and hoping that all of these social distancing restrictions help flatten this curve and curb this devastating pandemic. I hope you all are doing okay and staying busy and hopefully able to do a few things that get your mind off of the world that’s going up in flames. I know I need those things to stay sane! So here’s what I’ve been up to and reading – let me know how you’re doing in the comments! And if you’re wracking your brain for something new to do, I put together a Top 5 Things To Do While You Stay At Home post so check that out!
I’ve been baking a lot because it’s a great stress reliever and also, I like baking! Now if I could just get my hands on some yeast… is everyone actually baking bread or are people just stockpiling?? Anyway, I’ve made some banana muffins (some blueberry, some chocolate chips!), monster cookies, herb ricotta dinner rolls to name a few. If you’ve been baking, shoot some recipes my way! Love to see what other people are making!
Animal Crossing has sliiightly taken over my life. Anyone else? 😀 However, I am limiting my time so I still get other things done, ha! It’s just so soothing and calming and honestly, the perfect thing for quarantine life. There could not have been a more fortuitous video game release. It’s seriously a life saver for my mental sanity and anxiety right now. Highly recommend if you have a Nintendo Switch!
I’ve been making really good writing progress! I’m not getting like thousands of words written every day but I have written every single day this week and officially joined Camp NaNoWrimo! I set my goal for 25K which seems like a feasible amount and I’m excited about it. At the beginning of the year, I set my goal to finish my Nano project this year. I set up a Pacemaker account which basically just lets me log my progress because I like seeing it in that form and missed the graphs of Nano to track. I set it to finish at end of May (which would bring my draft to around 100K which I think is how long it will be? I’m not really sure to be honest.) Anyway, since I’m now not working… this goal is seeming actually feasible given the extra time that I have so I’m definitely going to take advantage of that. Trying to find a silver lining there in my non-working life. So yeah! If you’re also participating in Camp NaNoWriMo, shoot me a note and add me as a friend!
Month In Review:
- [21 Mar] February 2020 Reading Recap + March Life Update
- [30 Mar] Top 5 Things To Do While You Stay At Home
Books Read in March: 2
Books Listened to in March: 7
Favorite read of March: Say You Still Love Me by K.A Tucker – made me so nostalgic for camp summers!
Challenges Progress:
Goal: “Grand Slam” 21+
This month: 1 – Say You Still Love Me
Progress so far: 5/21
A book with a three word title: √ – The Iron King
A book with a main character in their 20s √ – Say You Still Love Me
I’m moving through my Romanceopoly sooo slowly but did manage to complete the timed Winter prompt (white, blue and/or silver cover) during the allotted time! (Almost Just Friends read in Jan and Say You Still Love Me both had blue covers!
Fitness Front:
March has been a lot of home work outs and trying to find the least populated areas to run in since my normal routes have been so busy unfortunately. I’m still keeping up with my work out routine but man, that staying at home life and snack temptation! IT’S ROUGH, am I right??
I am so happy you are reading/listing to my old favs. LOL
Also, I still don’t understand why flour and yeast are all gone???
I think because everyone is baking?? I know I have gone through a ton of flour actually with all my baking, ha! And yay for all your faves! I can’t wait to read more of BDB!