Update

So, I have been gone for so long. It’s been such a long time since I last wrote a blog post. There are a few reasons for that, and I bet I have said them before.

My biggest problem is that the keyboard to my iPad don’t want to work, and I refuse to buy yet another one.
The other problem is that my computer is now used by the whole family, and it has been since March when everything closed down. And since then I have just been a little demotivated like everyday. Right now, no one is at home and it’s easier to write. It’s quiet and no one is talking to me. That is the main struggle when people are home and you are writing, people are talking to you all the time, and then I can’t concentrate because writing in English and have someone talking to you in Norwegian just messes with your thoughts.

I hope that throughout the month of December I might get some more motivation to write some more here. My goal for next year is the write here at least every other day, let’s see how that will work out.

But now my parents are back, so that was it for this update. Now I am going to eat dinner and then watch a movie with my whole family.

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Talking About TV Shows

If you have seen me talking about tv shows before, you know that I start new tv shows all the time without finishing the ones I am currently watching. And… let’s face it… I haven’t been better at this. The thing is, I should work with finishing the tv shows that are finished, I have a lot of those… some of them are rewatches that I want to watch again and cross them of at the time TV Time. The plan is to talk about the tv shows afterwards, but I have to refresh myself if I have watched it before, because I don’t remember a lot.

I am working on two series right now, the first one is Heartland, I have watched maybe half before I stopped, one of the reasons was where to watch it. However, New Faith Network recently started to put out one season a month, and now I can watch it again. Heartland is for more a series I want to call something like, watching horse shows and see how they are, or something like that.

The other one I’m working on is Pretty Little Liars. I used to watch the latest seasons when they came out, and I used to love it. I need a refresher, but I definitely don’t find it as intriguing and interesting as I did the first time around. I am actually struggling to get through it. So I have to say that I might set this one on a break at some point and watch something else before getting back to it at a later time. Maybe watch something else and then get back to it later, or have it one the back hand and watch an episode here and there.

I try not to watch too many at the same time, just because I rather want to finish tv shows instead of starting new ones, finding things I like and not finish the ones I have started.

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How I save up money

I have never been good at saving money when I have them on my bank account. And saving has always been a big struggle for me. Everything got a little easier once I grew up and started to make my own money, but it’s still a struggle at times. Especially now, when I don’t have work, and my bills are the same, and the money I get aren’t too much. However, I make it work, with a few different things.

First off I have to say: I am NOT an expert, I can only do what works for me, and even if I do them, I still struggle from time to time.

1. Be aware of what your monthly income is, and your monthly bills. Then you know how much money you have left, and then you can start to plan from there.

2. If you want to have more money left in the end of the month, start to think of places to save from. Can you cut down on things you buy, clothing, food, etc. and see if there are places you can use less in. Also, go through subscriptions you have, are there things you pay for that you do not use? If there are, maybe cut it out, if you don’t use it there is a small change you are going to miss it.

3. Choose if you over all want to only save money for a certain thing, just save money over all or both. I can say that I do both, and I have those two savings separately. And after you have chosen that, how much money do you want to save every single month. And then choose when to put it over somewhere else, this is mostly up to you. Save the money once you get the money, or at the end of the month, both has it positives and negatives. Let’s talk about some of it before we move on.

Save the money once you get paid. A positive is that you know that the money you want to save gets saved, because you set them over before you starting to use anything. A negative is that you might have to put something back if there are a unexpected bills.

Save the money before you get the next paycheck. A positive is that you know that all the bills are paid and you can put all the money you have left, or some of it into the savings account. A negative is that you might have used more money than you anticipated, because the money was there.

4a. For saving money over all I think the easiest thing is a savings account. I have one, and I put the money I have left into that account at the end of the month, and I know that I use more money that I am supposed to, and therefore there aren’t too much money, but I try and put a little bit in there, in case there are some unexpected bills that I haven’t thought of.

4b. For saving for a specific thing and only that, the same thing apply as over. Savings account, so you get the money you need, and then when you have saved enough you can buy whatever you had in mind.

4c. For saving for both. I would not recommend having the same savings account for both. Why not? Because then, when you have the money on that account and use it you no longer have anything in your savings account. I have a savings account and then something else that I put money into to save for a specific thing. I don’t think the app I’m using is available outside of Norway, however I will tell you the app I’m using, and then maybe you have something similar where you live. I use an app called Dreams, and I love it! In this app you make a dream, put in the amount of money you need to accomplish this dream, and then you have so many savings options. You can have as many or as few dreams as you like, and then you choose how much you want to save in each dream.

5. Never give up. In the beginning saving money can be difficult. However, try again and again, and eventually you will become better.

Here are just a few on my tips. I would love to hear your tips too!

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Already 8th of August

That we already are 8 days into August is sick! I have done a lot of reading this week, I have to be honest.I have finished 14 books this month, and that is crazy! So that means I at least have 1 video to film, and that is a mid month wrap up, because if I keep up the speed I will be over 30 books this month… however, I do have some chunkier books to read, I have started Word of Radiance, and will read 100 pages a day, so that will take me 10 days to finish.

I hope to finish a lot of the books I need to, because I also have a video idea, and I would love to post the fist one this month, and maybe another next month, it is from a genre that is quick to read. I cannot wait to start this video, and I’m so excited!

I haven’t done much else, I am a member of We Be Book’n on Facebook, and this month we are doing a bookish Jeopardy, and I am so competitive that I have finished a book a day. This have been so much fun!

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This Happens Every Time

Let’s be honest. Over these last few months I have felt a little slumpy at the end of every single month.
I had a goal of joining one readathon every single month, but I think it might be a bit too much. A lot of the readathons are month long with loads of prompts, and let’s face it I am an overachiever, I want to complete every single prompt, and when I see it doesn’t work I get slumpy, this has happened over the last few months, and I see it again this month.
I have to say, I am joining a readathon in August. G from Book Roast is low key hosting the Magical Readathon, just for people to finish their career if they want to. This is my first year joining, and I want to complete it. And then a new chapter of this readathon will start next year. And I get that, with everything that has been going around I understand.

I have books for every single prompt, I have to finish 18 books to finish my career. I hope that will happen, I hope I will be able to finish the books that I need to, and not read everything else. I have chosen books I am excited for, and I hope that helps. I will also be participating in a game on a Facebook group called WeBeBook’n called Jeopardy, and if anyone has seen the game on YouTube or Netflix it’s the same just with book prompts. Let’s be honest, I want to win. I think that this might motivate me to read some more, and I hope the prompts I get will fit to the books I want to read this month, if not I might have to change something.

I have 2 books from the mytbr website I should finish, I will talk more about them in a post when I have finished all 3, I have read 1 of them and I need 2 more, before giving them a review back on how they did, I guess that mail will be here any day now because it’s maybe a month since I got the titles.
They did really good with their first pick, so I hope that the other books they have chosen are just as good.

I cannot believe we are soon in August. It’s a day or so left of July, and until then I don’t plan on doing much, maybe I will try and read a book or something.

So my Bookopoly Chooses My August TBR will be going up later today, I was supposed to upload it earlier, however, I just didn’t feel like editing.

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Typically My Brain

So, this morning I had a great idea for a post. But I didn’t write it down, and right now I regret this… because now my brain can’t remember what it was.

Today I haven’t done much, I am participating in the Reading Rush, so I have read 5 books this week, and I am hoping to read more, I still have 3 books left on my TBR, and I am hoping to be able to read all of them, if that is happening I can’t say. So, tomorrow it’s definitely possible to finish 2 books, I have already started one, and I might read some more today of it. And tomorrow I am reading Heartstopper, and since it’s a graphic novel it will take me maybe an hour.

I have to tell you about something I watched yesterday, I found it in my YouTube feed, and let me tell you, it highly upset me. I was like super sad right before I went to bed.
Let me link it here first, and then tell you what it’s about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR6VHTchtf8

This youtuber is talking about equestrians and industries around that. And one of these are big lick. She explains it all good in this video, I’m not going into too much detail because I just get upset talking about it.

Walking horse study once blasted by industry now trumpeted ...

This is a picture of what it looks like. And let me tell you, this is the worst thing I have ever seen. But as normal, those people who in on these sports and support it, they don’t see anything wrong.
Hearing what they do to these horses to get them to lift their legs un-normally high was heart-breaking. And the way the horses move it’s back legs it shows how much pain the horse is in, it is trying to take off as much pain from the front legs as possible.
I can’t talk about it anymore, I just get so upset.

Anyways, that was it for my rant today.

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Reading Update

So, I don’t have many ideas. So why don’t I just talk a little about how my reading is going. I actually have read over 100 books so far this year, so I think I will get close to 200 books this year, and that is sick. Now, I do read all kinds of genres, but my favorite is Romance, and romance books are easier read than most.

I have read some shorter books, and when I’m not in the mood to physically read I usually have an audiobook on. I try and read a little all over the board of genres, and different lengths of the books.

I have an idea for a video series I want to do on my channel, I just have a lot going on right now. And in August I have a readathon that I have a large TBR for, so I won’t be able to start it in August. So it looks like I will start in August, I have to see how many I will do, because I have some other books i should get to as well.

I have noticed that I have been slowing down a little on my reading, and I think that it’s because I have been doing a lot of readathons with a lot of prompts, and then I have to keep to the TBR and not mood read a little, because I have to stick to the TBR. So from September I think I need to just relax a little, and if i want to do a readathon of some sorts, be in on it low key.

But, now I am going to my room again. I am writing a story and I want to keep on going. But first, upload my Reading Rush Vlog for day 4.

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I so Need Some New Ideas

I find myself sitting here every time I am going to write something, and I just blanks. I never know what I am going to write about, I used to have all these ideas running around in my head, but all of a sudden I just blanks.

This time we are in, are a little strange. I have so much time to think, but I just feel like I sit around and do nothing. Feeling demotivated and just need some ideas.

I don’t have anything to write, I spend all day thinking about this, and when I am going to write, I have nothing. I know there are a lot of things to write about. I have to say that a lot of the things that is online I don’t feel like writing about.

I like to write about my life, the only thing is: I don’t do much. Let’s be honest. I am inside most of the day, reading, or watching tv, or just relaxing and doing nothing.

I will continue to post as frequently as I can, and hope that ideas will come to me eventually.

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I’m so TERRIBLE

Here we are for the 100th time apologizing for not writing. It has been some difficult times, for a lot of reasons. And so there are some reasons for my hiatus.

I bough myself a keyboard to my iPad, so I could write blogpost from there when I didn’t feel like turning on my computer, and just a few weeks in it stopped working, and I have no idea why. I have tried charging it but… nothing. There are a few keys that works, but I can’t write full sentences with it anymore. And that sucks!

Then when everything locked down, and things started going online my computer got moved into the living room. Because my computer is the only one with a camera. And now I find it difficult to do everything. Edit videos, write blog posts and everything. I just don’t feel like sitting in my living room doing that, with my headphones on, and people talking to me at the same time.

I am also feeling a little sulky, I have been wanting a new computer. And I know what I want, I just don’t have the money. I am saving, but it goes so slowly. I can notice my computers age, it starts to be slow and I hope it will be able to work for a while longer. I’m not even half way to my new computer.

I have also just had a lot of s*tty days. Being tired to the point where I have done nothing for an entire day. Having headaches. But also, people are always at home, and our house is 70kvm. And for 3 people it is small. It is noisy half of the time, and the house is from the 1970, and it has no isolation in the walls, so you hear everything.

Well, now I am going to sleep. I am super tired, and have migraine coming.

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How to: Find genres to like

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If anyone has followed my channel for a little while you know that I love to read books. And I have been breaching into new genres that I earlier never could have dreamed of reading.

I have to be honest, breaching out into different genres can be a little scary sometimes. and to find out if you like that genre or not can take time. The reason is that there are so many different authors to choose from, and all of them have different writing style.

What I will say is: If you have read only one book, I don’t feel like you can say that you don’t like the genre. Try out at least a few different books by different authors. And one genre can have a lot of sub-genres. Try out a few different types of sub-genres, because one book can have one sub-genre that may not be your favorite.

I think that one of the most important thing is: Try out books that sounds interesting to you. That you feel like have an interesting plot and you might like.

I love to try out new genres, and new books. I have so many books on my GoodReads TBR, and I hope that I will be able to read a lot of them when I kind of just get a little break on the large readathons I have joined lately. On my TBR I have mostly romance, because that is my favorite genre, however, even if this is my favorite genre there are still books that have tropes or sub-genres that I don’t like.

To make a little list on what I mean:
1. Find books that has an interesting plot to you.
2. Don’t just try 1 books, try multiple books and authors
3. If one author isn’t for you, try something else (I have a complicated relationships with some authors)
4. Try out different sub-genres, if one sub-genre isn’t for you something else might
5. Reading is supposed to be fun, don’t push yourself. Some genres just isn’t for you

What tips do you have?

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