Soundtrack: Hurricane by Halsey
You’d never be able to tell from these Instagram photos, but it has been a tempestuous month to say the least. It may have been partially down to the goddamn horrific bout of hay fever/cold I’ve managed to get this year, but I also feel like my brain gave up on me and I lost my enthusiasm to do anything really. It probably didn’t help that I freaked out a little bit that I’ve basically been living independently for 6 months without realising and got a little homesick and felt a bit isolated for the first time. After promising to make June a month I ‘get up and do’ I didn’t really ‘do’ anything, which in turn kinda made me feel a bit bleh.
This past week I took some time out, got back into reading, spent some time just writing – both blog related content and working on my writing projects, also decided to go off the grid every so often (I went and hid away in cafes a lot the past few weeks). I seem to have come out of the end of this ‘funk’ relatively unscathed this time. I’ve tried being a bit more introspective, reconnected with some friends, got Jo Rowling to give me a pep talk, and did a bit of evening yoga/meditation/breathing exercises (I may expand on this part of my ‘relaxation’ routine in a future post). I also wrote a post that had been stirring up inside me for a while about the blogging community. In a way it was that post that gave me a bit of perspective and I’m ready to delve back into the community again.
July is shaping up to be much better with visits from friends, the start of Camp NaNoWriMo (which I’m a so ready, excited and not dreading for once!) and YALC toward the end of the month. Then of course August has me leaving UK shores for Rome with the famalam, before the promise of my favourite season of all Autumn! (Can you tell I’m already so over Summer already? LoL).
I also have to remember that some really great stuff did actually happen this month – hello, I got to go to a preview screening for Paper Towns, saw John, Cara and Nat in le flesh and met E. Lockhart. And now? Well, I guess now I’m back and feeling fresher than I have before, the good stuff I mentioned should certainly serve as a reminder I need to remember the good times instead of focusing on the negative, right?
R.xoxo
