I can’t believe it’s already February — where did January go??? Inspired by Rossy from AyrGalaxy, I’m doing a recap of the past month. So onto this month in review…
Blog Milestones:
- This month I reached 107 followers! You all are amazing, and I love reading your comments on my posts (& welcome to all my new followers — hi! My name is Abigail :).
- I also surpassed my previous “most-views-per-day” record on January 28th with all the people who stopped by to get advice on the February Birchbox sample choice.
Posts from this Month:
- I talked about my resolutions for 2016.
- Reviewed 2015 on this blog.
- Caught up on Birchbox reviews for October and November, and previewed February’s sample choices.
- Had my first empties post for the year.
- Posted hauls from Crabtree & Evelyn and Zoya.
- And finally got around to doing my “Best Of 2015” post.
Plus, coming up soon are my January Favorites post and review of my December Birchbox.
Resolutions:
Well, these didn’t go so well. I did eat more vegetables, but I was awful at eating meals at consistent times — school will do that to you! I also barely exercised at all, didn’t keep in contact with any of my long-distance friends, and didn’t spend a day immersing myself in French. Instead, I sat in bed and read a lot. Like, a huge amount: 9 books, totaling 2900 pages. Don’t ask me how I found time for that with school going on! In productive news, though, I just had a great job interview that I hope is going good places!
Blogger’s Spotlight:
I wanted to share some blog posts that I particularly enjoyed reading this month (originally inspired by Elisabeth from Everything & Nothin’).
- I SO identify with the concept of an inner adult proposed by Nancy of notquiteold. I need one of those.
- This post about “Putting the Care in Career” from Tenure, She Wrote resonated with me.
- I laughed at this Sciency LOL from Why? Because Science.
- The Book Wars’ theme for January was Female Detectives, which inspired a lot of my reading this month. Here’s an article about Nancy Drew! As well as reviews for 2 of the 9 books I read this month: A Tale of Two Castles by my beloved Gail Carson Levine and the Enola Holmes series (of which I will be reading the remainder in February).
- The Book Wars also prompted me to add some diverse books being released in 2016 to my reading list.
- I enjoyed reading these poems by Katie Donovan.
- This highlights post from She’s a Maineiac made me laugh. Hard.
- I always enjoy reading posts from A Frog in the Fjord (and learn a lot about Norway while I’m at it), and this post about differences in New Year’s Resolutions between Norwegians and immigrants was no different.
- One Fifty inspired me to work better on journaling, and I particularly enjoyed her Week 4 Learning Log about stoats.
- As usual, I loved the manicures that Sandra from Finger Candy does: this month my favorites were her lavender, jasmine, hologram dots, some fun hearts, and rainbow sweaters.
- This post about love and wanderlust from The Other Fork in the Road reflects everything I feel about taking the next step in my life, in which I will probably move away from my college city for my career, leaving my already-employed boyfriend behind.
That’s it for January; happy February! Thanks for sticking with me in 2016 🙂
