Monthly Wrap-Up: January 2015 Wow, January went by reeeaaally quickly!! I actually can’t believe it’s February already (although I am glad – January is a pretty sucky month at the best of times). I managed to pick myself up after a rather long-term reading slump (about six months!) and although I did not read a ton of books, I feel like I am starting to get a bit more on […]
Well, I finally did it – I made the switch to self-hosted! This is still a work-in-progress – I am currently working on updating all of my links and stuff but I am pretty excited to finally be ready to unveil my new blog! I must say a huge thank you to Ashley at Creative Whim for her wonderful work on the updated Tweak Me theme, which I am now sporting on my […]
I have posted previously about my favourite books of 2014 but I thought it would be fun to do a more general post with the things that really got me excited this year. Best of 2014: A to Z Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – this was definitely my favourite book of 2014 – Benjamin Alire Sáenz is an amazing writer. Everything about this book was sheer perfection. […]
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 14,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many people to see it. The busiest day of the year was December 31st with 119 views. The […]
Seasons greetings from my little corner of the blogosphere! I wasn’t planning on doing a post today but I just wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. I hope everyone is having a good day. Christmas was a sad time for me this year as it was the first one without my mum. As some of you may know from my previous posts, my mum died from lung cancer in […]