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“ I did feel bad watching Simon die. I’m not a social path. In that moment, as he turned that horrible color and fought for air - if I could have stopped it, I would have.

I couldn’t, though. Because, you see, I’d taken his EpiPen. And every last one in the nurse’s office.”

- Anonymous ( One of Us is Lying - Karen M. McManus)

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Book Review: Temptation (The Hunted #1) by Ivy Smoak

Book Review: Temptation (The Hunted #1) by Ivy Smoak

Book Cover ��� Temptation (Hunted #1) by Ivy Smoak “Temptation” is the first in a series of four Romance Novels by author Ivy Smoak.  “The Hunted Series” tells the story of college student Penny & her crush & eventual relationship with her Comm professor, James Hunter. I came across this e book while browsing options under my Kindle Unlimited subscription. I didn’t want a serious read. I wanted…

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Post of Shame

Hi, I’m Steena, the girl behind the blog. My talents include posting about challenges I want to do in an attempt to become more active with this blog and abandoning those challenges before I’ve even started. The A to Z challenge started on 4/1. It is now 4/25. I could call it quits and start on something different. But, I made a list, and my conscience will absolutely not allow lists to go to…

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A to Z Blog Challenge

A to Z Blog Challenge

I’m getting started about two days late on this, but I am participating in the A to Z Blog Challenge this year. I sat on the idea for a bit. I was indecisive on a theme, as usual. I’ve written some book reviews here as well as some other things. Over the last 6 months, my life has change a lot. I’m not the same person I was before, so I’d like to use this month and this challenge as a “get to…

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Sunday Funday

There have been times in my life when I have dreaded Sunday nights. I’m not feeling impacted by that currently. I’ve started working a lot of extra hours at work and give myself a Sunday off every few weeks. Today I worked & as tired as I am, I’m incredibly thankful I have a career I love and the ability to work extra hours to bring in extra money. I had a few days over the past week that were a…

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Starting Over

Hey everyone! A few months back, I purchased a new URL but never got around to using it. Life has been pretty rough for the last 6 months and things are beginning to settle down slightly. I ended up letting my premium WordPress package expire. I’ve made a deal with myself. Once I complete a 30 day blog challenge, I can once again upgrade. So, I picked a random blog challenge off Pinterest and…

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I hope you all have a lovely day! Please don’t forget to fuel your bodies with a small breakfast, smoothie, or snack if you haven’t already. Especially if your medication suppresses your appetite like mine does!

Wednesday Words of Wisdom: Relationships won’t heal you. Being single won’t kill you.

Gratitude: I am grateful for my Momma! I’ve been living 1500 miles away from her for the last 6 months. Last night we talked on FaceTime and we are planning our summer vacation together. 🥰

I am going to try to post these each day. I am putting effort into my gratitude journal and this will be helpful in building a habit of starting the day with positivity.

Happy Wednesday!

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L I S T E N

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Let’s take a moment to appreciate Bucky Barnes showing some actual human emotions. Aka annoyance In the new FAWS trailer. 

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Annaka Silvia

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At the end of the day, you can't know how people are going to perceive your writing nor the messages they will grasp from it. You can't control the audience and you shouldn't want to. What you can control is the story in front of you. Don't try to create something everyone will agree with, don't try to create something absolute that everybody will see in the same way. That's dull. It takes away the fun of reading and writing.

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WOW. I got my diagnosis a few months ago at age 32 and it seriously just boggles my mind. This entire post is so necessary. A diagnosis of ADD/ADHD as a late teen/early adult is just wild. You’ve lived your whole life feeling a certain way and then you get told you have ADD/ADHD. If I hadn’t worked up the courage and actually talked to my Doctor about my eating behavior and how it was making me feel, I wouldn't have even known.

Doc decided to test me after 6 months when we talked about side effects of the med he had me on (Vyvanse) and there weren’t any negative. The positives prompted the test. 

People don’t realize you don't need to be hyperactive to to have attention deficit disorder. 

UGH there is NOTHING more frustrating than trying to research ADHD, it’s all “do you interrupt people a lot? do you find it hard to sit still?” and “boys are twice as likely to have ADHD than girls” and “here’s how to deal with your ADHD child” and there’s nothing about adults, nothing about underdiagnosis in women, nothing about RSD, dyscalculia, sensory processing, emotional regulation

i am not a little boy pretending to be an airplane in the back of the classroom. I was never allowed to be, because I was a little girl. i was a little girl who couldn’t sit still but i had to because ladies sit still while the boys shout and fidget in the background. i was a little girl who got left behind when recess ended because i was so engrossed in my small rock garden i didn’t hear the bell; i was a little girl who grew up smart enough to take precalculus, but couldn’t for the life of me remember my times tables; i was a little girl who got so angry and didn’t know how to stop it (“you can control your emotions!” my dad told me; “don’t bottle it up,” my mom said; “scream into a pillow, write it down, take deep breaths” everyone told me, and none of it helped); i was a little girl who lay awake every night terrified i’d forgotten to do something due tomorrow; i was a little girl who couldn’t make friends because socializing was hell because if i made one wrong move, received one negative response, i might as well have set myself on fire; i was a little girl who took pride in being the Weird Girl, because i had to; i was a little girl with adhd 

and now i’m an adult woman with adhd, and i know that because of people on tumblr, not because of the DSM-V. The DSM-V and the CDC tell me little boys have ADHD, not little girls. they tell me if i don’t interrupt people (don’t interrupt people, that’s rude, being rude means hurt hurt hurt because of RSD and nice young ladies aren’t rude anyway) and finish assigned tasks (don’t forget don’t forget don’t forget if you forget they’ll hate you) i don’t have the inattentive component; and they tell me if i can sit still (what kind of organs do snails have, anyway? let’s research that for four hours) and avoid butting into people’s space (don’t be rude, don’t be RUDE) i don’t have the hyperactive component; and they only ever mean to talk to parents of little ADHD boys, and there is nothing, nothing, nothing meant for me.

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Adult ADHD is LAME ASF

After I take my meds, I get very detailed in everything, including text messages. None of my friends have a form of ADHD, so they look at my text messages and they’re a god damn novel and I doubt they’re even read most of the time.

I used to have ONE friend with ADHD so she understood and text each other a lot but she ghosted me. She tends to do this when she’s trying to focus on fixing her life and then comes back. I honestly don’t mind. I shut people out too. 

Anyone relate here? Let’s be ADHD friends LMAO

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“I’m speaking to you from my heart. Look, I don’t know if I’m going to have a career after this, but fuck that. Today is about innocent people who were halfway through their process, we don’t know what George Floyd could have achieved, we don’t know what Sandra Bland could have achieved, but today we’re going to make sure that won’t be an alien thought to our young ones. Every black person in here remembered when another person reminded you that you were black. So none of you out there, all those protesters on the other side, protesting against what we want to do, protesting against what we want to try and achieve, burn you, this is so vital. I need you to understand how painful this shit is. I need you to understand how painful it is to be reminded every day that your race means nothing and that isn’t the case anymore, that was never the case anymore.” John Boyega at The Black Lives Matter protest in Hyde Park June 3rd 2020

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Stunday? (Study Sunday? Is That a Thing? I’m New at This.)

Happy Sunday Studyblrs!

I am currently finishing a very easy research assignment using academic journals while watching Vampire Diaries with my bestie. Next week is my last week of this class. I seriously love the accelerated class format so much. 

I’ll be starting on next weeks reading & academic plan tonight. It’s not due til a week from tomorrow and then my next class starts the next day. I’d like to be completely done by Wednesday at the latest to give myself a few days before class 2 starts.

Do you all like to keep your school work routines in a bullet journal or use another system? I am working on transitioning things into the bujo format, but right now, I make  huge 5 week calendar on poster board that goes above my desk. I have due dates per the syllabus in one color and when I’d like to have them done in another color. The third and final color is what I use to schedule study time, including the monthly study sessions my University is holding on Facebook during the pandemic.

Tell me about your study habits and how you plan it all out. 

Happy Sunday & Happy Studying <3

Side Personal Note: I’m super proud of myself for starting school again. My Dad always wanted this for me. Even though he’s no longer with me physically, I know he’s positively beaming,

I love you Dad! I won’t give up this time, I promise! 

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526 | Very much so missing bookstores, sure you all relate!! 

Currently Listening - Midnight City, M83 [spotify playlist] 

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Studyblr

Welp, I’m on week 3 of University and should find out soon what credits transfer and how many classes I have to take to graduate. I don’t anticipate more than a year to a year and a half.

I’m learning to study again and realized how important my bullet journal really is.

I’m doing 5 week classes, one at a time and I’m just going to keep gong til it’s done.

That’ll be a Bachelors in Healthcare Administration and a dual Masters degree.

My current class is simple and basically leads up to a final project of a paper on how to be successful in college.