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So to quote myself from my last Sunday Post, "Back to Blogging.... For Now"

I added the "for now" in the title because I don't know how it's going to be for the next semester and I only have a month break so we'll see first.

Well then. The semester properly started around the second week of February even though it supposedly started around January. Schedule changes, even some teacher changes.

Anyway blogging felt like a distant thing to me these days not because I don't feel it anymore but because I'm going through something personally. I do, however, still interact and make a presence online through social media (mostly Twitter) but sometimes life really wants me down. I've talked to some of my closest friends about this and I'm just glad they're willing to listen and help. I'm thinking of seeing a therapist which is something that makes me nervous and scared... and I don't know why. But I want to seek help and get better because this "feeling" comes back to me from time to time these days and I don't want to back to what happened to me in 2016-2017. I worked so hard to stay mentally healthy even if saying the word "healthy" seems to be much of a stretch. I'm trying. I'm just trying. Also, I'm looking for a new place and the thought of it is stressing me out and it's just making things worse so I'm distracting myself with positive things as much as I can.

To lighter topics:

I'm feeling good about posting again. I was supposed to post a review for Love Her or Lose Her by Tessa Bailey since I finished it on January 28 but... things happened. Despite what I've been dealing with mentally, reading was what's keeping me afloat. I'm happy to be reading and not getting into a slump (yet). I am still going to post a review but not yet today. Maybe some time next week or the week after that.

Another thing that's making me feel good these days is making edits for romance books. Now I've recently opened my Instagram account (the public one) to post my bookish edits so if you like edits and romance books, give my LIKE CHAI TEA account there a follow. I was supposed to make this a bookstagram (you know, the one with pictures of books and all other bookish things) but for the life of me, I don't have time to make a set up or keep a theme. I'm also hardly buying physical copies lately so it's not really fun for me to take pics of my Kindle for like 90% of the time. My e-reader's my bestie these days because it's convenient for me to carry it around in public. SOOO yeah, my IG account is just for bookish edits. I'm having fun there too because it's nice interacting with the authors and other readers who also make pretty edits.

Anyway I got a looot of books during my absence here which I won't be listing one by one because it would definitely take up a whole blog post. One series I particularly love though is Fulton U by Maya Hughes. This is a New Adult contemporary romance series and it's got sports as a theme, it's a college-setting romance, and we got a lot of baking going on here. I really love this series. I love the characters (they're so likable and fun, and they're the kind of group you wanna be a part of) and the world Maya built. I want to write a series review for this but I'm still waiting for the final installment which will be coming out in 2021 (sadly).


Lastly, I am not a 100% back but I do have lots of upcoming posts sitting in my drafts ready to be published. I'm actually excited to be sharing these topics. But first, I gotta get back on posting some Top Ten Tuesdays and Can't Wait Wednesdays. I missed out on a lot of interesting topics for TTT.

I'm sorry if this post is boring because it's just full of texts but this is really just an update on what's happened. I miss interacting with you here so hopefully, the next few days will be good for me.

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