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My Great Book Burn Out and Why I’m Sick of Reading New(er) Books

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Many things can be hidden by the facade of social media, which can be both a good thing and a bad thing. If you were in my house right now, you would see piles and piles of books I have read, not read, or tried to read/have read but hated.

These piles have been fluctuating in size due to the major clean out and organizing I have been doing for many months. While trying to decide what to keep and what to get rid of, I have slowly realized books is one of the things I want to get rid of, but have a hard time doing so. I like reading and invested a lot of time and money to create my library. This is why I struggle letting go of my books.

Yet, I’m in a major burn out of books. I have been trying to find books I want to keep but so far I’m struggling to find some I want to keep. For the most part, all the books I want to get rid of the most were published within the past ten years.

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Michaels Stores’ Give Thanks Fall 2025 Decorations

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Fall decorations have changed a lot over the years. Although there are the normal and expected decorations, such as pumpkins, leaves, and more, sometimes there are themes that are unusual and… well… odd. Especially in more recent years.

This year, Michaels has a collection called “Give Thanks”. The collection includes many of the expected fall related items, but this time they would be perfect for Thanksgiving. Now-en days, I don’t see many decorations that would work for Thanksgiving celebrations. This collection, on the other hand, has many things that would be perfect for decorating for Thanksgiving.

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Michaels Stores’ Woodland Creature Figurines for Fall 2025

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Last month, I talked about a very cute fox figurine I saw at my closet Michael’s store. You can read the post here. I liked it a lot, but I thought it was pretty big for my house right now

While shopping around the store, I found a selection of creatures made out of the same materials as the fox. The difference is not only the variety of figures, but the size. These ones are much smaller than the fox I originally saw.

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Book Review: Young Queens Collection: The Velvet Messenger by Megan Hess

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It’s October 1st, which means Halloween is this month!

I own a few Halloween themed children’s books, but the one I picked to review this month is The Velvet Messenger by Megan Hess. It is a part of the Young Queens Collection book series. I like to occasionally collect Megan Hess’ books (I’ve slowed down my collecting a lot in the past few years) because I like her artwork. To me, The Velvet Messenger’s plot and illustrations reminds me of Halloween, or of a spooky story, which is why I decided to save my review for October!

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Movie Review: Pumpkin Pie Wars (2016)

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Whenever I’m working from home, I sometimes put on movies and TV shows to listen to in the background. Last year, I found YouTube movies had Pumpkin Pie Wars available to watch. I remember watching it in 2016, but I forgot most of it. Since it was available to watch for free with ads, I decided to put it on while I worked.

Now that it is fall, I decided now would be a good time to write my review of it!

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Book Review: Fame, Fate, and The First Kiss by Kasie West

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It’s now officially fall! Fall means many things for many people, but on many of the book social media sites I used to follow, it means they will post content relating to books in the horror genre. (Probably because they want to talk, and even promote, books that are good for the Halloween season of fall.)

I, on the other hand, never really liked horror movies, books, or anything relating to it. Gothic novels? Yes, I’ll read those. Suspense novels? Sure! Thrillers? I’ll read them. But horror? Nope. No way. And the same thing goes for anything macabre and contains a lot of gore. It doesn’t matter if the books are in the horror genre. I won’t read them.

This is why I tend to favor books that tell stores with horror elements in them in a different way. Or it isn’t the most important part of the story. This is the case for the young adult romance Fame, Fate, and The First Kiss by Kasie West.

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Thoughts on Cracker Barrel’s Rebranding and Remodeling: What I Do and Don’t Like About It

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For several weeks I’ve been going back and forth about certain post topics. For the most part, they don’t really matter in the big scheme of things. They also may be a little bit too (Or extremely) controversial for my blog. I prefer to keep my blog as political free as possible. Among the many reasons for this is because I use my blogs as a personal way of escapism from politics. If I’m tired of hearing about something online with political ties, I’m not going to talk about it here.

One of the post ideas I had was about Cracker Barrel’s rebranding. As many have probably heard by now, it had a major rebrand with specific stores remodeled to have more modernized interior, a different color scheme, and, most recently and controversially, a new logo. I debated if I should share my thoughts about it in a post due to the popularity and controversy relating to it. Especially since I haven’t set foot in a Cracker Barrel store in quite a while.

Now that Cracker Barrel has announced it will return to it’s old logo, I decided to risk writing a post about the rebranding and what I think about it.

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Back to School Supply Shopping and Why I’m Not Happy With What is Available This Year

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School has officially started (Unless you live in my school district. Then It’s been in session for over a month and a half…) and that means stores are starting to phase out back to school stuff for fall. As a childless adult, I can honestly say that, even though I don’t need to shop for children, back to school time is a great time to shop for office supplies. Pens, highlighters, and sticky notes are more plentiful and comes in styles, colors, and qualities that cannot normally be found any other time of the year.

Even though I’m don’t have children, I have friends that do. Whenever back to school stuff is available in stores, I like to look at anything my friends’ children would need as well. I don’t normally buy them anything, but I do enjoy looking at the different styles of folders, notebooks, and pencils targeting children.

This year, I was not really happy with the the things I saw available to purchase this year.

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Feeling Creatively Stuck: Some Thoughts About My Art and Fan Art

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I don’t know how obvious it is in my posts on this blog, but right now I feel creatively stuck. For over ten years, I’ve posted anything I made online. After all these years, I feel… stuck. As I write this post, I don’t know where my life is heading (Except my health (Including my eczema) is doing much better and my house had work done to it) and I feel very nervous about it. In the meantime, I didn’t feel very creative. I didn’t want to draw, sketch, sew, or anything else. I also found myself comparing myself to people I see online and wondered why I though I was good enough at whatever I did to post online.

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Home Improvements, Cleaning Out Stuff, and Anxiety About Everything in Disarray

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Lately, life has been… interesting. Although there isn’t many important moments, it has been a world wind of worry, concern, frustration, anxiety, and a lot of repair work to my house. There are many things that are holding up well in my house, but there are so many other things that need to be worked on quickly.

After months of this, I debated if I should even talk about the problems in a post. Yet, after months of debating if I should or shouldn’t mention anything online, I decided to risk talking a little bit about what’s been going on.

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