January: Month in Review

Is it wrong to salute the passing of January by waving the middle finger at it?

No? Good. Because January kinda sucked for me.

Work has been really tough, I've struggled with a CFS flair up, and I've not had anything going on at home to balance out the bad... Mostly because I've no bloody energy to do anything!

So, January can officially go do one and I'm glad it's over.

I'm determined that February is going to be a better month. 

I've set out a list of things I'd like to achieve this month and I'm hoping that my fatigue abates so I can actually achieve it!

Work is still going to be busy (it's just that time of year) but if I can get my energy level off the floor, I can handle it.

I'm structuring my monthly recaps a little bit differently this year so that they encompass more than just reading challenge progress but since I didn't really do much in January, there isn't much to recap!

In January, I read 10 books. 

My favourite book of the month was Druid Vices and A Vodka by Annette Marie but it was a super hard choice between that and Helen Hoang's The Bride Test (which was wonderful!).

I have various reading challenges this year and I'm happy with the progress I made towards them.

Audiobook Challenge is at 2/20

New Release Challenge is at 3/30

Beat The Backlist is at 5/80

Retellings Challenge 0/10

Bookish Resolution - Shut Up & Read It 1/16

Bookish Resolution - Nuke Netgalley (pt.1) 0/16

Bookish Resolution - Nuke Netgalley (pt.2) 1/21

Bookish Resolution - Read The Series 0/12
(No complete series but I started on reading The Mercy Thompson series so I'm happy!)

Outwith the first week of January (when I was still off work from Christmas), I haven't watched any movies. However! That first week of Jan, I watched all four Indiana Jones movies for the first time and I went to the cinema to see the Little Women movie which was lovely.

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Tv watching was much more productive.
I finished the Big Bang Theory re-watch we'd embarked on at the end of last summer, and binge watched all four seasons of The Good Place.

We also started Good Omens and S2 of You (but I haven't finished either of those yet) and made a little more progress with Lucifer S3.

I posted 20 blog posts in January. 

In future, I'd hope in this section to pull out the posts I'm most proud of (like discussion posts or something) but January was a month of reviews with a couple memes thrown into the mix and nothing that particularly jumps out at me for sharing again... Maybe next month I'll finally write a discussion post and/or have some family adventures to share!

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I think I'll remember January as the month of Vesta. 
The month may have sucked she has settled in beautifully and her personality is really shining through... She's a wonderful lapcat (and reading/computer companion) so she fits right in!

That's it from me. How was your January?