Ready for a Fall the Fall

Hello sweeties! How's life treating you these days?

Honestly, I've never been so ready for the fall - and I'm not even a fall person to begin with. Not to mention, with the winter closing in (but even in spring occasionally!), I ALWAYS get sick in my peculiar "you won't take a proper nose breath or talk like a human being again for a month" kind of way. (Though this year I'm going to boost my immune system FROM SEPTEMBER TO JUNE - we'll see how it goes!). Plus, I don't only suffer the heat - I'm sensitive to the cold as well. Yeah, you got it - I can never win LOL.

But I digress. As I was telling you, I've never been so ready for the fall. Two months of relentless, unforgiving heat can do that to you - especially if you don't have air conditioning at home. I've been dragging my sorry ass from home to work and back, barely cleaning the house, living on cold cuts and quick meals, typing my hours away in front of my fans (sadly, they were never in the mood to cheer for me 😂). The only good thing that came out of that is, I produced an impressive amount of blog posts, most of them still waiting to go live. As of now, I have 3 of my September posts in place (while I'm in the process of rereading a couple of books I plan on reviewing in the same month), all of October covered (with an original feature called Back to Black, where I'm finally reviewing part of the books in my Halloween backlist), and even all of my November posts already scheduled (though I still need to put the finishing touches on two of them). Of course, I can always slip the additional post in if need be - say, if one of "my" authors releases a surprise book, or needs promotional backup for any of their projects. But as things are now, in three weeks I will have my blog covered until the end of November.

It feels liberating. It feels like I've accomplished something. And then again...always the same few people read my posts. I rarely manage to recommend books, because my reading tastes are different from most of my friends' (it's funny, you know. Some of my closest ones are those whose reading tastes differs from mine the most...). I write a personal post about a real life failure, and only 3 people comment on it (is it just that I've picked a bad week to do so? Was everyone too busy? And yet, posts older than that one are still receiving some belated love...). Sometimes (well, often) I wonder if I'm doing this blogging thing right. I mean, obviously, I rarely read popular books (and the purpose of this blog is precisely to shine a light on those who aren't popular to begin with) but still. Is this thing even on?

I wonder about all that for a while, and then I start tapping on my keyboard again. Because it feels like life, when you have none.

Anyway - I'm still digressing. I just meant to say - I'm ready for the fall, in any possible sense. Enjoying crisp weather and feeling like a human being again. Cooking proper meals. Doing all the things (well...some). Sharing all the posts. There's hope all that will do wonders for my body, but even more, for my mood. So come, fall, not a moment too soon.

(Sorry, everyone who's in school, college, anything that only leaves you with free time in the summer. I hear you, but I really can't take any more of it. I hope the next season will go easy on you. Love ya! 😘).