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Happy Friday, happy Fridaze and happy June! While I personally think I did a pretty good job posting in the month of May, I did fall off towards the end. We've had a busy few weeks at work, and I haven't had the time. I also have been staying really consistent with working out throughout the month (yay for me!). Let's chat about what I've been up to.

NYC with Christina

I must've mentioned this at least 100 times on here already, but me & my friends are all turning 30 this year. So I've been trying to get pretty creative on ways we could celebrate! For Christina, I picked her up and we took the train to NYC. From there we went to two unique bookstores and went to eat at this hole in the wall restaurant. If it wasn't for the rain, the day would have been 100% perfect.

I did deviate a bit from my buying ban (I bought some books, but I honestly expected to spend money today!) I did well for the rest of the month, so I'm not too mad. The first bookstore we went to was Bibliotheque, which was a bookstore that gave Ivy league library vibes. It had a rolling library, mood lighting, and comfy couches and other seating. They were attached to a cafe that sold wine! The wine was super overpriced, but the place itself was really unique for me. If it was closer to me, I would spend a lot of time there. I bought one book here (a copy of a book I already love, The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberly & Austin Siegemund-Broka)

The second place that we went to was The Ripped Bodice. It's a famous bookstore that sells only romance books! This bookstore was much bigger than the other one, and it was interesting to be completely surrounded by so many micro-genres of romance. This was the place I went a little more crazy with the book buying! I was talking to a girl there and she convinced me to get some books (I got The Serpent & the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent, Flawless by Elsie Silver, & You With a View by Jessica Joyce).

J Travels

J hasn't traveled since March, so I got used to having him home. It was hard to have him away for a week! By the time Thursday came around I could not wait to have him home. I'm pretty sure he has one trip next month, so not too bad.

Memorial Day Weekend

Last weekend was Memorial Day Weekend in The States, and it was filled with barbeques. I went to one on Saturday for one of J's friend's. And the my parents had one on Monday. It was a perfectly chill long weekend!

lil things:

• maintenance finally fixing our AC
• cutting my hair myself (impulse problems! luckily it came out cute)
• no-buy ban going pretty well!
• I finally finished the Tandem Read by SJM. I highly recommend reading it that way, it was so so good, and I can't believe I'm on the final book of the series.

games I’ve played:

• Stardew Valley [PC]
• Fallout 4 [PC]

Shows/Movies I’ve Watched:

• Brooklyn 99 [Netflix]
• One Piece - Sabaody Archipelago arc [Hulu]
• Solo Leveling - final episodes of the season [Crunchyroll]

Books I’ve Been Reading (Let’s be Goodreads Friends!) (Let’s be StoryGraph Friends!) :

• Iris Zero 7 by Takana Hotaru
• The Emperor (Darkverse #3) by RuNyx
• Heartstopper #4 by Alice Oseman
• Manacled Volume 1 by SenLinYu
• Pageboy by Elliot Page
• Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
• Legendary by Stephanie Garber
• Game Plan by Viola Herman
• Trouble by Meghan Hollie
• The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
• Prince of Ink & Scars by Raya Morris Edwards
• Paradise Descent by Raya Morris Edwards
• Lunar Love by Lauren Kung Jessen
• Savor It by Tareh Dewitt
• The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry
• Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
• Riding the Sugar High by Letizia Lorini
• Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

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I hope you guys all have a great weekend. As you're reading this, I'm on my way to spend the weekend in DC! My birthday is next week, and I thought I would explore that city with my siblings and the significant others. How are you spending your weekend?