happy december 1st everyone.

december brings about the holidays and the feeling that time is running out. another year is almost over and what have i actually done? if the answer is “not blogged” you’re certainly not wrong. whenever i disappear from blogging for over a month it’s never something i mean to do and yet it happens a lot. perhaps i’ve outgrown my sixteen-year-old self who wanted to start a blog but couldn’t until she was eighteen.

ever since i started working when i was seventeen this month has always been full of the busyness of the holiday retail season. there’s always the feeling of days slipping through my fingers without my notice as i try to keep up with it all. for retail, christmas begins in july and by december my coworkers and i are already sick of it. maintaining the magic of it that has faded since childhood is even harder.

this is the first holiday season, since 2019, that i’m not working in the garden center where i used to price christmas merchandise in july. everything holiday would start coming in at the end of the summer and i spent the next few months pricing hundreds of ornaments and trying to get the glitter out of my eyes. while working in customer service brings its own issues this time of year, i’m hoping to be able to reclaim the joy that this season can bring.

i’ve been inspired by my friend Destiny (her insta: @myhonereads) to participate in blogmas where you post one blog post a day until christmas. by the end of december i will have posted 25 times. (says the person who doesn’t even have 25 posts on her 3-year-old blog) as someone who is lucky to post once a month this is going to be difficult but i think it’s worth the challenge! it’s always good to get out of my comfort zone once in a while and maybe i’ll be able to revive this blog.

everyday i’ll try to have a post up by 9am est. i hope you’ll stick around for it! there will be book reviews, journal entries, and so much more. ❤

~ Ming