My April + May Playlist

Hi everyone!

I've been finding some really good music lately, so I thought I would share what I've been loving listening to! Let me know in the comments what you've been listening to lately and your recommendations!

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-Adore You by Harry styles - Always just so good, I love the entire Fine Line album so so much.

-Cross Your Mind by Niall Horan - If you guys haven't listened to the Heartbreak Weather album yet, y'all seriously need to get on that ASAP.

-I wanna be OK by Caleb James - This sounds super depressing from the title but it's actually not at all.

-I do by Wild Rivers - Honestly just a super aesthetic song that I am loving.

-Common Sense by Joshua Bassett - His first ever single, and gosh this song is so good!! His voice is just perfection so......

-Scared by Jeremy Zucker - A friend of mine recommended this one to me and after listening to it a couple of times i've really gotten into it recently!

-IDK you yet by Alexander 23 - I just found this one on my Spotify page and GUYS LISTEN TO THIS IMMEDIATELY.

-Emerald Eyes by Anson Seabra - I think I just found this song about two days ago but I looove it. Also I have green eyes so 😂

-Hollywood by Lewis Capaldi - Just a generally good song ahaha.

-Trying my best by Anson Seabra - Sad but good.

-Joy by Bastille - Very peppy and just a really good son that I just found.

-San Francisco by Niall Horan - His entire album is super good like I said before, but this is just one I've been loving lately.

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So yeah! I've been really loving these songs lately, what have you guys been listening to? Let me know down in the comments. :)

-Izzy

April Wrap-Up

Hi everyone!

It is May when this is going up, and thats just so crazy. I can't believe April is over, it didn't seem like it lasted a long time. Although, we are obviously still in quarantine, so the days do go by slowly sometimes. April was a pretty good month, and I feel like this post is going to be good.

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What I'm loving -

I'm definitely loving being so close to being done with school! I've already done two exams, and I have two left. They are the harder ones, but I'm so excited to be done with those classes.

I might have mentioned this in a past post, but I've been playing a lot of guitar lately. I absolutely love it!! I know how to play "Everything has Changed" by Taylor Swift. I've been experimenting with creating some songs, and I just really love playing the guitar so far. I'm SO excited, I just ordered a capo and more guitar picks last night, so I cannot wait for those to come

I've started creating to do lists for each day, because quarantine causes everything to be so jumbled up. They really help me! Some days they don't help as much, but other days they help me get a lot done.

Everyday after I do school in the morning and after lunch, I go outside on my back porch on the outdoor chairs and tan. It's so nice. I'm already so much more tan than I was, and after everything else during my day it's so nice to just relax and do nothing for a bit. I love texting or listening to music while I do it.

Zoom and FaceTime calls are definitely such a lifeline. I do a Monday lunch zoom with some of my friends every week, and it's so much fun! Individual facetimes are definitely really fun sometimes too. Yesterday, I did a facetime with one of my friends and we tried on dresses from our closets and it was honestly just so hilarious and fun.

I honestly didn't enjoy reading before quarantine, but it's definitely given me the time to get back into it and I love it so so much.

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Tv shows and movies -

Gilmore Girls!! My forever favorite tv show. We're currently on season 6, and its hectic as always.

I watched High School Musical the Musical the Series in March and honestly still can't get over it. Cannot recommend enough.

Frasier is always pretty entertaining haha.

Still binging Austin and Ally on Disney+, because why not.

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Books I read this month -

*warning I read a lot*

100 Days of Sunlight - My new literal favorite book. I did a review on it, so go check that out here.

By Your Side - I swear I'm not going to say this about every book, but this one is my new second favorite book. Y'all seriously need to go read this one and the one above it because they are perfection.

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight - This one definitely wasn't my favorite one yet, but it was cute. I'm not sure why I didn't like it as much, but I just didn't.

This is What Happy Looks Like - This one i started about a year ago and never finished because I didn't enjoy reading as much then, but I re-read the beginning and read the middle and end for the first time and enjoyed it.

The Geography of You and Me - This one I got bored and read within about 4 hours. It was pretty good, better than some but not as good as others. It didn't have much interaction between the main two characters, which I didn't love, but overall it was cute.

The Book of Three - I had to read this one for school, and let me just say, never again.

Windfall - This one was definitely not my favorite of all of them. I love reading romance, so you know it's bad when I don't ship the main characters. I don't know, I just didn't love it.

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So yeah! That's about it for my month. What did you guys do in April?

-Izzy

Quarantine Day in the Life!

Hi everyone!

You guys really enjoyed the night routine I did about a week ago, so I thought I would do a day in the life! I'll probably cut off around where I started the night routine, so you can go check it out here. So yeah! Let me know what posts you want to see on my blog!

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10:00- Getting up late as always. I usually get up around this time, especially when I've had a week of early mornings.

10:30- By this time, I eat breakfast and just chill for a bit. I usually start school around now, and do it until around 12 or 12:30.

12:30- This day, I made myself a to-do list for the day, and also unpacked a bunch of stuff from my backpack because I never did that. Our school has officially been canceled for the year, but I'm still keeping some stuff in there for rehearsals.

1:00- I usually have lunch around this time. I've been eating a pita everyday which they are just SO good. My sister and I love to watch something while we eat, and lately we've been binging some good old Disney Plus.

1:30- After lunch, my back porch is really warm in the sun so I sunbathe for a while during the afternoon. I also finished a book I had to read for school.





2:30- I practiced guitar some, because I'm trying to get good at it.



3:00- I helped my mom clean her room for a while. :)

4:30- I worked out, I've been trying to do the Chloe Ting 30 day challenge every day. I don't really plan to do it for the full 30 days, but I've been doing it a lot.

5:00- I decided to help her make dinner, and we were making these really good meat pies, which are just biscuits with meat in them. They're really good, and they took a long time to make.



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That's where I stop pretty much, because my night routine picks up there. So yeah! If you want to see my night routine go check that out. Let me know what posts you want to see in the future! I hope you guys enjoyed!
-Izzy

My Quarantine Night Routine!

Hi everyone!

As you all know, life has become different because of COVID-19. I've been staying up later because this week was spring break so I didn't have any classes, and even if I did, I don't have to leave my house. So yeah! Don't judge me for this XD

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6:30 - I helped my mom make dinner. We were making pizza last night, so I helped roll out the dough, put the sauce on,  and do all of the toppings.

7:00 - On this night routine, I'm going to start a little bit later than I usually would, because we had a late dinner. So yeah, at 7:00, I went ahead and got a shower and turned on some music to listen to while I get my shower.

7:30 - The pizzas were ready, so we ate dinner. Spoiler alert, it was absolutely AMAZING.

8:00 - Since dinner was over, I decided to start a new book. I started this incredible book, "By Your Side", by Kasie West. I'm going to be putting out a review of this book soon, so watch out for that!

So um... I may have gotten a little sidetracked on that book...

10:00 - We started watching a movie around 10, but since it wasn't one I was as interested in, I went crazy and read more and more.

11:00- I finally finished my book at 11, (which I started at 8- I'm insane.), so then I just watched the movie with them.

11:30- If I'm gonna watch something late at night, I have to have some sort of snack so of course golden oreos were in order.

12:00 We were watching Pride and Prejudice the musical, it was actually pretty good.

12:30- We finally finished the movie, and it was good.

1:30- We just kind of sat around for a while, I talked to one of my sisters, and we just generally chilled for a bit.

2:00- I started getting ready for bed and doing everything I had to do before I could go to bed, which meant I journaled for a little bit and while I did that I used my Accelerator. My accelerator is something I use for my Invisalign for 20 minutes every night to hopefully speed up my teeth moving.





2:20- I finally go to bed, because I definitely need to haha.



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So yeah! That's about it. Also, I definitely don't go to bed this late every night but it was a weekend and it just ended up being a late night because of the movie my family was watching. I hope you enjoyed, let me know in the comments what you've been doing during quarantine and what posts you would like to see in the future!
-Izzy

100 Days of Sunlight book review!

Hi everyone!

I read 100 Days of Sunlight by Abbie Emmons just a couple days ago, and it is now my favorite book so I thought I would do a review of it! So yeah, here we go!

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When 16-year-old poetry blogger Tessa Dickinson is involved in a car accident and loses her eyesight for 100 days, she feels like her whole world has been turned upside-down. 

Terrified that her vision might never return, Tessa feels like she has nothing left to be happy about. But when her grandparents place an ad in the local newspaper looking for a typist to help Tessa continue writing and blogging, an unlikely answer knocks at their door: Weston Ludovico, a boy her age with bright eyes, an optimistic smile…and no legs.

Knowing how angry and afraid Tessa is feeling, Weston thinks he can help her. But he has one condition — no one can tell Tessa about his disability. And because she can’t see him, she treats him with contempt: screaming at him to get out of her house and never come back. But for Weston, it’s the most amazing feeling: to be treated like a normal person, not just a sob story. So he comes back. Again and again and again.

Tessa spurns Weston’s “obnoxious optimism”, convinced that he has no idea what she’s going through. But Weston knows exactly how she feels and reaches into her darkness to show her that there is more than one way to experience the world. As Tessa grows closer to Weston, she finds it harder and harder to imagine life without him — and Weston can’t imagine life without her. But he still hasn’t told her the truth, and when Tessa’s sight returns he’ll have to make the hardest decision of his life: vanish from Tessa’s world…or overcome his fear of being seen.

Do not read any further if you don't want spoilers!

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Okay so first off, the idea for this book is just so genius... I absolutely love romance ANYTHING, so this book was perfect and right up my alley. To be honest with you guys, I'm not much of a reader. I don't enjoy it much, and often don't finish the books I start, so this book was such a turnaround for me. I started it Tuesday afternoon and finished it by Wednesday afternoon, which I'm pretty sure is a record for me. I absolutely could not put it down! I read a lot of it all in that afternoon, just reading and reading. All of this to say I freaking love. this. book.

My favorite character from this book would have to be Weston. He was so selfless, never complaining about himself at all when Tessa was yelling at him about not being able to understand her. When in reality, he understood completely. I also just loved Weston's determination. When he was trying to get stronger I was so proud. I was like yes Weston go go go! xD

I related to Tessa, and she was really sweet so I liked her a lot. It was really sweet to watch her and Weston fall in love. Tessa was definitely more reserved about it, as she would be like, "do I like Weston" and then he would be over here like "I am in love with Tessa Dickinson." which just absolutely cracked me up. they're so PERFECT 😭

It upset me how self conscious he was about his legs, because you could see how hard he tried not to show it, but he really cared. I was sitting there and I was like if that happened to me I would definitely be the same. It was definitely upsetting though because no one else really cared about it besides him. It was nice getting to see his backstory through the chapters.

The characters who weren't as main like Tessa's grandparents, Weston's brothers, his mom and dad, and Rudy, I just loved them. I absolutely adored Weston and Rudy's relationship, you could tell how much they truly cared about each other. They were so close, and their relationship was just so cute. I loved how he would go to the track with him each day to help and time him. A fake friend wouldn't go every day, but Rudy was always there for him. Always.

If my thoughts are jumbled it's because I loved EVERYTHING about this book. Also, if you didn't believe how much I loved this book, these are photos when my sister asked me how do you feel about 100 Days of Sunlight...





Also, the cover art is beautiful, Abbie did such a good job with it. I want *all* of the merch... and by all of it I mean ALL of it. I need it.... 😂 so if any one wants to mail that to me that would be great.. (jk jk...)

Also, THE UKELELE SCENE. I CANNOT. Weston had never played his ukulele for ANYONE. Not even his MOTHER. But he played a song for Tessa, and my heart was just not okay.

Also, that guy who tried to harass Tessa....... oh my goodness. I wanted to kill him so badly. That was just so terrible. Thank goodness Weston came at the right time... That jerk definitely wasn't expecting him to be the fittest guy ever 😂

But yes, Tessa's sight finally came back, and thankfully she decided to bug Weston enough until he decided to meet her, and that scene.... when she started crying when she saw him, my heart. 100% not okay but it's fine. So yes, I freaking love this book, as I say this for the 1,000th time.

Abbie, if you ever read this haha, this book is actually perfect and I will definitely read every single book that you release, you now have a forever fan. You are perfect as is everything about your book.

So yeah, that's about it for this post you guys, comment your thoughts on 100 Days of Sunlight, let's talk in the comments!
-Izzy

March Wrap-Up

Hi everyone!

March, was honestly, not a good month. I don't really think it was the best month for anyone, obviously. This pandemic has pretty much wrecked everyone's lives. I didn't really do much in March honestly, but I figured I would do a wrap up anyway. So yeah, here we go.

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1. Wrapping up my show-

I started off my month at Steak and shake at 1AM, finishing up my show. We knew even then March was going to be a bad month... we were right.

2. Shopping for prom dresses-

I don't think i'm going to get to go to prom this year, but my sister is, so we went with two of our best friends to go shopping for prom dresses. It was fun! I did try on a stunning red dress, I'm in love with it.

3. Spirit Week -

I posted about this on my blog, so the link to the post is here. But this was really fun.

4. Getting an Instagram-

I got a personal Instagram this month, so that was super exciting!

5. Cutting my hair - I cut my hair a couple days ago, and it looks pretty good! Plus, its a lot easier to handle now because its not as long now.

6. Warm weather - Its finally getting to be spring here, and I'm so excited! Its been in the 80's this week and it's been so nice!!

7. Facetimes and calls in quarantine! - I've been face timing some friends from my school and also calling them while in quarantine (for who knows how long), so i've been enjoying talking to them!

8. Catching up on TV- I've been watching a lot of Gilmore Girls, and also watched the HSM show on Disney+. It's so GOOD oh my gosh!! I love love loved it. Let me know in the comments if you've watched it, I'm obsessed.

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So yeah! That's about it. How has y'alls March been? Let me know in the comments! :)

-Izzy

10 Movies and TV Shows to watch! (Ugh, quarantine.)

Hi everyone!!

As everyone knows, our country (and most others) are absolute chaos currently. I'm out of school for four weeks, and this NEVER happens. So, I thought I would make you guys a list of some movies and tv shows to watch while you have time, like I'll most likely be doing haha. Let me know how you guys are doing with this whole thing in the comments, and how your area of the world is.

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1. Gilmore girls - yes yes yes yes yes. I started this show this summer, and am absolutely head over heels obsessed. This show is definitely more girly (as you can probably sense from the title), but it's just such a good show.

2. Frozen 2 - I haven't watched this one yet, but I'm definitely going to soon. They released it early on Disney+, so if you haven't seen it yet, it might be a good watch.

3. Kim Possible - If you want a good old 2000's cartoon, that is hilarious and just is relatable, definitely watch this one. We watched it a lot growing up, and plan to rewatch it from the beginning during this whole thing.

4. 9 to 5- If you want a really funny, feminist movie, this one is great. It's so funny and we've watched it several times. I definitely recommend this one.

5. Fuller House - This one is definitely more family-ish, but it's a spinoff of a great classic, I haven't watched the last season yet, but I do want to.

6. Letters to Juliet - I'm not sure if this one is out anywhere currently, but it's a really good movie. It was out on Hulu a bit ago, but they stopped playing it unfortunately.

7. Any old Disney show - Disney+ is streaming a bunch of the old Disney shows, so I definitely recommend any of those like Austin and Ally, Good luck Charlie, Liv and Maddie is on Netflix, etc. etc. There are stupid parts to them, but they're funny.

8. Any old Disney movie - These older movies on Disney+ are just classic, like if you haven't seen High School Musical 1, 2, and 3, you seriously need to, or something else like Camp Rock 1 and 2, Geek Charming, etc. etc. These are all such classics and they're really not that long or anything either.

9. Good Witch - Good Witch is on Netflix, it's a Hallmark show, it's so good. It's dramatic, but funny, and just entertaining honestly. It has some great love stories through it that are really interesting to me, so I just love it. DEFINITELY recommend.

10. You've got mail - If you want a classic cute rom-com, this is definitely for you. It's so cute! I love this one.

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So yeah! That's about it. I hope you enjoyed this, let me know your quarantine recommendations in the comments!

-Izzy