The fact that I know how crucial social media is for this book endeavor annoys me greatly.
I am good with words, I am good with books and notebooks, I excel at my corporate job, and I even do a decent job at motherhood…but social media? I am useless.

I’m too old for those skills; I didn’t even have a phone for part of my teenage years, for goodness’ sake. But at the same time, I refuse to be the grandmother who stopped in time. At some point, I will need to put the work there; I will need to learn and make time to do it daily.
Ah, the daily part makes me laugh! I don’t have time to add anything else daily, but there’s not much of an option, right?

And, of course, I have time. I make time! I enjoy the “reels” pit as anybody else, but I time it to 15 minutes daily. So I can choose and allocate differently. But I need to invest in it first. And somehow, I am procrastinating.

Similarly, I procrastinated on completing my book reviews, which I had promised myself I would do in 2025. Well, after reading 24 books already this year, I have no reviews. Again, better time allocation: less book reading and more book review writing. But reading relaxes me so much; it’s like a warm bath on a rainy, cold day. I don’t want to miss it.

I should put a rule: I cannot start reading a new book until I’ve written the review of the previous one.
It’s a good rule!
One that I could have applied to myself before and not now that I am reading the smuttiest of the smutty books, not knowing yet if it’s so bad that it turns around and becomes good or not. Regardless, I have no idea how to review it.

But a rule is a rule. And that’s is that.

However, it did not skip my attention that I again procrastinated on the social media part. Being aware is the first step for change, mind you not.