Are you there, Internet? It's me, Whitney. 

Yes, it's been a month and a half since I posted on here. September was not a fun month. Car wreck, sick days, lost FitBit, police ticket, denied insurance claims - maybe I should rename it the expensive month. I'm very glad it's over and October is here, despite the damp, chilly weather.

But the good news is - we survived and are still kicking along. Our kitchen actually has cabinets and countertops. The car is back after 3 weeks in the shop. And I get to make my first court appearance next week to ask the judge if he can pretty please reduce my ticket fee? We'll see how that goes. 

Does anyone else have the chronic problem of starting way too many books at the same time - then slowly plodding through them, only getting in a few chapters a week, and feeling like you'll never finish? I know people say reading multiple books at the same time helps you read more, but I think there's a point where the effectiveness of that strategy plummets. 

Anyway - what I'm trying to say is that I'm currently deep in several books, and it's encouraging to remember that I actually did finish a few this past month. 

As I mentioned earlier, I read eight books last month, which is about double what I normally get through. I've tried to pinpoint how I managed to increase my reading hours but haven't really figured it out, besides maybe sticking to a screens-to-sleep bedtime around 9:30pm every night (and sometimes earlier!) and only reading after that. Oh, and maybe reading a couple under-150-pages books also helped a bit!