I’m really excited right now because I’m eatin. Food is soooo freakin’ delicious I can’t even think about anything right now but this tangy wonderful caesar salad I just got from Starbucks. Adam always makes fun of me because I always classify all food that we eat as tasting sooooo good.

But it just is.

I’m sweating like a pig because I just got home from kickboxing and my second floor apartment is a legitimate oven. The crickets are buzzing and the heat is sweltering like nighttime summer. My room is the sweetest disaster. I just got home from Vegas (two days ago) and I’ve yet to unpack. I like the way my open suitcase looks on the hardwood floor by my bed, it reminds me adventure. And I’m going to miss this comfy old place when I move, as much as I’m looking forward to moving into a rather luxurious loft with Adam. I like my messy little place. I like my mess.

I’m so all over the place in this beautiful week I start laughing out loud in the street when I’m walking to my apartment from having parked my car in a free spot three blocks away. There’s no such thing as a plan, and I’m giving up all of them. I’m living my life day to day and doing things every night that I love and that I feel like I should be doing. Making lists is killing me and it feels like I’m adding too much structure to my life.

I feel like my life should be a moon bounce, not a high rise. So I’m having fun jumping around and laughing.

There’s all sorts of big things coming up that I can’t wait to tell you about when they get closer. So many opportunities and resources keep cropping up all over the place, and so many ideas swirling through my head, it’s like my mind is a sparkly galaxy sometimes.

Also I’m realizing it really pays to treat this blog as just a personal blog and nothing else. I’ve heard of bloggers getting too bogged down with treating it like a business that it starts to lose its charm. That hasn’t really 100% completely happened to me yet, but I feel it’s starting to sometimes, when I read horribly long posts about what I should be writing about, how long it should be, and what I should be titling it.

“52 headline hacks to catch your reader’s attention!”

“101 ways to build your subscriber list!”

“Double your blog traffic in 30 days!”

What is this a meat market? I feel like everyone is trying to sell me something, give me something for free, and ask me for more, more, more. Don’t get me wrong, there’s all sorts of cool and free stuff out there that I will spend all night reading and be blue in the face about, but when I start getting too technical with my blog, it starts to become like a chore. When someone tells me I’m not doing it right, it starts to feel not fun anymore.

And I understand all of that, I do. Blogging is serious business, and there are certain things you have to do to make money off of it and get people to read it. But I”m just at the point now where…cool, you wanna check out my blog? AWESOME. If not, awesome. Let’s grab a drink. Monetizing it definitely interests me, but I don’t want to let it warp me, which I feel like it sometimes does. I’m all for the art of it. I like writing and writing likes me. I’m in love with the design of it, and I like putting pretty pictures up. So I’m just gonna keep doing more of that.

BUT I really, really also enjoy giving shit away, which I’m still working on BTW. So bare with me, I know we haven’t had a giveaway in awhile, but I was jaded from the last one (it kind of was a bit scammy and the people behind it weren’t 100% honest with me). But all’s well that ends well, and I’ve learned my lesson.

I want to end here with a good book alert! I’m reading this wonderful book called Unthink by Erik Wahl. It’s all about rediscovering your creativity by learning with a childlike curiosity again, and I’m really feeling different about a lot of stuff after having read the first 50 pages. I would give it away but I wrote all over the inside! I can’t do that! You’d get it and be like what the bleep, Monique! This book’s got graffiti in it.

So add it to your ‘to-read’ list on Goodreads, or your mental book list. It’s a real good one!

And with that I’m out! Oh and I wanted to share some cool pics from Vegas too, cause I had a blast getting drunk, then sober, then drunk, then full from too much food, then sober again. And I’ve got blisters all over my feet. It’s darling.

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Monique Muro

Monique is an exceedingly happy human from LA. She runs the blog A Novel Quest, and writes. A lot.

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