Sunday Post #405: Busy Week

Welcome to The Sunday Post hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer, where I talk about what is going on in life and the blog, and show you all the bookish things I got that week!

What I've been doing:

It was a busy week this week... at work, we had the 5th-grade music concert, the egg drop, and my patient went on a school field trip to the park with other deaf and hard-of-hearing kids... that was pretty fun. I'm not an outdoorsy person, but even I have to admit that it was a nice day to be out in the park, especially with the nice breeze coming from the river. Lol. Next week is FINALLY the last week of school and I can't wait! This coming week will be even more busy though 😬

One thing I forgot to mention last week is that I finally got back into learning Japanese! I've been learning it on and off for the last five years, but it's been more off lately 😬 I think it was almost a year since I last did lessons of any kind! Getting back into it, I started off by reviewing all my kana (hiragana and katakana), and this is how it went:

 

I'm actually surprised at how much I remembered, tbh 😂 And this week I focused a lot on reviewing kanji on WaniKani. This is what my lessons/reviews were looking like before I started:

The burned items are kanji I knew really well so they were removed from my rotation, but going through the list, I ended up unburning some because I didn't think I remembered them. But going through my lessons, I was again surprised to see how much I actually remembered, which is nice! The WaniKani website uses a lot of fun mnemonics to help learn kanji readings and meanings, and when I was doing some lessons the one below popped up and I laughed so hard!

😂 The meaning they want is 'national treasure,' but apparently, if I type in Nic Cage, they would accept that too 🤣 I can't 😂 So yeah, this has been fun. Up next, I also need to get back into Duolingo and Rosetta Stone, because learning how to read Japanese kanji is all well and good, but it won't help me at all if I don't know how to string a sentence together 😂

And I got more nail polish... I have a problem 😅

 

It's SO pretty though! It's this bright holographic nail polish with shimmer! 🤩 I love it!

What I've been playing:

I'm still chugging along with the Alien Takeover Challenge. Nothing too exciting to report. I did throw a pool party yesterday and that was fun. Lol.

Oh! And yesterday I also watched the Wholesome Direct and there were a couple of video games that caught my eye! The first one was this one:

It's Where's Waldo, but a video game. Lol. I got the free demo on Steam yesterday and I played it, and I loved it!! It was so fun!

There are only two stages in the demo, but that was enough for me to know that I will be buying this as soon as it comes out! I love puzzle games! Plus, I like the graphics and the fact that there is a story mode.

It was giving me some strong anime vibes, which I am here for! Lol. I don't know when the game is coming out, but I am excited to get the full version!

The other game that I've actually had my eye on for a while now is Tiny Bookshop, for obvious reasons 😆

In this one, you basically run a mobile bookshop and, idk, sell books! Lol. I also got the free demo for this game but I haven't played it yet. I will definitely be doing that today and I'll let you know next week how it goes! I'm excited though!

Nail art of the week:

I just finished doing a fun rainbow gradient with my new nail polishes, but I haven't taken pictures yet 😅 I'll have some pics next week. Lol.

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Books reviewed this week:

★★★★☆

★★★★☆

Other posts from this week:

#370: From One Apocalypse to Another

2024 Summer Library Book Bingo

Book Haul

Purchased:

Another book to add to my Fear Street collection 😆 The books in this particular series are hard to find though! And the ones I do find tend to be ridiculously expensive! I'm keeping my eye out though, and my collection of this series is almost done!

For Review:

Thank you Sourcebooks Fire for the eARC! The premise of this book sounds SO good!

Gifted:

And I got this one with a gift card! A zombie apocalypse but with a time loop twist? I'm in!

How was your guy's week? Get any bookish things? Let me know in the comments below or leave me a link to your post!