This week marks my four-year blogiversary, so it’s time to look back and see what the year brought (besides mass chaos). In year four, I:

• Wrote 32 posts
• Reviewed 6 books & 1 series
• Experimented with 4 new recipes
• Reviewed 1 movie & 4 television/streaming series
• Lived in quarantine for one month

Despite giving me more time on my hands, the general stress of pandemic life took a big chunk out of my productivity this year. It did lead me to experiment a little more than usual in the kitchen though, if only to make my groceries last longer. However, over the last few weeks I’ve hit some writing benchmarks I’ve been striving for since March, and I have several books lined up to get me out of my reading slump when I get my vacation time next week, so hopefully that means year 5 will be off to a running start.

We’ll have to wait and see what happens, but here’s hoping for a much more focused and relaxed year 5!