The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer.
It’s a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.
What happened this week?
This week was tiring and tough. In last week’s Sunday Post I mentioned that we have a new house and a lot of this week was focused on that. We mostly focused on cleaning out and packing stuff as we got the moving boxes and could start with that. We made some good progress, but there’s still so much to do.
I’ve been struggling emotionally with the whole concept of moving as change is hard for me due to being autistic and while I want to live there, the whole process of actually moving is super stressful for me. So I’ve been an emotional and dysregulated mess a lot of this week. I’ve also been trying very hard to get some of my routines back in place as those always ground me. I’ve been sleeping better this week, but now I am sleeping a lot to compensate for the bad sleep last week as well as the emotional turmoil, which makes my days shorter and makes me feel more rushed as there’s less time to do everything.
Then there were also some smaller things going wrong that just added to the struggles. There was renovation and construction noise nearby. And I wanted to donate some more books to a big free little library close by in our grocery store, but they decided to remove it. So that upset some of my plans. My mom agreed to take the books and donate or sell them somewhere where she lives, so that’s good. Then our faucet for the dishwasher started leaking, so I had to use the faucet for the laundry for both devices and keep switching between the machines. My mom’s husband fixed it on Saturday, so at least that got fixed now, but it really wasn’t something I wanted to deal with on top of everything.
Then my period migraine hit later in the week and that was tough to deal with on top of everything else. The pain wasn’t as bad as the headache I had earlier this week, but I am always so sensitive to sensory stimuli, groggy and emotional unbalanced and that was even harder to deal with in the current situation. Last month I figured out that eating less sugar during my periods seems to help a lot with the pain, I am glad to say that still worked.
What did I read this week?
This week I blogged about:
– Review: The Shadow Weave by Annette Marie
– Review: A Mythical Case of Theft by Melissa Erin Jackson
– Review: Dragons & Dumplings by Laura Greenwood
What to expect next week on the blog:
– Review: Fatality at the Festival by Beth Dolgner
– Review: The Silence of the Library by Miranda James
– Review: Scales of Honesty by Laura Greenwood
Ugh, so many struggles! I totally get your feelings on moving. The actual moving part is such a hassle. It’s like you just are ready to be moved, but packing takes so much, and then as you pack you realize things that really just need to be gotten rid of. And that becomes a hassle. Like I need to get my storage space cleaned out. And so I told myself I’d clean things out at my house to make room for that, but then getting rid of stuff in my house can be a struggle too! I will come across things that bring up fun memories and not want to get rid of them. Good luck to you, I know it will all work out and once you get moved things will be be better. It’s just the change that sucks!
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Exactly I am ready to just be done with the whole moving, but there is still so much to do, so I am also sort of relieved we still have some time? And I had hoped we would’ve been done with all the clearing out before we had to pack, but now we haven’t managed to finish that in time so we’re doing both packing of the things we sorted through as well as still deciding what to get rid of. It sure is a hassle. And there are so many items with memories and especially all the little things we have take so much time to go through and then you hardly save any space either as they’re all small things.
I’m sorry there was so much to deal with this week. It seems like you do have some helpful knowledge about yourself and some coping strategies which work. I hope this week goes more smoothly.
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It definitely helps to know more about myself and have some coping strategies, but I am also very aware that my coping strategies still aren’t enough for me to handle this all easily.
A very stressful upheaval of your life. When I think that this might have happened before your Autism diagnosis and new migraine meds, I’m glad you’ve got the knowledge, meds, and figured out for what works best with both struggles now. So glad your step-dad could work on the leak and wonderful news that you’re making a real dent in your packing chores.
Feel better this week, Lola! 🙂
I am definitely glad I know more about myself and have some coping strategies in place. I hardly remember anything from the last time I moved, which I think is a sign of how stressed I was, as I usually have good long term memory about events.
Sorry to hear you’ve been stressed out this week. Hopefully things will calm down for you once you are moved and unpacked.
I definitely look forward to being moved and unpacked and things calming down a bit.