A Semester Recap

I feel one of the best ways to grow as person is to reevaluate certain aspects of your life. I want the Spring Semester of 2019 to be my best semester yet. In order for me to be some of what successful I am going to give a quick recap of my semester and then go into what went wrong. I will not discuss my goals for the Spring Semester of 2019 in this post, that will be a post you will see later in the week. 

The Hardest Year and Half

It is time for some honesty. I have been a horrible blogger, reviewer, reader, and writer. I have no consistency in the content I create. I feel like I have let so many people down because of my inability to follow through with posts. My response is I am having a hard time, which is not false by any manner. When I started Once Upon A Time A Review my freshman year of high school I was beyond ecstatic. I love reading and I felt like it would be a great way to build my presence, so when I meet my goal of becoming a published author I would have a following. I still want to build my presence for that reason, but I think past me was a little naive. What she didn't realize is going to cyber school would worsen her mental health. It would cause her to lose all motivation to do the things she loved including reading, blogging, writing, and even watching television. She would make all these elaborate plans to post regularly, but after awhile she would start to lose the motivation to do anything. She even thought going to college would be her escape from her depression and anxiety. She thought she would magically develop the skills of time management. Boy was past me wrong.

The lack of motivation has caused me to possess a not useful skill of procrastination; therefore, I have no time management skills. The one thing I know is I thrive with set schedule with no time to slip up. Unfortunately in college a strict schedule doesn't exist and you would think cyber school would have taught me this important skill, no it didn't. College was going to be hard for me no matter what, but I had a lot of personal things happen. Combined with becoming homeless, going through four friend break-ups, a car accident, and another thing. I was a wreck. No correction I am wreck. This past year and a half has been extremely hard for me despite all the amazing things that have happened to me. I am completely shocked that I was able to put myself through three semesters of college semi-successfully.

I know I don't really owe anyone an explanation, but I feel like I do.

Moving forward I want to bring this blog to life again. I am determined to take blogging as serious as a part time job. Starting by changing the name to In My Once Upon A Time. I love the name Once Upon A Time A Review, but it is no longer me. With a title like that I feel required to post only reviews; however, I want to post more than reviews. In the New Year you'll see posts about books, movies, television, time management, college, mental health, and so much more.  If there's any posts you want to see comment below. I will posting everyday up until  January 4th. You can follow or contact me on social media @chey_ouatar--I am always here if you need someone to talk to--and remember keep searching for your Once Upon A Time.

I AM SICK

Hello, and welcome to Birthday Blog Bash 2018. Everyday in the month of January I will be posting.

My First Book Review

Hello, and welcome to day 11 of Birthday Blog Bash 2018. Everyday in the month of January I will be posting on my blog.

UPDATES GALORE

I have finally dust off my computer and I'm ready to get back into blogging and stay consistent. For real this time, I know I have said this in the past, but this time is for real. First question you may be wondering is where have you been? I could lie and say I have been busy with school, but the truth is my anxiety has been really bad. On top of that I was recently diagnosed with something and I was put on this medicine which drains me physically and emotionally. Throw in school to the mixture and I am a complete hot mess.

Something I realized these months is that I miss writing in general. Even if I wasn't writing a story, blogging was a way of writing. A way for me to improve and find my own style. I do have to point out that I do write essays for school, but it's not the same. I miss and I'm going to try post as often as possible in the last month of school. Over the summer I will be getting in a schedule, so when college starts I can be able to post. Noting that I will have a summer job, hopefully.

I want want to be able to make this blog the best version that it can be.  Developing the blog to be mature, professional, and great content is a major priority for me this summer. Stepping up my social media skills it can help my blog grow is another thing that I know is very crucial. This is also the time where I should mention you can follow me on most social media at @chey_ouatar, so you can stay update on my journey.

The last thing I wanted to touch on is my new blog A Journey to the Perfect Student. I started this blog as a way to help motivate me and keep me organize. Not to mention I love organization, planning, and anything that falls into that category.  The only problem is that's the wrong content for Once Upon A Time A Review. I still have the same goals and hopes for that blog as I do with this one, but my main focus is handling this blog then add the other one to the mix.

As always thanks for reading and stay tune for more posts this month.  Remember keep looking for your Once Upon A Time.

  

Summer Blogging Promo Tour Post #5

Welcome to post five of the Summer Blog Promo Tour which was created by The Book Bratz and today I will be hosting Claire from BlankSlaters. I did the Bookish Guessing Game on her blog and today she is doing Bookish Hangman on my blog. Both of these posts were fun to do and create for me. Let's jump into the post.

25 Bookish Facts

         The whole concept of 25 Bookish Facts is to tell your followers 25 Bookish Facts about yourself. Since this is a fresh start to Once Upon A Time A Review, I thought this would be a perfect post to have on my blog. Let's jump right on in.

1. I used to hate reading books. I dreaded reading anything. In my old school they use to make you take these tests that told you what level of reading you should be at and I always got the lowest. That meant I couldn't check out any of the books that I really wanted to read. I was always stuck with Junie B. Jones and Magic Treehouse, which to be honest were amazing series to get kid into reading.
2. Several years later, I developed a problem with checking books out and never finishing them. It got so bad that my librarian refused to let check out any books without reading them first.  

3. Charlotte's Web was the first book I actually sat down and read the whole way through. After the ending, I was addicted to reading books. I wonder after all these years what I would think about this book now.

4. I used to be afraid of series and big chapter books. The books in this series aren't that big. It took me one month to finish the first book. I dedicate this series for getting be addict to reading series. Gosh I should reread this sometime.

5. During this time I hated Harry Potter because my only experience of the world was through the movies. I got to say I'm not a big fan of the movies, but out of the books I read they are far more superb.

6.  I love binge reading series. I mean who doesn't?

7. I disagree when people say Twilight is a love triangle. In Eclipse it clearly says that it was always Edward. The movie franchise just made it seem to be a love triangle to make more money.  

8. To go along with number with the whole Twilight thing fyi Jacob is a shape shifter not a werewolf. I have to say this all the time to my friends who haven't read the books.

9.  I don't read many stand-alones I prefer series.

10. I don't like short books because they don't last me. I read Breaking Dawn in three hours. I read the whole Divergent Trilogy in three days. I read the whole Percy Jackson series in a week. I'm not bragging here, but short books wouldn't even last me a day.

11. I'm really bad about updating my Goodread's status dealing with books.

12. I don't like To Kill Mocking Bird.

13. I don't like Romeo and Juliet.

14. I don't like the Mazerunner Series, but I love the movies.

15. I can't go to the library because I have to big of a fine.

16. I do not like the Percy Jackson movies they were a disgrace. Also the Divergent movie didn't put my favorite scene in the movie. Not all book to movie adaptions are horrible. The Fault in our Stars was great.

17. I watched the Twilight movie before I read the books. I did the same with If I Stay and I still haven't read that particular the book.

18.  I hate when people ask me what is your favorite book or author or series because that is an impossible question.

19. I used to hate using book marks because I'm really good at remembering where I leave off at, but my best friends mom got me some bookmarks and I been using them. I really want the magnetic ones.

20. I never stop in the middle of the chapter when I'm reading. I absolutely hate doing that. However there are a few occasions where I have to.

21. I get most of my reading down in the car. That's going to change since I will be driving soon.

22. I didn't really know how to read until second grade. Our school didn't really focus on reading until second grade. My parents bought me Dick and Jane and that's how I learned how to read.

23. I always used to make my mom read me Red Fish Blue Fish One Fish Two Fish by Dr.Suess. It goes  something like that.

24.I remember this one time where our teacher made us write simple sentences. All the kids, but me did this. I wrote a compound sentence. This isn't completely bookish.

25. My favorite book in a series is the last book. I also love cliffhangers too.

There you have it 25 Bookish Facts About Me.

I tag these three lovely bloggers.

Rachel@ Coffee&Calligraphy

Victoria@ Addlepates and Book Nerds

Cari and Haley@ My Addiction: Books

I hope you enjoyed this blog post. What's one thing that is interesting about you? Remember keep looking for your Once Upon A Time.