 So this vlog is going to be a little bit different from previous vlogs. I got this idea because I've seen actually like a few content creators do something like this and every time I've seen it I've been like that is a great idea. Not like, I mean partially for content obviously because I decided to do it, but mostly I was like for life, like that's a good idea. By the title you already probably know what this is going to be, but so I'm swapping my average screen time on my phone for reading time. It's a video idea, clearly I'm doing it, but also like way to get my life in order and because I'm making content out of it that like motivates me to actually do it instead of being like theoretically I should swap screen time for reading time, but because it's a video then I feel like pressure like obligated to actually stick to that. Anyway so my average screen time I'm going to use not last week but the week before because last week I was scrambling to like finish books that I had lives for so I was like my screen time was actually down last week because I was like trying to finish books right before the live so that's not actually really an accurate representation of like what my normal screen time is like. My average screen time the week before last was six hours and 15 minutes a day, meaning on my phone. That is wild. This will be a little bit tricky because a lot of that in me it's cumulative and a lot of it is like when I'm like working or doing whatever then like you know I finish a work task and I treat myself to like scrolling through Instagram for however long and then like and then when I'm not working I also do it and then when I'm listening to audiobooks I'm sometimes scrolling so like cumulatively that adds up and also some I mean if it's an audiobook and I'm listening to you while I'm doing that it is also reading time so like it is I'm not trying to say it's not bad it's very bad but like yeah anyway so the way I'm going to approach this this week basically every time that I would normally be picking up my phone I'm going to have a book next to me or my audiobooks so like this week's books and then if I get through these then I have obviously others on my TBR but I need to finish the last or start and finish the last argument of Kings which is obviously a reread but we're recording the podcast episode for it this weekend so I need to get this one done not that I really need to because like I read that this will be my hey cat stop it this will be my fourth time we're getting it anyway so this will be my audiobook for this week and then my physical book Jade City by fondly so basically my plan is that when while I'm working which is again when a lot of this like incidental screen time happens I'll have a book next to me yeah I'll have a book next to me so that instead of scrolling through Instagram for five minutes ten minutes more don't tell my boss I will read a chapter of Jade City alternatively I will listen to like if I decided to hey stop it alternatively if I want to like use my break to like a go and get a call anyway alternatively if I am using my break to like get up and do something like go get a cup of coffee go get a snack whatever then I'll listen to a chapter or say like 15 minutes of the audiobook for the last argument of Kings and then obviously when I'm done with the work then that's pretty straight forward instead of being on my phone scrolling mindlessly I will be either listening to this in which case I will not be scrolling through my phone while I listen I will I don't do anything more productive TBD on what that would be maybe a meal prepping for the following day that's a good thing to do anyway or you know physically reading Jade City so that's the plan and basically six hours a day reading instead of scrolling through my phone um really increase the amount of reading that I can get done in a week obviously I still am going to check social media so for that too I'll set a timer and I think like in the morning I'll set a timer for like 10 minutes to like check messages reply to messages etc and then like around noon five minutes and then before like in the evening at some point not like right before bed because that's a bad idea but like in the evening sometime also 10 minutes to like check messages reply to messages etc that is the plan this week and we'll see how we go just time for a quick update before the live show I have tonight which starts like 15 minutes so I have hit my goal basically today because I failed to mention my intro this is the last day of February and the last book I had to finish Worship of Destiny and I had six hours at the speed at which I was listening to it I had six hours left like accounting for the speeding up six hours left in the audiobook so I did finish it today I woke up at like 6 a.m. and I start work at 9 so I listened to it for three hours before sort of work and then listen to it like here and there throughout my day so I did finish Worship of Destiny so much to unpack so I was also chatting with Mara about it and she finished it before I did this month I was behind so we were kind of like unpacking our thoughts and she and I are gonna be chatting about live ship versus far seer sometimes soonish date is TBD as of the filming of this clip but anyway yeah and then I did since I finished my TBR for February and I still had you know hours left today I started last argument of things so I already hit the six hours that I was aiming for with this and then I've listened to not quite two hours in the audiobook and I listened to it at triple speed so whatever that math comes out to so six plus hours today have been consumed but I do have a lot of tonight and I don't think I'm gonna read anything after that so we did it today on my screen time has been a little high because of that I did have to talk tomorrow about the end of a life ship traders so had to use phone for that but yeah day one of this I would say is a success so day two is the first day of March so I get to start on my March TBR which is all ready for me to go over there but I must dash to the Murakami live on Hilary's channel good morning happy Tuesday I thought we'd have a quick chat over breakfast I did my check my stats hey stop it for yesterday I decided to like sort of log it because I figured by the end of the week I'd forget would be harder to figure it out especially for like my screen time my phone tracks it but anyway so yesterday I did I calculated it it was only audiobooks and I did six hours and 37 minutes of reading listening so zero time physically reading and my screen time was actually over three hours yesterday now like I wanted to blame this on the fact that I was chatting on Voxer with Mara about Ship of Destiny because I finally finished it and that was a chunk of it it's not like it wasn't but that was my third most used app yesterday my top two most used apps yesterday were Instagram at the very top as usual and then discord and then Voxer and like today I know I've used Instagram quite a bit because we're trying to schedule a podcast episode and so like we're doing it via Instagram so like that's not my fault but I did wake up before my alarm this morning and all the time but I couldn't get back to sleep so the time between me waking up and my arm going off I just like decided to give myself some phone time then on Tuesdays and Thursdays I try before work to spend a couple hours replying to my comments on my channel and watching other people's YouTube videos and like catching up on watching and commenting because like I mentioned in other videos that like I wanted to set specific time aside for doing that instead of just being like when I have time because then I never will have time anyway so I did that this morning woke up was on my phone for a while then main coffee and like reply to comments and commented myself and now I have made breakfast and when I also you know figured out calculated my screen time versus reading time and now I'm gonna finish this breakfast and I have to go to the office today so to and from I will be obviously listening to last argument of Kings and I'm hoping to use my lunch today to film some videos so that's happening and then yeah this evening I have no plans besides probably editing videos in my modest but I'll try to squeeze in some physical reading time since I haven't done any of that yet and show your interest to know what I'm gonna think of Jane City as you're applying to a bunch of comments this morning on my TBR video and like half the comments were like oh no you're not gonna like Jade City or I love it so like you better like it no pressure or I'm so excited for you to read it cuz it's so good and I'm just like so anxious I feel like there's a lot of pressure this is why I haven't read it yet cuz I just feel like it's so hyped and then because people know that I often dislike hyped things I don't know I feel like a disproportionate amount of pressure as concerned to do so anyway hopefully I'll start it today I have to finish last argument of Kings before Sunday but that's super doable any who's ease yes that's that's where we're at with things so I'm gonna finish breakfast and head out and listen to last argument hi to hell I have decided I'm done with work which means I will check my email again in like five minutes but no I'm done it's been a long day I'm pooped I can't think anymore so it's a perfect state of mind to be in to read a book I can't think anymore I'll read yeah that's why I'm checking in because I'm gonna read I did manage to film my wrap-up for February over lunch knocked that out I do still need to edit and upload it but that's a tomorrow problem I have made some headway on last argument of Kings I was at an hour and 49 I believe and I'm now at six hours at like the normal speed of the audiobook I was at an hour 49 and now I'm at six hours so that means I listened to about well let's let's round it up a lot let's say I was at two hours and I'm now at six hours so I read I mean I listened to four hours of it I listened to it at three times speed so and hour and 20 minutes yes yes an hour and 20 minutes ish of listening time is that it really I thought it would be more a long day can't tell anyway so I'm gonna start reading Jade City and oh yeah the note for my page is still in here from when she sent it to me if I remember I try to put like a book comes with a note I put it in the book so years on when I'm going through my library I can remember that once upon a time I had friends yes okay so I'm gonna set a time or not a timer but a stopwatch um while I'm reading so I can so I can know how long I'm reading that's that's the general idea that's kind of what we're doing the whole point of this book great okay cool I hope you can't tell like I cannot even think okay let's do it Wednesday unlike yesterday when I woke up before my alarm I snooze my alarm 50 bajillion times this morning um so did not wake up crazy early like I intended to but when I woke up I did calculate my time for yesterday my screen time went down but not as much as I intend as I thought honestly so yesterday my total audiobook time was an hour and 20 my total reading reading time was an hour and 20 and my screen time was two hour 20 so I did have more reading time than screen time because it was to altogether two hours 40 minutes so it's only 20 minutes more so I was like what the heck I swear I didn't which just goes to show how like it just gets you cuz you don't even know you're doing it so I checked like what I was doing like what were the most used apps it was Instagram was the most used but I was only on Instagram for 37 minutes altogether throughout the whole day and I was gas and as I mentioned I was trying to schedule when we're gonna record the podcast episode so it's always a little bit of it and I was also scheduling some other things so like that's a little bit of it and then I put a grocery order in on Instagram as well as the next biggest one so Instagram and then Instagram and then the rest was like I was on YouTube for 10 minutes Boxer for eight minutes discord for seven minutes my work email for four minutes Goodreads for four minutes so like it's mainly Instagram and Instagram was high partly because of scheduling not like just my list scrolling so it's you know it is what it is anyway so yeah I'm having coffee now from my brand new color changing at Red Rising Mug which is so cool it arrived yesterday so I had some tea last night from it cuz I couldn't resist. Kaz what the fuck are you doing? Kaz why are you up on top of my bookshelf? Kaz look at me when I talk to you. Kazy Kaz. Oh you turned for that because I sound nice. Kaz you know you're in trouble come on why why you want to get sprayed? You're such a naughty kitty. As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted by my child I'm just drinking coffee for my very cool new mug and I'm gonna read some more of Jade City because yeah I haven't even talked about Jade City. I made it to um I finished the first five chapters of Jade City. It's very early to tell obviously but like I'm into it and I wanted to read more but I just got sleepy um clearly I needed sleep since I went to bed kind of early ash and then slept a bit late. Anyway yeah so I would like to read like a couple chapters this morning while I drink my coffee and then throughout the day and I'll do my timer again and we'll see how we do and I will not be checking my phone no no no no no no I did like even though I said I would set a timer to check my phone I didn't do that yesterday so I'm really going to put my phone on airplane mode and only use it for the timer um except for like a designated time when like I'll set a timer like while I have lunch or something um for like 10 minutes to like check otherwise nope so uh didn't check in when I finished his work because I just wanted to read Jade City more tonight before going to bed but I'm gonna go to bed now or like read in bed before bed so I wanted to check in before I do that so I'm not like groggy and like about fall asleep and I'm like oh I stopped checking anyway um so since I will have some more reading time tonight I'll get my final count for the day tomorrow morning but so far today my physical reading time all throughout the day and then after work is five hours not too bad and then my audiobooking time I'm at 14 hours in the audiobook now okay I started at six hours I'm now at 14 hours so that's eight hours divided by three two and a little over two and a half hours listening time and five hours physical reading time in my screen time I did check that earlier this evening and it was like just under an hour and a half altogether I haven't checked the breakdown of that um I did have some phone calls today I don't know if it counts that I guess we'll check much more in the morning but yeah I've mainly just been just uh binging drained city and we'll continue to binge it tonight it is uh it's 9 30 p.m um and I go to bed usually like 10 30 or 11 except for the nights that I'm binging something and I stay up till four in the morning it's only extremes here anyway um yeah I meant to check in like earlier this evening or this afternoon whatever but I was just so I like deep into this book so yeah half-way through um yeah someone keep reading today I think was much more successful than yesterday or Monday Monday was not my fault because I had a live show yesterday was my fault today though the hell of reading um so yeah anyway that's my my update for you not a ton anyway yes that's that's all I have to say okay great okay good night good morning happy Thursday I stayed up past midnight or just about two midnight reading drained city I went to get some water I stopped my timer and when I came back to start it again I saw that it was midnight and I was like I guess anytime that I read past now should count towards tomorrow and then I was like you should count towards tomorrow because you should go to bed right now so I was like okay okay I'm done I'm done I'm done go to bed so I went to bed just like just after that so my final count for tomorrow I calculated that for good because I was at midnight so that you couldn't get more final than that so um my audiobook time was two hours and a little over two and a half hours my physical reading time came to 10 minutes less than seven hours so six hours and 50 minutes and um my screen time was an hour and 40 minutes definitely better than the day before my screen time went down by about exactly 40 minutes so my reading time went up by a lot which is less to do with this project I think and more to do with how addicted I am to this book I have so when I checked in last night I was halfway through now I'm I think uh when I entered it on Goodreads um I'm like at 60% now so yeah I only have this much left because yeah these like darker pages I think are like either excerpts or notes yeah it's extras so like I only have this much left to go so I'm gonna finish it today I think unless something wild happens to to make that not happen like I kind of just I have some time now before work I think I mentioned that my the schedule I've set for myself which I had straight from many times since the beginning of the year um is that Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays I wake up early and before work I write or work on my writing if not not necessarily maybe writing anything but doing work related to my writing so I set that set that time aside for that anything to do with that and then Tuesdays and Thursdays I get up early before work to reply to comments on my channel to watch booktube videos and comment on them and just like to catch up with with that but I didn't do any writing yesterday because I woke up late and one that also just did some reading today I also woke up late because I went to bed at midnight and what time I do have before work I just want to read so this week um it's been it's been a different week anyway which I guess it would need to be since this vlog project would change matters but that wasn't one of the things that it was supposed to change um yeah I think I'm just going to read this morning and I'll check in with you later well friends um I have finished both books now and I only started the one Tuesday I was I Monday was just finishing Ship of Destiny and doing my live show so um I have still tomorrow to go and the rest of this evening although it is just after 10 o'clock so let me go to bed I'll probably go to bed pretty soon but then again I'm pretty buzzing from the end of Jade City lots of uh rapid heartbeat moments so I'm not particularly sleepy right now my also I realized I never like looked at the breakdown of my screen time for yesterday so I did look at it and um a huge chunk of my screen time my most used app was clock because like I realized that like when I turn the stopwatch on to like count my reading minutes if I don't like actively like shut off my phone it just leaves the screen it leaves it like lit up like it doesn't go to sleep or whatever um so like there were like multiple times or just left it running and I was like oh shit I should you know uh lock my phone instead of letting the screen just like waste battery but yeah so um my screen time was actually like a lot lower than it seemed because like big chunk of my screen time was just the clock to check my reading um anywho's easy today's reading my uh audiobook time was four hours and 30 minutes a little over four hours and 30 minutes so I finished the last argument of kings my stopwatch says three hours and 11 minutes to finish jade city so all together that's seven seven and a half seven three quarters hours that I spent on reading today um not shabby so I guess what I've learned is that I should never use my phone if I want to get reading done which I mean I obviously already knew that but it's also not realistic because I know I have so many messages that I have to catch up on um that are just piling up there are like hundreds of messages I have to catch up on um so realistically I can't do this every week if I want to like not be babayaga gas stop it so yeah two books for march already done I guess I didn't really like pick a book three for this week because I thought between finishing ship of destiny and getting cracking on these would be plenty I didn't anticipate all of this binge reading um I guess my next book will be well my next audiobook needs to be one of the ones I have out from the library so that I can finish it in time without before it expires I have like four out from the library right now they're all due around the same time so I currently have out from the library pamper menagerie bad feminist warbreaker more due and night at seven kingdoms uh well warbreaker is the longest might do warbreaker next so then yeah that's my plan tomorrow not tonight tomorrow I will start warbreaker on audio and tonight I mean I just want to read jade war it's not a tbr and I also don't have a copy so if I wanted to start a jade war I'd have to like get it on kindle which is which would be really silly because I ordered jade war already like the physical book it's just won't it's not here so anyway I have plenty books in my tbr I really shouldn't read jade war but that's all I want to do anyway anyway anyway um yeah I may maybe I'll start over enchanted next is my physical next physical book that or or blood of the fold because that'll take me I don't want to be finishing that book like the morning of the live again like I did in February anyway anyway anyway that's my update for you I'm probably going to get ready to vote a bit late and I have done my reading for the day so good night good morning and happy Friday so as I have my breakfast I was listening to or as I prepared my breakfast I should say I was listening to warbreaker started this morning I am two and a half hours into the audio book and I listened to it on triple speed so that means I have not been listening to it for an hour yet a little over 45 minutes I guess listen to it while I watch my face and brush my teeth and made my coffee and made my toast I thought about filming a clip of me making this toast but when I was editing my last vlog I realized that like every single day I made the same breakfast and filmed it and I was like they must be so sick of seeing this breakfast they must be like yeah we get it we know you eat this every day and I don't actually but like usually I get like uh I don't think you care about this but like I'll get in the mode where like there's a specific food that I really really want and I only want that food for like a week two weeks maybe even a month and then I'll be a sick of it and then I'll move on to the next thing that I only want that thing for like two weeks or whatever so for the last few weeks this has been like my almost everyday breakfast because it's just been what I've been wanting they go through phases so so sorry not a lot of variety with me there's just variety over time one thing I never get sick of is my favorite rice bowl I could eat that every single day and sometimes I do anyway that is not what this vlog is about I just wanted to I guess justify the lack of b-roll on food because you've seen me make that toast like 50 billion times so my final counts yesterday were for a little over four and a half hours listening um three hours and 10 minutes ish physically rating and an hour and 25 minutes on my phone but the breakdown of how I spend that time was as follows so on Thursday an hour and 25 right um my most used app was instagram but it was only 15 minutes so I think that's very good then audible six minutes so like that was part of reading and then there's like a death of a thousand cuts with the others like I used my texting app for five minutes used voxer for four minutes used ebay for four minutes was on the phone for two minutes the clock app yeah everything else is like tiny amounts that I'll like add up to yeah anyway so I think that's pretty good today it's already a little higher um I'm already at 20 minutes today I did want to send some people some messages because I haven't been all week so I just like quickly dipped in like went in and went out like said my piece and then was like bye so many messages to catch up on this weekend anyway anyway anyway one of the messages that I wanted to send this morning was because I started Warbreaker which Hilary picked for me and like we're not giving ratings until we do our live shows and so and I'm also like not going to tell her what I think of the books as I go um in terms of like liking or disliking but as soon as I started Warbreaker the prologue song like this is spoilery the prologue is sort of like getting you acquainted with the magic system and the main character or a main character the prologue's main character is like absorbing the breath which is like the magic system is breath and color based so anyway he's absorbing the like breaths of somebody else like it's like seems like life energy life force type vibes so he absorbs them and immediately describes being like his senses being heightened and everything sort of coming alive and feeling whatever and I was like oh so he just like put on some jade because I just finished jade city and like every time somebody either puts jade on for the first time or like acquires a new jade that's the same thing they're like my senses are heightened and like whatever so like having just like marathon jade city as soon as he was like my senses are right and I was like jade so I need to like unlearn the magic system that I've been on for the last few days and now switch to colors and breaths any hoesies um yeah so I gotta get to work pretty soon yes baby cute huh just pop your head up like a gopher we can see you you're not gonna know body can you come with me yes baby hi you can say hi the people they love you they want to see you you're cute I had my living room window open this morning there's a screen so she can't fall out but she loves when the window's open because then she can watch the birds and chirp at me complaining that she can't get to the birds but I had to close it because it makes a lot of noise like you can hear a lot of the ambient noise from the city streets outside so that's why she's over here now she's been at the window all morning but I closed the window to film this clip and she's like excuse me hi guys can you say hi can I say hi guys you guys they want to see you feet okay bye bye anyway um yeah so warbreaker my audiobook now that I finished last argument and then this afternoon hate that's my coffee you don't want that I will probably start river enchanted I know I mentioned last night maybe a little bit of the fold maybe a little bit of the fold we'll just see which one I'm in the mood for and decide at the time anyway I gotta hurry up and finish my breakfast so that I can get to work um but I'll check in with you later I went to wrap this up last night but then I thought that I was going to be able to finish warbreaker and I ended up falling asleep that's just boring just because like it was late and like it was going to be a bit of a reach to finish it but I really thought I could do it um and obviously not um it's on my final account for yesterday I just did the number it's also full disclosure this morning I already spent like a how I can tell you exactly but it's over an hour already because I'm like looking me on my phone again uh but today I've already been on my phone longer than I was for the whole of yesterday so I've been on my phone for almost an hour and a half today and it is still quite early um that was the first thing I did when I woke up non-stop okay anyway my final account for yesterday audiobook uh was six hours and 37 minutes um so I'm about 80 through warbreaker I will probably finish this tonight although I have other things to do today but I think I can finish it today my physical reading time was a whopping seven minutes so I did start um I did start a river enchanted but I just like wasn't feeling it so I just didn't read anymore and then my screen time was the best all week like every day went down so I'm proud of myself except for today then it just got rocketed back up but well yesterday my screen time was an hour and nine minutes that's it so yeah but so then yeah today like I've been on my phone a lot today because I had you know withdrawal but also because as I mentioned during the course of this week there were so many messages that I knew I was getting so I was like I can't check those because that don't screen time this week so like a full at least half an hour this morning was me just catching up on like messages just like reading and listening to them to like for a whole week's worth anyway um so I have not pulled stats for the whole week does that I mean I guess it's by the day should I do that I hate I don't want to do that so I'm not gonna but what I will do is show you a screenshot that I'll post here at this time showing you my final totals for the week I would say this was a success uh or at least success in terms of like getting me to get off my phone or do some reading I mean like I finished I mean I had them more than half of Ship of Destiny to read on Monday I read all of Last Monument of Kings and Jade City and I almost finished Warbreaker like if I hadn't been sleepy I could have done it like it was like 10 30 when I fell asleep it wasn't like midnight or anything so if I had been able to stay up till midnight I would have finished Warbreaker yeah so what I've learned is that I should get off my phone will I in the future next time I do a vlog like this no I mean it was kind of alarming to see the numbers even the times when I thought I wasn't using my phone very much I was like two hours when it just like sneaks up on you so anyway um I hope you had fun I had fun uh and uh yeah see you in my next video bye