As I mentioned earlier, I haven't been able to stay very consistent with my social media & blogging schedules, but I'm so glad that my social media game is still going strong without me! I'm pretty happy with these numbers too. I obviously want social media to bring in a lot of readers, but I also like that my referral and organic traffic has increased as well.

Yay! New followers!

I can't believe how much I made this month! I know I won't get to keep much of it, but it's just so nice to know that I'm actually making progress on the monetization of my blog! And if you can't tell, I'm pretty excited about it!

Ideally, I'd really like the bulk of my income to be through passive work, but I know I've got a bit of a ways to go before I get there. I can't wait to see how next month goes though!

I didn't get to post as many blog posts as I had wanted to, but I beat my number from September, so I think that's a win!

I'm not at all surprised that three of my recent giveaways made it onto the most popular posts list for October. Especially because the list was in a different order just a few days ago! It's so interesting to see which posts you guys lean more towards and connect with the most. 

I'm a tad bit disappointed that I didn't hit all of my goals this month, but I know that I tried my best. Sometimes we just have to listen to our bodies and accept our limitations. So I wanted to take a moment to thank you all for understanding :)

Overall, I think I did pretty well for my third month of trying to monetize my blog. Honestly, had I not bought an ipad pro, a MacBook pro case, and a new memory card, I would have made a decent profit! Here's to no big purchases next month!