"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train." – Oscar Wilde
Today, I went to my third oil painting class. I've been wanting to take art -- painting class in specific for years, but, like everything else I want to do, I haven't found the time to begin. So, as part of my birthday present to myself, I gifted myself painting classes. My first class was… Continue reading The Painter Life
Every year, either on or before my birthday, I get a haircut, and it is always something different from what I am currently wearing. My last dramatic hairstyle was in September when I went with bright red highlights (I am a big fan of red on me), leaned into my natural curls, and went for… Continue reading Exploring Hairstyles: Celebrating Seasonal Changes
On a whim, thanks to my friend who took up sourdough bread baking, I unknowingly got on the path of sourdough baking -- just a few years after everyone else did (during the pandemic). Last July, we went to dinner, and he brought me a tiny container of sourdough starter, which (because it was summer… Continue reading Am I a Sourdough Bread Baker Now?
If I'm going to write a post reflecting on 2024, it only makes sense to write one with my goals for 2025 so I can look back at it in a year (or not, to be honest I didn't look at the one I wrote at the beginning of 2024 to compare). My biggest goal… Continue reading Goals for 2025
Today is January 1 and I was debating if I wanted to write about my goals for the upcoming year, or reflect on the past. Obviously, based on the title of this post, you already know which way I have decided to lean. Very generally speaking, 2024 was a great year. Some amazing things happened:… Continue reading Reflections of 2024
I have a big bug phobia, but what I'm about to tell you I feel like would be true for ANYONE. Last night, I got home at 2 AM and saw that both my and my neighbor's doors were swarming with a plethora of bugs! They were flying in every which way, and i couldn't… Continue reading The Saga that is My Life…
There is something so inherently annoying about teenagers! I know that on some (minor) level, I too must have been an annoying teenager, and I sure as hell grew up with plenty who were far more irritating, but there is something so much more horribly despicable about the current generation of teenagers. A. They are… Continue reading Teenagers: Inherently Annoying
It's been 2.5 years since my last post. I was transitioning to podcasting and didn't know I could keep up with both. Fast forward 2.5 years and I haven't even been able to keep up with podcasting because of life - but mostly work/business-life balance, or lack thereof. So I thought ok, let's just stop… Continue reading A quiet return to “blogging”
On October 6th, I woke up to a phone call in the middle of the night from my little brother (turns out I previously missed 3 calls from my other brother) to tell me that my Nanu (grandma) had passed away. I had just barely gone to bed about an hour or so earlier, so… Continue reading Goodbye, Nanu
August was so bleak when it came to reading, you guys! I was pretty much on travel the entire month and sitting down to read became almost non-existent. How I managed to even finish three books is a bit of a mystery as it is disappointing. But busy summers often lead to less reading for… Continue reading August Books Recap
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