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  • My Top 5 for 2022

    Ladies, Gentlemen and Others; Give it up for the last post of the year- My Top 5 from 2022. I did this in 2020 and I decided to do it again this year, and next, and next. The five categories are, movie/tv shows, top book, song, blog post and new discovery. MOVIE/TV SHOWS When I’m…

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  • 5 Things I Lived By This Year

    Look at us, at the penultimate post of the year; we did it. Who would have thought? I thought it’s only best I wrap up the year by reflecting on some of the things I started to live by; advice or quotes, or theories that acted as a guiding light leading to the end of…

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  • What I Read In November

    I want to pat myself on the back and say, ‘you did it, you read more than one book’. And that is correct-ish, if you include the two comics. But I can assure you December would be better because as I write this, I’m on my second book. So what did I read in November?…

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  • Scrapbooking My Vancouver Trip

    For the same reason I’ve kept a diary for years, and the same reason I have notes from back in secondary school, and the same reason I made someone’s text into a book, and the same reason I write a blog, I also scrapbook- occasionally. It’s almost like I cannot get enough of leaving bits…

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  • Book Review: You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty

    I’m now the kind of person that reads one book each month; what has become of me? While we’re still figuring out the answer to that, in October, I read You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty, my third book by Akwaeke Emezi. The first being The Death of Vivek Oji (5/5), absolutely…

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  • The Last Man Standing

    I adored him 4 years and 5 girlfriends before I gathered the nerve to speak with him. In the end, it did not matter who loved him the longest. It’s the pattern of things to end, I now recognise, to be insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Day after day, I lived in a…

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  • A Weekend In Vancouver

    This October, my friend and I decided to go sightseeing in Vancouver. It’s been years since I went anywhere outside driving distance, so I thought a weekend trip was exactly what I needed to jumpstart my travel era. Check out my packing tips for a weekend trip. If I had to describe Vancouver in one…

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  • Packing For My Weekend Trip

    This weekend, my friend and I took a short unplanned trip to Vancouver (more on the next blog). First, I‘m in no way a light-packer. Second, we booked the cheapest flights which allowed for one free personal item (a tote, a laptop bag, etc) so unless I wanted to upgrade to a carry-on, I had…

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  • Taylor Swift’s Midnights: My Favourite Lyrics

    My biggest teenage achievement was not, staying away from drugs, sex, or having good grades, it was discovering Taylor Swift, and I don’t know what would have become of me had I not stumbled upon Bad Blood and Blank Space and YBWM, and then into a rabbit hole of her discography but I know what…

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  • How Women Rise - A Book Review

    It’s been so long since I wrote a book review and why this is not particularly one of the books that’d make it to a review, I need to restart somewhere. In September I accidentally read, ‘How Women Rise’. I say accidentally because I thought I had borrowed ‘Ask For It’, Book 2 of ‘Women…

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  • Table For One Please: Tips for Solo Dining

    My go-to dining out friend recently moved away and in a desperate attempt to keep out tradition alive, I discovered solo dining. Now, I do so many things on my own, and I’m usually at cafes alone, so why did the prospect of dining out alone sound like a faux pas?I don’t know, but I…

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  • 6 Adulting Things No One Prepares You For

    And this is only just for phase 1 of adulting… Summer is over, and so it’s time to factory reset to regularly scheduled programming- I mean adulting. Here’s the first adulting lesson I learnt the hard way — That your unemployment phase is one of the best phases of your life, and ironically you might never get…

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  • To The Things that Look Better in Retrospect

    The day the dandelions sprouted, I found myself thinking, there are still beautiful things. That evening, I walked home in a sort of drunken haze Kicking pebbles, spotting angel numbers, colours seemingly brighter than the day before, birds chirping for the first time in months, geese honking, and I thought, If I could paint this…

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  • Throwing An Adult Tea Party

    Here’s what you need! Last week, I finally hosted the tea party I’d been talking about for months to anyone who would listen to me. And it was great! I’m very tempted to make it an annual thing. I started envisioning it sometime in June but it wasn’t till July that I began planning. Here’s…

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  • Everybody Moved On, I Stayed There…

    Have a seat, today I analyse my grief. On a Friday night, I’m sitting on my bed drinking lemon-saturated green tea, with Scenes From a Marriage tirelessly playing on my TV for the 100th time. I think I’m my most introspective on Friday nights that I stay home. There’s something tragically beautiful in knowing that…

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  • The Woman Before Me – 5

    5. THE NEED TO STAY At 9, I read the quote on a billboard, ‘Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result’. At that time, I thought of the wife, praying over and over again to the same deity believing He could change him. At 15, the deity…

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  • My Skincare Routine

    Unless you live under a rock, you know the world (the world?) is in its skincare era. It’s like the weight loss era but a more ‘positive’ (definitely consumerism-driven) movement. Look around social media and you see a lot of, ‘do you skincare, eat healthy, hit the gym, do yoga, journal, read a book, self-care’.…

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  • Dave, What Are We?

    On Relationships 2: Getting comfortable with static situations. Everyone I’ve had a relationship conversation with in the last few months has probably heard me say, I’m giving the next person I’m in a situationship/talking stage-ship with, three months to make up their mind, and if we’re still dilly-dallying after three months, I’m removing myself. The…

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  • In My Graduate Era

    For those that follow me on Twitter or Snapchat, you saw the videos, you saw the tweets, one year after graduating and I can now officially accept I AM NO LONGER A STUDENT. All it took was walking across that stage to end that chapter and dare I say, it was the perfect ending. LOOKING…

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