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Saturday Scroll: 04/16/22
Happy long weekend everyone, we have a real confluence of Abrahamic religious holidays this weekend, so I hope you are getting to spend some time with your loved ones if you can, or just enjoying the long weekend. I was hoping to use Friday to get all my chores done since everything would be closed…
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Solo Easter Menu
Honestly, I’m feeling pretty apathetic about Easter this year. I haven’t been with family for Easter since I left home for university and it honestly doesn’t even feel like a holiday anymore. But I do try to use it as an excuse for a special meal, and I think we will need that here after…
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A Week-ish in Outfits
High: Spending a couple days at home. It has been a lot lately between real job work travel and pet sitting I have not spent a lot of time at home and it was so nice to have a few days to clean and relax and spend time with my own pet. Also, being at…
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What I’m Buying in April
I think that April is going to be a month that I focus a bit on starting to build a wardrobe that is realistic for my current circumstances, rather than aspirational. I love clothes, I love dressing up and wearing pretty dresses and pretty shoes, but I also hate attracting attention to myself (says she…
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Spring 2022 Sephora Sale
It’s Sephora sale time! I have always thought that there is a privilege in being able to shop sales. Being able to afford to stock up on your normal products and try out some new things with less financial risk because you got 20 or 15% off. But you still have to have spare funds…
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Northern Diaries: One Year in NWO
This post is a bit delayed, I haven’t really figured out yet how I want to go about it. I also don’t really know how I feel about this past year. I arrived in Sioux Lookout on March 14th, last year. There was no snow on the ground, and it was pretty consistently above 0…
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Thoughts on the IUD – Three Months In
I wrote an IUD update a month in, and I was not having a great time. You can read all about that here, including my decision making process and how the insertion went, but as a quick refresher, I got the Kyleena IUD, my first IUD ever, in December 2021. The nurse practitioner who inserted…
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Go Clean Co. Cleaning Challenge
The Go Clean Co. Spring Cleaning Challenge starts today! There is no social media person, no challenge, no technique(s) that I have been exposed to on social media that has influenced me as strongly as Sarah, the face and founder of Go Clean Co. They are a Calgary-based house-cleaning company that pivoted to social media…
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Ulster Fry
Okay, so this has made me realize that this meal does not photograph well, but it is delicious and is a staple part of Northern Irish cuisine and culture. Firstly, a couple notes, this post is about the Ulster fry, there are huge regional differences in fry up breakfasts across the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland,…
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My Pay Week Routine
As a part of working to pay off my debt and generally “get ahead” I have established a pay week routine to help me plan in detail where every dollar is going. Essentially it’s part of a zero-based budget routine. Which many finance people talk about, but Dave Ramsey is one of the biggest proponents…
Laura Caeris - Thoughtful Millennial 