Tag: autumn
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Preparing for Holidays Alone
This coming weekend is Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada. The technical day is this coming Monday, the second Monday in October. And while I might feel a bit hypocritical writing this when I actually do have plans this Thanksgiving, I wasn’t expecting to, and I have spent most Thanksgiving weekends alone since I went to…
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Autumn Cozy Candles
Candles are the perfect end to a cleaning or self-care routine. There is no better feeling than having spent hours cleaning your kitchen, vacuuming, doing laundry, washing floors and then lighting a candle and curling up under a blanket in your nice clean apartment. I have been using candles a lot more frequently now that…
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Realistic Thanksgiving Menu: Single & Solo
Well everyone, it’s the end of September, time to wake up. In Canada, Thanksgiving is in October (oh and we did it first, do I want to do a history lesson here? Yeah let’s do it.) First Nations across Turtle Island held thanks giving celebrations for time immemorial to celebrate harvests and hunts. It actually…
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Wednesday Wants: Fall Accessories Edition
Last week was the first week in ages that I had to get dressed every day for a full week (even pre-pandemic I had been wearing exclusively for a few months and then on weekends for 2 years, and later in grad school it is what can I put on my body to cover it…
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Fall Recipe Dreaming
There is something about cooking and baking as the weather cools (she says as it is 30C outside today) that is just so much more enjoyable and, I don’t know, romantic? than cooking in the summer. So I am super excited to start cooking for fall. ANTONI FROM QUEER EYE I’ve had Antoni from Queer…
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Saturday Scroll: US Open, Beyoncé, star-crossed, and the Met Gala
I got to do in-person work yesterday! It was thrilling, I’m also exhausted. The most tired I have been in ages. My organization has two hostels that they operate in town right next to the hospital for people who are coming down from remote communities for health care treatment and yesterday was World Suicide Awareness…
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Planning for Delta Variant Autumn
So I was going to write this post on the places I would like to visit in Minnesota now that I live quite close to the International Falls/Fort Frances border crossing and supposedly the US border is opening on August 21, but it doesn’t really look like that’s going to be wise. So let’s talk…
Laura Caeris - Thoughtful Millennial 