personal finance, waste reduction, skincare, single living, and needlepoint; hopefully travel at some point in post-unprecedented times
We're only a few days into February, but it has this energy, there is a stress, an anxiety, a rushed feeling to the energy this month. February is such a short month, but it feels like time is moving so much faster than normal this year. Maybe it's age. Maybe it's just that things are … Continue reading February State of the Union
I was planning on including this in my January State of the Union post but it was all just becoming too long, so I may play it by ear each month, if I read a lot it gets it's own post, if I don't read a lot then maybe it may get put in the … Continue reading What I Read in December
For only the 2nd time ever I missed my normal Saturday posting of my Obsessions post. The first was because I was moving halfway across the country and hadn't fully figured out the schedule post function, this time is because I have been throwing up violently for most of the weekend and could barely even … Continue reading Obsessions: July 7th
July was one of the reading months where I tried to make myself read some books that I had purchased, somewhat on a whim, simply out of joy of being in a bookstore and most of them were mediocre at best. I also kind of think that I was trying to make myself read and … Continue reading What I Read in July
I'm down in Thunder Bay for the weekend and it's fully hitting me how much I miss city life. Walking every where, working in coffee shops, getting take out and walking down to the water to eat, BOOKSTORES, actually being able to get everything on your shopping list. I'm not hating living in Sioux Lookout, … Continue reading Obsessions: July 24
So this is super late - oops, but I totally forgot that today was Wednesday and then I got a last minute appointment to have my summer tires put on and drove my car out there and then decided to walk back. The walk took two hours. It started raining. I got completely soaked. And … Continue reading Mid-Week Procrastination
May was a month of re-reading, nothing in my to-be-read pile was inspiring me or wanting to be read. There's also something so comforting about reading a book that you are familiar with, revisiting a story you know the ending to. It's probably something to similar to how people on the internet say that psychologists … Continue reading What I Read in May
I hit a reading rut in April. I think it was partly because I was trying to read (a really good) non-fiction book and I'm just slower at reading non-fiction (it took me 6 weeks to read Barack Obama's tome of a book). But I also just wasn't in any kind of mood to read, … Continue reading What I read in April
Well Ontario. We're nearly a week in to Quarantine/Lock-down/Stay-at-home/Flatten the curve number 4 here. And given that this is probably the worst wave that we have seen yet that when this stay-at-home order expires it will not be releasing us straight into normal pre-COVID life. So I need some things to do. In the past … Continue reading Quarantine Round 4 Activities
I hadn't thought that I had read that much in March, what with the new job and the big move and all. But I read 4 books! Only three are pictured in the stack because one was my parents and I obviously didn't want to take it with me. That's also why Louise Penny is … Continue reading What I read in March
Thoughtful Millennial 