#funstuffs

tagged by @skintnminted thank you so much!

what is the origin of your blog name? It was a lurking blog for a while so I just gave it a name based on a saying I used to like about living in the moment. I just never changed it, so nothing thrilling! 

what’s your “I will always order this” food? It’s more a flavour profile, I aim for dishes that promise to be extremely spicy. It’s never spicy enough though and I have been known to cart my own hot sauces around to restaurants. 

what’s your overused emoji? Definitely the red heart. 

what’s your current comfort show/movie/book? I don’t have a comfort show currently but my all time comfort show is House. You know I am in a dark place when I rewatch all 700 seasons. 

song you’ve had on repeat this week? I’m still on my Geese - Au Pays du Cocaine replay run. 

what’s the last thing you hyperfixated on? The same things I have been fixating on for years and years: The Libertines and collecting perfume. 

what’s an oddly specific thing that brings you joy? Finding actual Victorian garbage in antique stores. Picking up two hundred year old clay pipe stems on the shore of the Thames. The Tower Bridge, my beloved. Vintage and antique lockets, especially that have old photos and dedications inside. Tacky heart shaped jewellery. 

what’s something you loved as a kid that you secretly love now? This is going to sound lame but being given gifts, and giving gifts. Doesn’t matter what they are or how small or large, just that they are thoughtful. My first memory of knowing what it felt like to be loved came when I was five, and my mum went and got me this little plastic beaded purse I had seen at a market and wanted so badly, and surprised me with it after school. To say gifting was my love language that day onward is an understatement - giving as much as receiving. 

what’s your phone wallpaper right now? A painting of London, the old gas lamps by the Thames, in the early 1800s. It’s called Reflections on the Thames, Westminster, London by John Atkinson Grimshaw. 

are you a morning person, night owl, or something else entirely? Night owl, have been my whole life. I switched to working night shifts full time a few years ago as a result and now live largely as a vampire. 

lastly, if you work, what is your work profession? and do you like it? I’m a journalist on the graveyard shift at a 24 hour news desk. Yes I love it, it's all I ever wanted to do.

beginning a new obsession

you feel more invigorated than in any other situation, even when i.e. new content for an existing obsession is announced or newly available - it can still, potentially, let you down, after all

thinking about / reading/hearing about stuff you only v recently learned to love?? MOREMOREMORE *imaginary dog’s tail wagging*

Thank you! This was a NIGHTMARE to get down to five. But here goes: 

Bonus round: 

Awww lovely! Thank you!

1. My new pink record player. It may sound like trash but it makes chores like washing dishes fun when they can be set to scratchy Libs songs. 

2. My two best friends, unwavering daily support from them both, I’d be going mad in this tiny cage without their advice and comfort. 

3. My family. Not being able to see them every week has made me realise just how close we all are and it’s a bit heartbreaking being apart, but I appreciate the little things more than I ever have. 

4. Perfume, always. A spray of the good stuff makes me feel so much better. 

Awesome question thank you!

1. My grandmothers rings. Two ruby and Russian rose gold rings, one of which she wore every day for over 30 years. She gave that one to me in the days before she left us, and it’s my most prized possession.

2. A gold Victorian anchor pendant that @suchasinistergame gave me for Christmas. I’ve always dreamed of owning something like it and I haven’t taken it off since.

3. An 1860s love token which I found very tarnished and cheap and restored, hanging it on a rose gold chain. It’s a family crest lovingly and expertly carved onto the back of a penny and given to a loved one as was the trend then.

4. A tiny 1930s pendant with a miniature portrait of London. I bought it at Portobello road markets the first time I was ever in London and it holds all the magic of that time within it.

5. A huge 1940s Bakelite heart brooch. I used to collect Bakelite when I was in university and this was the pinnacle of my collection. I don’t collect it anymore but I always remember how overjoyed I was to find it.

6. Honorary mention for the 200 year old penny I entirely hold responsible for my trip to Margate being so magical; doubly so because @suchasinistergame found one from the exact same year by chance in an antique store. Pennies are magic.

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