trifling things

Creating / posting content is not the same as scrolling endlessly! I’m pretty good about that, it does mean that I can’t quite hop on the trend bandwagon because I’m not really scrolling so I do miss a lot, but I’m also happy about it because I don’t want the integrity of what I share to be changed. In the end I just like sharing pretty photos of things I do and see.

If I find my screen time going up, I have an app blocker on my phone and I make my husband put in the PW lol. Honestly, if it wasn’t for my novel coming out in May, I would really like to have taken a long, long break from all of it.

That is actually the sweetest thing!! Thank you!

I think how we talk about our lives influences how we experience them, to some extent. I had a really horrible emergency surgery in April (literally almost died) but what I took away from that was that I never went hungry, because my loved ones dropped so much food off for me, my friends sent my favourite snacks and flowers, and my husband was an amazing nurse. Now that entire ordeal is just a cloud of memories of feeling loved and taken care of — I don’t even think about the pain / fear / procedure.

Saying that, I am even lucky to have this ^

This is so cheesy, but reminding yourself of what you have to be grateful for makes noticing those things in your daily life more frequent, and then suddenly the days feel a little better.

I picked a plain chunky band and just had the outline of my engagement cut out of it so they would still stack!

Incredible! To be in the cradle of civilization and experience the incredible wildlife we got to see (Tanzania and Kenya)?! I’ll never forget it. And it was baby season!! Baby leopard, cheetah, and lion cubs! Baby elephants! Baby giraffes!!

Usually cooking or reading! I have so many ridiculous admin projects I have to do, if I really have time I would puzzle or play video games. I love to craft, write and mail letters / postcards, work on projects around my house, junk journal, actual journal, I am never, ever bored, and haven’t been in decades!

Thanks in advance! ☺️

I would look at Dishoom’s recipe book, I love their food! I’m actually vegetarian, and my parents are vegan, so we wouldn’t be necessarily cooking those kind of dishes :(

Boy do I ever! These ones tickled my fancy as of late, not the “ultimate list” but in the last year or two:

Fantasy:

- Tress of the Emerald Seas

- This Is How You Lose the Time War

- A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Romantasy:

- Bridge Kingdom series

- The Wolf King series

- The Kindred’s Curse Saga

- Alchemised (don’t come for me I’m a glutton for yearning)

- Direbound

- Shield of Sparrows