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2023: the year of blog on the desktop

remember when i brought back blogging, single-handedly, in 2020? then i got depressed lol?

i spent the last month on a pretty cool watercolor project

welcome to my blog. i know it's been over a month since i've lived, laughed and blogged, but this project i'm about to talk about has been taking up my free time and i think you'll find it worth my absence. if you don't find that this is the case, then keep that to yourself 💜

oh boy, she's making watercolors again

there's this beautiful store in san francisco called case for making that a dear friend recommended i visit the last time i was out there (5 years ago, i think!). i bought some beautiful neon half pans from them and they've been a favorite online shop of mine since...

candle-making my way to a cento fine foods sponsorship

i took an afternoon off of work last week to make up for working on an office holiday – typical for hot, smart babes whose job it is to support their users. with a new set of candlescience fragrance oils delivered, i ate a chewable (legal) and tried to see how many candles i could make before it hit.

pickling red onions

andy and i picked some red onions over the weekend and i feel like we instantly leveled up as both tax-payers *and* adults with kitchens.

circling back on the aquatic toilet seat

when i blogged last week that i'd finally order the aquatic seat that i've been thinking about for 8 years, i held up my end of the one-sided bargain and followed through. it was $59.99 when i ordered, and it arrived 3 days later.

this isn't necessarily the aquatic scene toilet seat i will get but it illustrates my 'point'

we're two weeks shy of my 8 year anniversary of moving to jersey city - hard to believe that around this time i was packing my montclair home. as a then-shopper of amazon, the e-commerce website, i was looking for things i'd need for the new place and was recommnend a toilet seat with an acquatic scene. it was blue resin, transparent, perfect, and had fish and sand in it. also it was $80 – you can probably buy an actual parrot on amazon these days for under $80!

carousels, cashews, candles and community

when i was little, my grandma and i used to take the car service to coney island to ride the carousel. i loved my time with my grandma so much that i kept to myself the constant anxiety in my tummy as we rode in a stranger's car, encountered sketchy men on the boardwalk, and rode the horses in a circle over and over again in the hot and sticky air. i never told her i was scared or that my tummy hurt, because i didn't want her to stop spending time with me. as far as i was concerned back then, my grandma was all that i had.

a few very good youtube videos

want to watch some cool youtube videos? how about three cool youtube videos?

welcome to year 3 of live laugh blog

if you haven't been to the site in awhile, honestly same. i had to take a break for a whole salad of reasons (what's *your* excuse???), but over the past week i've been updating the site's theme to signal a comeback that the haters will surely be punching the air about – just in time for the 2nd birthday of this beautiful blog i made as a performance of my personal spiral during quarantine.

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