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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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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on friday i turned 37

...and all i got was an increase in my thyroid medication dosage and dns issues. nevertheless, i'm so glad i'm done 'being 36' and highly recommend skipping that year if you get the option!

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