when do I get my adult certificate?
In my 20s I’ve forgotten my birthday every year until someone else (or facebook) has reminded me. It’s been a good system 🙂 I picked a representative sampling of 26 photos of this past year (in nothing resembling chronological order) and wrote a little blurb to go with each one. Not the best photos I’ve…
Forgive the late-ness of this post, it’s taking me a while longer than expected to settle into a new routine. I’ve been occupied for much of September so a warning that there will be no spending report for September because life happens the way life wants it to. Spending Report: 1793.32 (634.02) Here’s what it…
I was sorting out stuff to donate in my parents’ house when I came across a never-worn baseball cap, an exact copy of the one I’ve been wearing for the past 5 years. I also found an (almost) identical copy of my current summer slides. The newer one I got in Germany on vacation two…
Spendings report: $1, 033 July is my vacation month, I didn’t work and had a month to cram in as much socialising as I can before heading back to China August 1st. I’m quite impressed that I didn’t go overboard and blow like $2,000 in one go. About $200 worth of purchases were made with…
Spendings Report Spendings are through the roof from a combination of 3 things End of year trips and farewell parties Moving costs and renewing all my various government IDs/visas I’m on vacation mode, bless summers It’s a little too soon to say for sure what my monthly budget would be going forward but it looks…
I went to Vietnam 4 months ago and finally came around to writing this. I still haven’t unpacked all my feelings about the trip but figured it’s overdue and whatever I’ve got is good enough. If you like big cities, then this is the place to go for your next adventure. HCMC is vibrant, full…
These posts should just be called Aggressive Positivity Reviews because that’s what I’m using them for. It’s easy to get lost in the days and miss all the joys and privileges that our first-world lives afford us. You’ll see that a lot of the good things are not ‘big’ events. But that’s the secret! If…
It’s been 9 months since I came to China and went on a low-news diet. It was very involuntary at first, I assure you – I made the wrong choice of VPN providers. But it all worked out because it’s been very good for my mental health and productivity. I have no idea what’s going…