Hello! 😃 Just got some cold brew with almond milk and a bit of oatmeal cookie oat milk creamer, it’s so good! Time to reflect on the past five months of this pandemic, it’s definitely been …something. I’m going to focus on the positives first, because I really have been very blessed in the fact that my family & I have not gotten COVID to my knowledge, and we all still have been working throughout the pandemic.

I started off in March watching a lot of TikTok videos and learned to actually cook 👩🏽‍🍳because of it, which is still going strong. Making my own meals made me a lot healthier overall, it also inspired my father to make healthier choices as well. I’m happy we both are losing weight, thanks TikTok! But also I was spending way too much time on it and saw too many threads on its personal data grabbing and deleted it.

I got into was the idea of “timelessness” 🕰 in regards to fashion 👗 and design 🎨, it’s a way to divert from fashion trends but just really trends in general. Trends constantly change with time, so you have to be choosy and create design, fashion anything really that will still look good far into the future. I want to stop getting awe-d by fashion trends of the season and choose pieces that I know I will like even 20 years down the road (but also sustainable!).

Productivity and working from home during the pandemic, is very different than working from home and productivity when there is no pandemic. There isn’t an option to just go to a restaurant with friends after work, or anywhere really unless you want to risk it. This lack of face to face interaction made me a bit sadder. I’m used to being alone a lot, I enjoy it. But I do also like seeing people when I do see them, it’s just not even an option now.

On hanging out, I have hung out with a few close friends mainly 1:1 in the park 🌳or just to grab a Starbucks drink or Bubble Tea and just talk and walk which really energized me and made me very happy (more than I thought it would). I would want to do it more often but I just feel a bit scared to be honest.

One actual highlight is that I got promoted at work! 💫 The CTO acknowledged it too which was pretty cool! 😃

Pigeons. 🐦They love taking over your balconies. A pigeon laid two eggs in a planter. We didn’t wanna move it so it ended up hatching the eggs. The baby pigeons were so cute, but ended up dying early in infancy while the other was strong and lived on, until it didn’t. We left the birds alone and didn’t interfere. The mom would come and feed her baby everyday. I used to watch that little pigeon just live, it was a chill little pigeon. But it couldn’t fly even when it looked like an adult and it passed away randomly. I was really sad. I liked watching it when I passed by the balcony. The mom was somehow identified me (maybe because I fed it some organic grapes before she started hatching the eggs?) not sure, but she flew up to my balcony and tried to attack me. Good thing I was inside, totally understandable that she would be angry, but damn. I took pictures of the bird as a baby and I need to not look at it, it was only with us for like maybe a month and a half or a bit longer but I loved just watching it. 😔

Listening to Coolio at the moment and just turned on my little usb desk fan, need some breezy tunes and some breeze because it is very warm even though my thermometer is tellin’ me its 72 degrees inside the house. Okay onto some of the negatives (?!). Politics and also the fight for social justice, economics and the actual health and well being of everyone in the world whew! It’s extremely exhausting looking at the news and see what’s happening outside. 😓Being inside with both my parents and not leaving my house is important to me. It’s hard to help families without being there face to face, I think the best way for us inside to help is to enable others who can be outside with finances to do what they need to help families either to get them food or whatever they need to survive. So just been donating to charities on that front, same goes for social justice. As Americans we need to stand up for making sure everyone gets the same equality.

Been reading about US politics as well. Hearing different views, perspectives and stories on people’s points of views on different stances was eye opening to me. There is so much mis-information floating around. I have been using fact checkers these days regarding what politicians and political commenters have to say.

Interior design, been obsessed for a few months now. I really wanna just redesign and redecorate every damn room. But I wanna look into moving first then doing all that whenever that is (will keep yall posted). But going through the home owning process for new first time home owner was a lot for me, I’ll maybe make a separate post on that later, but yea just half my feed is now Restoration Hardware but I feel this post is already goin on pretty long so will continue on my Interior Design stuff on a seperate post as well. Just wanted to note that here, and with that I’m off til next time ✌🏽