2007

  • taking the 7 nanaimo stn and getting lost
  • late nights in a foreign house

2008

  • chinatown nightmarket
  • bubbletea
  • swimming regionals
    • blueberries
    • "I'm hitting on you"
    • "Aw shit, I'm sorry"
  • water fights/bonding

2009

  • going back
  • 2 day stay in school
    • I chose my "friends" over the person I miss the most
    • I miss you so much, I'm sorry
  • "Did you like it?" "No. It's so different now."
  • late nights
  • sushi
  • 160

2010

  • sticky pix
  • best friend reunion I
  • playland
  • isolation
  • iPhone
  • Kelowna, Princeton, Osoyoos
  • 173

2011

  • best friend reunion II
    • failed baking
    • Richard & Serinda
  • diet & exercise
  • sporadic hangouts
  • Roadtrip
    • Kamloops, Banff, Calgary, Winnipeg, Thomson, Edmonton
    • shopping
    • taking a shortcut, getting lost, meeting a ghost
  • blogging
  • 160

2012

  • shit birthday
  • clean for all 3 months of summer
  • Richmond nightmarket
  • sticky pix
  • diet
  • mix CDs/playlists
  • tea or wine
  • sadness
  • reunion with Valeria & Antonella
    • watermania
    • Jeff & Tyler
  • playland
  • Spain
    • reunion
    • sadness/joy/anger
    • going out at 7pm, getting home at midnight
    • gay bars
    • summer's wine/vodka/gin/cigarettes
    • late nights with family
    • last day: 200 euros to spend
  • Portugal
    • almost sleeping out on the streets
    • whore houses
    • missing our stop
    • alone & scared at a bus stop
    • drunk hotel receptionist
    • least religious trip of my life
  • home again
  • moving houses
  • high tea attempt and fail
  • Arkells
  • 145

2013

  • appointments
  • best birthday
  • Richmond nightmarket
  • dark periods
  • relapses
  • diet & exercise
  • summer school
  • an entire summer with Michelle
    • "I'm glad I got to spend my summer with you, you're a great friend"
  • "I had the privilege of watching their romance bloom" "... Wow, you really are corny"
  • (somewhat) innocent flirting can lead to a serious relationship
  • happiness
  • no alcohol/no cigarettes
  • Portland
  • all you can eat(s)
  • bubbletea & sticky pix
  • high tea (success!)
  • 120 (let me go back)

2014

  • graduation
  • cigarettes, cigarettes, and more cigarettes
  • lonely prom
  • lonely birthday but the best too
  • july 24th to 31st
  • 130
  • loneliness
  • relapses
  • hang outs with Reggie, Ari, Erika and Laura
  • an entire summer with Erika
    • "you're my best friend, I swear"
  • cigarettes
  • alcohol
  • never sleeping at home
  • Montana
    • joy
    • kisses
    • making out
    • sex
    • chipotle, the creek, double dates, starbucks, the movies, baking, Lakota, coming out, etc
  • going home crying
  • sadness
  • sunshine coast
  • falling outs
  • suicide attempt
  • hospital
  • psych wards
  • Rustam
  • 145

2015

  • 19th birthday
    • "I hope you're well"
    • a good relationship turned toxic
  • no job, no school
  • depression
  • no (serious) suicide attempts
  • 190?
  • mexico
    • nothing brings more life to a sad girl than a tan

2016

  • 2 jobs
  • 20th birthday was initially booked off, but somehow ended up working at both places
    • birthday muffin
  • "you wanna get promoted?"
  • quit second job
    • you overworked the living hell out of me, piece of shit
  • spain
    • first thing we do is get seriously ill
    • alone and lonely
    • if there's no money, why are we here?
    • we're broken, broken. we're family
  • house to (mostly) myself for a week
  • back to zumba
  • go to bed at 9 pm, wake up at 5 am
  • hanging out with Erika, normalcy remains
  • cigarettes and alcohol
  • wreck beach, the stairs kill me
  • fun drugs lead to addictions
    • trauma does, too
  • 190?

2017:

  • work got difficult
  • 21st birthday I laid low, worked
  • post birthday weekend, got the best gift
    • hotel room with Reg
    • chocolate covered strawberries
    • ocean view
    • "you work too hard, I did this for you"
  • wreck beach seems too far now
    • can run up the stairs
  • switched work locations
    • busiest one downtown
  • first graveyard shift - a mess
  • in school during the summer
  • no time for friends, it's ok
    • Erika and I drift apart, it's ok
    • I start to realize, maybe friendships aren't meant to be this difficult, it's ok
  • zumba
  • started weight training
  • 170

2018

  • I am only working 30 hours a week, with no school
    • I haven't had this much free time in years
  • recover
  • back injury
  • neck injury
  • sleep well, thanks to seroquel
  • weight training
  • 22nd birthday I was alone, and only 3 people remembered it
    • erika was silent, and it hurt the most
    • how is it that after all these years, I still end up wishing myself dead on this day?
  • work, gym, sleep, work, gym, work, sleep, gym, work
  • seeing a few people from high school, they all the same question : "how is erika?"
  • booked my first independent holiday
  • a few graveyard shifts - they're all the same
  • I am toxic
  • deaths - one that unexpectedly hurt a lot
  • reconnected with ari. he's a different person, but in the best way
  • house to myself for a week
    • lots of uber eats
    • lots of reggie and I
  • mexico - we needed the rest
    • how at home can I feel?
  • rest in peace, Credence
  • 175
    • then 170, and 165
    • lots of measurements

2019

  • working part time, no school.. the most amount of freedom I've had in years
  • ran out of meds, went into withdrawal, almost kms lol
  • went to my first rave
  • tried to do pride celebrations
  • went to my first protest/march
  • ran into Erika and it triggered so much, all at once
  • not many summer activities and outings
  • 155... 150
  • hard liquor

2020

  • rest in peace, Ryan
  • reconnected with Erika
  • everyone keeps dying... I can't let this go on
  • first beach outing was a celebration of life
  • work reopened in june, in an empty downtown
  • protests
  • birthday celebration at the beach with so many people I hadn't seen in a long time
  • so many beach outings
  • low calorie ciders
  • repeat of last year... ran out of meds
sep 18 2013 ∞
nov 14 2020 +