✮ = firsts/major life events

☀︎ = birthdays

January

• dmg events annual party

February

• not a good start to the month
• [✮] made my first money on Instagram
• [✮] discovered love for spinning class
• started a personal podcast

March

• [✮] first time partying on a boat!
• [✮] moved to first agency job
• [✮] attended my first wedding event
• [✮] switched to an Android phone (Huawei)

April

• helping Axel hunt flats
• spontaneous night trip to AUH with Axel, Halyna, Taras and Sondos
• Avengers: Endgame

May

• [✮] laid off for the first time since starting career
• started to learn cooking
• cut my hair short
• Game of Thrones series finale
• [☀︎] threw a big 24th birthday bash

June

• applied for Schengen visa and got approved!
• started a job in Emaar
• [✮] traveled to Europe for the first time!
• met Axel's family in Paris
• [✮] saw the Eiffel tower
• [✮] saw the outside of Louvre

July

• [✮] traveled to Porto
• [✮] traveled to Switzerland
• [☀︎] celebrated Axel's birthday with a spontaneous road trip to Amsterdam
• [✮] smoked week in a coffee shop in Amsterdam

August

• started keto/dirty keto
• started intermittent fasting
• hotel galore

September

• relationship rebirth
• [✮] went to the Dubai Opera and saw an orchestra for the first time

October

• [✮] went to my first alcoholic brunch
• started therapy
• a lot of self-dates and family dates

November

• tita Sally's first visit in Dubai
• [☀︎] celebrated my mom's birthday at Dampa
• [✮] saw the Jebel Jais
• relationship milestone ❤︎
• [☀︎] celebrated my dad's birthday at La Mer
• booked a farewell party at JBR for tita Sally and tito Arthur's departure

December

• [✮] hosted first game night at Axel's
• unli wine and cheese night at Le Petit Belge
• [✮] first Christmas and NYE celebration with Axel after 2 years
• NYE on a boat with Axel, Gem, Gavin and Lucy