january-april

• selena quintanilla
• getting super pumped after watching the game changers
• traditional chinese medicine
• alia zaita convincing me to cut my hair chin short
• athleisure
• animal crossing music (this especially)
• qigong
• rice ball desserts we make every saturday night to eat on sunday morning
• lotus root
• i got an ipad pro and the pen in december and enjoying it immensely for my scribbles and rumination
• clarence
• aromatherapy massages with my home girl mitch
• lupin
• revisiting dan and blair
• damon dominique
• but also damonandjo
• taking the french sprint with lingoda
• chocolate oatmeal pancakes every friday
• shiitake pasta in coconut milk
• taking damon's french course
• lifting weights
• wolfberries
• walking around the neighbourhood every morning
• rewatching sex education
• hyram skincare
• this almodovarian ad by rouje
• vegan cheese sticks
• easy french
• alice capelle commentary videos
• i got an apple watch, almost like a personal buddy i named scout and i enjoy our walks every morning
• songs: see you again by tyler the creator, la vie by ichon, black rain by rhye, rises the moon by liana flores, good habits (and bad) by saba lou, peur des filles by l'imperatrice, puro veneno by nathy peluso, balance ton quoi by angèle, beats! by david numwami, death of the phone call by whatever, dad

may

• christoph waltz (i mean, c’mon)
• rewatching jean-pierre jeunet films
• solar opposites season 2
• autumn films in summer to turn up the climat
• staycation at a hotel to turn up the climat
• lugaw
• johnny's spanish classes and speaking it with him
• les femmes du 6eme étage (mi corazon, mi amor)
• non-stop shrek's swamp meditation
• street food: latin america
• plantitude cookies n cream plant-based ice cream
• songs: fever boogaloo by la lupe, bebes by la la, pers lab by hotdog, california dreamin' by bobby womack, unknown by ravyn lenae, maria elena by los indios tabajaras, groovin' with the eternal now by fenster, things to you by skeeter davis
• willy is my current fave lingoda teacher
• favourite french words: franchement, bonbon, maintenant, pantoufle
• jack edwards' book vlogs inspiring me to read more
• chinese snowballs
• folktales
• reading the crucible à haute voix
• outdoor beer at a mexican joint til curfew talking about clogged toilets and diarrhea
• ben and jerrys by the rock at the end of the street at dusk
• bingeing the circle: france with johnny getting super attached to romain and valeria's romance
• smoothie bowls at the cozy cove
• rewatching cooking with the urban peasant and getting super nostalgic
• men i trust’s oncle jazz album
• friends: the reunion made me nostalgic about my own childhood and made me reflect on how this show’s impact is the same for everybody
• johnny bought me a copy of don't be a tourist in paris

june

• the boy playing the trumpet beside our house at dusk
• naming dramatic colours with johnny when we're bored in the cab: insufficient yellow, bruise purple, tears of a young boy grey, scraped my knee red, roadside band-aid brown, low blow blue, etc.
• our adopted fox named carrot
• songs: momo by hubert lenoir, picking tea leaves and catching butterflies by lily chao, plage de la concurrence by ojard
• my unrequited love for andrew scott
• rewatching happy endings
• bookends for the first time in a while and copped a copy of silas marner by george eliot in mtp, a fancy copy of gibran and a 70s spiritual puffin classic called concentration and meditation by christmas humphreys (interesting name)
• window shopping for moroccan rugs on etsy
• this binaural beat for menstrual cramp relief
• food for the gods
• bingeing yara shahidi yt vids

july

• astroherbalism
• curio esoterica jams
• listening to npr one podcasts before sleep
• songs: plume blanche, plume noire by emmanuelle parrenin, one fine summer morning by evie sands, realize by air, the list by moonchild, placido by sestetto dino piana & oscar valdambrini, give us justice by thee sacred souls
• also this mystical album by spectacular diagnostics called natural mechanics
• rick and morty S05
• a bok choy soup recipe by a chinese dad i followed online
• a 3-day hippie renaissance-themed herbalists’ virtual confluence: exchanging plant identification/ monographs and recipes, online herbal consultations, virtual garden walks and a virtual herbalist party and generally i’ve just been enjoying the company of plant people
• crying over every essay on braiding sweetgrass

august

• existentialism and the last episode of the midnight gospel, the heavy ram dass influence is beyond
• bobinsana
• songs: be here now by clare uchima and hinako omori, la la la by deepthroat, hour of parting by sun ra, our water hours by my bubba, khaleek bilbait by fairuz, blue by newdad, youwilé by toto bona lokua
• plant medicine music
• argentinian artists paula duro and alejandro sordi
• bob's burgers season 11
• we got a persian cat and her name's bisou! although most of the time i call her beeswax
• burdock root
• strolling around our old neighborhood and sitting on curbs every saturday
• botejyu 5x a week! after going in there by accident
• obsessed with silky nutmeg ganache, who woulda thunk
• edamame