january

• my new purple milliot & co. yoga mat
• the kosmic kitchen cookbook
• finishing the big bang theory
• marshall fitness boogie with the family
• spending birthday at home and my dad cooking adobong pusit with anise, ranjit cooking aglio olio and my bb and i secretly stashing our faces with mango cake for dinner
• songs: the marriage of coyote woman by all them witches, everything is free by gillian welch
• tarot reading and cacao with my cousin arkin, him not wanting to sleep til we leave so we watched funny tiktok videos instead whilst his brother draws flowers on my ipad
• chamomile, echinacea, nettles, dolores from anima mundi and traditional medicinals' throat coat, our herbal allies when we were covid+

february

• songs: rediscovering have you ever really loved a woman by bryan adams and listening to it all day every day, love song by devendra banhart, visions by jose gonzalez, napin dya by ignacio maria gomez
• my new iphone
• my bb's birthday lying on the grass
• mayim bialik's breakdown podcast has been saving my anxious life
• my new herb tarot
• lily harris' patreon
• the book the way out by alan gordon
• my bb bought me a pair of sony xm4's for our anniversary
• listening to podcasts on our bus way home: mayim bialik with elizabeth bachner (talking about alternative medicine) and glennon doyle (conversation about managing anxiety), what's the tee with rupaul talking to lady bunny

march

• family
• in touch with nature and human connection once again
• using forest to focus studying with my cousin arkin
• vanilla protein
• milk chocolate adobo
• mimosa brunch with my sisters at wild flour
• a lot of gossip and clandestine penile poking
• reunited with my fav vegan donuts
• manila heat
• city stops with my bb shopping for local finds and eating onigiris on the curb at night
• reacher with the husbs
• songs: que tristeza by cal tjader, laugh now by little wings, evil ways by willie bobo, feeling what's left of my sensual juice to free by deniece williams, dancing to aaj shanibar by rupa
• carob molasses
• splurging at healthy options
• my hot yoga playlist
• tuca and bertie season 2 is extra chaotic fun
• sourdough from a local artisan bistro
• watching awakenings with my bb one night, not wanting to take life for granted anymore
• indian foods' organic grass-fed ghee
• tuca and bertie music to ease my midnight anxieties, also ep 4 is reassuring

april

• obsessed with herbalist rachelle robinett
• smooth move by traditional medicinals
• my husby's excited grin window shopping for watches
• my hot 4 health playlist that reminds me of home
• daydreaming of vietnam
• bedouine's waysides album, forever everette is a cup of hot froth under the moonlight
• herbs! herbs! herbs! right now: passionflower, red raspberry leaf, learning about muira puama and teasing the cats with valerian root!
• the nerva app for IBS relief
• leyendo lat am, a latin american book blog
• l-theanine
• cole haan launching shoes made out of dandelions (x)
• songs: the hollow sound of the morning chimes by TOPS, homage to a friendship by the zenmenn
• watching practical magic in baguio spring, when daisies are blooming and there's an abundance of strawberries, is another level
• matthieu covers femme fatale and elisa with his girlfriend, pauline de tarragon
• finally got around to read tavi gevinson’s interview with stevie nicks and it’s special
• we bought an instapot
• tremella the beauty mushroom
• our new marshall emberton listening to regent's park by bruno major over and over so the husbs could sing along to it like a serenade
• my new bullet hole bagels shirt
• my #1 husb's lemon chicken soup
• rewatching friends season 1-2 over and over bcos #fashonz
• being part of the sea moss girlies wellness club
• what did you eat yesterday? on netflix

may

• going back to therapy
• home space and freedom
• rose powder in oats
• cinnamon microplane
• flagging cookbooks
• queen-sized bed and new linens
• hosting a large family sleepover
• moon juice purchase
• anima mundi refill
• zen macrobiotic cooking
• cherry tomatoes and nasturiums at the public market
• songs: gente aberta by erasmo carlos, sayang by chrisye, green eyes by uncle chris
• roasting lavender lemon chicken
• secondhand brown couch

august

• a weekend trip to manila with johnny staying at dusit thani and sofitel for the staycation we've been longing for
• our house becoming the next healthy options branch
• hazelnut hot chocolate
• this is your brain on food
• songs: move by s. carey, lawns by carla bley, little forest by hiroko murakami, waiting on you by reverend baron, i can dream, can't i? by the carpenters
• calm magnesium
• rewatching gilmore girls and a year in the life on the couch
• playing stray with the cat
• trader joe's eggplant garlic
• tuscan kale all day every day
• my new pair of hokas
• drag race philippines!
• the arugula sauce i make that the husbs loves

september

• my personal massagers
• herbal medicine for mental health book by amen clinic
• dandelion root tea
• snoopy, come home
• little forest
• watching ben-to and obsessed with this track and this track
• vinas deluxe vlogs making me spit out my drink
• milk thistle
• glucose goddess
• mango pepper herring
• healthy indian cookbook
• getting my nose pierced alone, drenched in blood but not passing out this time!

october

• cinnamon apples with vanilla ice cream and a drizzle of olive oil
• 'i shift my pillow closer to the full moon' -saiba, 1858
• summer camp island
• organic apple butter
• joining the glucose research for biochemist and author of glucose revolution, jessie inchauspé
• my sister staying with us and spending the full moon together with cacao and a heart opener tincture talking deeply is the highlight
• talking to my dad about taking shrooms
• my amanita muscaria earrings
• making lavender vinegar
• revisiting lucky peach magazine
• the madre mezcal journal
• songs: we will meet again by bill evans, another time by pearls before swine, sugar maple turn by fuubutsushi, pleasure joy and happiness by eddie chacon
• anything eddie chacon actually, i'm in love
• and nala sinephro's space 1.8 album
• talking to a market woman about heirloom tomatoes
• masienda recipes
• flushing my mom's lymph nodes talking about second chances
• vegan quesadillas at green smoothie
• just soul food! always making me feel good
• rewatching over the garden wall, valerie and her week of wonders and coraline for spooky month
• taking psilocybin dandelion tea midnight of halloween

november

• watching iconic romcoms with the husby every day
• fresh 2022 and barbarian 2022 in one weekend, a jolt of thrill in our unsuspenseful household
• songs: move on by tapioca, i hear a new world by joe meek & the blue men
• asafoetida
• lavender tongue
• the wellness principles by gary deng md, phd
• crab salad with impatiens all day every day
• chopin a la moog is interesting to me, ~i'm built different~
• neighborhood labneh
• badger's cuticle care
• maca chocolate chicory herbal coffee is my new morning routine
• aura wallpapers
• obsessed with the movie the fallout

december

• this article on psilocybin
• songs: tartufai by felbm for a good morning lymphatic shake, let me in your life by asha puthli, little green apples by roger miller, isaac hayes' when i fall in love, jeanne black's version of you don't know me
• a practical magic ambiance mix for studying herbalism
• the groovy and unpredictable mystery kindaichi band
• hawthorn!
• subscribing to the herbalgram
• ceramide moisturizer
• spending the holidays at ascott
• bath tub lovin'
• lavender bath bombs
• endangered species almond sea salt dark chocolate
• my mum's banana bread
• diptyque john galliano's essence
• huxley blue medina tangerin hand cream filling up a room
• gluten-free oatmeal cookie from wildflour