january

• new year's eve party at the cosy club
• trip to somerset/weston super mare
• lots of beautiful air frost
• vicar's close, wells
• first snow
• trip to berkamstead
• birthday high tea at the palm court
• highams park
• feijoada
• broke my back :(

• slow web
• perfumes and makeup
• decluttering
• catholic church aesthetics
• realistic fitness
• being house proud
• brazil
• mindful eating
• snail mail
• re-learn html
• back to duolingo (italian)
• more sparkly water, less coke zero
• fruit smoothies
• time management
• anger management

• london underground
• my mobile phone
• spotify
• kindle
• garden centers
• tempura chicken tray from wasabi
• free newspapers/magazines
• selfridge's toilets (and the bookstore is just outside)
• low carb tuna salad pots from itsu
• "find the nearest toilet" apps
• failing the above, mcdonald's toilets

• Argentina
• Austria
• Belgium
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Dubai
• England
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Gibraltar
• Greece
• Holland
• Ireland
• Italy
• Japan
• Jersey, Channel Islands
• Luxembourg
• Monaco
• Norway

• soft polo neck jumpers (cashmere, merino, alpaca wool, angora)
• waking up late because mornings are dark
• long nights
• fluffy socks
• hot white chocolate
• scented candles
• fairy lights
• hearty food
• 200 denier thights
• long, warm baths with scented oils
• wearing clothes still warm from the tumble dryer
• halloween stuff on the shops
• brussel sprouts back on the market
• panetone, stollen and mince pies
• boots season
• autumn leaves
• soft throws and blankets
• autumn/winter playlists

• micelar water (garnier)
• spf 50+ (la roche-posay)
• vitamin c (the ordinary/paula's choice)
• strawberry shower gel (bodyshop)
• roses shower gel (l'occitane)
• cocoa butter moisturizer (palmer's)
• frizz-ease hair serum (john frieda)
• hand cream (rituals)
• shampoo (garnier/aussie/schwarzkopf)
• deodorant spray
• cotton pads
• nail polish remover
• sanitary pads
• razors
• waxing sheets
• hand soap
• toothpaste
• baby lotion (johnson’s)
• face cream (usually eucerin or l'oreal, though i probably should up my game)

• january girl. 80s kid. rio de janeiro to london. ♡
• intj. phlegmatic. ☼ capricorn ↑ taurus ☾ gemini
• likes ▻ the 1980s. music. forests. trees. felines. cake. journals. stationery. mushrooms. loose leaf tea. crockery. illustration. photography. dolls. cloudy days. history. autumn. dahlias. geraniums. city life. café culture. beautiful books. perfumes. vintage jewelry. birds. random collections. gigs. 90s computers. vampires. old videogames. cow parsley fields. winter. foggy mornings. stars. floaty dresses. pink sky sunsets. farm animals. chewing gum. cemeteries/churchyards. period houses. urban subcultures. people watching. sad songs. frost. architecture. halloween. christmas.
• dislikes ▻ heat. loud people. cherry flavoured food....

LOVE

• fortnum and mason's banana jam
• mercilen lipstick
• winnie the pooh
• sparkly snow
• my generic stanley cup
• molton brown mesmerising oudh shower gel
• sun on my birthday in a rainy week
• the landmark hotel creamy lemon curd, egg truffle sandwich and vanilla tea

HATE

• how hard it is to buy foundation
• temu clothes
• perfumes prices becoming ridiculous
• nike AF1 disappearing from the shelves
• brown slush
• reading instructions. of anything.
• people who spit on the streets

january

• quarto de despejo, carolina maria de jesus
• wife in the north, judith o'reilly
• the dream, h.g. wells

• fresh cement
• acetone
• water based paint
• green apple scent
• apple smell (the fruit itself)
• my cat's paws
• vanilla shower gel (bodyshop)
• pretzels, baking
• bacon, frying
• yankee candle "clean cotton"
• petrichor
• menstrual blood (sometimes)

• U2 - Autódromo de Jacarepaguá, RJ
• Siouxsie & The Banshees - Canecão, RJ
• The Cure - Praça da Apoteose, RJ
• Jethro Tull - Hannover, Germany
• The Police - Hamburg, Germany
• Smashing Pumpkins - Praça da Apoteose, RJ
• Echo & The Bunnymen - Barra, Rio de Janeiro
• Tori Amos - Hamburg, Germany
• Nirvana - Praça da Apoteose, RJ
• Madonna - Maracanã, RJ
• Rush - Maracanã, RJ
• Pato Fu - Praça da Apoteose, RJ
• Morrissey - Royal Albert Hall, London
• A-ha - O2 Arena, London
• Tremendo - Nova Iguaçu, RJ
• Bon Jovi - Praça da Apoteose, RJ
• Stevie Nicks - Hyde Park, London,
• Mika - Sadler's Wells Theatre, London

♫ december r.e.m., she's in parties ★ brother, the organ ★ precious, minipop ★ gordon's gin, the human league ★ silver springs, fleetwood mac ★ night drive, part time ★ king's cross - pet shop boys ★ the last ones, johnny dynamite and the bloodsuckers ★ waterfall, riverside ★ some other time, the snake corps ★ singapore, girls aloud ★

♫ november more than this, roxy music ★ heal it up, concrete blonde ★ leaving, pet shop boys ★ she's always a woman, billy joel ★ where is my husband?, raye ★ zombie, the cranberries ★ let down, radiohead ★ sunrise, simply red ★ world (price of love), new order ★ the impossible dream, matt monro ★ inside and out, feist ★ other side of the world, kt tunstall ★ best case life, gemini rising

♫ october you're so beautiful it makes me sad, flowers for juno ★ find me, color theory ★ if you wanna be happy, jimmy soul ★ ...

• hobbies and friends that no longer give joy
• meeting new people
• hoarding
• social media
• AI impersonating people
• mindless carbohydrates
• instagrammable anything
• trendy (overpriced) bakeries
• pressure to create content
• hen parties
• matcha
• weekday booze
• performative tourism
• air bnbs
• ultra processed food

• eating raw cake dough
• licking stock cubes
• looking at gore (the more grisly, the better)
• listening to soft rock power ballads
• doomscrolling through pantry restock videos on tiktok
• skipping shower
• spending a lot of money on toys just to sit in a cupboard
• buying so many stickers i won't have enough time in a lifetime to use
• read the daily mail's gossip column (even if I don't know who those people are)
• buying books for the beautiful cover and don't read them
• hate read blogs by people i don't like
• making up excuses to cancel appointments
• singing (very baldy) in falsetto
• compulsively looking at houses I can't afford at real estate sites

• condensed milk eaten straight from the tin
• the box of old toys/treasures my mum kept at the top of the wardrobe
• my neighbour's kids most amazing birthday parties
• flashback radio programs playing old songs
• my mums collection of roberto carlos vinyls
• our volkswagen beetles (for some reason, always blue)
• my garden
• my typewriter
• street parties
• christmas
• the annual pilgrimage to buy a barbie
• watching cartoons all afternoon
• my pets (a sloth, a tortoise, a parrot and the dogs belinha, laika and baronesa)

• change my hair colour by running my fingers through it (witchcraft)
• have cher as a mother (mermaids)
• ride my bike faster and faster till it starts flying (e.t.)
• kiss colin firth (bridget jones)
• get inside a book (neverending story)
• go back in time (peggy sue)
• go forwards in time (back to the future)
• spend a whole day having fun in a big city with my friends (ferris bueller's day off)
• be beautiful and rich (clueless)
• kill people who bullied me in school (carrie)
• be scarlet o'hara (gone with the wind)
• find a potion for eternal life (death becomes her)
• eat cake dressed in chantilly lace (marie antoinette)