Just a few sprays. A bottle of Histoires de Parfums 1725 that I first discovered in a small little shop in Paris when I went with the significant other for a New Years' trip ( Read more... )

So I’m sitting in my room listening to music. Not a very productive way to spend a Sunday evening, but Sunday evening isn’t exactly the best time to be productive at all ( Read more... )

It's finally a bearable evening after having a really long streak of warm weather. Well, the weather is still warm, but at least now it's kinda bearable. My floor-to-ceiling glass walls may look pretty, but they've turned my apartment into an oven ( Read more... )

I won't lie, there were times this year when I felt melancholic, lonely, and frustrated. At the beginning of the year, I was adjusting well enough to work, but not necessarily to living in Northern Europe as an adult ( Read more... )

Times like these, you really do have to stop and think ( Read more... )

I seem to recall a tradition of mine to write Independence Day entries in Tagalog. Anyhoo, it's already past Independence Day, and I've been worked to the bone with all the events and simultaneous work-related crap slung in my direction ( Read more... )

...since Marks and Spencers opened in my tiny corner of Europe, my eating habits have changed remarkably. I've been eating lotsa microwave meals for one for the past three weeks or so. It's been so convenient. Fish and chips, Chicken Tikka Masala, Ravioli; it all isn't that bad. I've stopped cooking altogether, and I honestly just couldn't be ( Read more... )

So I've been meeting a lot of guys. Most of them are cute. A handful of them are even charming. Very few make a lasting impact ( Read more... )

I've been pretty productive today. I've managed to do a load of whites, go to the hardware store, replace a shot bulb, do some light shopping (got a new suit, some cereal bowls and shot glasses), cook myself some dinner, clean up the house, partially fix up the apartment for when dimwethiel gets here, and exercise a little while the trainer is on Easter ( Read more... )

Japan was awesome ( Read more... )