The Year in Review

 In 2021, I started making an effort to blog every month to make sure I was making the most of my time. 

November: We Got Married!

 On November 6th, the day after our sixth year anniversary, I married my best friend. 

This is the best part of my November, of my year and I guess, so far, of my life :)

Whether I'm telling it to the world, to a few friends, or to a cosmic internet void, I'm really looking forward to writing about our amazing day, and will do so in the coming weeks!

October Roundup

 This October, we got to visit Canada! My work was very accommodating and let me work remotely, and Jeff joined me when he could, and we had the best weather ever.

September Roundup

September: another month to have taught me not to chase the past.

August Roundup

-"And some people want to be called Mister when they're a woman. You'd have to be so careful these days!"

-"Oh"

A conversation between a patient and her Chinese acupuncturist (who spoke no English), at the acupuncture clinic I frequented this month. 

Our Engagement Photo!

I cannot think of a better way to capture our love

 

July Roundup

It's now the middle of August, and I'm finally getting around to recapping last month, because the pain in my shoulders has finally died down a little - a testament to how challenging this month has been..

June Roundup

This is the warmest, sunniest summer I have ever experienced in Dublin, and having a large green space behind our apartment made it easy to take my books outside, to sit in the sun with a coconut LaCroix. I regret writing that last detail - probably for obvious reasons - 

A fig leaf ganache topped eclair from Sceal Bakery. Doesn't hold a candle to Tesco..

May Roundup

Giving yourself a chance to audit your life often results in being reminded, again and again, how quickly it passes. How could I have gone from a to-do list for May, to four days into the next month, all the while wondering what I had even tasked myself with, in the first place? This realisation makes the very concept of our corporate ambitions seem drole and futile. How can it not? How do you form a five (or one, or ten) year plan when the non-linearity of life, coupled with its one non-stop-express-roll-onto-the-tracks-if-you-want-off speed are the conclusion you come to, month after month, hitting you over your stupid dunce head, again and again? Anyway, I had an eclair yesterday.

April

If I could tear April out of its binding, neatly, at the seam, so that March and May would be none the wiser, I would. April has been the chewing gum forever latching on to my shoe sole, the ring on the coffee table, the umbrella pulling into the sky, inside out, while I’m scrambling to run from a thunderstorm. I wish I could fold it into an origami plane and flick it away into the starless sky holding all of the disintegrated hopes of this pandemic.

I am so glad it’s over.

March Roundup

One of my bigger goals for March was to take a significant leap into the world of Irish culture and start learning the Irish language. I gave up after about three hours. 

Washing Cashmere Like a Boss

Okay. I’m not one of those pretentious people who only eat organic, drink champagne, and brush their teeth every day.

I do, however, love cashmere. 

February Roundup

February went by extremely fast, I failed miserably at baking, and still haven’t figured out the simplest thing I put on my goals for the month. Oh yeah, and also we had a fire.

A Valentine's Day Food Massacre

Valentine’s Day: a day losers like to say is “manufactured” and “forces us to be romantic when we’d rather be romantic every other day of the year” (usually said by people who do zero romantic things the rest of the year as well! Yay!)

January Roundup

My focus for this month (in addition to starting to consider the option of not adding Baileys/vodka to my morning coffee) was to get the house organized. 

My 2021 Fool Proof Plan This Cannot Fail I Have Never Given Up On Blogging In The Past Why Should This Be Any Different

While blowing out my candles on my 34th birthday, surrounded by my loving family, I had an epiphany:  I’m ancient. A fossil. Old news. 

Your Wife Becoming Be Will I

Last month, on the day after I returned to Ireland, Jeff asked me to marry him.