I think recently I've been avoiding slowing down — maybe hiding from my feelings a little, from having to sit with my thoughts — but the last few days everything has been so overwhelming and upsetting that I just wanted to be at home. And it's been a welcome moment of peace: the hum of the radio, rain smattering the windows outside, the record player crackling on a loop after the album ends. J bakes biscuits, makes coffee, dances around the kitchen doing silly voices and making me laugh. Still very teary and fragile but trying to take that and make it into something good

Somber afternoon with a donut and a never ending to do list

I did a presentation today and my cat decided she would sit with me and meow every so often, she doesn’t like to feel left out. I hope no one watching the presentation minded 😸

day 13 of 100

today's to-do list

morning: coffee training

afternoon: my friend's cheerleading fundraiser event 🤸🏻‍♀️

evening: rest!

it is so important to actively incoporate rest into our routines and designate time for our mind and body to recover from what we put them through, all the physical/emotional/mental stresses can accumulate and be a lot for you to take on sometimes.

i highly encourage you to do the same for yourself today, or whenever you're seeing this, to set aside time to relax and unwind 🧘🏻‍♀️ even if its just reading a book after dinner or doing a 5 minute yoga, choose something works for you and your body and allow yourself to just be.

sending lots of love and take care everyone 🤍

I love the patterns that my coffee makes everyday

Had tickets for a concert but it got cancelled :( as a cheer-me-up I visited my local coffee shop today only to discover they had coffee berry tea. (Is that the correct term? The shells of the beans I mean🫘)

It has a very woody, earthy nose with a few vegetal notes but the taste is quite subtle. It’s like Hibiscus and Rooibos had a child - you have the same sour note as hibiscus often has but also light, roasted aromas. It doesn’t bear much resemblance to coffee, and it’s a more mature, fruity profile than tea. It has a very sweet finish, surprisingly!

I'm thinking of quitting coffee bc of the hormonal imbalance & my shaky hands lol let's see how long it will last? Or at least decrease my caffeine intake, I feel like it isn't even helping me with waking up anymore.

Coffee in a beautifully curated space in Williamsburg this morning

I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” -F.S.F

Running on 2-3hrs sleep again, fml for still not having a proper sleeping sched. Literally my first day of class.

Today I went to my favorite coffe shop with my girlfriend to have a work-date, she was doing some web design while I was writing my thesis