Soup is the ultimate winter comfort food, when it’s grey and drizzly outside and you just want to curl up under a blanket and fill your body with wholesome warmth. You can make basically anything into soup, and there are so many different varieties even within the same groups of flavours. Do you prefer a…
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HDL Does Christmas
Despite my role amongst my friends being a year-round scrooge, I actually quite like Christmas in all its glittering, materialistic glory. I am not even slightly Christian, and while the key message of the Christmas season is not lost on me, I don’t feel particularly bad about celebrating a holiday that doesn’t quite belong to…
HDL Turns 22
So this is a little belated because it’s been over a week since my birthday, but I think it’s worth giving a quick mention to the occasion. I have now been living for 22 years of my life. I fit securely into the category of ‘twenty-somethings’. All my ‘big’ birthdays are over now; it’s just…
Why ‘You’ve Lost Weight’ Is Not The Compliment You Think It Is
It would be a lie to say that I don’t care about my weight. I’d love to be able to truly rise above the stereotype of scrutinizing my body in a full length mirror from every conceivable angle, furrowing my brow at all the different parts that look worse than I would like them to…
It’s been six years!
It’s kinda weird when your relationship starts overtaking the length of what you view as solid, grown up, long-term, relationships. It’s been six years since this person chose that he quite liked me as a person and that our infrequent chatting and hanging out should become a more regular commitment. I was excited to make…
My Interracial Relationship
This wasn’t really a post I planned to write, but after having some thoughts about my life plan and some very very preemptive research on wedding ceremonies that led me to some crazy stories about interracial relationships, I thought I’d post my own story (so far) and how I plan to tackle any struggles we…
I’m going to Italy!
I love going to new places. I love the journey, the discovering a different way of life, the change in climate, the food and the sights. If I could get paid to go all over the world and write about it, I would. I am so grateful to be in a position in my life…
Review: Glossybox December 2015
This is the last of my current 3-month glossy box subscription, and to tell you the truth, I am truly in love with it. It’s a rose gold edit, a collaboration with beauty blogger Really Ree and it is giving me great feelings about the coming month, which will be full of parties, food and…
Review: Glossybox November 2015
So, I’ve had a Glossybox subscription for a month and a half now, and even though I didn’t get around to reviewing October’s box (my laptop has had a bit of a keyboard issue so typing out long posts was too much of a chore), I really enjoyed the products. What a great box to…
NICARAGUA 2015: PART 2
El Lagartillo & El Salto After our departure from Las Peñitas, bundling into the back of a camioneta (about 9 of us in total, plus luggage) finishing a gallon of rum made with nancites by a friend, we made the long and boozy journey to El Lagartillo. It was on this journey, somewhere near El…
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