I don't know why, but Locked Up Abroad is one of my comfort shows. I've watched every episode at least twice, and since there's a whole channel for it on Roku, I sometimes just let it play all day. I'm not sure what's so appealing about it as it's literally just the same drug smuggling story told by different people...

A friend recently shared with me a story about how his coworker betrayed him at a previous job. After telling the story, everyone we were chatting with started sharing their toxic workplace stories (everyone had one). Someone then said: "The experience honestly gave me PTSD. And they wonder why people would rather...

In Mason Curry's Substack, he talked about a recent interview with fashion designer Colm Tóibín. In the interview, Tóibín talks about a secret recipe for endless creative energy recommended to him by filmmaker Pedro Almodovar: "Yeah, he told me that this thing really worked. I think he was talking about actors. That...

I hired a handyman to help my parents fix up some stuff around the house. My mom is slightly senile and talks too much, so I spent most of my time wrangling her and trying to keep her from bugging the guy. The handyman was very curt and professional with me and did his job well. I left for a second to use the...

I saw Disclosure Day a few weeks (months?) ago with friends. As we were leaving I noticed one of my friends looked sad (the movie wasn't that bad), so I went over to see what was wrong. She was talking to another friend about something she read online about the movie being offensive to Christians. As soon as I heard...

The other day I asked my husband when he was going on his work trip. He said, "Why?" I told him I just wanted to know, but I could tell he felt suspicious cause I normally never ask him about his work. He said, "Why do you want to know?" So finally I just told him: "Cause when you leave, I want to spend the entire...

The other day I was helping a client with a Shopify site. She wanted the layout in a particular way and provided mockups, but as I was setting it up, I realized her mockup didn't match any of the available layouts. That meant I would have to custom build one, which would take twice as long and cost twice as much...

Like most people, I've been growing increasingly concerned about microplastics. I don't think I started taking the fear mongering seriously until that 2024 study said we all needed to throw out our black plastic spatulas now. I remember the day I heard that news, I went in my kitchen and looked around and saw that...

I finally reached Level 5 on Dreaming Spanish (600-ish hours), and to celebrate, here's a list of some Spanish words I like at the moment: Conquistar This word means exactly what you think it means, however it's used in place of "winning someone over." For example, in TV shows whenever characters talk about wooing...

I don't like doing a lot of things, but sometimes I just do things because I know I'll get an amusing anecdote from it. In fact, that's my main motivation for most things. Sure I might be miserable, and sure I might be surrounded by people I don't know or care about, but at least I'll get a story out of it. I once...

I'm not pretentious when it comes to coffee. I like it slightly weak and bitter with a ton of milk or cream in it, and that's it. Go to any cafe in America and this is the kind of coffee you find: drip coffee, bitter but weak, with a splash of milk (some people even push it further with pumps of sweeteners, but...

I'm not a high maintenance girl, cause high maintenance costs money. I sometimes watch those videos on YouTube of girls showing off their monthly "self-care routines" and it's honestly insane. Although I have to admit, there is a part of me that would like a more polished, less "casual" appearance, I just struggle...