Longtime readers may remember the great Life Changing Magic I experienced, back in 2016, accomplished merely by Tidying Up. I Kondo-ed my entire house that year, section by section, and then followed that with the No-Shopping Challenge of 2017-18. The two experiences, together, really changed my consumer behaviour for the better. I became incredibly mindful […]
Nicole’s Favourite Things: The 10th Anniversary Edition!
July 14, 2022 by
This month marks the tenth anniversary of Nicole’s Favourite Things! A whole decade of writing about beauty products, clothes, food, and the occasional gadget. Two things: a) wow, I have been writing this blog for a very long time, and b) looking back at my very first Favourite Things, I still have all of those […]
Nicole’s Favourite Things: The Operation Fancy Lady Edition
June 23, 2022 by
About a month ago, I was able to watch my son perform at his school in a student-run short production. This production was the first on-stage production since before the pandemic, so I was pretty excited. As I waited for fifteen minutes after the production for my son to finish the stage cleanup, I chatted […]
A Week of Spring Outfits; 114 Weeks In
May 23, 2022 by
The other morning after class I complimented one of my ladies on her cherry-red top. She always looks good in one of her several red, pink, and purple tops, but that morning she looked particularly glowing and lovely, and I told her so. She thanked me and then said, “Well, Nicole, you know, I’m a […]
You Could Stuff A Throw Pillow With That Chest Hair; 113 Weeks In
May 16, 2022 by
I was planning to post a Week of Spring Outfits, but this is what it looked like at the beginning of the week: Although the week ended in a spring-like fashion, I thought the early part would overlap too much with my Week of Winter Outfits, what with my winter boots and warm sweaters. But […]
Two Years Of Pandemic At The Disco; One Hundred and Four Weeks In
March 14, 2022 by
I have been reading Keep Moving by Maggie Smith, and it’s beautiful; I wish, though, that I had read it two years ago, at the beginning of the pandemic. It’s perfect for Pandemic Life; for any kind of Life that has encountered loss, really. It was exactly two years ago yesterday that everything shut down, […]
Marital Mismatches and Superpowers; One Hundred and Two Weeks In
February 28, 2022 by
It feels like I was JUST saying that February is tomorrow, and here we are, MARCH is tomorrow! February flew by; part of it was that it felt like Life Was Hectic, with wrestling tournaments and a new school semester and a five-day weekend thrown in for good measure, but part of it was that […]
