Same here ugh. I ate a bunch of ice cream earlier because it felt so nice on my throat haha oops

New fave baby age unlocked: he’s 9 months and when I put on a silly voice for a toy he thinks the toy is talking to him 🥲🥲🥲

Managed to book in a freelance client project and feeling rather proud of myself. I used to work solely freelance but got a “proper job” at the tail end of lockdowns when work dried up. I was in a really unhealthy mental space with my freelance work and addicted to social media (what I mainly used to gain clients) so I’ve been wary of returning to it, even though I really dislike my “proper” job. I’m currently on mat leave and feel sick at the idea of returning.

I got this client through social connections in the Real World and it was just so easy and stress free. I’ve been thinking a lot about where I went wrong in the past and I have a glimmer of hope I really could make it work again this time. Honestly I am really good at what I do, I just need to focus on the work and get out there meeting people in real life a lot more.

I feel optimistic about work and my professional future for the first time in a long time!!!

My skin has been a lot drier this winter so I bought this product called Glory Oil by Eco Tan. Holy crap. It basically instantly fixed my skin and I have never looked so smooth and glowy in my life! 🥰

I really neglected my self care and appearance while pregnant last year because I was sooo sick. I couldn’t even stand to shower for more than a few times a week. Just miserable. But now at nine months post partum I am finally finding the time/energy/willpower to do morning AND night skincare, regular hair washing and styling, a bit of exercise, and I’m going to try and cut down on my insane sugar consumption (craved it so bad when I first started breastfeeding, now it’s just a bad habit). Oh and I need to cut down on screen time because it’s baaaaaad 🙈

People have been dumping all their fast food garbage in the street around our house and our neighbours and it honestly has me raging. It’s always been a problem but is getting worse lately, they clearly just let it pile up in their car and then dump it all out?! Considering becoming the local Karen and posting passive aggressive signs around the place.

Happy birthday to me 😌 Very excited to be thirty flirty and thriving 💘

Nearly every UK or Aus content creator I follow gets comments from Americans telling them “that’s not how you spell [insert word with UK spelling here]”. And at work we work with a US based web dev and he has gone through our website builds and mock ups before and “corrected” the spelling because it was “wrong”.

So baby sleep can go wonky when they are developing new skills. My baby has been a bit off for a few days so I was like, awesome, maybe he’ll be crawling soon!

The new skill he’s actually developed? Biting! 🙃 And he thinks it’s really funny too. Especially when I say NO!

Lol accidentally posted this in the wrong daily thread, my phone loaded yesterdays.

Omg congratulations!

Made red lentil curry for lunch. It’s one of my all time favourites and it’s great because it’s all pantry staples. I just leave out the chillies if I don’t have any on hand and it’s still fantastic.

Finding time for driving lessons has been proving really hard but I’m going insane being stuck at home with the baby all day. I think I need to brave figuring out the bus with pram etc because then at least I could get to the shopping centre or train station but I’m scared :-(

Banana bread is in the oven yay. Baby woke up an hour earlier than usual this morning so I’ve already had 2 coffees, done a load of laundry, read some of my new book, and of course the banana bread. I have either been feeling a bit depressed or am suffering from horrendous PMS post partum but I thought today I should try to keep busy rather than scrolling my phone all day.

For the rest of the day I’m hoping to work a bit more on an essay I’ve been writing for my newsletter and hopefully squeeze in an exercise routine. We shall see!