• I Seriously Miss Old-School Blogging!

    Hours Categories Journaling

    I have been trying really hard to find some blogs that would interest me but all I am finding is fake blogs or blogs completely written with AI. It’s getting really frustrating. I would love to find some blogs about lifestyle, self-care, mental health, cozy gaming, cozy hobbies and pretty much anything considered cozy. In the Cozy K or Her Cozy Gaming vibe. They each have blogs as well, Cozy K and Her Cozy Gaming. I am really enjoying both of their YouTube channels and blogs but I would like to find more like them and in the other categories I mentioned as well. Blogs that actually talk about peoples lives and show what they are up to. I think that’s on of the reasons…

  • Handwriting Practice, Planning, Journaling and Cross-Stitch

    Hours Categories Hobbies, Journaling

    I’ve been on a kind of journey for the last few weeks. I have been learning to enjoy again the things I have always loved and stepped away from over the last few years. I have loved journaling and cross-stitching since I was a teenager. I used to sit on the couch in the evening after school and read a book, journal or cross-stitch. While I have not really dived back into reading I have started cross-stitching and journaling again. As well as planning and handwriting practice. Above is a cross-stitch I am currently working on. It is this one from Craft With Cartwright. I am using a cheap kit that I got off Amazon so the colors are not exact but since it is…

  • Peggy’s Cove, Wildfires & Rain

    Hours Categories Journaling
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    As of today, the wildfire at Long Lake is 8,234 hectares and still growing. We got hit last weekend with an offshore hurricane. While we have had much, much worse hurricane-wise, this one was far enough offshore that we did not get any rain, but we got enough wind to double the size of the wildfire. Since then, we have had very little rain. We’ve had a little here in Halifax, but not enough in the Annapolis Valley where the fire is. There have now been houses lost as well, about 20 they are saying. I feel so bad for the people that have lost their houses. One couple is due to have their first baby in September. Since we are off this weekend, we…

  • My Beautiful Province Is On Fire, Again

    Hours Categories Day-To-Day
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    On Tuesday a wildfire broke out not too far from where we live, less then 3km “as the crow flies”. The fire, in the Bayer’s Lake Business Park and shopping district at Susie’s Lake, Nova Scotia (NS) was just a little too close to home for comfort. I was at a nearby building for work, which was higher up and with a better vantage point of the fire so I was keeping my husband updated as he was a bit closer to the fire at our buildings. We were close enough that we had ash falling on us and thick smoke. To say it was unnerving is an understatement. I think we both felt on edge right into the night. Luckily they attacked the fire…

  • What I Hope To Achieve Through Journaling

    Hours Categories Journaling
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    Welcome to my blog. Journaling is something I’ve been doing ever since I was a child. I started out writing in a small journal that someone gave me, though I can’t quite remember why — maybe a birthday or Christmas? Either way, I’ve kept a journal ever since. Nothing fancy, just writing, since I’ve never been very artistic. Years later, I started blogging. This would have been in the early 2000s, when blogging was more personal. I’m hoping to use this blog to recapture that feeling for myself. As I mentioned above, I started out journaling in a small notebook I was given as a gift years ago. I remember filling that journal up and then going out to buy a new one. I think…