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Why I Love Finch

Happy Mental Health Awareness Month! I know it’s almost over, but I’ve been busy with other writing. Anyways… mental health awareness...

My Journey With Spanish

Another month, another insane monthly challenge. This one was probably my most ambitious one yet. I’ve been trying to learn Spanish for...

Mirror Mirror

Every once in a while I fall down a rabbit hole of obsessing over old pictures of myself. It usually starts innocently enough. I check my...

My Journey With Trich

I’ve been pulling my hair for pretty much as long as I can remember. It used to drive my family crazy so I got better at hiding it, but I...

FanExpo Vancouver 2025

We had a lot of fun at Emerald City Comic Con last year, but going to the states and staying in a hotel during a con, and having to eat...

Oscar Death Race 2025

The Oscars are on Sunday, and yet again I did my challenge of watching everything that has been nominated. This year that meant watching...

Abracadabra: The Rise of a Disability Icon

When I was a teenager and in my early twenties I was obsessed with Lady Gaga and her music. I just thought she was so cool and different...

Self Compassion

For the past few years I’ve been doing Gretchen Rubin’s goal challenge. For example 23 goals for 2023, 24 goals for 2024. But I found...

Alicen Wrapped: 2024

It’s been a year, that’s for sure. There’s been good, there’s been bad. There’s been a whole lot of obsessing over Taylor Swift. Every...

Netflix Christmas Movies 2024

I love cheesy hallmark type Christmas movies so much and Netflix has really been getting into the game the past few years. Back in 2017...

The Journey to Wicked

I remember watching the Tony Awards with my Mom and Grandma in 2004, and seeing Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth sing “Defying Gravity”...

Spooky Season and Christmas

Well, if you read my previous post, you know I no longer care what people think and I’m just going to write whatever I feel like.  I love...

The Expectations of Turning 30

I don’t know about you but I have harder expectations for myself than anyone else has for me.  I know I haven’t written a blog post since...

The Highest Grossing Movies of 1994

Last year for her 40th birthday, my friend Andrea watched the top ten highest grossing movies of her birth year and I thought that would...

Disability Isn’t a Bad Word

It’s Disability Pride month and if anyone read my June blog post you’ll know that I’ve started using a cane sometimes. I’m still...

Canes are Cool Now

Since it’s almost July, and July is disability pride month, I wanted to talk about something that’s been on my mind. I’ve been having bad...

“I Hate Writing” and Other Lies

“I hate writing” is what I tell almost everyone I meet. It’s the worst. So I was recently talking with my best friend and mentioned...

My Easter Mental Health Retreat

When my contract at work ended in February, I had to decide what to do with my unemployment. I was job hunting like crazy but I didn’t...

Oscars 2024

I haven’t watched all the Oscar movies since 2019, but I decided to this year, which was a choice. I loved some, I hated some, and I...

Advent Calendars: Part 2

January can be a pretty depressing month. The days are short, here in Vancouver it’s grey and rainy, Christmas is over… the list goes on....

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