3 simple steps to making resolutions you will actually keep

Happy New Year lovelies ♥

I don't know about you, but I'm the kind of person that makes 3824802 resolutions every New Year's Eve only to forget about all of them by January 15th. But I never waver in my optimism: every December 31st, for a short few hours, I am ready to start being a whole new person: strong, smart and confident. The girl that goes to the farmer's market on Saturday mornings to buy kale and to spinning before work five days a week. The girl that does brunch with her friends on Sundays at noon and date nights on Friday. The girl that reads Tolstoi and Rousseau before bed.

Come February and I'm the girl who agrees to a second date with the guy from Tinder who stood her up (because he needed to take his ill pet gecko to the vet or something), then, when he turns out to be a sexist pig, eats a family-sized four-cheese pizza in one sitting while listening to "All By Myself" on repeat.

(It's not actually that bad.)

Anyway, this year I've decided to be a bit more realistic, and I came up with quite a simple three-step procedure for generating useful goals.

7 Things To Do Over The Holidays

Hi lovelies ♥

What I love most about the holidays is that absolutely no one does anything during them. So it’s really the perfect time – and sometimes the only time you get all year – to relax completely and do all of the stuff that you don’t get round to in your hectic day-to-day life. Like...

The Grinch's Guide to Christmas

Hey lovelies ♥

Do you like Christmas? I’ve always preferred birthdays. My birthday is my very own personal special day. Christmas just seems like a random day on which we have collectively agreed to spend time with people we may not actually like all that much, simply because our DNA happens to be slightly more similar to theirs than to other people’s. 

One thing I do like about Christmas, though, is that even with the rampant consumerism and the awful commercialization, it can slow people down. In a culture where being busy is glorified incessantly, at Christmas, enjoying life a little is actually socially acceptable. I’m constantly worried that I am Not Doing Enough, and yet the other day I actually made Christmas cookies.

They were delicious.