Life lately: Onto the last month of 2024

The sweater weather is quite cosy at my home, with YouTube videos playing on background while I’m nestling with a blanket and my MacBook in the living room. It’s one of those perfect days where nothing could go wrong – the one thing that can make this situation even more perfect is if I had a cup of coffee (or iced!) on hand. I’m not leaving this space for anything.

I’ve been quite busy this past month. I feel like I’m just trying to survive adulting and managing my home. 2024 is like a gap year that I didn’t know I needed to find myself which had been buried deep years ago during the pandemic. It’s the year where I wasn’t achieving much if you measure success in money and career currency, but I achieved so much personal and mental wise.

I spent a lot of time on my own, resetting everything I thought I believed in. I listened to myself better, I talk to people even less so in a way I kinda deviate from the negativity and toxicity that come with too much time spent with people.

However, I do spend a lot of time with my mom these days. We’d go to the mall, do grocery shopping together, café hunting together. She really is my best friend. Oh! She got me a leather bag from Italy! She just got back from her Balkan trip a few weeks ago and bought us some goodies so that’s really exciting.

My husband and I celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary last month so we stayed at Dorsett Putrajaya (without the kids), had dinner at Tony Roma’s, watched a movie, and he also got me a Chanel Coco Mademoiselle L’eau Privée perfume which smells absolutely divine, I am obsessed. It’s nice to spend time together alone especially when you’re a parent. I’m looking forward to our next short trip.

So, what else? Oh! I saw that the WordPress theme I’m using received an update from the designer so hello from a little bit new-ish look of Everyday Ereen! My theme is fairly new but I love the features of the latest update I just had to update it.

Liam Payne was finally laid to rest on Nov 20th. I bawled my eyes out. I cried for what could’ve been should’ve been would’ve been an epic One Direction reunion, but at the end of the day I was mourning the loss of someone that was monumental during my growing up phase. I was 16 with a huge love for a British boyband. I’m not even 30 yet and we’re already burying one of them. How is that possible? I should be at least 60 before we receive any news of any one of them passing away. It still seems surreal to me.

On another note, cheers to another year of having Taylor Swift as my #1 artist on Spotify and The Alchemy as my #1 most replayed song. Thank you very much, I’ll see you next year.