A new (mis)adventure and rebuilding better – My ceiling collapsed!

Yep, you read it right. Last weekend all of the cartoons and skits that I've laughed at over the years came back to bite me and my life (quite literally) came crashing down on top of me. The absurd scenes of bathtubs crashing through ceilings, of people falling through floorboards and having their legs dangling through to...

A trip to bad b**** country – 5 female rappers you shouldn’t live through 2021 without

With an abundance of incredible sonics reaching us through the airwaves over the years, what I've always noticed when trawling through Spotify is the lack of women on all the popular rap playlists, or when there are it's often the same few, despite the huge and growing amount of amazing female talent out there. In...

Sustainable products review – 8 swaps to inform your new years resolution and make for a healthier future

It's that time again. While going to the gym every week, travelling more or taking up a new hobby are all amazing changes to be making for yourself, there may be one very important new years resolution you're skipping over. A resolution that, unlike your soup cleanse that lasted 2 days, can certainly be kept...

Uncontrollable laughter: The “f*** it” lifestyle and how I died, went to heaven and bounced right back again..

I hear a scream and look up. A panoramic wall of windows in front of me frames a woman lunging off of the Karawau bridge, plunging into the river below before springing back up, hung upside down at the bottom of a rope. “And that’s only the small one” someone remarks. I took a leap...

‘How racist are you’ – A note on White Fragility

'We need to start getting uncomfortable with racism and recognising the systems that exist to marginalise minority communities'. The recent re-uprising of the Black Lives Matter movement this year has certainly caused lots of discomfort. While there has been huge positive reactions, many people are still defensive and in denial. Some in fact actively seek...

GET YOUR DAMN BEAUTY SLEEP – Going back to ‘normal’ and the one tree we must stop watering

'The denial of sleep is the violent dispossession of self by external force, the calculated shattering of an individual' says Jonathon Crary in his book 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep. In other words, being overworked and not getting enough sleep takes away our selfhood and breaks us down to mindless machines. But...

Catching ‘flights’ and demon ghost babies – A Stay(athome)cation adventure

We are so lucky to be living in a time when technology supports everything we do. Although it has its down falls, in a time like this it can be so amazing, with FaceTime and zoom calls being our saviour when it comes to keeping in touch recently. With so much on the web though,...

It is what it is – Why I’m not scared of COVID19

Hey its ya girl. back at it again with the blog(bull)shit. Getting straight into it in an attempt to put all the recent madness into perspective. I mean fr the ppl running the simulation must be having a field day rn (pic taken from instagram @tealswanofficial) So you've put gloves on to avoid picking germs...

Rate my burger vol.1

Yeah sex is cool but have you ever yammed down on a fat juicy burger and felt your eyes roll back & your whole life flash before you?? As someone who loves food, the sensation of a good burger is yet to be matched for me. Although I've been trying to reduce my meat intake...

Spring-broken 2019

When I say 'spring break woo woooooo' I'm sure 99% of people reading this will know exactly what I mean by it. Notoriously messy, the concept of spring break is famous pretty much all over the world, and partying in Mexico is basically a mandatory part of attending college here. First of all, a week...