🍂 feral girl fall is falling

💌 life in van (the highlights & lowlights)

this summer honestly flew by. from attending my first friend wedding, doing the drive between canmore and banff around four times (lol) to running down the sand dunes in oregon, i feel like i’ve just been running around the pnw this summer with the homies (although is the rockies considered a part of the pnw……… 🤔) and i’m not upset!

💘 some gratitudes this summer:

• seeing an old friend tie the knot with her mans (and then simultaneously seeing and catching up with many old friends from edmonton) 💍

• running up and down sand dunes in oregon with niall and walking without rhythm so we wouldn’t attract the sand worms 🪱 

• backpacking, waffles and mafia with climbing homies this summer made my heart full ❤️ 

• being able to randomly stop by jiekai and indra’s flat and get boba 🧋 

🚫 some anti-gratitudes this summer:

• work work work work work work badadada work work work work work work

• getting my PTO request for two fridays this summer denied (and missing out on a day of backpacking 😠)

👩🏻‍💼 corporate girlbossing without girlbossing too hard

gals i’ve finally done it! i’ve made senior consultant (against all odds) and i feel like i can coast until i quit 🥳 i feel like i’ve finally made strides in becoming homies (🤝) with my engagement managers and that we’re forming a relationship outside of work.

it honestly feels a bit weird that things are going well, but lately i’ve been finding it difficult to find motivation in my work. like why do we need to make a vancouver team specific onboarding guide when we have an EY onboarding guide and an onboarding guide for our practice? and why do we care so much about minute little things like the filing structure of our teams channel??? anyways thats just my hot take and my pessimistic view as i’m losing motivation in my work (haha)

💭 lessons therapy has taught me (thx mabelle 🫶)

this isn’t necessarily a lesson from mabelle but i wanted to share some of my intentions for the peru trip, and how i’m hoping it will help me grow.

1. throwing myself in uncomfortable situations and making the best of them

   as some of you know, i was very stressed going into this trip. not only do i not hablas español, but on the canadian embassy, peru is marked as a ‘high caution’ country, that contains a fair amount of crime (including violent crime). but honestly, i think after arriving i’m glad i took the risk and came. huanchaco has been so lovely so far; the people at my hostel are super nice, the surfing has been good and generally i feel safe. i think definitely i’m more conscious of being in big groups late at night, and staying on main roads but i’m glad that my fears didn’t prevent me from being able to experience the city and the people.

2. learning how to relax and unwind (productivity is not measured by how many things you accomplish a day!!)
   i was chatting to a girl from the hostel today about how literally there isn’t much to do in huanchaco except surf and browse shops aimlessly. at first i was quite disappointed that i wouldn’t have a jam packed agenda and it wouldn’t be as exhilarating as i thought this trip would be. but now that i think about it, i’m excited about the opportunity to just relax, take life a little slower and easier, and not feel confined to a particular schedule. of course i’m still surfing everyday but now i feel like i have time to browse those balloon pants, that alpaca sweater and eat that plantain banana with unpasteurized cheese.

🥤 sipping joos

• binged fgirl island on the plane to atlanta. very trashy, very bingeable (think: 40 min episodes that move quite quickly)

• watched a bit of rick and morty and fresh prince on the flight to lima. very good shows; would binge again

• listening to more keshi, childish gambino (HYPE) and hippo campus’ new album

• also watching (and crying to) love next door (iykyk)

📈 personal stats i want to track