January Notes, Taking Stock x A Few OOTD’s

I’m writing this currently sitting in a seminar at work that hasjust refused to come to an end. My plan was to shoot some bomb head shots to accompany this post but yet again, my unit at work managed to steal most of my free time and it’s now too dark to shoot anything. So, I figured to go through my phone and also share a few outfits that didn’t make it to the blog to this recap post.

Making : To do lists in my blog planner. That I some how always manage to keep carrying over. *sigh* . Also, financial plans and trying to figure out ways to budget and handle money better. Any advice? 


Eating : Old Country bread. It’s this bakery in Luth that sells the most amazing squishy soft bread! If only the lady at the counter smiled more often.

Playing : Nathaniel Bassey’s – Onise Iyanu. I honestly hardly add any new songs to my phone so I play this on repeat almost every day.


Reading : Nothing. I haven’t read a book in ages. I mean, where is the time?   


Understanding : That people are different and react to things differently.  Working with people and also having to deal with various types of people from my blog planner sales, understanding that has come in super handy.


Wasting : Opportunities in promoting my blog at work. I’ve had a patient’s relative ask me if I run a blog and then a nurse tell me to start a blog, before it hit me that I should actually be the one telling them to go check it out. It just feels weird talking about my blog at work. Do you talk about your blog at work? How do you pop it into conversations?


Knowing : That all things are working for and will work for my good at the end of the day.

Wishing : That I could really just take a break from work for a week to travel. I need a break guys! And I have major travel plans this year.


Excited : To be leaving Endocrinology! Lol! I haven’t been excited for much this year, is that bad?

Marvelling : At just how deep this Diabetes thing is. I mean, I knew the complications of it from med school and all but I never had to deal close up and first hand with those complications. Believe me, It is nasty!


Wondering : Why people just wouldn’t adhere to their medications and stop putting themselves at risk. Most of the patients that are on our wards got there because for some reason, they stopped taking their drugs and eating right. It can be a bit frustrating but then I guess I can say the same for myself not finishing my dose of antibiotics as soon as I start feeling better.

Hoping : I have a better time in my Ophthalmology posting. It just sucks that I’ll be the only house officer there, meaning no colleague to lament over work and bond with. Lol

Wearing : My pajamas pant and a crop top.

Feeling : A slight urge to go back to Ward A3 to check on my patients and say hi to the nurses but Nah Mehn.

This past month, I had to do a lot of adulting and growing up. For one, I finally moved away from home to a place at work and I’ve had to take care of my own needs, make tough decisions and master my finances.
January has been as real as real can get but look who pulled through at the end of it? With the stress of work, not having much time to obsess and micro manage every part of my own business (blog planners) and having to deal with the consequences of it all, it really has been real and I’m happy to say goodbye to January. Big shout out to everyone that bought a blog planner for being super  supportive and understanding!

I had to take a break from social media for a while because I got too stressed to care less. I stopped posting frequently on my gram (although I was super active on my instastories. lol), stopped promoting my blog posts and sending out mails. At first, I was a bit worried about how that would affect the brand, people moving on to the next thing, and kept looking at other people that were posting on the gram about ten pictures a day lol but you know what? I just had to take a step back and acknowledge that my reality right now isn’t the next person’s reality and trying to be wonder woman and keep up with everything and everyone would only make me break down. What’s that thing about self care again?

Getting back to it all has been a bit slow because my phone got stolen towards the end of January in the most shocking way which was just so sad for me. My pictures that I somehow managed to never back up and the fact that I already had most of the pictures that goes up to my instagram page arranged neatly in a folder killed my mojo even more. For an instagram lover like me, you can imagine how it’s been. I hope to get back to the middle of things all this month.

On the plus side, January brought me more financial and personal freedom than before and that I am thankful for.

• In the first look, I’m basically dressed down in a vintage print shirt and denim pants – I think my hair really jazzed up that look. What do you think?
• For the second look, my harem pants and Iconola crop top (remember it from this post?) came out to play! I wore that during one of my work registration runs. I think harem pants are the next best thing after mom and boyfriend jeans. What is your favourite style of pants to wear? 
• There’s the school girl all dressed in red look, that I wore to work back when I was still in my chilling obstetrics and gynaecology unit. I like the way the monochrome red top just blends well with the red skirt. I’ve styled the skirt previously on the blog here
• What’s left? Ah yes, My mom jeans and T-shirt look to the eat drink festival last year and my vintage dress (styled previously on the blog here) that I almost sold off at the fashion bloggers yard sale. 

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