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Shokz open run pro 2s. Cold weather running clothes. Maybe a scarf lol
I snagged some tights from Janji - they are awesome. Highly recommend if you are looking for cold weather running gear.
All I want for Christmas is you. - Mariah
Leather gloves (open to recommendations), Hestra Ski gloves, Paper Republic Leather journa
Gifts for your mum
Asked for a vinyl player
Setting my wife up we one as well this year - though it's more of a 'starter' setup to see how much we use/love it. Prices are insane across the board - you can be at $5k in a blink. Crazy. Excited to play around with it though.
maybe a new winter coat
In order of prestige it's Lands End -> LL Bean -> Canada Goose. No difference in warmth though. My advice is to F prestige and just buy the cheap one that works just as well for $200 instead of dropping $2k for a label. I can see Justifying the jump to $400 for LL Bean for a couple niceties, but Canada Goose is a ripoff IMO.
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I didn’t exactly ask anyone maybe because in my country gifting during Christmas is not a tradition. We tend to just cook lots of meals, share and everyone is just together vibing. But if someone were to ask me what I actually want for Christmas, I’d say my own apartment and money to start up my business. I’m graduating soon and I’d really love to have my own space and also be financially independent. Asides that, i’d want a quality camera for photography and also a new iPhone 17. Well I guess that’s all 😁
I got caught admiring a gorgeous, hooded sheepskin coat and looks like I am not on the naughty list this year!
eh where you been queen? haven't seen that name in ages
TLDR... life happens, I ain't special in that regard!
A bit of the 411 for shits n' giggles for those who might relate...
Been a busy lil queen bee and then some! Boss resigned this summer. Team's currently, I don't know how to describe it... a sorta quasi-headless body, but all the other systems kicked in and re-routed around the missing body part.
Boss' boss has provided minimal guidance/guardrails, trusting us as the team's always worked really well together. We are prioritizing deliverables, handling projects, managing the offshore portion of our team and more. We survived another summer's baby banker internship program. Now it's been year-end performance reviews [both providing them and will have mine this week], all on top of the regular day-to-day.
Home life is pretty good, for the most part. SO's going for consults to discuss additional back surgery for him in 2026. I truly need to get him a Superman t-shirt, big "S" on the chest, I don't know how he does it, he frequently leaves me in awe with all he manages to handle despite his various chronic health conditions. Add to that, I'd be considerably more deflated and depressed about work and other matters if it weren't for him.
Still no buyer for my mom's place, so that's just been loads o' fun, keeping that chapter from closing and I'm just so ready to be done with that physical element.
One really good thing happened in 2025, my ability to read and retain has been improving. Since 2020, with the anxiety that came from the covid uncertainty and then through the illnesses along with the physical sorting/death cleaning of belongings for 3 loved ones, the related depression and mourning... I lost the capacity to read more than a few columns in a multi-page magazine article or a handful of pages in a book, and then could hardly remember a word I'd just read. This year, I've now read several, admittedly relatively short books of a few hundred pages each -- this coming from someone who read all 5 Game of Thrones novels, each upwards of a 1,000 pages a pop, with minimal effort back in the 00's. I'm going to tackle Robert Caro's The Power Broker again -- I'd started that in late 2019 and barely got 200 pages into it by the time the whole WFH scenario kicked in.
a sik leather jacket
what do you give the man who has everything? (more books)
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