Happy birthday to my wonderful bf @matallo.eth <3 I am so lucky to have such a funny, kind, caring partner.
Everyday I laugh and love harder. He's grown a lot this year, and I am so proud of him accomplishing his goals and leaning more into who he is. He pushes himself harder than anyone I've ever known in my life.
We are an unusual couple, in the sense that our hobbies are not similar, our interests are self-concerning, but our values (from everyday to universal) are the same. This allows us to give each other space to grow into ourselves, and bring out our best selves. He is unequivocally always himself, and it's the thing I love the most about him.
I am undoubtedly privileged to be part of his life, and am happy to be celebrating another trip around the sun with him.
For his bday gift this year, I am sending him on a solo vacay to go see a rocket launch of his choice, maybe a Starship launch in Texas 😁
Man I had a dream that I created a new product line. Diffusion pockets.
Essentially you dip mini fragrance sticks into essential oils and keep them on your keys (wallet was my dream but practically keys are better).
Your body heat in a pocket allows the diffusion to happen without the fragrance coming into contact with skin. So you get a subtle good smelling scent diffused to when you put your keys in your pocket.
Better than perfumed laundry detergent since that’s all over your skin. Better than perfume over your clothes because there’s less heat activation. This is probably too niche to be a real problem but I’m pleasantly surprised at the thought experiment in my dream :p
Acquired another piece from my favourite local artist. First time I got to meet him in 6 years since he is anonymous.
He put a call out on his instagram to meet him in a random alleyway where he was spray painting jackets.
I also gave him a candle and he asked me to sign it. I didn’t have a pen, but he obviously did, and he pulled out this ginormous fat graffiti marker.
If I have to be transparent the last few months have been very rough for me. Panic attacks 2-5 times a day, crying throughout the holidays, etc, mostly worried about the success of Humankind. I was suffering a lot in my own head Sept-Dec.
Something clicked in my brain this January. I stopped caring about what I felt about the business and completely detached my ego from the business. I still obviously want to produce the best outcome for the biz but I just got sick and tired of feeling like I couldn’t do it (ie make the business more than ramen profitable).
I still do not know if I can do it. But I just know I have to. And finally I am unburdened from myself.
so people have been asking for natural essential oils in candles.. and at humankind we are all about ingredients that are good for humans
in our upcoming collection we may have a few candles with essential oils, formulated to be safe burning in candles. stay tuned!
New nails. There was an old grandma at a Chinese bun shop who had the same colour as me but a bit more pink. I complimented her nails. We are one and the same 💅
We had so much snow that the cars parking on the sidewalk interfered with the streetcar and we were stopped for 45 min.
I rang the doorbells of about 5 houses to ask if it was their car. No one said it was theirs. The streetcar driver went to the bar to pee and also to ask around to see who could move the car.
One guy keyed the car and left. Then a team of hot dodgeball guys and a sexy butch lesbian were able to push the car and finally get us on our way. Cliche but everyone did clap after. Good samaritans everywhere. Love my city
