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February Favorites

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Hi everyone! Are you all sitting cozy with your coffee / tea / hot chocolate or wine???  Good...  I hope you enjoy my post today.  It's just a little look into my February. Which was CRAAAAAAAZY by the way! I hope you all had an excellent month too and look forward to hearing what exciting things happened to you throughout the month in the comments below!  Favorite Purchases: I found my bikini for Bali and Philippines!!! I fell so in love with this little number I just couldn't resist the splurge... can't wait to pack it in my suitcase and head off for Southeast Asia! Eeeeek! I also FINALLY found my leather backpack that I've been hunting for... and got it at an absolute BARGAIN!!! The money went towards a good cause too. I found this little guy while stumbling around town in a pair of painful heels with no soles! I'd crept into this tiny store called Eye Love to give my feet a break when I spotted a leather backpack jammed into the corner window. It was love at fir...

No More Drinking

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The world has shifted on its axis. Pigs have flown.  Jade has stopped drinking.  No, I'm not joking. I've finally had enough of getting home after work every night and heading straight for our old hardwood, bar and shoving a corkscrew into a bottle of wine.  I am nearly 24 years old and for the past few years of my life, I have been drinking wine almost every night. In actual fact, I think in the last 1460 days (rough figure... don't judge me) I have probably abstained from drinking a mere 3 nights in total.  I've been kidding myself and thinking that it's OK. I'm a writer, it's what I'm supposed to do. I mean, you watch movies or read books about the surly, introvert writers that hide out in their darkened, dusty dens and tap away at their typewriters while swigging straight from a bottle. Well, after living in that pathetic stereotype for the majority of my life now my poor liver must be shot! I'm probably being dramatic.... I only have two-three ...