PaperCat

  • How the Simplified Planner has helped me organize my life

    Over the past few weeks, I have been off work because I left my most recent retail job suddenly and have been awaiting the start of my new job. In that time, I have been focused on my home, my health, and working on my Codecademy courses and it has been amazing. This was a Read more

  • Social Media Challenge – Day 1

    Yesterday was day 1 and it went pretty well. I did not take my phone out of my bag until it was time to go to sleep, and even then, I left it on the charger in my room because I didn’t trust my circa 2000’s alarm clock to go off at the correct time, Read more

  • Social Media Challenge

    Today is the day. So it’s not really like a New Year’s resolution because I’m coming up with this on January 9, 2023, but I am fed up with myself, so we can call it a resolution if you like. I have decided that I would like to stop mindlessly scrolling on my social media. Read more

  • Plastic Free Deodorant

    One of my goals this year is to reduce the packaging and plastic packaging that I end up buying when buying household products. One of the products that I have to buy regularly is deodorant and it almost always comes in a proprietarily shaped plastic container. This lead me to search the internet for plastic-free Read more

  • Plant Based or Vegan

    After doing some research into veganism, I’ve started seeing some of the ways that vegans tend to think and I think I will continue to say that I am plant-based rather than vegan. As I said in my last post, I still buy and make food for my husband who is not interested or required Read more

  • Whole Food, Plant-Based

    I started an interesting journey at the beginning of December. I had a doctor’s appointment and it was suggested for my health that I look into a whole-foods, plant-based diet. Knowing me, I immediately went all-in since I tend to be very all-or-nothing about things like this. I had done a similar personal change of Read more

  • One of My Favorite Resources: AllSides

    After I had watched the documentary “The Social Dilemma,” I have been off of social media and permanently deleted my profiles from Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter. After a couple of days of the quiet of not hearing all the opinions and news from my social media newsfeeds, I began to search for other sources Read more

  • Show Review: Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

    As any Gilmore Girls fan may know, Netflix just released an exclusive four-part season 8 of the series as a revival. I spent the last day watching them, and I have some thoughts to share. There will be spoilers down in this post, so if you haven’t seen the episodes yet, make sure to watch Read more