Disappointment... and Discord! - August 22
Sweet teas, how was your summer?
The highlight of my month has been the Tea with HB Discord Server! Discord is a much more ethical version of social media- all the socialising, none of the adverts. Discord is a free voice, video, and text chat app, enabling me to set up my own server: a Tea with HB Communi-tea! Featuring a Book Club, Film Club, Game Café, and many more exciting socie-teas where we can connect.
Thanks to my friends Nashira, Rebecka, Lorna, Tara, Anna, and Nelle for helping me organise it all. We have members from 11 different countries, and love sharing things like pictures of our pets and sharing chronic illness tips. It's a thriving communi-tea and has made me (and I hope many others) feel less alone!
Join the Tea with HB 🫖 Discord Server! — discord.com
Check out the Tea with HB 🫖 communi-tea on Discord - hang out with 81 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
My power chair was meant to arrive this month... and it did! Broken. I am hugely disappointed and am awaiting updates. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. It is a terrible shame that such a joyful thing couldn't arrive in one piece. Though as my friend Eloise said when I told her... 'of course it did.' She knows nothing in my life ever goes too smoothly haha!
This month I started using Gousto- a recipe kit box designed to reduce food waste and make meal times easier! Food is delivered each week, and is conveniently packaged to stay fresh until you need it! Unfortunately, it uses quite a bit of plastic, but the accessibility and ease that comes at the price of extra packaging has massively helped my mental health and energy levels! So for me, it's worth it, and there is a huge array of delicious recipes. I highly recommend it- sign up here if you'd like to try it out yourself! If you use my link you'll get 65% off your first box, PLUS 25% off all other boxes in your first month. Yay! Here's a picture of my favourite Gousto recipe this month:
Office Break Yoga | 14 Min. Yoga Practice | Yoga With Adriene — www.youtube.com
Reminder to drink some water, take a deep breath, eat some food (you deserve it!) and try this yoga flow that has been helping my back pain immensely!
Although I am dreading the winter months, I am excited for autumn and my Mum's and my birthday on September 11th!
August Favourites
☀️ Good News: Taylor Swift announced her 10th Album is coming in October!!!
🎶 Music: Trying by Maisie Peters
📚 Book: How to be Perfect by Michael Schur - one of the best books I have EVER read! You MUST listen to the audiobook because it features the cast of The Good Place, which Michael Schur also wrote! (one of my favourite TV shows of all time.)
📺 TV: Never Have I Ever and Trying, the latter is about adoption and was really eye opening whilst being very funny and sweet! I loved it.
🍿Movie: How to Train Your Dragon Series I can't believe I never saw these films before but they are emotional, funny, sweet, and adventurous!
🍜 Food: My favourite Lemongrass Curryyyy