I’ve been working on some longer, more in depth posts recently, as well as trying to manage my physical health, mental health, and university work. Life is just… a lot right now. But I hate breaking my posting schedule. This blog is one of my absolute favourite things so I wanted to have something to post today, even if it isn’t exactly what I usually post. So, following on from this post, here are a few more things about me.

• I like origami but I’m not very good at it.
• I wish I could draw or paint.
• I’m a bit of a people pleaser but I’m getting better at standing up for myself and speaking my mind.
• I still haven’t found a tea or coffee I like.
• I have found an alcoholic drink I like: a passionfruit mohito.
• I love thunderstorms.
• I love taking photos.
• I have enough books on songwriting that, if you stacked them, they’d probably be taller than me.
• I love the smell of freshly cut grass.
• My favourite musicals are Wicked, Waitress, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Hamilton.
• Over the last year or so, I’ve started collecting candles.
• I love Gerberas and Dahlias.
• I’ve been rewatching Criminal Minds recently and I love Emily Prentiss so freaking much.
• Edge of Tomorrow (also known as LIVE. DIE. REPEAT.) is one of my all time favourite movies. I love the sci-fi of it, the very different aliens, the perfect amount of day repeats, and Emily Blunt being a complete badass.
• I wish I was more confident.
• I love stationary, especially notebooks.
• Bullet Journaling has changed my life.
• I’m very insecure about my appearance: how I look, my face, my body, etc.
• I have watched Hot Fuzz probably a hundred times and I’m still not bored of it because it reminds me of good times with my Dad.
• I wish I knew how to do make up well.
• My favourite season is Autumn.
• Reading fanfiction has become a real relaxation technique/technique for combating anxiety.
• I want to learn the Kalimba.
• I struggle with cooking because I find food so hard as an autistic person, although I like baking.
• I love golden hour.
• I really miss Australia, New Zealand, and Iceland.
• I’m still good friends with my best friend from secondary school.
• When I was a kid, I wanted to be a novelist or a child psychologist.
• Whenever characters leave TV shows, I make up storylines for them and I will not accept any other story.
• I love fairy lights.
• I’ve had three hamsters in my life: Hammie (I was six), Myfanwy (I was obsessed with Torchwood and the Pterodactyl was called Myfanwy and I couldn’t find a Welsh name I liked better for her), and Pumpkin.
• According to AncestryDNA, I’m 2% Swedish (I want to write more about the experience of this process and investigating my family history).
• I love typewriters.

So those are a few more of the little things about me. This blog bounces between such specific subjects that sometimes I wonder if you guys feel like you actually know me. So every now and then, I want to update you on stuff like this to make sure that you do know me. Because I want you to know me as a whole person, not me through the lens of depression or OCD, etc.