Throughout the Decade

I don’t usually write yearly review posts, but maybe it’s time to start. It’s the end of a decade, after all.

Here are some of my old Instagram pictures I found deep in the recesses of my external hard drive. The past 10 years has seen me graduate high school, get my first job, subsequently get six more jobs, travel farther than I’ve ever been before, spend way too much time in university, attend various weddings, make many new friends, stick by old friends (since elementary school!), and temporarily move to China. It’s no joke that your 20s are where everything seems to happen. It’s hard to imagine the next decade being so busy – is this all there is from here on out?

  

  

  

  

No, I won’t let it be.

Life has been rough for the past little while. There’s an unimaginable amount of awful that’s been crammed into the past couple years. The universe is cold and uncaring so that means I have to care out of spite.

Secret Garden

Despite the recent plant mom trend, my username, and my appreciation for all things green, I haven’t invested too much on plants. Plants are easy to kill. Plants spruce up a room but can be quite finicky and ultimately you’re putting in all this effort for something that’s just pretty. I’m much more of a cat mom.

However, I got a few succulents because they are pretty kill-proof so they get along marvellously with my general neglect. The only way you can kill them is by caring too much ie. overwatering.

I attempted to propagate my succulents for the first time due to necessity. No, really. Literally all the leaves of one of my succulents fell off when I forgot to adjust my watering schedule with the changing seasons and one succulent got so overwatered to the point that its leaves fell off with barely a touch. The original plant became a stick and died shortly after.

So I Bing-ed* how to propagate succulents from a leaf and tried to salvage my succ with this last ditch effort.

Honestly? Propagating succulents is so exciting! Mainly because it’s actually working. For about 2 weeks, I had no idea if anything was happening. Then I saw something coming from the leaf. Then the sprout turned red and I started panicking – was I watering them too much? Not enough? So I decided to remedy this situation by doing nothing at all and now they’re doing pretty good! (Turns out the red thing was a root.) Like I said: kill-proof.

I’m so proud of my little sprouts. I check on them every morning and I like playing them plant music. My favourite album is “Plantasia” by Mort Garson. I like to think it makes them happy.

*There’s no Google in China. By the way, I am currently living in China.