Our Life Together
When we were in the process of buying our studio flat, I was more than a little nervous about the possibility we'd feel cramped in the space. I wanted a one or two bedroom home, ideally, but since it would be a complete pain trying to get a mortgage here in the UK, and on top of that, it probably would make our lives a lot harder to ...
Fine. I'll talk about Alicia Keys' No Makeup Movement. I wasn't going to - for reasons I'll bring up later - but this article at JestCafe made me change my mind. I'll voice my opinions - give it a shot. First day the headlines rolled out, I told Thomas about the No Makeup Movement Alicia Keys had started. Immediately, he asked me what ...
There are quite a few things we haven't yet spoken about on this blog, not because we haven't wanted to, just because we haven't had the time or mind frame to just sit down and flush these stories out. This post in particular, as you undoubtedly already know from the title, will be a catch-me-up post explaining two of the most influential ...
When I scroll through my past scribbles on Elise & Thomas, I realize how far we have come, both professionally and as a couple. Whilst I do whine excessively on productivity and lack thereof, I do understand how privileged I am. Elise and I don't have normal jobs, we don't have a mortgage, and yet we own our own home. For a young ...
One third of the way through September now. Got a washer/dryer delivered this morning. Grabbed the Beko 1200 Spin Washer Dryer. Been literally months since we've done laundry. Luckily I did bring enough clothes with us to get us over that hump (not that it really would've been an issue to wash at Sue's, but preferred not to if we ...
While we recently bought a flat here in Bournemouth, this wasn't our first rodeo; we'd bought a fully detached house in Canada years ago, which we sold just a few months before parting ways with Toronto. What we learned from buying that first home honestly helped us out considerably when purchasing a property here in the UK. Yes, the ...