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Layers but in a pandemic!
Whilst 2020 is getting rid of everything that has never worked for us anyway by isolating and giving us enough time to do all of our RE’s, let’s take it back a few weeks.
I am definitely team naked and Miss less is more. But every few months I have to go through winter or cooler temperatures. And what’s the best way to slay whilst bundled up? Layers but make it vogue!
Please note that ‘make it vogue’ is an action word and not a naming word. You have to do the work on it, especially with layering.
3 things to not try:
Try not to drown in fabric. You are perfect the way you are, there are no mistakes in you!
Try not to copy and paste. Refer to affirmation: “I am perfect the way I am, there are no mistakes in me.”
Try not to be intimidated by playing around with your textures and refer to affirmation, rinse and repeat.
Try more, play more! 
3 Definites
Definitely add and take away length as you need to. Your needs and desires are valuable.
Definitely get least one weighted layers. This way you work smart and never hard.
Definitely wear gloves and accessories whilst slaying COVOID19 at the same time.
In this, our daily slay I definitely wore two layers of stockings. One was a winter stocking, the other was a bedazzled fishnet. I also wore a bodysuit to hold up the 2 layers of stockings because you know how thunder thighs and winter accessories always clash. I also wore a weighted winter faux fur jacket. And the skirt was also a replica of snakeskin but it was actually made of PVC or plastic and the print was printed through the material so you could feel it.
Pandemics don’t last forever and neither does the winter, but your layers are yours to peel back!
I’m lifehacking!
I am here for self-isolation, social distancing and quarantining. But what I am not here for is house chores every 20 minutes but I am definitely not here for cooking every 5 minutes. As a result, I have been lifehacking.
Timeline
Last month I bought a mini all in one vacuum cleaner. This new addition to my sole immediate family unit is one of the best additions I have ever made. I deep clean only once a week now and the vacuum helps me with the in-between management. My house isn’t as dirty as normal because I don’t leave my house and I do more regular in-between cleans than normal. Rule of thumb, if I use it, spill it or mess it up, I have to deal with it right there and then. This way I deal with anthills at a time instead of one big mountain at the end of the week.
This month I have been working on and practicing my meal prepping. Fun fact about me I hate cooking. But this does not mean I don’t know how to cook, I just don’t like it! Last week I made a Thai, vegetable coconut curry and this week I made Chana masala, aka chickpea masala curry. Those were my big cooking fetes. My smaller fetes were beyond meat burgers and this week pizza and dumplings.
Ingredients
For those who don’t know, I’ve been vegan for 6-7 years now. So my shopping list always has fresh fruits and veggies, plant-based milk for smoothies and granola. Then for variety, I’ll experiment with a plant-based meat alternative. I love seitan and the beyond meat mince was ok. It didn’t look too appetizing when I first defrosted it but a lot of spice and liquid smoke made me a believer.
Plan
The plan is to enjoy my time at home and to listen to myself. One of my 2020 goals was to enjoy the best parts of me, which is all of me. And coronavirus has just made easier for me. And I don’t want house chores and taking care of myself (because cooking and cleaning are ways of taking care of ourselves too) make me hate the different essential processes of taking care of myself.
And to make sure that I continue to take care of myself and enjoy the best parts of me I meal prep, vacuum clean in between the week and deep clean once a week. How are you enjoying this lockdown time?
Sick in love?
I wrote the March blog in under an hour 3 weeks ago. It’s titled ‘me, myself and love.’ Fortunately, the rest of the world quarantining and self- isolating is giving me writing material for days. Today we are going to deal with the Elba’s and they are sick in love.
Us in Virus?
Idris Elba jumped on the video to let black people know that the coronavirus was a real thing. He went as far as to shout black people for not taking the virus seriously. Or at least that’s how it came across to me but that was not my main concern. My main concern was that his wife was pretty much breathing the virus right from his nostrils.
Surely in sickness and in health means that one partner can be sick whilst the other does social distancing to support the other in their sick and not that both partners get the virus. Who is going to take care of them if they are both sick? What we see in this is that Sabrina believes is a firm believer in sick in love.
Meanwhile
Oprah interviewed Sabrina and Idris as Sabrina sucked the virus out of his lungs but Oprah put Stedman in the guest house as he had been traveling. Ok ladies! There’s more than just sick in love, crazy in love, being the FBI in love and all other kinds of dysfunctional in love.
The same Oprah that interviewed Sabrina about her COVOID19 status turned around and laughed at her recklessness. Because, how many men do you know who would do the same as Sabrina? And that same Oprah that laughed at Sabrina, put Stedman in the guest house because he had been traveling a lot recently.
There’s so much more
Before you decide to join the ‘pick me committee’ have you tried; healthy in love, spiritual in love, making money in love, academic in love, traveling in love, balanced in love, intentional in love, exercising boundaries in love, creating in love and did I mention healthy, balanced and growing in love?
Love is always a verb and if the verb you choose to participate in cuts the life span of who you are short, then it’s not love. I’m going to end this with a quote from Rupaul; “If you can’t love yourself, how the hell are you going to love somebody else?”
What’s the name for this?
I’m back in China and the internet is super slow, you know, censorship! Can you help me out and google the word that describes; the 1%, white people and the rest of the commoners who have some semblance of privilege; having a hard time being inconvenienced?
The 1%
So it’s not just me? You also noticed that most of the people infected and ‘badly’ affected by the novel coronavirus are members of the above. And they still don’t care about their actions. Take for example white people from South Africa. This is a plea they sent to the Government of South Africa because quarantine is equivalent to being held captive?
And their feelings!
Have you also noticed that these groups are also knee-deep in their feelings. About not knowing what to do with themselves? How about you try recalling how you made all of your billions? Rigging markets, tax evasions, poor employee payment structures and business models that exploit and oppress the majority so you can make a quick buck.
Their oversights!
And don’t get me started on members of the 1% making videos urging us commoners to do our bit and stay home. Meanwhile back at the ranch, they are busy infecting each other deliberately, unnecessarily and then interviewing each other about it!
But wait there’s more!
But did you hear about the 4 meters that are heading to earth come April? And word on the street is that there’s a new virus coming out of China, it’s called hantavirus. Something about rats, rat feces and the first person found with this virus died.
What’s the word for all of this and have we tried throwing a billionaire into a volcano to appease the universe. Because we are in debt and it’s only fair the billionaires fit the bill.
It’s time to restart humanity over again because everything we have come to rely on, DOES. NOT. WORK!