"True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me." - Gustav Klimt

Found this in Trader Joe's

I woke up super late today - at about 11am, it was GREAT. Exactly what I needed.

I ended up lying in bed for almost an hour just checking on my notifications and just reading online. It was quite nice and relaxing.

Eventually, I got up and then started off on my usual weekend walk and walked down to the grocery store (Trader Joe's, actually, there's one opening up in Murray Hill soon!) for the first time in about three weeks... It was a great walk, it was beautiful to

walk down the street since the weather was so great and warm.

I bought some delicious frozen groceries and some really crappy sushi (I was craving it so bad) and headed back on my walk home.

Crappy sushi :)

I got home and spent the rest of the day writing my blog, eating the crappy sushi and then marathon watching Scrubs.

I know there were a lot of different things I could have done instead today, but I think I just really needed a day where I could just hang out and chill and just really catch up on this thing.

This blog has been really quite ambitious since I'm doing it day by day, which means that I've written in this blog. It's going to be really interesting reading this at the end of this.

an insane amount of stuff

Feels good to relax and do nothing sometimes - especially if you haven't had a lot of time or the ability to relax...

Plus, I know sometimes it may be stupid for me to write about days like today where I hadn't done anything or seen anyone, etc. etc. But I believe every single day in this city and this place are completely amazing and a new adventure. Something new always happens!

"Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general." Jacqueline Emerson

First time I've ever seen
anyone pain a light

Friday is the chill day for me (sometimes). I started off by going into work and doing some stuff for my project and kind of just walking around.

My floor is a conference floor, and because of that, there is usually food around (Don't worry guys, I don't take it unless it's offered to me). The air smelled good and I was definitely sadder than I should have been. I ended up putting stuff together for the meetings and the conferences that the USG had to use for the day. After she left, I kind of tried to find my own work to do. 

At lunch, I ate some leftover pizza and just kind of hung out for a bit whilst getting all my information together. 

It was a bit of a casual day at work, which was nice and relaxing, but it also
made it kind of boring to try to do anything. 

Lots of people grabbing
ice cream!

At lunch (good thing I ate my pizza early) I headed over to a UN Women event called "Brownbag" where I listened to a woman speak about the issue of violence and child marriage against young girls (Wrote a paper on this recently) and I gotta say, it was pretty interesting to attend - even though I was a little late.

As I left the event, the first floor of the building (the News Building) was having an event that was sponsored by a real estate company so when I went
over, they offered me lots of ice cream and lemonade, which was great to really cool me down in this weather... Then headed back to work and shared some of my ice cream with a co-worker. It was the first time I was able to educate her on Magnum bars. 

After work, I decided for the first time that I did not want to go to the Delegate's
Lounge, I wanted a nice chill night. So I invited my friend over from the Canadian Mission to have a night of movies, dinner and chill - especially from the hectic night we had before.

They gave me so much...

Made it myself!

I left to walk around the city for a bit and take a look at all the stuff around, passing by Bryant park and bam! I was given free ice cream. Lots of it. They gave me a bunch of haagen-dazs samples, vanilla, chocolate and ... pina colada? I mean, hey, as an intern no complaints.

I headed back home and cooked up a storm! Made some orange chicken with pasta and had some chips + dip and then watched some good cheesy movies, like the Prince and Me and Legally Blonde. 

And then a PUPPY SHOWED UP and hung out with my friend and I for a bit. 

All in all, a good chill night.