Hi friends, happy Friday! So glad you’re here. Oh my goodness, it is so hot and humid over here. I just got home from work and had to jump straight into the shower before I could even sit down to write about a few of my favourite things from the week.
Now that I’m feeling squeaky clean, I can think a little better.
Ok, so let’s get into it. Today I have five quick favourite moments from my first week back at work.
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First up, I’m so happy to share that this week has been a positive start at work. After feeling more than a bit unsure, it has been really nice to ease into the week and feel that things are heading in the right direction. I don’t want to say too much and jinx anything, but I’m tiptoeing my way into feeling optimistic about this preschool year. Phew!
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Hello, shiny new coffee machine! Normally, it’s instant coffee for us at work, so this feels like a major upgrade. I’m enjoying figuring out which strength and blend I prefer, and yes, this machine stores your own coffee profile. I had no idea this was even a thing. This is my first real experience in the world of coffee machines, as I only have a plunger at home.
I’ve had more coffee than usual the past couple of days and had to cut myself off before heading down the road to heart palpitations—yikes!
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On Monday, I shared that one of the positives of going back to work was that I eat a lot healthier. While I often look at my salads and wish that I had the power to turn them into a Big Mac, I know that this is better for me.
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Thursday afternoon, Sam texted that he had arrived safely in Bali. Maybe one day I’ll get used to it, because I have a feeling he’s going to be someone who loves to travel. But I don’t love it when my boy is way up high on a plane. Even though I know flying is the safest mode of transport, I can’t help feeling anxious. I’m also not sure if it’s helpful to track him on Flight Radar, but I did anyway.
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Steve and I went out for happy hour at Humphrey’s. Cheers to Sam and his friends landing safely!
That’s week one, term one, done and dusted. This work week went way better than I expected, and I couldn’t ask for more. Well… yes, I can—I want more weeks like this one, please!
Now it’s time to enjoy the weekend, which looks like a very quiet one at home. I don’t have any plans, and I think I’m ready to watch the last season of Stranger Things. I’ve been holding off because I didn’t want it to end, but the longer I leave it, the more chance there is of getting spoilers, right?
Sydney Sweeney brought major thirst-trap energy to the streets of Downtown Los Angeles this week.
Cameras flashed as the 28-year-old actress posed in front of a popular LA theater, flaunting pieces from her new lingerie line called Syrn.
Fans said she is a “Goddess doing goddess stuff,” while critics tsk-tsked, saying: “She really is trying hard to become a multimillionaire for sure at all and any cost.”
Highlights
Sydney Sweeney is enjoying the words “sold out” all over her website.
The actress launched a lingerie line called Syrn this week and had a photoshoot in LA to flaunt some of its pieces.
She was captured posing in front of a vintage car, parked outside the LA’s United Artists Theater.
During a recent interview, Sydney spoke about her brand as well as her idea of what “romantic love” is.
Sydney Sweeney brought major thirst-trap energy to the streets of Downtown Los Angeles
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Sydney Sweeney broke the internet when she unveiled her new lingerie line, Syrn, this week.
Her debut collection, Seductress, has already sold out, with only a Syrn gift card available for purchase on the website.
“Our first drop SOLD OUT,” read a message from Syrn on social media on Thursday. “We are beyond grateful for all the love and support we received these past few days, it truly means everything to us.”
They said they were “working hard” to restock the collection as soon as possible and couldn’t wait to “continue showing you the rest of the SYRN worlds.”
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The Euphoria star flaunted pieces from her collection on the streets of LA this week, giving old-Hollywood paparazzi vibes with a touch of modern-day thirst trap.
Standing in front of a vintage car, Sydney wore a Syrn lace br* ($89), a matching thong ($19), and a garter and garter belt ($22).
All this, she topped off with a burgundy fur jacket that fell off her shoulders.
Her debut collection Seductress reportedly sold out within hours of its launch on the Syrn website
Image credits: syrn
The camera, in the hands of photographer Ellen von Unwerth, captured the actress in front of the LA’s United Artists Theater.
“Syrn the Seductress,” read the marquee she posed underneath.
Fans went ga-ga over the pictures, with one saying, “Absolutely my favorite shoot ever.”
“I bought the whole set in black sooo pretty,” said another.
Naysayers took a different tone, saying she’s “unbothered by anything happening in the world.”
Image credits: syrn
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“Well, they didn’t want her in jeans,” one said, making a reference to her controversial American Eagle Outfitters campaign from last year.
“She’s a queen. She couldn’t careless how people view her. She’s a millionaire who will keep making bank,” said one fan.
“She’s beautiful,” wrote another, “and she’s selling beautiful lingerie! I say Go for it.”
Standing in front of a vintage car, Sydney wore a Syrn lace br* ($89), a matching thong ($19), and a garter and garter belt ($22)
Image credits: syrn
The White Lotus actress said Syrn was born out of her own frustrations of finding correctly-fitting undergarments for her younger self.
She said if the garment is something she wouldn’t wear, then she “wouldn’t want to make it.”
“In sixth grade, I was a 32 DD, and I remember going to the store to get my first wire br*. It was silk and the only br* I felt good in. I literally wore it to the point that it had holes in it,” she told Cosmopolitan.
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“I brought it into my SYRN office and was like, ‘This is how much this br* has meant to me,’” she continued. “It has stood by my side my entire life.”
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Sydney said it was important for her to cater to all body types, and hence, included 44 sizes from 30B to 42DDD in her collection.
The first-to-drop collection Seductress is expected to be followed by three more: Comfy (explained by the name itself), Playful (a collection of loungewear-meets-lingerie pieces like boxers and shorts), and Romantic (a drop expected to include garter belts, sheer teddies, and more).
The actress said she wanted Syrn to “stand for the power of choice.”
“People will say, ‘Oh, she’s doing this for guys’ or ‘Oh, she’s a guy’s girl.’ But I’m like, ‘What is more girl’s girl than owning your body and doing it for yourself?’” she said.
She said she wants the wearer to have the “choice,” whether it is “for them, for somebody else, or for a camera lens.”
“People will say, ‘Oh, she’s doing this for guys’ or ‘Oh, she’s a guy’s girl,’” the Euphoria star said
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The Housemaid star said she has an “amazing diverse team” and all her designers are women, whereas her models are a “beautiful range of body types.”
“I’m always like, ‘I want to see it on every body.’ I can’t be the only model. I need to make sure everyone feels really good in it,” she added.
In the same interview, she was asked about what “romantic love” felt like for her.
“Like freedom,” she replied. “You know in The Princess Diaries when Anne Hathaway says that when she kisses the guy she knows she’s supposed to be with, her foot will flip up? That’s what love feels like.”
“The lights will magically turn on. The birds will start flying. The fountains start sh**ting water,” she continued. “Love is a Disney movie.”
Image credits: syrn
Sydney, who got engaged to Jonathan Davino after years of dating and then broke up in spring 2025, said she is “still figuring out love.”
“It’s hard to do that with millions of people who have their own opinions of what that looks like,” she said.
“At the same time, for all of my 20s, I put my head down and focused on work,” she continued, “and now I want to experience things. But it’s hard deciding that I want to experience love in the public eye. I’m just navigating it all.”
“Bunch of men gonna go buy their wife some of her lingerie now,” one commented online
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Hi friends, it’s great to be back linking up with Shay for What’s Up Wednesday. The last time I joined was back in September last year. Then everything got on top of me with work, and I had to put a pause on blogging.
After a lovely summer break, I’m excited to be back and hoping for a much better year at work. We’ve had two staff development days, and tomorrow we meet the new children starting preschool. Not going to lie, I’m a bit traumatised after last year, but it’s going to be okay, isn’t it?
Anyway, I’ll stop the nervous babbling and let’s get onto sharing a little about January. Thanks so much for stopping by.
January What’s Up Wednesday
WHAT WE’RE EATING
One of the best things about staff development days is getting to enjoy a catered lunch as a team. This time, we had salads, mini chicken schnitzel burgers, and fruit. My insides are already thanking me for all of these fresh, healthy choices.
Last night, my husband cooked Veal Chasseur with mashed potatoes and green beans.
Tonight he made a chicken stir fry with vermicelli noodles.
Tomorrow night we’re going out for dinner, and after that I have no idea what we’re eating on Friday or over the weekend. I think I’m taking a break from meal planning this year. With Steve cooking three nights a week, we just chat about those nights, and the rest of the time, I’m winging it.
WHAT I’M REMINISCING ABOUT
I’ve been missing the days when my kids were little, and we all lived under one roof. Wow, those days flew by so fast! There’s an eleven-year age gap between my boys, and when they were younger, I often wondered if we had rocks in our heads for waiting so long before having another baby.
It wasn’t always easy having a teen and a toddler at the same time, and they weren’t always the best of friends back then. Thankfully, that all changed. Even though my eldest has moved out, they love each other, are in regular contact, and my youngest looks up to his older brother for all things life advice, world political news, and, of course, anything to do with gaming.
WHAT I’M LOVING
Sitting on the verandah in the warm sunshine.
WHAT WE’VE BEEN UP TO
We kicked off 2026 by booking a trip to Singapore and Japan. Yay!
I painted the living room with a fresh coat of white paint.
Over the summer holidays, we enjoyed eating out at our favourite places and tried some new ones too.
We tried Jimmy’s Kitchen, a Greek restaurant at the rocks, and I think this was one of our new favourite discoveries. The food at Jimmy’s Kitchen was delicious, and walking around Sydney Harbour at night was magical. Seeing the Opera House lit up never gets old.
We enjoyed a small Cousin Connect at our place in January, as most of the cousins were away.
WHAT I’M DREADING
Sam’s off to Bali for 7 days with his friends tomorrow. I wouldn’t exactly say I’m dreading it, but I know the worrier in me is going to be… well, worried. I know he’ll have an amazing time, and he’s doing what young people do—enjoying an adventure with his friends. It’s all part of life, and I’m really happy he has this opportunity. But I’ll be so glad when he’s back home.
WHAT I’M WATCHING
I’ve been watching The Nanny, and now I’ve got my husband hooked.
WHAT I’M LISTENING TO
I’m back to listening to Lovefly podcasts to get ready for our Cousin Connect adventure. Did I mention I’m scared of flying? Probably only about a million times.
WHAT I’M WEARING
Now the holidays are over, it’s back to work clothes for me. I have a capsule summer wardrobe made up of comfortable pieces from Uniqlo. It’s usually a black, white, or green t-shirt with linen pants or shorts… and then repeat.
WHAT I’M DOING THIS WEEKEND
I have zero plans at the moment.
WHAT I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO NEXT MONTH
It’s birthday month for me, and I’m keeping up the tradition of doing something special every week for the whole of February. Just a few spontaneous things I wouldn’t normally do, nothing big. I started this after my work buddy, who celebrates her birthday the day before mine, told me all about how she does it. She shared it with me after I was complaining about getting older.
And just like that, January is almost over. How was your January? I hope it was a good one 😊
“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve,” Jon Krakauer writes in his bestselling book about adventurer Chris McCandless, Into the Wild, “to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.”
And since the rest of us have to interact with them every day, whether it’s at work, in school, or simply in a line at the store, we decided to collect a list of things young people have said that made them seem a little disconnected from reality.
Not to suggest that the new generation is somehow worse than the older ones, but simply to remind ourselves that figuring out the world takes time and requires a bit of patience from everyone around.
I asked an intern to help me enter data into spreadsheets for an environmental project we had due soon. This was at an environmental consulting firm. Them: “I am going to pass on that work task because I don’t see that as something I need to do within the realm of what I plan for my career path.”
Mikhail Nilov , FlowingNotForcing Report
I’ve worked in education since 2008. The number of kids who literally think they’re going to make it to the NFL, be a TikTok star, etc., is mind-blowing.
greenwish _ , reddit.com Report
I had to stop using cursive at the last place I worked because most of the staff, who were all under the age of 25, didn’t know how to read it.
Abner Navarro , spytez Report
Overheard from 19-year-old coworkers, “I think I’m going to wait to get Botox until I’m old, like 25.” I’m not sure what they think is going to happen in 6 years, but if they lay off the tanning beds and the vapes, they should not need Botox.
cottonbro studio , censorkip Report
A teenager once told me, “I don’t understand why you don’t have TikTok.” I explained that I prefer to spend my time reading books, and they responded, “But… Why?” The sheer lack of understanding of alternative interests was pretty out of touch.
I told a couple of 18-year-olds that I don’t have Instagram. They called me a liar and said if I didn’t want to be friends, I should just say so.
Abdulkadir Emiroğlu , jarboxing Report
We had a young guest speaker at work who was there to speak to us about mental health. She advised us that if there was a task that we weren’t up for, we should tell our bosses that we weren’t mentally equipped to complete that task that day. For the record, we’re teachers. And her examples were tasks such as lesson planning, grading, and talking to students – the main point of our jobs.
Max Fischer , IllustriousCabinet11 Report
“You wouldn’t have been laid off if you were good at your job. Layoffs don’t affect the ones who are good at their work.” Pipe down, Ashleigh. You just focus on showing up on time before throwing those stones.
CadoMaestro , forever_29_ish Report
That they feel sorry for us, AI does all their homework and reports, we didn’t have that. I responded with, “True, but we actually learned things.” The kid said, “Why does that matter?”
Matheus Bertelli , Fickle-Secretary681 Report
I work at a university. A 20-year-old student came to see me to ask if I would be his dissertation supervisor in the next academic year. I said I couldn’t, since I would be leaving at the end of the semester (to work at another university). He looked me up and down with dawning realization and said, ‘Oh, right, yeah, I guess you are retiring?’. I was 35 at the time.
Pixabay , J8766557 Report
Told me he wanted to become a farmer because that seemed like a “chill, easy job”. I think his only experience was from playing Farmville on his phone.
Anna Tarazevich , Psychotic_Jester Report
Rich people have it harder than poor people because rich people are more “isolated,” hence lonelier.
Jimmy K , Notmuch__1 Report
When I was young, I refused a lot of opportunities because I wanted to do a certain job. I was so clouded with my own understanding of how the world worked that I sabotaged myself. I could have easily made good money in my early 20s. But I had this mindset on how I wanted to do things and how I wanted things to happen. I was out of touch.
Monstera Production , reddit.com Report
It just blows my mind how many people under 30 complain online about feeling old and used up, or they feel like it’s too late to find another path in life. Apparently, feeling old is something for young people to do. I’m 40+ and feel like my life has just begun.
Gustavo Fring , Historical_Guess2565 Report
“I don’t go to the doctor or dentist, so I don’t need health insurance,” said my 25-year-old stepdaughter when I advised her that, legally, at 26, she’d need to have her own insurance. Edit. To give more context. We were talking about therapy, which she wanted to do after a long discussion. But she didn’t want to pay for it, and we, her parents, offered to cover what wasn’t covered by insurance. She is a grown adult all on her own when she left for college. For the first couple of years of college, she’d have visits for healthcare when she came home until she said she didn’t want to go anymore and refused. As a legal adult, I can’t control whether she goes for healthcare.
8pCarlos Morocho , FruityStrawberry3119 Report
I had a new temp tell me he doesn’t get why I wouldn’t give my social security number on the phone to the power company in the staff break room. He laughed at me and said I was being too paranoid, and no one cares what some government number is.
Mikhail Nilov , Pm_me_clown_pics3 Report
Told me that he will never go to work and will instead make money by investing. I asked where he would get the money for investing a large enough sum to live off of it.
Alesia Kozik , tommykiddo Report
The 27-year-old parent of a 13-year-old student told me that she was the only one allowed to tell her child what to do, and if her daughter didn’t want to do her math homework, then I was not to “punish her with bad grades.”
Vanessa Garcia , tiffy68 Report
Comments about why I didn’t choose different options in life. I don’t think young people today understand how isolated we were in very small rural towns prior to the internet. I grew up in a town with fewer than 2000 people that was almost a two-hour drive from an actual city. Our town library was a collection of books that a lady got together in an old trailer. We didn’t have cable TV most of my childhood; we didn’t even have consistent TV reception back then. I literally did not understand the world outside that town until I got into the military and left.
Jonas Thomann , MotherofJackals Report
A teenage girl told me that she wasn’t worried about her GCSE/exam results because she would just marry a rich man. She wasn’t very happy when I asked her what would happen if she couldn’t find anyone who wanted to marry her.
Emma Bauso , readlikeanerd Report
I was struggling to pay bills, and a friend was like, “Don’t worry, your mom and dad care about you, they’ll pay them for you”. I told her I wanted to be a self-sufficient adult, and my parents didn’t have the money to cover my bills anyway. Her mind was blown.
JJY Media , Ithelda Report
When I was a stepmother to a teenage boy and caught him stealing money from us, I got his dad to take his phone away for a period of time. He flipped out before going to school one day and said, “What am I supposed to do in class??” I said, “I don’t know, learn? Listen to your own thoughts?” He said, “YOU TRY LISTENING TO YOUR OWN THOUGHTS.”
Andrey Matveev , potsandpole Report
“Millennials never take responsibility for anything, the housing market, the environment, or the economy. They blame everything on boomers.”
Gaby Lopez , Asherwinny107 Report
“I want to go back to an easier time like the 50s or 80s when things like this didn’t exist,” ignoring that a lot of people didn’t have civil rights spanning those decades.
Amine İspir , SeeYouInTrees Report
“I’m NOT taking a job at Orange Theory… I have a college degree!” – An unemployed recent psych undergrad with restaurant and retail experience to me. Cool…
Yan Krukau , Creepy-Floor-1745 Report
Almost anything to do with history. I once saw a teen tell an Asian person that rice was “pretty new” to the American diet and that “40 years ago” (so, the 1970s), “most Americans would have heard of rice, but very few would have it in their pantries, and most had not tried it”. Rice. The kid thought rice was a “new, exotic food” in the US… In the 1970s.
MART PRODUCTION , tunaman808 Report
When a young person says they don’t vote, I get upset. Everyone should learn about their rights, responsibilities, and how their lives are affected by each level of government. It is more important now than ever to make informed decisions on what you want your future to look like. Around the world, our rights and freedoms are in danger. Young people will be impacted the most by decisions made by the voters in their jurisdiction. They need to be more involved.
Edmond Dantès , jamaicanadiens Report
I had a classmate when I was 17 whose father came to collect her from school one day. “Oh God, he’s come in the Porsche instead of the Range Rover, that’s so embarrassing.”
Aryan Prajapati , HelloStranger0325 Report
“I guess there are poor people in Jamaica, but they are so happy! They’re used to being poor. They’re not hungry. They can always just eat a coconut!” We were both around 19 years old, and I was at a party at her house. We had just met. After we were done talking, I wasn’t invited back, which was fine by me!
Laura The Explaura , No_Goose_7390 Report
In college, I had a friend who was looking for apartments near our campus, and she came across multiple listings that were close by and under $1000… While showing me pictures, she said, “Wow, look at this, $800 for this whole house.” At first, I thought she was joking, because I thought there was no way in hell she could think that a 4-bedroom, 2-bath, newly built townhouse would be $800. I had to hold back my annoyance as I calmly explained to her that these listings were for bedrooms with shared common spaces around the house. She looked distraught and disgusted by the fact that people would “lie” on the internet and “lure people in with photos of the entire house, making them believe they could have it all.” Not the smartest pickle, but she was a nice girl.
Harrison Haines , Adventurous-Run-5920 Report
He thought that because I didn’t pay to listen to music, I was pirating it, even though I clearly wrote in my post that I watch music videos on YouTube or listen to the radio. He didn’t understand that musicians distributing music in that format got their money from advertisers rather than from subscriptions. The whole thing would have been hilarious if it hadn’t been so sad. The younger generation thinks the only legit way to consume content is through subscriptions. They have no clue how to be frugal and find free and completely legal means to listen to their music.
Sanket Mishra , mekat Report
Debating at this Christmas party, it was my cousin’s in-laws. My mistake for debating children; I’ll admit to that (they were high schoolers). Anyways, I was stating facts and frustrating them; their epic comeback was “you don’t know anything, how many Instagram and TikTok followers do you have?” So my points were invalid because I have 100ish followers on Instagram, all of whom I know, and they had thousands of followers liking their thirst trap photos.
Omkar Patyane , throwthatoneawaydawg Report
“What do you mean you don’t have summer off? They make you work during summer?!?” Yes, child. Adults don’t get summer break. You know, when you go to the grocery store or the movies all summer? Those people are working. I have to work just like them. The child was 17. Their mind was blown.
Hi friends, I hope you all had a lovely weekend. With the holidays coming to an end and work starting again tomorrow (waaaahhh!!!), I thought I’d share my five favourite things about being on summer holidays. And because I’m trying really hard to be positive, I’ll also share my five favourite things about going back to work.
My Five Favourite Things About Being on Summer Holidays
Time
Oh my gosh, having time to do things is probably my favourite. It’s the best feeling when you know that if you don’t get something done one day, it’s totally okay, because there’s always the next day… and the next.
No Alarm
Waking up naturally without an alarm is pure luxury. Tomorrow I’ll be back to turning on my usual three alarms for 6, 6:30, and 7. Seven is the absolute latest I can get up, and it’s always set to the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly theme music because if I get up any later than 7, it’s going to get real ugly.
Getting Things Done Around the House
I keep a pretty consistent cleaning routine. But nothing beats having the time to get stuck into jobs like washing the sofa covers and curtains, decluttering a cupboard, or painting the living room. I think painting the living room tops the list for me these holidays. This was a chore that I had been putting off for the last few years. So I feel like a real hero ticking this one off the list!
Just Being at Home
I’m such a homebody, and I love, love, love being at home.
Going Out
This homebody also loves to go out, so it was fun to do shopping trips into the city, dinner dates, and even just popping up to the supermarket felt like a treat. Although these holidays, I spent most of the time at home.
Five Favourite Things About Going Back To Work
Okay, so now onto my five favourite things about going back to work… zero. Oops, I said I needed to be positive. Let’s go.
I’ll See My Work Friends
I work with some pretty great people, and it’s always a highlight to catch up with them. I know I’ll walk in tomorrow and there will be a whole lot of hugging and excited chatter, and then we’ll begin the countdown until the next term break.
Walking
I feel a bit like a slug at the moment, and I know I’ve put on a couple of extra kilos. I’m looking forward to getting back to my fast-paced walks to and from work.
Back to My Favourite Classroom
This year, I get to go back to my preferred classroom. We swap rooms each year, and last year I was in the bigger room, which I didn’t love. It was awkward to arrange the tables and chairs, and much noisier because of the high ceilings and echoey space. Our centre isn’t purpose-built; it’s actually an old historic building converted into a preschool back in 1950. So I’m really excited to be back in the smaller, cozier classroom.
Healthy Eating
I’m looking forward to going back to fruit for morning tea and salads for lunch. Being at home, it’s so tempting to dip into snacks and treats all day. I need a good, forced detox, and going back to work is the only way.
My New Lunch Box and Water Bottle
Speaking of healthy eating, I got a fancy Kate Spade lunch box and drink bottle from my boys for Christmas. I love all things food-related, and now with my favourite new lunch set, I have even more reason to count down the minutes to my favourite part of the workday—my lunch break.
As hard as it is to let go of the holidays, I’m grateful to have a job, that my body is still able to keep up with the demands of being an educator, and that I work with some really lovely people.
The comics in Mef Ajulo’s “Third Servings” series drop you straight into the messy overlap that will be relatable to anyone who’s been involved in a family-run business, where patience runs thin, love stays constant, and chaos is always one customer away. Set largely inside a struggling family restaurant, the comic hits that sweet spot of painfully ordinary with the kind of everyday drama that doesn’t look dramatic until you’ve lived it.
At the center are siblings who bicker, tease, and occasionally do the bare minimum… but still show up when it matters. Helping out at their dad’s restaurant isn’t glamorous. The customers are exhausting, the money is tight, and the place is forever on the brink. Underneath the sarcasm and eye-rolls, though, there’s a steady loyalty holding it all together, and that emotional undercurrent is what gives the humor its bite.
Ajulo’s jokes naturally emerge from character dynamics and uncomfortable situations, while maintaining clean and expressive visuals.
Let us know in the comments which comic you liked or related to the most, and, of course, you can check out both of Ajulo’s comic series, “Third Servings” and “Matt,” on his Instagram page.
“Woke” originally meant being alert to racial prejudice and discrimination. However, over the past decade, it has evolved into a much broader awareness of social injustices. In pop culture and social media, being “woke” has been associated with even the smallest things – for example, your milk choice.
Well, today we’re aiming to blend the two sides of the “woke” concept to determine where exactly you stand. Ever wondered whether your social radar is taking a nap or going 100 miles an hour? We’ll go through 29 questions, some silly, some more serious, but worry not – no one is here to judge you. Either way, the journey’s half the fun, so let’s wake up and smell the oat milk!
🚀 💡 Want more or looking for something else? Head over to the Bored Panda Quizzes and explore our full collection of quizzes and trivia designed to test your knowledge, reveal hidden insights, and spark your curiosity.💡 🚀
Hi friends, it’s time to link up with Andrea and Erika to share some highlights from my week. Let’s go!!
One
One of my favourite moments this week was sitting on my verandah, soaking up some Vitamin D (good for my bones as I get older), drinking coffee, and jotting down dates in my new 2026 diary that my friend gave me for Christmas.
Two
The postman came while I was there, and I received a postcard from my cousin, who went to New Zealand five weeks ago. Haha, that’s snail mail for you! I’ve actually already seen her, but it was so nice of her to think of me while on holiday.
Three
When my boys were little, I would let them pick a box of sugary cereal for the school holidays. Now that they’re grown men and eat men food, I’ve kept the tradition for myself and buy a box of my favourite cereal, Rice Bubbles. I actually don’t even eat cereal except when I’m on holidays, get up late (won’t say how late), and can enjoy it properly.
Four
I lit this cute candle I got from one of the preschoolers as a Christmas gift. It has a lovely scent, and the little gold propeller on top spins as the flame burns. The temperatures were much cooler this week, which is why I actually used a candle. I can’t even look at a flame on those boiling hot summer days.
Five
The cooler temps made me crave soup, so I made a chicken and vegetable one. I always add Parmesan cheese to mine after I heat it up. It’s something I learned as a kid from my mum’s best friend. We would all get together at their house, and while my mum chatted, I would play with her daughter, who is now my longtime friend, and for lunch we would have soup with Parmesan cheese.
I caught up with her last year at her dad’s memorial. Somehow, we got onto the topic of soup, not sure how, and we both said at the same time, “With Parmesan cheese!” She was amazed that I remembered. How could I forget such an incredible taste sensation?
Six
I saw a huge jar of pickles at Aldi and took a pic to send to the family group chat. We are a close family divided by our love for pickles. About half don’t like them, and half do. I’m team pickle all the way. But I didn’t buy this massive jar, that would be a bit too crazy.
Seven
Yum, a glass of Merlot and chocolates on Wednesday evening. We didn’t have any dark chocolate, so we cracked open a box of another thoughtful Christmas gift from a preschooler. Working as an educator has some big benefits, don’t you agree, hehe.
Eight
My favourite evening this week was when my eldest son and his partner came over for dinner. We started with some mini quiches and crumbed prawns before tucking into some family favourites. I made South American food, which I don’t normally make because there are too many steps and I have to follow a recipe.
While we enjoyed our entrees around the coffee table…
we watched a YouTube clip of Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada, and his speech from the World Economic Forum in Davos, and oh wow! I think this might be my most favourite of all the favourites. I loved that, as a family, we watched a truly memorable, historic speech, and it gave us hope.
And just like that, my five-week end-of-year break is coming to a fast end, bah! I start back next Tuesday after Australia Day. But shhh, let’s not talk about that and just get on with enjoying the weekend.
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