Requiem for Summer'23

- spending time with the family
- enjoying walks and food in New York with friends
- taking a trip to Atlanta with friends and staying at K house
- feeling nostalgia when eating kinder surprise
- swimming in the lake and laughing a lot with C
- watching a movie about graffiti culture in NY in late 60s and meeting new people
- having a lot of anxiety, but trying to focus on good things instead of bad things
- getting a gift in the mail all the way from Ireland
- remembering good times in Minsk Graffiti bar
- healing my sliced finger



Requiem for Spring'23

- spending honeymoon in Japan
- getting dinners with Olya and seeing each other more often
- visiting Nina in Jersey City for a hosted dinner, soulful conversations and wine
- catching up with friends
- spending time with in-laws and pretending to be a tourist for few days
- seeing Placebo show
- slicing my finger in a blender and getting 6 stitches
- getting a postcard from an owner of a little cafe in Nara, Japan
- fighting internal demons



Japan, part 1.

Requiem for Winter'23

- spending Christmas with family in Tennessee
- having Kirsten and R meet Biscuit in New York
- learning new recipes from Anna Voloshyna’s “Budmo” and Claire Saffitz’s “What’s for Dessert”
- spending a relaxation spa day in Philly with Olya
- enjoying early morning coffee with Nastya
- cooking eastern european classics for new year’s eve
- receiving miracle package with gitfts for Biscuit
- making weekend waffles tradition
- hosting my dear sweet Julie and introducing her to my family
- receiving the coolest gift from my dear coworker - robelife forever !
- drinking chilled red wine
- walking around New York
- reading books
- being much better with separating work and life, I haven’t opened work emails during weekends for about 2 months now (!)
- renting a very disappointing Airbnb and laughing about how silly that it
- preparing for the upcoming homeymoon
- seeing dearest coworkers for coffee and for drinks and catching up, jobs changes and people stay
- reuniting with distant family and visiting my cousin’s solo show in George Addams Gallery
- laughing for an hour with 2 complete strangers from Berlin
- learning things about mechanical keyboards
- celebrating birthday on the phones with friends
- dancing it all out at Yelle show