Hi guys, apologies for the late weekend post! One of my best friends came to town and I spent a day with her as I haven't seen her... since April, actually. We shared a flat back in Belgrade and I have great memories from back then. As always, I had a great time with her because I love love love her very much and I actually miss seeing her every day! Having my coffee made by her every morning before she sets off to work was another perk too. Other than that, my week was a mess. I interviewed a Berlin based fashion blogger for Plezir magazin, had a blast with her, she was so incredibly sweet, and then on the same day my phone died. Like, just froze and didn't react to anything. It had never happened to me before - my older phones would normally become a bit slow and wouldn't work as smooth as before, but I always had enough time to transfer all the photos, text messages (yes I'm a sucker who saves all the messages dear to my heart), contacts... Now it wasn't the case. It's all forever lost. I had more than 20 notes in my phones and I know they were important because I would delete one as soon as it became irrelevant. I can now remember only half of them. What if I actually miss something important because I had it written down in my old phone? Guess we cannot rely on technology all that much, after all.

Anyway, here are the links for your Sunday afternoon. Or Monday morning. Suit yourself ;)

Flirting with Minimalism

If I find an interesting challenge online, chances are I will try it out. We love challenges, don't we'?Though it tells nothing about how far I will come. Plank challenge, half way through. Abs challenge, not even that far. 30-day yoga challenge, well, eventually I finished it! Only because it took a lot more than 30 days, though. But all this shouldn't mean I (and you!) shouldn't even try because I know (OK - I suppose! Some positivity here...) I won't be as successful as I should be. So I found another one, ages ago! I loved it and bookmarked it right away. But I wasn't ready to take it until now.

If you'd like your surroundings and daily life to be with more purpose, and if the thought of being more present appeals to you, you might want to join me. Read on! 

Weekend Reads #35

Hi peeps, another weekend is juuust around the corner! What do you plan to do? If the weather permits some outdoor activities, I'd suggest those... and yes, sitting outside drinking coffee or even beer should be considered an outdoor activity. Sun will not be such a common guest in our daily lives soon, so let's make the most of its company. It's crazy how cold it's been in Germany these past few days - and my winter gear is back in Serbia. Oh, imagine the life where all your belongings are in one place. I might have mentioned this before, but my cozy winter slippers are in Slovenia. Slovenia! I've never been to Slovenia.

Well, enough with the rant - I can't change the weather, but I can have a positive thought in the morning that miiiight help me get through the day, as one of the links below suggests. Not that I actually do this, but you know, it might
be worth a shot ;) Here are some links for you.

Next Stop - Baku!

You remember when you were a teenager and were desperately waiting for a text message from that special someone, but it never came? Your phone was in your sight all the time. You even took it to the bathroom, but nope, no message. And let me just remind you that back then we didn't have social media and there was no way of telling if they saw our last message, let alone when they were last online! So you eventually gave up and lost hope.

Only to once forget about your phone for like half an hour, and when you then grabbed it afterwards, there it was: the desired text. Crazy, huh?! Well, something like that just happened to me. Didn't include someone I dream of, though. :)

Weekend Reads #34

I don't know if it's just me, but Fridays sneak up way too fast every week. So do Mondays. This late twenties thing is real. I remember how bored I was as a kid during the summer break (back then I preferred school). It just seemed it would never end! My mom told me time would pass by quicker when I'm older. I looked at her suspiciously. It doesn't make sense, I thought. But boy, was she right! It's funny: days seemed long when we had nothing to do with them. I wish I could go back and manage what seemed like a 36-hour day. And get all the naps I so long for. I hated napping when I was little. :) 

Anyway, here are the links for this weekend. Hope you have a good one!

Weekend Reads #33

Hi people! Wow. End of September - it basically means the year is over. This time last year I was in Italy, and this is a good time to remember my time in the best freaking country in the world. I'd give anything to have a slice of the true Neapolitan pizza, y'hear! But here I am in Germany. That's not bad either :) Any plans for winter getaways? You might want to read my blog post on traveling on the budget as the tickets might be quite cheap at the moment! Also, here's yesterday's post with some of my thoughts as a birthday girl. 

Anyway, here are the links for the weekend - I know it's basically over but, um, for a nice beginning of the week then?

A Few Thoughts of a 27-year-old

Hello there lovely people! 

Just wanted to check in - because I haven't for a while, obviously - even though my blogging calendar says I should have SO MANY TIMES. 

I'm 27 today, and what you see in the photo above is my breakfast. That's a weird tradition of mine I've been having for years now. Oatmeal, yogurt, fruit; that's the usual regime, but once a year I get to be silly (in this regard! I'm not talking about anything else :)) and just grab something nice and chocolate-y. Well hello you beautiful day! 

Weekend Reads #32

Hi everyone! Excited about the weekend? I'm gonna take some time to slow down and rewind - and to take a look at my photos. I haven't told you this, but I was in London last week because THIS YEAR WAS SO POOR IN REGARD TO TRAVELS AND I NEEDED ME SOME AIRPORTS AND LONG TIME NO SEEN FRIENDS AND EXPLORING AND STUFF! Sorry for yelling, but that's basically how I felt! London is one of my favorite cities in the world and I couldn't be any happier. I was bitten by the wanting-to-live-in-London bug - and I was bitten hard. Folks, I'm all about thinking how I can go work there. But I'll share more soon, even though I wasn't a proper blogger - I didn't take as many photos as I had hoped I would, because I was just too busy loving it.

But anyway, here are some interesting links for your weekend. Have a good one!

I'm a Tinggly Ambassador!

I don't know about you, but when I'm facing someone's birthday, graduation or even wedding, I have NO IDEA what to get them. And it doesn't have to do with how well I know the person. It can be my best friend or my sister, but I'm still paralyzed with cluelessness every freaking time. And when you're friends with many people, that can be troubling. Especially because I do care, and I do want to show them I've given a lot of thought into the idea of a present. 

Maybe somebody over at Tinggly had the same problem, but unlike me, saw it as an inspiration to make something awesome :) And I'm so thankful they did, because I have a great announcement to make today - I'm a Tinggly Ambassador! Woo! But let me explain what this means.

Weekend Reads #31

I counted and calculated a bit and realized that when Weekend Reads turn 1, it will be around #40, and not 52, which means I've missed entire three months! That's crazy! I know at times I was too busy to write the post (like last week - sorry!), but still, two months... that's a lot. I publicly promise to try and be way better in Year 2!

Also, from this month on, I'm planning to deliver a lot of content you will hopefully like and I'm super excited about it. I've landed an awesome collaboration I'm going to share about soon, and I'm so happy about it! I hope you will find it useful too, but more on that to come. Keep your fingers crossed because I've got SO MANY plans for the upcoming fall that I might use some good thoughts! 

I wish you guys a wonderful weekend, and now dig in these links.