PeSuit and Tie

  what i'm watching... sib and i found our series faves, very fitting for our personalities. i've been enjoying the kennedy kult with american love story  and sib is with the band - she also read daisy jones and the six  so we're catching up where we started a year ago. sleek minimalism of the 90s meets 70s grunge. guess what our middle ground consensus is - bridgerton season 4, part 2  and jane eyre  starring michael fassbender and mia wasikowska. it's normal to pace and scream into a pillow while watching bridgerton, right? if not, the brontë classic felt chillingly good, especially after the wuthering heights debacle.  okay, we also return to the modern times to wrap up the bridget jones saga  - and we watched bridget jones' baby and mad about the boy . the bridget jones soundtracks are super fun, i love each one. movie #3 felt a bit messy but we'll forgive it since emma thompson and patrick dempsey are in it. the final film - mad about the boy - wa...

  books of the week this week i read the october  edition of vogue adria  - which was in whole based on the concept of longevity.  last week shared paragraphs of articles i found thought-provoking and inspiring, this week i tie in more about the whitewashing of wellness. particularly with pilates . mind you, i think i've only done 3 classes max. i will say, i was wrong about the history of pilates (not completely, but i was not exactly correct). mr joseph pilates was a prisoner of world war i, and was in a british camp, not wwii. here's more accurate history of pilates, not just based on memory and tiktoks, from the article everyone in unison: pilates!  by  iva marić : at first glance, pilates on the reformer—or at least what we see flooded on tiktok and instagram—seems like a new invention. in reality, its foundation was laid by joseph hubertus pilates: as early as 1924 in germany, he patented a “device for physical exercises.” even earlier, during wo...

books of the week now that i've finished the period brain , i delved into my dad's library of books he's gotten at various book promotions at hometown - mainly political and wwii related. so i read about  huda jama , which i won't share much about, as croatian history is incredibly complicated - and i am no poli-sci professional.  up next, another political book about a priest's involvement with croatian freedom fighters before and during our homeland war - called osvit u slobodi  (translated a dawn in freedom). this book is very new, it's not even in goodreads. short, with some great patriotic quotes. i got to learn about some underdog freedom fighters too. my parents used to go to numerous book promotions at our local library, hence so many books at home, left unread. dad prefers the political ones, but my mom and i were never picky. this upcoming book, is a fable poetry book - called život(h)inj(ic)e  (i kinda don't know how i would translate this - but i...

another week of coffee dates, shopping, and enjoying the seaside, local cats, and countryside drives. the amount of secondhand smoke in the cafés gives me the same rush as if i'm still smoking cigarettes.  we took mom on a date to zadar , for some shopping and sightseeing. it was a fun day, a full itinerary - shopping at one mall, coffee break, a walk down the riviera, chestnuts as a snack, another mall, then kfc takeout (per dad's request).  our mom also wanted to treat us with a shopping haul for our birthday, and i wanted to stop at the store  borovo  - a croatian shoe store. they have startas  sneakers, think something between keds and sambas. borovo carries other beautiful shoes (flats, boots, etc), but i had my eye on some startas shoes. when i was in middle school, my mom bought me a pair with a marine pattern (blue and white stripes). i wasn't sure if i wanted a crazy pattern this time, but sib encouraged me to choose a more subtle shoe to style with mor...