Meltdowns With Mazza

*I would like to preface this post by saying by no means do I think I am an expert on this topic. I simply wanted to put my thoughts down to help myself process my own feelings. If this helps anyone else or anyone reading can relate that is a bonus, but this merely reflects my own experiences and opinions.* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I recently lost my Grandma. Whilst she was an admirable 90 years old, house-bound and a sufferer of dementia, it was still a shock. In the passing days I found many people's first reaction was to tell me , "but it wasn't unexpected". Whilst I appreciate this comment coming from a place of love and want to comfort, I didn't find it helpful. No matter how much you know it will happen, nothing can prepare you for its occurrence. Even though my Grandma was old, I viewed her as the ever present matriarch of my family, sitting in her armchair and co...

In times when everything goes wrong, it's always nice to remind yourself of your shallow materialism. Like Ariana G. says, "Whoever said money can't solve your problems, must not have had enough money to solve them", which I don't. Nonetheless, sometimes meaningless things distract me from daily cr*p in a nice way, so I thought I'd share some of my faves (with less of a negative tone I promise).  Therefore here are some of my favourite things from the last month or so: 1. SAD Lamp not the sun but as good as- who needs to go out? Honestly, this should be called a happy lamp ( dad joke o'clock) . Not only does it wake me up in the morning and make me less grumpy it provides ideal lighting for makeup and a cheeky selfie, which is absolutely what it's meant to be used for. But for real, if you live in a dark and dingy room like me and don't get much sunlight during the day, or find yourself experiencing lower moods in winter months, any lamp...