My name is Yasmin. I’ve just started this blog so please bear with me while I try to figure it out. Even though I’m a grown adult who has been around tech nearly my whole adult life, I still suck at it ! Sorry. I don’t even care. As long as this blog basically works I’ll be happy.
So why have I started this blog ? Good question. Well I’ve been reading this book by Denise Duffield Thomas called Chillpreneur (I know I know – more on why I’m reading that later) and her advice is to just start whatever it is you want to do NOW. It doesn’t have to be perfect and we don’t have to be perfect. And you know what ? Something just clicked with me. My whole life I’ve been making excuses about why Im not ready to do something and I need more work and blah blah blah, until I finally procrastinate myself right out of anything. So this blog is not perfect and I’m not perfect. I don’t know everything. I probably don’t know anything but I figure why not put what little I do know out there and maybe someone will like it and appreciate it. And then the universe can do its marvellous thing of just knowing what to do next. Universe ? Are you there ? Are you listening ? I’ve put myself out there so now please work your magic.
Anyway, now on to me…. so I live in London. And right now like almost everyone everywhere, I am in this creepy lockdown because of coronavirus. I mean it’s totally unprecedented and surreal. It’s scary as hell because nobody knows how this will all turn out and nobody really knows anything about this disease. We are all legitimately as screwed and as clueless as each other. I have two young kids who will be home with me for the foreseeable future and who are ENTIRELY reliant on me for their meals, health, happiness, entertainment, well being and probably most scary of all – their academic progress. That’s a lot of responsibility. I’m not a teacher and I don’t have the patience to deal with long division and phonics. On top of that I also have a day job and I’m a struggling entrepreneur (see Chillpreneur is starting to make sense now right ?). Luckily I’m not in this alone. My husband is struggling right next to me. So we bear the responsibility together.
While we are on lockdown I’ve been cooking 3 meals a day ! So much. I know we all have been and it’s exhausting. No more popping out to pret for lunch or ordering Deliveroo for dinner because nothing is open anymore ! If I could live on Dominos for the rest of my life I would but I’m not sure how happy that would make my husband 🤔. I am inherently lazy (see Chillpreneur is making loads of sense now) and so cooking all day every day and cleaning my house all the time, getting my actual work done, exercising (so I don’t become the size of a house) and schooling my kids is too much for me. But I don’t have a choice. None of us do. So may as well make the best of it. So on this blog I’m going to focus mostly on cooking. Maybe I’ll talk about exercise and schooling my kids. Maybe I’ll even share my wisdom ! that will be a really short post – don’t worry !! If you like what you read subscribe and reach out to me. We will get through this together. Stay safe. Y xx
