• Gratitude

    Weekly Gratitude: Friday March 19th, 2021

    Happy Friday mes amis (my friends)! If you saw Tuesday’s post then you know that France and French will forever hold a special place in my heart. True, my French is not so good, but I’m working on it and I’d like to incorporate some of it here from time to time. Hence, mes amis. I love the sound of that- plus, if you’re taking the time to read this then I do consider you my friend! This week seemed to fly by in the blink of an eye; I truly can’t believe it’s Friday again. Perhaps this is a good thing as my life feels like it’s at a…

  • Reflections

    Reflections on One Year of COVID-19 Lockdowns: Part I

    Happy Tuesday everyone. I hope the start of your week is off to a good note. Today’s post will be short but personal, and as the title indicates, it will be about COVID-19. I hadn’t realized this at the time, but I was listening to a podcast on March 11th when they mentioned it had marked a year since the WHO (World Health Organization) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Like many, I have a variety of feelings about this. I struggle to put my feelings into words but I did want to discuss them here so that one day, in a post-COVID-19 world, I can reflect back on these feelings;…

  • Gratitude

    How to Help Improve your Life with Gratitude

    Hey guys! Welcome back to Everything Ami. Today we will be talking about gratitude, which is pretty wild considering I never thought I’d practice something enough to talk about it with others. I’m not an authority figure on this subject, of course, just someone who used to be incredibly negative for the majority of their life, one day said “enough!” and has seen her life slowly improve since. Gratitude is a not a miraculous cure-all for the sorrows in our lives, but it can be a powerful tool to aid us when those sorrowful times do occur. I recognize it’s not an easy habit to develop if the concept seems…

  • Gratitude

    Weekly Gratitude: Friday March 5th, 2021

    Happy Friday everyone! Wow, is it really March already? I can’t decide if the past year has flown by or dragged on. Regardless, there’s no way around it: it’s March. What does that mean for you guys? What does it make you think of? For me, it makes me think of bittersweet times as I was living in France last March, going to university as usual, not knowing that soon after President Macron would announce one of the strictest country-wide lockdowns. I’ll never forget those last few weeks and all those ensuing feelings. Perhaps I’ll talk about that in a future blogpost. For now, let’s continue on to the second…

  • Beauty

    Karaya Polish: Apple of My Eye Swatches

    Hey guys! Welcome back to Everything Ami. Today I’ll be sharing a swatches of something that I never thought I’d show on my nails: a red nail polish. Red, white and black are shades that I don’t like to wear on my nails, in that order, each for a different reason. Red in particular I shy away from the most so to be sharing a red for my first nail swatch post on EA is quite surprising. With this said, this isn’t just any ol’ red; this is Karaya Polish in Apple of My Eye, with the most subtle, lovely holo running through it. Shown today is three buttery coats…