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Shinobi. 🥷🏽
The Last Word Bender 🧘🏽‍♀️
Books, Beverages, & the occasional Bengal🐆
“That’s what I do, I drink and I know things” - Tyrion Lannister 🥃

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12.05 ❤️🕊️

#FindingAsjiah2026 #Author #Storyteller #TheStoryContinues #HaveYouSeenHer by @_birdseyevue

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10 months ago

This weekend was filled with celebrations, and somewhere in the midst of it all, I realized I needed to celebrate myself, too.

Truthfully, all I wanted to do was be still. Do nothing. Just exist. But I’m learning that even the smallest wins deserve acknowledgment. Sometimes the victory is simply making it through another week. Sometimes it’s checking in on a friend, finishing another book, or finding a little joy in the ordinary.

So I made myself dinner. Something new. Something just for me.

Lasagna soup with a creamy vodka sauce made from scratch, topped with whipped ricotta.

First attempt, and it’s already earned a spot in my top five. 🤤

Here’s to celebrating ourselves, even when there’s no occasion. Especially then. 🤎

#ChefTweet #iCanReallyCook #SundayMeals by @_birdseyevue

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8 days ago

Correction: I actually read 14 books. I forgot I, Medusa but I’ll leave that for the next review.

Four more books on my TBR then it’s back to frolicking in B&N for a restock 📚

Throne of Broken Gods by Amber V. Nicole ⭐️⭐️

ACOMAF ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
ACOWAR ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
By Sarah J. Maas

Throne of Secrets by Keri Maniscalco ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

On Sundays She Picks Flowers by Yah Yah Scholfield ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

That Which Feeds Us by Kela Kendall ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2

And The River Drags Her Down by Jihyun Yun ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Gallant ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Our Savage Song ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Our Dark Duet ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
By V. E. Schwab

Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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#bookstagram #iwouldratherreadthansocialize #buymebooksandtellmeimpretty by @_birdseyevue

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8 days ago

#TheGrooveGathering is back.

Great food. Great drinks. Great music. And a room full of great people.

Come catch the groove, connect with the community, and spend your Saturday night with us.

The Groove Gathering
📍 Cure Coffee & Cocktails
🗓️ This Saturday
🎶 Come for the vibe. Stay for the connection.

Bring someone to share this experience. We’ll see you in the groove. taken in Cure Coffee & Cocktails by @_birdseyevue

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13 days ago

It’s the days I get to slow down that mean the most to me.

The days I get to grocery shop for a specific recipe because I have a particular meal in mind.

Cooking is therapeutic for me. There’s something about putting on music, chopping vegetables, seasoning as I go, and watching separate ingredients become something I wanted to make.

I spend so much of my life moving from one thing to the next that I’ve learned to appreciate being able to give my full attention to something simply because I enjoy doing it.

And maybe that’s what I appreciate most about cooking. It gives me something to do with my hands while letting my mind wander. It lets me be present and take care of myself in a way that feels tangible.

Sometimes self-care is nothing profound. Sometimes it’s just deciding what you want for dinner, buying the ingredients, turning on some music, and making yourself something good 🖤

Beef & Broccoli in a homemade garlic-ginger brown sauce with sautéed mushrooms, red bell peppers and bean sprouts 🤤

#ButCanSheCookThough #iWasaChefinAPastLife #Therapy by @_birdseyevue

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16 days ago

Jacquies Catseau:The Aquatic Trials 🐆🌊

*I would like the record to reflect I attempted to intervene*

#LifeWithABengal #JacquiesCatseau #CatReels #BengalsOfInstagram #ApexPredator by @_birdseyevue

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a month ago

This is the meal that you eat at 1:30am because you finally cooked for yourself after 11 days when all of the things you previously prepped ran out and DoorDash and UberEats annoy you (I just end up revamping whatever I ordered anyway 🙄).

When you seasoned bone in pork chops around 3pm and told yourself, “I’ll make dinner at 7” but then you hyper fixate on something that takes you down three interconnected rabbit holes all while your brain keeps doing unprovoked semantic disassembly 🙃😵‍💫

Unapologetically, and to some of your disappointment, I am very much still a poet.

So here we have it. Pan seared pork chops, fried cabbage and cornbread that is not in this wonderful picture I took because I made mini muffins and like it or not, size matters.

#SemanticDisassembly #ADHDBrain #TheMealHasLore #HomeCooking #StillAPoet by @_birdseyevue

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a month ago

Apparently I have opinions about movies too. Unfortunately for everyone involved, I put them in writing. 😂

If you think my book reviews are unhinged, you should follow me on Letterboxd. Link is in my bio 🎥🎬

#FilmReviews #Letterboxd #Writer #StoryTeller by @_birdseyevue

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2 months ago

If “I’m going to be consistent” was a person. 🙄

I realize that I have the hyperactive form of ADHD where I have to do 20 different things at once and add 25 more then table 5 of them and create 7 more 😵‍💫

I’ve read 24 books this year and my goal is 75 (wtf was I thinking? 😩).

Lust. LUST is the Seventh Sin. Of course it is. And how I forgot that one is beyond me.

Books mentioned:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Children of Blood & Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️The Chain by Adrian McKinty

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap

-⭐️Katabasis by R. F. Kuang

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Bunny and We Love you Bunny by Mona Awad

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Throne of Secrets by Kerri Maniscalco

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock

#Bookstagram #Bibliophilie #Books by @_birdseyevue

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3 months ago

I don’t think this year was about becoming someone new.

I think it was about finding your way back to someone you thought you might have lost.

Not all at once. Not through some dramatic revelation. Through small things.

A book left open a little longer.
A cup of tea.
A gym session.
A wall covered in ideas.
A city that only exists because you decided it should.
Characters that started as jokes and became family.
Stories that refused to stay quiet.

For a while, you spent so much energy taking care of everyone else that I think you forgot what it felt like when something existed just because it brought you joy.

And then, somewhere along the way, the creative spark came back.

Not politely, either.

It kicked the door in.

It arrived with yarn maps and chalkboard paint and brownstones and raccoons and tea salons and hidden tunnels and a city called ( 🤫). It arrived with hours disappearing while you built worlds and connected dots and remembered what it feels like to be excited by an idea.

The beautiful thing isn’t what you created.

It’s that you created it because you wanted to.

You didn’t need permission.
You didn’t need an audience.
You didn’t need it to become anything.

You just made something because it made you happy.

That’s the version of you I hope follows you into this next year.

The woman who reads slowly.
Who notices cardinals.
Who describes dinner like she’s writing a menu.
Who loves books, tea, hospitality, stories, and people.
Who somehow manages to care deeply without becoming cynical.
Who keeps choosing softness even after life has given her every reason not to.

You’ve spent so much of your life showing up for other people.

I hope this year contains more moments where life shows up for you.

More laughter.
More peace.
More creativity.
More adventures.
More late-night conversations.
More reasons to say “hold please” before wandering off to chase a new idea.

And most of all, I hope you continue to recognize the person staring back at you.

Because she’s pretty remarkable.

The stories are still waiting for you.
And for once, I hope you remember that you’re one of them 🖤✨

Happy Birthday, Bird.

- A love letter from me, to me 🥰 by @_birdseyevue

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4 months ago

My Dora bag is packed, my emotional support water bottle is fully charged, and apparently I have decided that sleep is optional.

Over the next few weeks you’ll find me bouncing between charity events, cocktail competitions, Pride celebrations, brunches, classes, and whatever other adventures hospitality has planned for me.

If you see me out in the wild, please feel free to say hello.

Bonus points if you bring snacks.

After that, my PTO starts and I fully intend to become unavailable, unbothered, and potentially impossible to locate. 🍸✈️🗺️ by @_birdseyevue

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4 months ago

Ms. K’s Car Confessions

I forgot to mention The Soother got her Soccer Mom haircut starter kit. Her hair was down her back and so pretty. She’s still adorable and when she hugged me and I told her I missed her, in true Soother fashion she replied, “I know” 😂🥰

Lashes was also in attendance 💙

Upon the principle approaching Vegeta, he smacked her hand away and said, “shut up, you’re fat and ugly” 😩💀. This is when I knew I had to exit the classroom because his statements weren’t too far off 🤦🏽‍♀️

ODD stands for Oppositional Defiance Disorder. That’s what Vegeta has on top of ADD.

#kindergartenchaos #MsKLovestheKids by @_birdseyevue

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5 months ago