Minor Doses

An audit of the last ten years [january favorites]

January 31, 2026

The 2016 throwback moments happening

I was so thrilled to work on my blog for the remainder of 2025, but frankly, I decided to lay low when I learned my boyfriend's ex-girlfriend was stalking my entire online presence. She would use content from my blog and my social media to verbally attack him over text, and I didn't want to give her more ammo as our relationship progressed. Since she's learned of my existence, she's successfully relayed to him most content she's seen on my TikTok and Twitter accounts dating back from June 2025, to which he doesn't care for. We're together everyday anyway. Part of me feels like she hasn't stopped looking, and it might alarm my boyfriend with another bombardment of texts accusing him of letting me "talk shit" about her on a public platform.

I didn't want to say anything about this, but it's the main reason I gradually became inactive online, or at least that's what it appeared to look like. Privacy is a true luxury, but in my case, it became a necessity after learning about all the things she's said about me. I read all of them, and they were quite vile, especially coming from someone who's from a well-rounded background. I truly hope she stopped scanning through my social media accounts for good.

Despite all that, I'm still thrilled to continue the rest of the new year. The last year brought in a lot of endings, but also a handful of new beginnings. The main thing I worked on in 2025 is continuing my recovery by working towards self-sufficiency. That work will continue this year, as I try to become financially secure and attain a more satisfying work life. For personal goals, I think I'll expand on that in a different post, as goal-setting is a favorite pastime of mine.

I'm relieved to be able to post this. I hope a lot of you will continue to catch up with my blog. Happy new year!!!!!!!

January 21, 2026

Where have I been?

Wearing a bodysuit for losangelesapparel.net

July 9, 2025

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minor doses is an 'nsfw' personal lifestyle and beauty blog. i created this as an exhausted response to constant flagging of my posted content deemed sexual or vulgar by social media platforms.

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March 18, 2025

Hello!

March 18, 2025

anyway, i don't have much to say regarding my sobriety. at least not to a public audience yet. i suppose i'm afraid of judgment. that, and my focus is all on catching up with life after nine years of reckless drinking and using. i think i'll talk about it in the future. who knows. for now, i just wanted to lay the groundwork for my first website ever. welcome btw! :) at the time of this writing, i spent the last six hours simultaneously website building and blogging. safe to say, i know what a dns is now and i have a newfound respect for website builders. real website hosting is not as straightforward as it seems! regardless, i'm delighted to publish this blog and start writing more. i have a rough draft of topics, but i'm always open to ideas so hit me!

anyway, i don't have much to say regarding my sobriety. at least not to a public audience yet. i suppose i'm afraid of judgment. that, and my focus is all on catching up with life after nine years of reckless drinking and using. i think i'll talk about it in the future. who knows. for now, i just wanted to lay the groundwork for my first website ever. welcome btw! :) at the time of this writing, i spent the last six hours simultaneously website building and blogging. safe to say, i know what a dns is now and i have a newfound respect for website builders. real website hosting is not as straightforward as it seems! regardless, i'm delighted to publish this blog and to start writing more. i have a rough draft of topics, but i'm always open to ideas so hit me!

we ended the night by getting dessert at honeymee. my favorite from the menu is strawberry affogato with boba and corn flake toppings. kelley drove us around in her car as i talked about lovers and could've been lovers. i was particularly speaking about this one guy, probably because my friend mentioned wanting to go to the same coffee shop him and i first met in the same neighborhood.

we only saw each other briefly. the last time i saw him was the first few weeks of december. i met him in his apartment's balcony to smoke after an hour-long tryst. we sat across each other between a massive cast table. while he went on a spiel about his 'mates', i ravenously gulped down a hailey bieber smoothie. suddenly he fell silent, so i looked up to his direction. at that point, i already knew he's an actor and he even has people thirsting for him, but i swear to god in that moment i felt smitten by his presence. his eyes were fixed into the cityscape as his hand slowly pulls the cigarette from his mouth. the man looked exactly like jude law when he starred in the talented mr. ripley, yet somehow hotter with his light brown curls floating against the cold breeze. i was left speechless.

on our first date, he asked me what i wanted and was looking for. i said i didn't want anything serious. he looked a bit defeated with my answer, but he chalked it up to me wanting to be available. i wish i felt brave enough to tell him i changed my mind.

after the spa, we headed to korean tapas to fill our bellies with protein. i tried a ginko nut skewer for the first time. the way i would describe its flavor and texture would be like eating an almost flavorless mochi with an herbal after taste. i highly recommend pairing it with beef short rib.

Today i hit one year with my sobriety. for a milestone like this, a lovely dinner with friends seems fitting to celebrate. if i'm being frank though, group dinners make me so uneasy i want to leave once an hour passes, even when i'm the one being celebrated.

i invited kelley, my friend of ten years, to join me for an evening of ease and perspiration to a women's spa in koreatown. by the time she arrived, ten minutes after i did, both of us were itching to strip down to wear the victoria's secret-pink striped robes provided by the spa. while rinsing off in the shower room, we quickly agreed to make this spot our third place. a space for elaborate weekly beauty maintenance and to rest our aching muscles and joints.

the jade steam room is my favorite for my pores, and the himalayan salt room is where we spent most of our time. the longer we laid on the salt floor, the more we stressed needing to go back as early as next week.

"isn't it so cool that all we do on our free time is go to the gym, take care of ourselves, and eat good food?" kelley asked as she drank her second cup of water outside the salt room.

i giggled and said "yeah, we're world building for our sex and the city arc."