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  • Nobody Told Me When to Start. That Was the Problem.
    Remote Work

    Nobody Told Me When to Start. That Was the Problem.

    ByDee 03/04/202603/04/2026

    No office means no one tells you when to start, when to stop, or when you’re allowed to be done. Remote work sounds like freedom until you realise you’ve spent the morning in bed avoiding the exact problem that’s still waiting for you at noon.

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  • The Grey’s Anatomy – Season 1
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    The Grey’s Anatomy – Season 1

    ByDee 02/04/202602/04/2026

    Grey’s Anatomy Season 1 Books Watching Grey’s Anatomy twenty years ago, I thought it was just drama. Now I realise it was quietly teaching me how to live. Looking back, I see pieces of myself in that chaos – still learning, still stumbling, but somehow, still moving forward. 01 “Rule Number One: Don’t Bother Sucking…

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  • The New Year We Spent Failing at Fishing (And Why It Was Perfect)
    Slow Travel

    The New Year We Spent Failing at Fishing (And Why It Was Perfect)

    ByDee 02/04/202602/04/2026

    We drove three cars to Raglan for New Year’s Eve, pitched tents on the grass, and caught nothing at all. The morning after was a different story.

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    The Money Part

    The Freelance Rate Nobody Talks About: Start With Your Time

    ByDee 02/04/202602/04/2026

    Market rate is my floor, not my ceiling. Here’s how I think about setting a freelance rate – starting with time, adjusting for complexity, and making sure no single client ever holds more than thirty percent of my income.

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  • Fish Have No Feet
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    Fish Have No Feet

    ByDee 31/03/202631/03/2026

    Fish Have No Feet Jón Kalman Stefánsson Books This book didn’t fix my uninspired stretch. But it taught me that showing up – to your past, to your people, to the small happinesses available to you right now – might be the only victory that matters anyway. 01 “No one… can walk on water, and…

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    Remote Work

    So You Want to Be a Virtual Assistant: 7 Things I Wish I’d Known

    ByDee 25/03/202625/03/2026

    I spent two weeks getting rejected before my first paid gig. Here’s everything I learned about becoming a virtual assistant the hard way.

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  • New Zealand working holiday aerial view of Taupo Lake
    Slow Travel

    Strawberries, a Truck, and a Police Officer I Wasn’t Expecting

    ByDee 22/03/202629/03/2026

    Three months into my New Zealand working holiday, my boss handed me a truck key and said I was ready. I was not ready.

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  • Exhausted student napping on a bench outdoors with a laptop and notepad on face.
    Life, As Is

    What Five Years of Freedom Did to My Body

    ByDee 21/03/202621/03/2026

    I thought freedom meant flexibility. Turns out it also meant my body quietly falling apart while I wasn’t paying attention.

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    Life, As Is

    My Grandmother Asked If I’d Married My Phone

    ByDee 19/03/202619/03/2026

    I didn’t realise I had no boundaries until my body started keeping score. Here’s how I stopped letting work take everything.

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  • New Zealand working holiday - Blenheim vineyard landscape
    Slow Travel

    Working Holiday New Zealand: Eating Raw for two weeks

    ByDee 19/03/202619/03/2026

    Before the strawberry farm, there was a WWOOF host, a Volkswagen we could barely afford, and two weeks of eating raw food in someone’s trailer.

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