Hi, I'm Nina Iordanova and this is the 28th edition of Something Good, a newsletter filtered through my 🧠, 🖐, and ❤️. Coming your way every two weeks, I hope you find something good here.
Hi!
I’ve spent most of this week dog-sitting one of my neighbours’ chocolate labs, and, as the prophecy foretold, got pink eye as a result.
We are almost 2 weeks from D-Day (dog day) and I’ve found room in my heart for the new pup. I still catch myself calling her Lila in my head, but I’ve settled on a new name. She’s going to be called Gemma.
(What’s more troubling, me emailing my dog’s breeder to say, “Hi my dog will be called Gemma pronounced Jem-ah not Ghem-ah,” along with several instructional YouTube videos, or coming up with a back-up plan to call her Gamma Ray?)
Along with finding room in my heart for love, I have also found room for new neuroses. You know when you’re getting ready for a party and you have 30 minutes, and you take your time to put on nice makeup and then you’re ready to go? And then your friend needs more time so you’re like, well, let me try adding eyeliner. And eyeshadow. And glitter. And maybe some rhinestones?
And by the end you’re like, oh wow I definitely should have stopped 30 minutes ago.
That’s me, stockpiling toys and leashes and poop bags and treats for this dog. Should have stopped a month ago.
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We have another big decision to make. Since I’m assuming my life and free will are going to end on May 3 (D-Day), I booked a salon visit for May 1 to re-do my balayage for the last time in who knows how long (aka become freshly blonde again).
QUESTION.
Should I keep growing my roots out (Exhibit A)? Or should I go blonde again (Exhibit B)?
Honestly none of these choices matter but I need to obsess over something besides the puppy for the next two weeks. LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK IN THE COMMENTS OR AN EMAIL BACK OR A PIGEON, PROVIDED IT CAN GET HERE IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.
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I took my mom to the MIKA concert in Toronto a few days ago and it was so good! I’m not a huge music person and I’m definitely not a concert person (why go look with your eyes at something you only need to hear with your ears, I just truly do not understand), but we both loved this show so much. MIKA’s music is fantastic, but he’s also a really good performer (ah, I see what looking with your eyes is for) and his energy made the show what it was. Wish you could have been there too so you know what I mean, but you probably like concerts more than I do and already get it.
I’ve been trying to spend more time with my mom and take her out to see things in the city that she’s never had a chance to. Concerts, plays, restaurants, the things that build Toronto’s culture and make it an amazing place to explore.
Growing up, we never had enough money to do stuff like that (nor was my dad interested in anything cultural), and I don’t think either one of my parents really knows what this city is. I guess the difference is that my dad prefers it that way.
So now that I am a woman of means, it’s easier for me to bully my mom into letting me take her out. I still have to check my house every time to make sure she didn’t hide money somewhere (which is what happened last time she “let me” take her out for lunch), but we’re making progress.
Hope you’re all doing well and that you feel spring in the air.
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Warmly yours,
Nina