the monthly nu’s (feb. 2025): thoughts, favorites & such

ft. a note on black excellence 🤎

welcome to the monthly nu’s: a little collection of all the things i’ve been absorbing over the past few weeks, including (but not limited to) books i read, media i consumed, products i purchased, recipes i tried, and links i loved. so grab a drink and/or snack, and enjoy this edition of the monthly nu’s.

✨ on my radar: books, shows, & movies

reading 📚: nothing at the moment (what’s new?) but you can read my previous post to see the books i hope (emphasis on the “hope”) to read soon.

watching 📺: i watched more movies this month than average: 10 things I hate about you (for the first time!), seventeen again, murder mystery (surprisingly really good), cheetah girls 3 (2nd time watching it, still as irrelevant as it’s always been), and the first half of inception before they took it off netflix :(

as for tv shows, this month i watched bull, kids baking championship, happy’s place (a reba + barbara jean reunion? ummm yes please. iykyk).

❤️ on my love list (aka monthly favorites)

eating: fried rice, broccoli & boom boom sauce on repeat (absolutely love the name of this sauce btw 🤣)

wearing: these jeans,

loving: this substack read (and this one too).

📍on my pinterest

💭 on my mind

as we wrap up black history month, i wanna highlight all the black excellence out there. being black is not easy. from experience i can say it’s 10x harder to make it (even in america, the supposed “melting pot”) as a black woman. from the micro-agressions, to our “unprofessional hair,” it makes it really difficult to succeed. but we still do it 😤

so i wanna shout out the people that are breaking the barriers, defying the odds and doing the dang thing 👊🏾.

thanks for reading. talk to ya soon,

itunu 🫶🏾