Olive Wrapped: 2023

Written By Olive Wexler

It’s that time of the year: goal setting, photo dumps, and throwbacks abound. There’s no time of year that I have missed social media more than this—the end-of-year crunch when you celebrate what you’ve done, hold space for what is being destroyed personally (and globally) and generally remind yourself just how long 365 can be.

I’m getting ready to share my favorite books and reading wrap-up of 2023, on the blog so while I cook that up, below are the nominations for Olive Wrapped 2023: The Tops. (If you listen to Las Culturistas, you already know what I’m going for here, and if you don’t…what are you doing?)

Nominees for the top Months in 2023

  • May

  • March

  • November

Nominees for the “Where Are You??” award:

  • my bed at home, one leg dangling off

  • The Shire at Kenoza Lake

  • in the ancient baths (Budapest)

  • eating giant sandwich (Florence)

  • riding an e-scooter (Berlin)

Nominees for the “She Ate” award for best meal:

  • nutritional yeast on the last 1/3 of a box of pasta

  • slice of by the way bakery cake and an ollipop

  • fried eggs

  • popcorn, three kinds of salt, on an empty stomach

Nominees for the “this is gonna be gay, right?” award for best movie

  • But I’m a Cheerleader

  • 2.5 hours of TikToks at 1:30AM

  • Bottoms

  • The Barbie Movie

  • Red White and Royal Blue

Nominees for the “Schar” award for best gluten-free thing:

  • rice

  • tortilla

  • trader joes

Nominees for the noises in my head award, 2023

Nominees for the top things to listen to while cooking, 2023

  • Las Culturistas

  • Gayotic, by MUNA

  • Normal Gossip

  • Try Guys Video in the background

Nominees for the best moods, 2023

  • DJ Khalid, but like, ironically

  • nope, no thanks i don’t wanna

  • shaking & screaming at the MUNA concert

  • just tell me what to do, father

  • cottage core treadmill walk

I’m also proud to present what you’ve all been waiting for: the 2023 music recap.

If you want to hear what 2023 sounded like, you can check out our newsletter song highlights, below.

If you’re reading this, thank you for caring enough about me and my writing to follow along throughout this year, and more is soon to come!

Olive Wexler
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