looks like it's time for my daily silly little walk
Happy Thursday everyone! Weirdly enough, this week has sped by - usually four day weeks are slow and painful but whew boy, for once in my life, I'm like "pump the breaks! I need a moment to breathe!"
Unrelated but did you know that if you disassociate while you spill a gallon of cranberry juice, the juice doesn't just stop spilling?? I know right! Ridic.
Anyway, look, we're about to hit the beginning of season three of this pandemic and I, for one, am not doing great! If you know me in person, you might pick up that I'm pretty extroverted and love to chat. If you don't know me, you might have noticed up that I love to chat considering I started a newsletter to scream into the void on the off-chance the void screams back. So this whole ~thing~ has truly been something.
But one thing I picked up in maybe June 2020 was the silly little daily walk. You know the one - you get bundled up in your warmest coat when it's 3 degrees outside or your shortest shorts when it's 95 DEGREES OUTSIDE, but you go on the same little pathway that you arbitrarily found sometime in 2020. Maybe it changes up a bit, but for me at least, I have a route that's a "silly little walk" route and a route that's more for "I'm in deep contemplation and wish I could solve the problems of the universe but at the very least I can pop by an Indie Bookstore before I go home" route.
To say the silly little daily walk has become a staple in life is putting it lightly. It seems that everyone, especially us who live in a major metropolis, rely on the silly little walk to keep us going. From memes to articles to that one onion-type article that 800 people sent me last year and I can't find, so many people clearly relate to it.
For me, at least, the silly little walk is the one thing that kept me sane for 2020-most of 2021. No matter how terrible the day was, it was the one chance I had to go outside and see the damn sun (or the elements). Sometimes, it was the only time I saw to a person in the flesh for days. It's so odd to go on my walks now and think of them as a chore when in 2020, the scheduled little loop around my neighborhood was the thing I clung to in order to keep some semblance of a routine: wake up, eat, despair, work, despair, GO ON THE SILLY LITTLE WALK, work, exercise, despair, bed.
As someone who use to thrive on weekends not speaking to a single human (ie, I could be fine not leaving my apartment for a few days in a row), it was so crucial to get me outside and moving and remembering that even if it felt like the world was coming down around me, it was still spinning. Maybe a little differently, but it was still out there.
Also after the silly little walk is lunchtime, and I always forget to eat lunch, so vitamin D then meals? Truly the perfect combination.
Anyway, did y'all take little daily walks in the last few years? Do you still? When I do, I make sure to avoid the high school near me, because I have bumped into high schoolers (terrifying!), got yelled at by a security guard for skipping class (???? sir I am an adult??), and more.
Goodness.
Recs!
Have a great weekend!
Unrelated but did you know that if you disassociate while you spill a gallon of cranberry juice, the juice doesn't just stop spilling?? I know right! Ridic.
Anyway, look, we're about to hit the beginning of season three of this pandemic and I, for one, am not doing great! If you know me in person, you might pick up that I'm pretty extroverted and love to chat. If you don't know me, you might have noticed up that I love to chat considering I started a newsletter to scream into the void on the off-chance the void screams back. So this whole ~thing~ has truly been something.
But one thing I picked up in maybe June 2020 was the silly little daily walk. You know the one - you get bundled up in your warmest coat when it's 3 degrees outside or your shortest shorts when it's 95 DEGREES OUTSIDE, but you go on the same little pathway that you arbitrarily found sometime in 2020. Maybe it changes up a bit, but for me at least, I have a route that's a "silly little walk" route and a route that's more for "I'm in deep contemplation and wish I could solve the problems of the universe but at the very least I can pop by an Indie Bookstore before I go home" route.
To say the silly little daily walk has become a staple in life is putting it lightly. It seems that everyone, especially us who live in a major metropolis, rely on the silly little walk to keep us going. From memes to articles to that one onion-type article that 800 people sent me last year and I can't find, so many people clearly relate to it.
For me, at least, the silly little walk is the one thing that kept me sane for 2020-most of 2021. No matter how terrible the day was, it was the one chance I had to go outside and see the damn sun (or the elements). Sometimes, it was the only time I saw to a person in the flesh for days. It's so odd to go on my walks now and think of them as a chore when in 2020, the scheduled little loop around my neighborhood was the thing I clung to in order to keep some semblance of a routine: wake up, eat, despair, work, despair, GO ON THE SILLY LITTLE WALK, work, exercise, despair, bed.
As someone who use to thrive on weekends not speaking to a single human (ie, I could be fine not leaving my apartment for a few days in a row), it was so crucial to get me outside and moving and remembering that even if it felt like the world was coming down around me, it was still spinning. Maybe a little differently, but it was still out there.
Also after the silly little walk is lunchtime, and I always forget to eat lunch, so vitamin D then meals? Truly the perfect combination.
Anyway, did y'all take little daily walks in the last few years? Do you still? When I do, I make sure to avoid the high school near me, because I have bumped into high schoolers (terrifying!), got yelled at by a security guard for skipping class (???? sir I am an adult??), and more.
Goodness.
Recs!
- As someone who loves watching expensive home tours, everything about this home tour is awful. $5 million dollars for a home that is 8 feet wide? I love that they're trying to justify the lack of space for a bed, but when you only have 8 feet across, what else can you really do? Gosh! People are trying to pay $5 million for what is, granted, a historical home-- but also, that people have tours to?? You're paying FIVE MILLION DOLLARS for someone to stare at your home??? That you can't have a real bed in??? Throw it away!
- If I ever needed an example to combat the early bird getting the worm, how about this video of the winter Olympics from 20 years ago where the Australian speed skater who, while in last place for the entire race, managed to win because everyone crashed? First Winter Olympics gold in Australian's history!
- Why are movies so damn long nowadays??? A friend and I recently watched The Dark Knight, a film we thought was maybe two hours, and after the 2:15 mark, realized we still had more to go. As someone who you all witnessed screaming about the romcom Marry Me being damn near two hours (and also someone who hates binging tv shows!), this article about why movies are two hours was a fascinating read. Also while I'm complaining, I love how streaming TV allows for episodes of shows to be more than 42 minutes! Lovely. THIS DOES NOT MEAN EACH EPISODE NEEDS TO BE AN HOUR AND A HALF. I AM WATCHING TV NOT MULTIPLE MOVIES WITH A CONNECTING PLOT.
Have a great weekend!
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