So much is happening this week and yet I have a cup of tea and I could use maybe ten more.
Hello! Welcome to Thursday. What a lovely day.
The election... happened? (I'm a PA baby so YESSSS FETTERMAN, but also a NY-er so thank god kathy did okay.) A man older that the fucking chocolate chip cookie just got reelected. Local Twitter Man is destroying the main source of income Twitter had - advertising. A high level executive at my company pretended like my team was the most diverse team ever right after another high level executive implied I wasn't Hispanic enough for something (???). Truly it has been a week!!!
(Speaking of my company, the union is going on strike! Check out their social media (twitter, instagram) to learn more and support.)
But strangely enough, besides other factors, I have had a lovely week. Why, I'm still mellow from getting a massage yesterday as a birthday present to me (yes, I was really late booking it. No, I have no regrets). I'm a little overwhelmed in planning vacations - truly the worst part of a vacation! I finished like five books this last week (one of them being the Jenette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died which truly - a powerhouse of a title and a cover!). Overall things are good.
I will say, one of the books I read is an upcoming work book (WHAT??? Doing my job? Disgusting!), called A Recipe for More. I only picked it up to start reading so I would be able to read something that was possibly not a horrifying book while truly smooshed between two strangers on my hellish commute, but it ended up being a really delightful book.
It talks about needing to take rest and enjoy time to yourself, and the importance of building strong friendships. Like, you can't just put all your energy into romantic relationships - friendships need to be nurtured and maintained as well. One of the examples was how people send photos or sounds while trying to basically be like "I was thinking about you/this reminded me of you" and LO AND BEHOLD a delightful reader of the newsletter sent me a meme/tumblr post about my future husband Karl Urban and his acting skills!! We stan Karl but most importantly, we stan friends who see Karl being praised and are like "his future wife, Brieana, should see this!!!" (Thanks Melissa!)
It also goes into reframing your life. I'm not going to truly do the entire book beat by beat (it comes out in May!), but the reframing your life thing stuck out in that there was one line of it saying how you saying you have to travel home for the holidays is important to maybe pause and be like "Maybe I don't want to travel for the holidays? Maybe going home isn't where I want to go during this break? Maybe I should say fuck it and go on that vacation I've been thinking about for over ten years?"
You know. Hypothetically.
It was a delightful book and a wonderful thing to read on my way home from a delightful massage. GOD I wish I could get massages weekly. You're supposed to them them monthly or something??? Gross. I want one every day. :(
Anyway! Hope you are also having a week that even if it's a little dark with a few things in the news/life, you're able to find a few bright areas. :) For example, I'm not going to punch a hole through my ceiling to shut my neighbors up and I will instead make a delightful cup of tea. While blasting anime music with a speaker pointed at the ceiling.
Links!
The election... happened? (I'm a PA baby so YESSSS FETTERMAN, but also a NY-er so thank god kathy did okay.) A man older that the fucking chocolate chip cookie just got reelected. Local Twitter Man is destroying the main source of income Twitter had - advertising. A high level executive at my company pretended like my team was the most diverse team ever right after another high level executive implied I wasn't Hispanic enough for something (???). Truly it has been a week!!!
(Speaking of my company, the union is going on strike! Check out their social media (twitter, instagram) to learn more and support.)
But strangely enough, besides other factors, I have had a lovely week. Why, I'm still mellow from getting a massage yesterday as a birthday present to me (yes, I was really late booking it. No, I have no regrets). I'm a little overwhelmed in planning vacations - truly the worst part of a vacation! I finished like five books this last week (one of them being the Jenette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died which truly - a powerhouse of a title and a cover!). Overall things are good.
I will say, one of the books I read is an upcoming work book (WHAT??? Doing my job? Disgusting!), called A Recipe for More. I only picked it up to start reading so I would be able to read something that was possibly not a horrifying book while truly smooshed between two strangers on my hellish commute, but it ended up being a really delightful book.
It talks about needing to take rest and enjoy time to yourself, and the importance of building strong friendships. Like, you can't just put all your energy into romantic relationships - friendships need to be nurtured and maintained as well. One of the examples was how people send photos or sounds while trying to basically be like "I was thinking about you/this reminded me of you" and LO AND BEHOLD a delightful reader of the newsletter sent me a meme/tumblr post about my future husband Karl Urban and his acting skills!! We stan Karl but most importantly, we stan friends who see Karl being praised and are like "his future wife, Brieana, should see this!!!" (Thanks Melissa!)
It also goes into reframing your life. I'm not going to truly do the entire book beat by beat (it comes out in May!), but the reframing your life thing stuck out in that there was one line of it saying how you saying you have to travel home for the holidays is important to maybe pause and be like "Maybe I don't want to travel for the holidays? Maybe going home isn't where I want to go during this break? Maybe I should say fuck it and go on that vacation I've been thinking about for over ten years?"
You know. Hypothetically.
It was a delightful book and a wonderful thing to read on my way home from a delightful massage. GOD I wish I could get massages weekly. You're supposed to them them monthly or something??? Gross. I want one every day. :(
Anyway! Hope you are also having a week that even if it's a little dark with a few things in the news/life, you're able to find a few bright areas. :) For example, I'm not going to punch a hole through my ceiling to shut my neighbors up and I will instead make a delightful cup of tea. While blasting anime music with a speaker pointed at the ceiling.
Links!
- You know me and you know I love a good apartment tour!!! This one is truly beautiful but there's a line about "The art of editing your home is so important" and it really struck me. It IS important to see exactly what you have in your home and see why it's there. Yesss Marie Kondo! But me, I have one billion plants and it truly took me like five years to realize that I fucking hate a few of them and so I removed them from my life. And then I realized there's even more I can do that for! ONWARDS.
- Idk if you missed it but there was a lunar eclipe!! I missed it because I, for one, like sleep. :( But shot out to the nice people on the internet who figured out a way to make composite images so I can see it without a telescope.
- This is dumb, but it's six minutes of a guy walking up to random people like "teach me a dance!" and it ranges from legit dances to "this is me and my mom dancing in the kitchen after a good meal" kinda dance. It's delightful!!
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