75 nice things to do for yourself

great list from ann friedman — some of my favorites:

1. Stop looking at your phone first thing in the morning. Just stare around your room for a few minutes first.
2. Get up an hour early and let yourself watch bad TV while you eat a hot breakfast and leisurely get dressed. 
3. Stick to exercise that you enjoy and let go of the stuff that feels like a chore.
4. Practice the mantra “I’m still learning.”
5. Stop weighing yourself.
6. Soak in hot water (Korean spas, hot springs, baths, etc).
7. Always keep a supply of Cool Ranch Doritos on hand.
8. Do the 5-minute tasks the moment you think of them, don’t put them off.
9. Stop trying to find a perfect self-care routine and just try to do something every day to make yourself and the world more loving.

and stopped wearing hats

just read the obituary for wally amos, the founder of famous amos chocolate chip cookies, which loomed large in my childhood. felt sad about this bit:

Mr. Amos was always forthcoming about his struggles in growing his brand and about the decisions that led him to lose control of it.

“I’d lost the company really because I didn’t use to listen to people a lot because I was Famous Amos,” he told The Times in 1999. “The first couple of years after I left Famous Amos, I didn’t even make cookies anymore, and I used to always make cookies at home. I didn’t even want to talk about chocolate chip cookies, really. I shaved my beard and stopped wearing hats.”

elisa jensen

just signed up for this

i don’t know why i’m so 😵‍💫 these days — just 100% kaput. having a hard time finding the joy (besides in whipped cream) and it’s like, what is my g-d problem. fighting with ross, body hurting, headache always hovering, more impatient with everyone at work, general dread about everything (except days off), even though superficially it’s all great. i feel like it’s this weird PTSD with my mom from this past year and always being ready for an emergency. but like…that sounds sorta bogus and dumb and like get over it. but anyway, signed up for this level one course on somatics. please let me keep at it. please let me get better! and please still love me while i’m in this pit!

dinner of champions

current state

too many headaches, not enough Olympics. AND SPEAKING OF, I am officially OVER headaches, over headaches caused by stress, over headaches caused by too much sunlight (lol), over headaches caused by too little sleep, over headache meds that you can only take 10 times in a month, and i’m definitely over being so g-d sensitive to everything!

Untitled (Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor)

is it possible

…that my right foot is growing, exponentially? it’s definitely longer and always hurts. also i’m watching jake gyllenhaal’s presumed innocent and…meh? but meh in a fine way. i devoured the book in high school (it’s really kinda great), but i can’t remember the storyline, except who did it. amazing ending. anyway jake is way too buff to play this character. PRINT IT

UPDATE: I didn’t finish watching presumed innocent, it was driving me crazy, no one worth anything, and the plot twist (I read about it) was terrible — all in all a pointless exercise, i’m sorry

it me

i really am grateful for gifs!

THE END