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By the lovely Grace Farris.
P.S. Simple pleasures and random turn ons.
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Mine: Dozens of website tabs, each with shopping carts full of stuff that I’m never going to click “buy” on.
This also holds for ADHD! OOOOOOH! Look! Squirrel!
Grace, I recommend watching White Lotus for the views! It’s beautiful, funny and it won’t hurt your brain!
I went to the Catskills last weekend and went on the most beautiful hike ever, loved seeing all the frozen waterfalls
Home organization is right. I just completed a trip to Goodwill, a craft supply donation to our elementary school, and a drop-off at UPS to get the returns out of the house and am *elated* to report that MY DINING ROOM TABLE HAS NOTHING ON IT. The closets are clean!! For now…
All of these options look like amazing fun because they are NOT my job. COVID has some had sped up the pace of work…and two years in, does not seem to be slowing yet. Maybe I need to get a dog…
My cure for the January blues: start making next year’s Christmas ornaments. I make 8 every year, for my kids and all their first cousins. I thought I might stop once that generation started getting married, but my oldest nephew’s wife was so taken with his box of home-made ornaments, he asked if I would start making ones for her! Searching out ideas and getting to work never fails to cheer me up.
ThT is so awesome and sweet, I love that your nephews wife fully appreciated their specialness!
Wait I want to do this! How do I do this, I don’t want to go down a YouTube wormhole but this sounds like what I need in my life right now!
This is fantastic! My eldest aunt made us a homemade ornament every year of my childhood with our name and the year stitched on it (and she has 7 siblings so that’s a lot of cousins she made them for). They are my
Favorite ornaments to put on the tree every year and I’m 45 years old with two kids. I’m going to call her this weekend to catch up after reading this, thank you. God bless the crafty people who show us love.
I’m curious about this too! Cool idea. What do they look like?
Trip down the omicron and children under the age of 5 depression vortex right here!
Solidarity, Cate! This week with no day care due to exposure, no pto due to recent parental leave, and multiple PCR tests that I was lucky to get has me exhausted and enraged. If nothing else, we’re not alone!
Ditto, Cate. Sending hugs.
Day 4 working at home in a demanding data analytics role, with twin virtual schooling kindergartners, in a county with less that 40% vaccination rates. We will never get out of this mess, will we?
Life raft comes in the shape of my therapist at 2:30 tomorrow.
I’m three for four from this list! My ADHD brain has never been naturally great at organizing. Last week I went to The Container Store for the first time ever and was immediately overwhelmed — people are actually this organized?! I didn’t end up buying anything because it was all . . . so much. Organized people out there, I salute you.
I cannot get organized either. I discovered minimalism and it CHANGED MY LIFE. No need to have perfect organization systems when you only own exactly what you need and love in life :-)
Maryn, i’m an organizer and my #1 tip is to wait to shop :) get creative reshuffling, using what you already have and clearing stuff out first. #2: don’t shop without a list and try secondhand first. also, i’m looking for new clients and am offering free consults! feel free to reach out if you’d like @tpssteph on ig or trashpandasteph AT gmail. good luck either way – you can do it!
And getting lost in a good book! I’m going to get through the entire Broken Earth trilogy from N.K. Jemisen. And I’m thinking of learning something new like embroidery or sewing!
I’m SO EXCITED for you that you get to read that trilogy for the first time!
Icy dog walk is my life right now!
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