This past week was a bit rough for me. My family visited last weekend and left Monday morning. Their visit here was great but I can’t say it was relaxing for me so I took Monday off in an effort to recuperate. They also got me sick so I spent a lot of Tuesday coughing and sniffling. Wednesday was a mostly normal day then the governor announced a state of emergency beginning Thursday due to the storms about to roll through. On Thursday a new ankle pain started, I was awoken at 2AM to a tornado warning and the wind and rain was so bad I thought the house would blow away.
Reading
The week was weird but I did finish book one of the Raiders of Arcana series, Empire of Shadows. It was a really fun book which is a bit of a female Indiana Jones story. A review of it will be up on Tuesday (available here).
I followed that up by starting Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales, the final book in the Emily Wilde series. I’m excited to see how the author ties up Emily and Wendell’s story.
I’m also finishing up Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. I have been reading this for a while but it has been truly fascinating. I don’t think I realized how much every day things were adding to my stress. I have also been working to “complete the stress cycle” and it is shocking how helpful it was.
Wearing
Since I was not in the best of head spaces this week, I mostly wore comfy clothes, leggings and a sweatshirt. On the two days that I actually did get ready, there wasn’t a single picture taken to mark the occasion. I promise to look cute and get ready this week so that if anyone is looking for some outfit inspiration, I can help out.
Cooking
I didn’t make anything particularly special this week. Mostly because I can’t stop eating instant tonkatsu ramen. On Sunday I made us Chilean Sea Bass (thanks Mom!) With a creamy, lemony orzo. It was quite delicious despite the beige of the plate!
Obsessing
I had started replacing my instagram scrolling with Pinterest scrolling. This has been good and bad. On the one hand I’m not being inundated with the news. On the other hand, I have wanted to start like five different (and expensive) hobbies in the past few weeks. The one that I think I’m going to actually incorporate is scrapbooking. This isn’t the scrapbooking we did in middle school with all the different paper and stickers and cutesie things. Instead, I just want to capture my life in my journal. I take pictures on my phone quite a bit, but I almost never get them printed or reflect back on them and that’s what I want to do. I’m also obsessed with Cam Does It’s YouTube channel. She has such a calming vibe as she journals and scrapbooks and I hope that I can start channeling that calm as I capture and save those memories.
Buying
Well I bought (leased) a car. So that’s all I’m buying for a while. I have been car-free for about 7 months, but since my office has decided we will be going in three days a week later this summer, that needed to change. This is my first new car in my life. Up until now I had always driven 10+ year old cars. It is very exciting, but there are so many buttons and features I’m not sure if I’m ever going to figure it all out. I also bought a new Stanley coffee cup because we will be in office again and because I love to have a reusable cup I can throw in my bag for coffeeshop work.
Watching
I love a good cooking competition and one of my favorites over the last few years has been Tournament of Champions. If you aren’t familiar, it is a March Madness bracket style cooking competition hosted by Guy Fieri. Some of the best chefs in the country compete to win a cash prize, a championship belt and bragging rights. There are still a couple of episodes left in the season and I am going to be so sad when it is done.
The Residence has been on my list for a couple of weeks, but I hadn’t gotten around to starting it until this week. It is absolutely hilarious and such an interesting mystery. It is a bit like Knives Out, in that you have an eccentric detective and a cast of hilarious characters. Uzo Aduba is absolutely PHENOMENAL.
L and I went to see Death of a Unicorn, starring Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd. It is an A24 film so I probably should have known that it wasn’t going to be anything that I expected. And yet I was still shocked by film. It was absolutely fantastic, but it was stressful and had some horror elements that I was not expecting. I highly recommend taking a couple of hours to watch!
