This week was a pretty tough one on the motivation front, I felt a real slump in my mood and general feeling going into five weeks of quarantine. Various news sources (with varying reliability, I will admit) have predicted that here in NC we’ll hit our peak for the virus as early as two weeks from now, as late as mid-June, but either way, it is clear that this is not going to be a three or six week situation here. We are in this, and in it for the long haul.
Despite some panic and a decent amount of struggle, here’s what made this week good.
A friend is helping me to become a respectable plant mom and I can slowly see my aloe plant, long neglected, start to perk up.
I’m definitely going to finish my Wool & Honey sweater this weekend.
I looked through all of K & C’s wedding photos and there are some really fantastic ones in there.
We ate a crazy amount of 15 bean soup after Easter courtesy of trying to eat almost a whole ham by ourselves. It was awesome.
I am about eight years late to the washi tape craze but I am all in. Last night I got on Etsy and purchased this one, this one, and this one. So cute and can’t wait to bring some more creativity to my planner and some letters I’m writing during quarantine season.
I organized my desk drawers and it’s really nice to open them up looking for pencils or scissors now.
I went on a run/walk on Wednesday in the cool weather and it felt really good.
I finished The Nightingale. It was ok, some compelling story moments with some, in my opinion, clunky character development, but mostly I just felt happy about crossing that off my goal list to finish. I have heard that The Great Alone by the same author is really good so I may try her newest novel instead.
This weekend I’m looking forward to picking up pastries and a couple of weekly favorites from my favorite bake shop, sewing a few more masks (maybe), and going on a long walk with B while he plays disc golf, if the weather will hold. Happy Friday!