The dumpster fire that is our country has me spending more time thinking about self-care. How can I care for myself so I don’t burn out or blow up? What do you do?
I’m going to try limiting my exposure to news to earlier in the day. Hopefully, that will help me ruminate less when I should be sleeping. If I just do pleasant things each evening, that will lead to better sleep, right?
Rick and I are watching the old Xena series on DVD. The show was special for me and my daughter when she was little, and she’s watching it with her daughter now. We didn’t have cable TV,1Geez, how long has it been since I was willing to pay for cable TV? At least 30 years. And we didn’t have streaming way back then! so we never got to see all of the episodes or see them in order. It’s interesting to remember seeing the later episodes while watching the early ones.
I’ve put my latest crochet project next to my desk. If I’m in a meeting that doesn’t require taking notes, I pick it up to keep my hands busy. That’s calming. I received the fibers for a blackwork project, but I need to prepare the fabric and get started.
I’ve been reading more, and it’s all pure escapist fiction. Okay, not 100%. I’m listening to Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution for a book club at work. But Goodreads says I’ve read 19 books so far this year, and most of it has been fiction. That’s way ahead of my normal pace.
I want to fit more music into my life this year. I joined the mailing list for a new-to-us house concert series, and I put all the local coffeehouses on my calendar. That makes it more likely that we’ll make it to one or two a month.
My D&D group is only meeting monthly, but I’m not sure I could fit a more frequent game into our schedule. I still miss playing more frequently, though, and if I find another game that I can work in, I’ll do it.
We’ve been playing other sorts of games more frequently at home, too. One of us grabs a random game off the shelves at least once a week. The most recent one was Recipes for Disaster by Exploding Kittens, which Rick gave me for Yule. We need to have some folks over to play some of our other games, which really need more than two players. I gave Rick Firefly Adventures: Brigands and Browncoats a while back, which can be played by one or two players. It would be more fun with two or three more people, though.
Rick was doing his dailies for Diablo, but now that he’s done, it’s time for me to log off!
