Looking Back on 2019

It's like a fruit basket turnover with this post today - because honestly, I did a whole lot of nothing this weekend! I discussed this with my sister and we decided that surely since it's the final weekend before the world starts "working" again - that doing next to nothing is perfectly acceptable? What I did do was that I finished the fourth and final season of Mr. Robot and then; since literally no one voted for it in an Instagram poll, I started The Witcher (as opposed to The Man in the High Castle S4 or Marvelous Ms. Maisel S3). I continued to par down my wardrobe by getting rid of tons of socks and I installed a small light in my kitchen (I stuck a picture below) - but honestly, the weekend was spent doing so little that it's almost not worth mentioning!  Having told you that - please enjoy this random bit of posting, a picture of me after walking my dog in chilly temps and at the bottom - a look at my new kitchen light in action! I know - riveting. You're welcome. Looking Back on 2019 I found these prompts on Erin Moon's newsletter and while I've gone back and forth in the past about doing something like this... I always wanted some sort of guideline. Since I finally found myself with one, I decided that as 2020 begins, I'd share some things from 2019 that I enjoyed. Non-fiction Book I Keep Coming Back To For Courage: Educated by Tara Westover; if you've never read this - I highly recommend it! It's fabulous. Book I Stayed Up All Night To Read In One Sitting Because I Was So Entranced: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens; this book was so completely engrossing!  Most Transforming Read: I suppose I'd say Educated by Tara Westover, although I don't know that anything I read was transforming. *shrugs shoulders* This will likely be my answer to most of the book-related things because I didn't read very much last year and honestly, it it just that good. Favorite Read (Fiction): Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens... I devoured this book! It was excellent and I absolutely recommend it! Favorite Read That Gave Me A New Perspective: Educated by Tara Westover.. I know I sound like a broken record and that's fine, because this book was excellent. Favorite TV Shows: Game of Thrones (even with the rough final season), Schitt's Creek, Bodyguard, Mr. Robot, Stranger Things, The Mandalorian and Four Weddings & A Funeral! Favorite Movies: Avengers: Endgame, Little Women, Frozen II and The Rise of Skywalker! Favorite Skin Care: Perfectly Posh Best Face Forever (BFF) Skin Care I Tried, But Didn’t Love: I didn't really try any new/different skincare products in 2019. Best Newsletters I Subscribe To (Free): Sectional Healing by Knox McCoy and The Swipe Up by Erin Moon Best Newsletters I Subscribe To (Paid): I don't subscribe to any paid newsletters!  Fave Instagram Follows: Strange Planet, Erin Moon, the National Park Service Strangers I Irrationally Love: Gwendoline Christie and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Brienne & Jaime y'all) Favorite New Podcast: Catlick by BT Harman Favorite Old Standby Podcast: The Popcast with Knox & Jamie Favorite Twitter Follows: the Washington Nationals Thing/Person I Was Wrong About: I have no idea. I'm sure I was wrong about plenty of things but I can't remember something that just stands out starkly in my mind. Biggest Waste of My Time: Social Media... but I can't stop using it!  Most Productive Use of My Time: Any time spent exercising because even though I sometimes hated it, it made me feel better about myself and I just felt better in general. Thing I Was Supposed To Do, But Didn’t: Commit to exercising for 12 months straight (December got me y'all). Thing I Wasn’t Supposed to Do, But Did: Spend money frivolously.  Something I Would Like for Us, Collectively, As A People, To Leave in 2019: The constant judgement of everyone and everything... maybe; just maybe, worry about yourself and stop offering people opinions unsolicited. Let everyone just live. Existential Crisis I Keep Having: Always with the being single... Thing I Learned: Contentment Thing I Still Have Not Learned: How to be both joyous and content... as one does not always bring about the other. Perhaps that wasn't too all over the place? I certainly don't think it was very deep, ha-ha! As promised, a look at the very fancy (I jest) light fixture that I installed under my kitchen cabinets this weekend. So I suppose that between sorting socks and installing a light fixture, perhaps I wasn't a complete blob this weekend? Then again - perhaps if I was, I suppose that's just fine too.