Our fattie dog gets tired quickly. He's rippin' to go on a walk each and every time, but he only has to go a few blocks before he slows down and starts panting. The quarantine routine includes at least one walk from Romeo and I, but most often includes at least one or two other walks from other family members. Ava took him out yesterday for his second walk and he sat down at one point and stuck his tongue out at her. He was saying, "stop, you are killin' me with all this exercise, I'm so OVER this quarantine".
Have I told you about my latest chocolate obsession? It's called Hu Kitchen Chocolates, and a good friend of mine put it in a gift basic she made for me because it's both vegan AND gluten free. It's also free of all kinds of other stuff you don't want to eat, and all I know is the hazelnut butter kind is so, SO good. It's also so healthy that you feel like you aren't eating chocolate at all, which is why I polished off an entire bar in one day. If it's one thing this quarantine has done, it's brought me closer to foods I love.
When I asked Romeo how the Easter Bunny was going to make it this year with the coronavirus issues, he said, deadpan, "mom, he's got a mask you know". Bunny is no dummy. The kids get so excited for Easter, and it seemed like a good time to keep as many of our traditions as we could. We'll still have "Easter Bunny basket delivery" from the mask clad bunny, then a big breakfast (Gia is making crepes this year), and then an egg hunt which will be way too easy for all of them because how tricky can you get? Then a big classic ham dinner. We make it every year although it's questionable how many of us like it.
Lastly, has anyone had any frightening urges to cut off their hair? I am so starved for a haircut and a color that I considered if it would be possible for me to cut my OWN hair? I more than considered it, I had an urge to just DO IT (as in, it's really fortunate there were no scissors handy). My hair is long right now, and I've been debating cutting it for months but haven't come up with exactly what my short hair vision was. But yesterday as I was staring into the mirror, checking out my scary roots and my hair that now is pulled back most days because it just doesn't look good, I was fantasizing about just chopping it off. Like right then and there. There's a phrase for that feeling of standing on the end of a cliff and fantasizing about jumping off, it's a French phrase, L’appel du vide (which literally translate to "the call of the void"). Do you think there is a word out there for staring into the mirror and fantasizing about grabbing scissors and cutting off your hair? Other than crazy?
I also read today that you should never make any permanent decisions based on temporary feelings. I'm not sure cutting hair can be categorized as "permanent" but it would sure be semi-permanent. I'm going to try and control my urge until I'm safely seated in my hair dresser's chair. I really think cutting own hair with super dull scissors from the office store that are sticky with glue seems like a bad idea. Quaranti-crazy idea.
Instead I might just shop the sale section and find something satisfying. Like this PJ Salvage set, because I could spend all day AND all night in this thing (and it's a steal)!
Get ready, tomorrow is Monday and it's a new week and we're going to kick off a new goal. The goals is to reach out to someone new each day. Someone you don't reach out to every day (I'm shooting for anyone I haven't talked to in at least 7 days). I've noticed in the tightening of my physical circle, I've actually tightened my outer circle too. The people that I talk to, I talk to ALL the time (like daily or every other day). I think it's time to reach out a little further though, and the goal is to connect with someone every day, either via phone, text, letter or email, and check in on them, say hello, send some love....that type of thing. I have lots of people that I adore, but don't talk to regularly and I mostly blame lack of time. Since I've got a bit more, I feel like it's a good time NOT to use that as an excuse. Bring on the challenge!
Signed, ME {lv}
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