We had some people over and cooked our orphan Thanksgiving last night, with lots of leftovers today of course. I think it all turned out pretty well overall. The Riley-Angelo-Jay team kicked the Peter-Amanda-Jayne team’s butt at 90’s trivial pursuit. But Jay and Angelo are both old enough to remember most of the 90’s so they had a slight advantage. I feel like my conscious awareness of pop culture didn’t start until at least the mid 90’s. My moment of glory was answering a question about The Young and The Restless. I guess all those afternoons of watching my mom being addicted to that show finally paid off.
Today was a pretty chill lazy day. Pretty easy to celebrate Buy Nothing Day when I’m just hanging out around the house. It’s nice to just wind down, and relax after a long day of cooking yesterday. But sometimes lazy days make me wonder, what’s the point of having time off if I’m just wasting it on the internet? That’s just like any other normal day.
“Recently I realized that I waste my life on the internet … and published this insight in a blog.” One Sentence Stories
Maybe I should try going on another media fast. I feel like I have this big long list of things that I’d like to do but claim I don’t have time to do, when I know that I could probably make time for it pretty easily if I wasn’t so passively attached to the media. It’s kind of sad to see it written out like that. I dunno. I usually don’t do very well at these self inflicted experiments, but for some reason they always seem to fascinate me.
Hmm.. I wonder. Could I do it for a whole month?? The two weeks of being media free back in my freshman year were pretty rough. I don’t know if it’s even possible with my job. I mean I sort of AM the media. But I also have the last two weeks of December off, so that might be a little easier. And I have some project ideas brewing that could definitely take advantage of some extra time and loving. It’d be a good excuse to do more journaling and doodling. Hmmm, I have a couple days to figure it out…
Thanks
Anyways, that was a bit of a tangent. What I really wanted to do was just throw out a couple of Thanks, since it is that time of year, and it never hurts to remind myself. I’m thankful for:
- Family whose choices early in my life helped me become who I am today, and whose continual support makes much of my life possible.
- Angelo whose patience, kindness, support and sweetness (and cooking) never ceases to amaze me.
- Friends who I can count on for their company & support, including those I still see frequently and some who I may only see rarely.
- Good health. As much as I bitch about The Belly, it’s probably a good sign if that’s all I can really complain about. (Although seriously, I’m the pudgiest I’ve ever been in my life right now, wtf?)
- Financial stability. Especially in these times, when just about everyone I know is deep in debt I’m glad to just be stable.
- My job. Once again, especially in these times it’s nice to just be stable. But even moreso it’s nice to be working somewhere that basically pays me to play and experiment and make stuff. And it’s nice to have co-workers that feel like family.
- Left overs from last night, which I’m going to go enjoy now.