Life Update!
Hello reader! Hope you are well:) Here is a little life update on how I am spending my summer break, current fav songs, shows, etc. and recent thoughts. Hope you enjoy and have a good week:)
WHAT I HAVE BEEN DOING:
I have been trying something new this summer….doing nothing! Now this is quite the foreign concept to me considering I spend every waking moment planning, living life according to my plan and then planning the next day. It is a vicious cycle of stress and borderline insanity that I am trying to change. Once the semester ended and I moved home, it felt like I went from 100 to 0. This is partially because I decided to take the summer off from my barista job which has kept me quite busy for the last two summers. My mind and body went into shock with no set plan in place. For so long I have convinced myself that planning was essential, and if you read my last blog post, you know that is false:) With this in mind, I am embracing boredom, mundane tasks, and most of all healing. I have been doing my best to use my time and effort intentionally instead of filling my day to stay busy. I have rested more in the last three weeks than I have since COVID lockdown. Boredom for me is a really uncomfortable feeling. I get down on myself for being unproductive when sometimes doing nothing can be just as useful. Some activities I have been doing to maximize my contentment and focus my energy are playing guitar, going on walks, playing pickle ball once a week with my dad, seeing friends/family that fill my soul, tanning and reading (or trying to). I am still getting used to having the whole day or week ahead of me with little structure but these tasks help me to feel productive, happy and myself:)
HOW I AM FEELING:
I feel a lot of things. I know surprising. As I talked about earlier, boredom is a weird feeling for me that I am working on accepting. I do feel like I am adjusted to being home though which is a win! It always takes a week or two for this environment to feel like home again which makes sense since I haven’t slept in my childhood bedroom consistently for eight months. I have been feeling a bit nostalgic which is typical when I come home too. Driving past certain buildings, streets, etc. that spark memories in my mind. Especially since my little sister is graduating from high school next week:) It makes me feel a little old not going to lie but in a good way. As her big sis I am so excited to see what she does at SDSU (with me woohoo!) I can’t wait to see her grow and mature and maybe even listen to what I have to say (likelihood of that happening is slim to none but a girl can dream.) Last semester was a blur so I am doing my best to feel more present. These milestones and changes that mark time remind me of how I have blossomed in my young adulthood thus far and to reward myself for my accomplishments. Showing myself grace and compassion in the doubtful unproductive moments is the most important (and not easy.) I am using this summer break to take a step back; put my plans on pause and just live right now. I hope we can help each other feel proud of ourselves without overlooking rest and contentment.
FAV SONGS, SHOWS, AND MOVIES:
FAV SONGS:
obviously anything Taylor Swift but recently I learned how to play Long Live on the guitar and Reputation is my go to album for the car:)
I am a big house music girl Snakehips put out a new album that I have been listening to but I have also been loving Noizu, ESSEL, and Black Caviar.
FAV SHOWS:
I already binged the latest season of Selling Sunset: I would give it an 8/10. Drama was good but there wasn’t a whole lot of house selling..
I LOVE JEOPARDY. As a trivia and geography nerd jeopardy is so fun to watch and the episodes are only 30ish min. I also get an ego boost when I answer a question right (this is like 15% of the time) and feel like a genius.
Vanderpump Rules. This show is so bad it’s good. If you want to watch a bunch of aspiring Hollywood stars pay their bills by working at a restaurant together while dating each other, hating each other and overall just being batshit crazy them this is a must watch. The 2013 fashion alone in season 1 kills me. Luckily there are 10 seasons of this show. I am on season 2 and it is something else. 10/10 would recommend if you like trashy reality tv.
FAV MOVIES:
Harry Potter movies are my fav I watch them all the time. This summer I have watched 3 and 4 (4 is my fav I love Cedrick Diggory obv) and will def watch them all at least twice over the course of the next few months.
The new Netflix movie with Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher was a cute like rom-com moment too! It’s called Your Place or Mine and I would def watch again!
My dad is quite the movie man and we watched Spanglish as a family and it was fabulous. 10/10 recommend and you can’t go wrong with Adam Sandler.
I also just watched The Martian for the first time and I am a fan. Matt Damon’s dry humor in the midst of catastrophe is so well done and the storytelling is so entertaining:)
I hope you enjoyed this little update on my summer break:) You will definitely get updates on my boredom, feelings and favs in the near future but goodbye for now! xoxo
