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P365 reanimated… (Z365 Day1)

I’d given up on P365 for a while, but today I ran into a colleague who mentioned she was doing it this year. (She started on the first of January.) So I thought why not try again? I liked P365. It was a reminder to find some beauty or significance in every day, even the ordinary ones. So here we go again. Welcome to Z365- P365 reanimated, and possibly in search of brains…

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My tree is still up because I can't bring myself to condemn the family of cute baby spiders that took up residence in it to freezing to death.

File under ‘could not do that again if I tried’

You know how they* always say that you shouldn’t eat at your desk/in front of the computer? I had an abject demonstration in WHY. I had a salad in a takeout container. Walk in to my desk, start to set the container down, and somehow the lid caught on the keyboard.  My entire Ceasar salad did a very neat backflip onto the right half of the keyboard. It was masterful how self-contained it was- there were only a couple leaves on the desk.

So now I have to clean my keyboard.

(Sadly, I did not take pictures. My mental process ran something like ‘oh, CRAP-fix this now!’ It only occurred to me later that I should have snapped a photo, because it was seriously unbelievable how neatly the salad stuck the landing.)

 

*Where by ‘they’, I mean sensible people and the IT department. They have a point. In my own defense, this is the first time I’ve ever had such a spectacular keyboard mishap.

This is how you know me and fashion are not mixy things

My major takeaway from Jezebel’s article about W’s “normcore” story using a ridiculous $$ value of designer threads went like this:

Wow, Birkenstock and Adidas sandals are back! Finally, my fashion moment has come!

followed immediately by

Why would you wear Nike socks with Adi slides?

with a chaser of

Wait, does this mean horrendously brightly colored Umbros are coming back, too?

Yep. Hopeless non-fashionista here.

The Morning After

Another World Cup has come and gone. *sigh*

On the bright side, it was a corker of a tournament, and my beloved Germany won.

On the also rather bright side, I woke up this morning astonishingly early (given how late I was awake and about last night) with a ridiculous energy level. I’m having a very productive morning. Paradoxically, productive mornings only ever add to my to-do list, as I have a million and one ideas on days like this.

On the less bright side… there is no football. Aside from pre-season training matches. When does the Bundesliga start again? August 23? Serie A? August 31? You want me to wait until the end of August*?? But that’s forever! /inner 5 year old

*Yes, I know there will be football before then. Napoli will be playing a friendly against Barca in early August, and Eintracht play Sampdoria. The Coppa Italia and DFB Pokal both start in mid-August. And yes, if I’m truly bored on the football front, I could try harder to take MLS seriously.