4.2/365: questions instead of resolutions

Y’all know I love Keeley Shaw. This year she posted questions to ask instead of “what’s your resolution?” Man, I hate that question. Don’t you hate that question? I’m going to ask friends what held them together this year since that was my post yesterday. I think we had more moments of “I can’t take much more” and then we took more and more. And we gave more. That’s what makes us.

So, what will be your question?

4.1/365: Day One and 20 Things That Kept Me Going in 2020

Here we go again.

For new readers, 4.1/365 references the fourth year of blogging every day of the year. This being the first day of 365 days of 2021. I vow to write more this year. Having a new MacBook will help because my old one was ancient and I was blogging on the WordPress app, which is pretty awful. Y’all just don’t know. It takes four different taps to add a photo to a post.

As we’re saying goodbye to what all of us can agree was a truly terrible year, I thought I would blog 2020 things that kept me going in 2020.

  1. The resiliency of my children.
  2. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
  3. Novels by Lisa Jewell.
  4. The 80s cover songs playlist from indie bands.
  5. Sarcasm.
  6. Spotify.
  7. Ben Folds’ autobiography, A Dream About Lightning Bugs.
  8. A Facebook group I’m in of supportive friends.
  9. The podcasts RU Talkin’ R.E.M. Re: Me? and Pod Save America. Also, Conan Needs a Friend.
  10. My son’s love of music.
  11. The Queen’s Gambit.
  12. The poetry of Cleo Wade.
  13. Martha Stewart Living magazine. Yes, a real magazine, not a website to scroll through — a tangible magazine.
  14. Introducing my oldest child to The Blues Brothers.
  15. Finding what may be the perfect pen.
  16. Voting.
  17. Unsubscribing from emails.
  18. Rewatching Grey’s Anatomy and Mad Men.
  19. My results of middle child’s baking.
  20. Praying.

3.366/366: well, we did it

Usually, on New Year’s Eve, I wax poetic on the year or an element of it. This year there were too many elements and a post like that would overwhelm me, but after scrolling the Gram, I saw something.

Keeley Shaw Art summed it up well. I couldn’t have written anything more apropos or emotional or relevant and I thought it was more than worth posting. Happy New Year’s Eve, friends.

3.365/366: Bingo

One of my dear posted this on Facebook, saying she would have Bingo if she were to watch Tiger King.

I got Bingo with the middle horizontal line.

I watched Tiger King. I was sucked in. I Googled Carole Baskin. I clicked on a photo of one of people that was posted on Facebook to see his new set of teeth. I listened to an episode of true crime podcast I regularly listen to that dissected the series. Yes, I will watch a sequel if it appears on Netflix.

I live-streamed Ben Folds’ Saturday request shows a few times. I made requests.

Free space. I deserved that.

I bought a set of Facemasks from Old Navy and a set from Staples in effort to fine one’s that don’t fog my glasses up.

I cut my own hair. Actually, I had Scott cut the back. It was too short, as is what happens every time I have ever cut my hair. I hope I have learned my lesson.

More tomorrow. Have a nice New Year’s Eve Eve.