#BreakThings: What day is it?
12.29.20
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The trouble with the six days between Christmas and New Year’s is that all of the milestones that govern your time are upended.
Maybe you’re working. Maybe you’re on vacay.
Maybe you wake up at the usual time. Maybe you stumble out of bed at noon.
Maybe you eat a nice meal for lunch. Maybe you scrounge a stale Christmas cookie and some less than appetizing carrots from an ancient crudités tray.
Eventually you no longer know what day it is and find yourself asking your husband, “Is today Tuesday or Monday?” only to get a shrug of the shoulders in return.
Trying to work today has been a struggle. Every e-mail is met with an out-of-office reply. Several meetings were cancelled last minute. Another was supposed to have 11 participants and only three attended. My boss also forgot he told one of our new staffers that he started today (we’re closed) and he showed up to find a locked office door. Great.
But hey, we just have to make it til Monday when my sense of time will right itself. Hopefully.
Fast Company put together a list of the 26 best apps of 2020. (That number makes it feel like there were supposed to be 25 and someone fought hard for a favorite.)
There are apps to combat Zoom fatigue, take better notes, play classic Internet games and more. Basically, if you need to perform a work task better or get an app to help achieve New Year fitness and self-care goals, this list has a suggestion.
Is your house filled with shipping boxes from holiday packages?
Give Back Box lets you fill Amazon, Walmart, etc. boxes with household items you want to donate to area charities. You mail them out with a pre-paid shipping label, and then the wares are donated and the box is recycled.
This year has been tough, but The Atlantic pulled together the most hopeful images of 2020. The inspiring photos remind us that even in dark times, there are still rays of hope. Here’s to a better 2021.
This was the Year Without Clothes. The year we remembered that fashion is subjective and clothes can be just utilitarian. The year we learned that “Walking pants and sprawling pants are two different species.” And the year when even the most pulled together women we knew decided pajamas at noon sounded like a good idea.
Read more about it in The New Yorker.
Speaking of “sprawling pants,” these $29 leggings from Colorfulkoala are my favorite. They feel like Lululemon on. They wear very well, even with repeated washing. And they have pockets. I’ll never go back to pricey leggings.
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