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As the weekend draws to a close, I like to prepare myself for what’s become known to me as ‘existential crisis Monday’, by sitting down and listing all the things I’ve achieved over the course of my 2 weekly days of freedom. 

Usually I get to Sunday evening and realise I’ve managed to: 

A - Spend all of my very little money that I don’t have on alcohol, in a (mostly futile and self deprecating) attempt to socially lubricate myself enough to enjoy socially awkward social events. More often than not resulting in some kind of humiliating conversation, confession of love & or dance move that then leads to a downward spiral of anxiety the following day. Totally worth it though guys. 

B - Make a hat out of pine cones for my cat (I’ve only done this one time but never the less was obviously pretty impressed with myself). She hated it by the way. 

C - Eat more food than I’ve eaten for the entire week prior, within the space of 2 days. Because I’m pretty sure I read somewhere one time that calories don’t count on the weekends. Also, if I’m going to continue to be deeply unfulfilled in many other aspects of my life I sure as hell am not going to be literally ever unfulfilled, like in my stomach… Because that is something I CAN fix like right now this very minute and actually BRB off to make a peanut butter related snack. 

D - Go to the gym and walk on the treadmill for approximately 7 minutes before deciding it’s time to hit the steam room because I don’t want to push myself too hard, I’m building my fitness up slowly. It’s only taken me 28 years to get to the whole walk for 7 minutes level of fitness so I can’t rush this. 

E - Sometimes I do some kind of token ‘Sydney’ activity so I feel like fancy and super adult, like the Bondi to Bronte walk followed by a latte and a salad. Or maybe walk around Bondi markets not buying anything because for a market the clothes are actually pretty expensive and also I already spent all my money on point A (the excess alcohol consumption to make social events bearable thing). 

Then I usually go to sleep super early because even thought I am not going to get out of bed at 5:30am I’ll set my alarm for that time anyway because in my head I am pretty sure I am going to go for a run before work (I’m not, I never do) but I feel good about the alarm setting thing anyway. This brings me to the GIF I have posted, which is usually me when I first arrive at work on a Monday after having recapped all of the above, spent an hour on the bus scrolling social media seeing many engagement, house purchase & travel pics and deciding my life is spiralling into nowhere pretty fast. The life contemplation, tea thing is my go to on a Monday morning and I really feel like heaps of people could benefit from this ritual. 

That is all for now. Stay tuned for more daily/weekly/whenever I can be bothered to, ramblings.