A day
My Day
Location, Hells Kitchen, NYC
Weather: storms & flood watch
Mood: Mellow yet productive
Calendar: Free day
Astrology Today
Sun: Cancer Season
Moon: Waning Gibbous, Pisces
Currently
Reading: The Ode Less Traveled by Stephen Fry
Working On: Capsule, a Squarespace 7.1 template for personal websites / digital commonplace books
Watching: Criminal Minds (we’re on Season 5)
Daily Log
Slept horribly last night—super hot! definitely overdue for our summer bedding makeover*—but despite feeling scratchy this morning, I’m in a calm and happy mood. I love the “fresh start” vibes that come with Monday morning, especially when I have a long stretch of days coming up with nothing on the calendar.
I also feel increasingly clear on what I’m doing with this website and my “personal brand,” which is essentially, whatever the F I want.
Watermelon. Seedy toast with butter. String cheese.
Pork chop + few crumbles of buttermilk biscuit for the dog. She was more into the biscuit.
After a few weeks of feeling ashamed of my astrology practice, I’m back at it, and it feels so good and so right.
Sliced orange & grapefruit with a bit of oil, Maldon sea salt & toasted almonds.
Laundry, towels. My favorite laundry, everything folds into tidy squares.
* I love linen bedding, especially for summer; the weight, the breathability … but they get so stretched out so easily, and as much as I love the texture, sometimes I also just want smooth sheets. So we’ve been using these Tencel sheets from Casper. They too are great for hot sleepers, but they’re extremely thin, and the flat sheet is stubby on our king bed. Basically, I’m a bedding Goldilocks and told myself to just deal with the tradeoffs. BUT THEN … Parachute recently released a combination! Linen and Tencel! Which basically feels like these sheets are made for me, but not my wallet. So I’ve been waiting/hoping for them to go on clearance. I thought today was the day, but alas … only one color was on sale (I’m pretty loyal to white bedding) and the king-size was out of stock. Here’s to continuing to manifest a sale on this set in white with side-open envelope, pillows on sale.
Dinner-ish was cheesy scrambled egg taco topped with sauerkraut, inspired by the breakfast sandwich at Kitty’s in Hudson. If you’re thinking sauerkraut on eggs sounds weird, same, but be prepared to be pleasantly surprised.
The promised summer storm was a doozy, and I can’t think of a more perfect night than rain pounding against the window, nonstop lightening bolts, a Manhattan, and the blank page of a notebook begging to be filled…
