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Hi friends!
Did you catch me do it on the last newsletter? I guess I’m ready for the new year. I’ll send you a real issue next week, but I’m in Miami and therefore better than you. Sorry!
I have lots to catch you up on from what’s become a travel diary. I’ve been in Florida since Saturday and spent the week prior in Pittsburgh. As someone who always becomes a evil or emotional person whenever I go home, I am proud to say that I beat the odds and wasn’t a freak (derogatory) while home for Christmas. I want to tell you a lot about that, too.
I’ll leave you with this list for now, but expect more from me next week. I hope tomorrow on the party night of the year that you aren’t overcome with melancholy for very long, if at all!
How to have a good trip back to your hometown if you’ve become an insufferable person elsewhere
Don’t stay longer than a week
Have God shine upon you so that the people you either don’t want to see/have to see but have complicated feelings about either don’t see you or your time with them is minimal enough for it to not hurt you
Have God shine upon you so that work is minimal and/or not stressful
Work out as often as possible
Eat healthy
Hang with your comfort people
Go to your comfort restaurant/coffeeshop/park
Go somewhere new if that’s possible
Read
Do something with your hands
Give as many hugs as you possibly can
Have at least one night that you go to bed super early
Have a maximum of two nights that you go to bed super late
Be a snob with people who’ll let you
Have a stellar run-in with someone you haven’t seen in years
Have a stellar conversation with a totally random service worker and/or civilian
Have a stellar night alone with your sibling if you have access to that
Spend enough time alone in the car to have a great listening sesh
Get your nails done
Go to Target
This week’s photo is from making bagels with Ben and my mom on Christmas. It’s day 1 of the bake process (mixing ingredients until they become dough) so they’d be ready by Friday when the shop reopened. Christmastime for the Jews!