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Happy Sunday, friends! This past month has definitely been a bit of a slog for me with the fall semester up and rolling again. Although my responsibilities are not too overwhelming on the surface, I'm finding it extremely hard to get and stay motivated to do my work when even the slightest bit of news will throw my whole mental state out of wack. I'm still in the process of trying to adjust to this new normal but here are some of the things that have helped me in the process of building a more fulfilling hygge-filled at-home quarantine life ❤️
Whenever I'm bored during the workday, I always find myself dawdling in the kitchen looking for a snack or going to make another coffee telling myself I'm hungry or tired when in reality I'm just bored. Instead of going to grab another snack, I've replaced most of my kitchen trips with sodastream visits to keep my brain entertained but knock the unhealthy habit of constant snacking. I love adding either a bit of lemon or mango juice to my sparkling water during the day and in the evenings, it also serves as a nice mixer for cocktails! 🙂
The Soap Opera is a local business based in Madison, where I'm located - but if you're not in Madison, they also offer U.S. shipping - a feature I've definitely used during the past 6 months when I don't want to risk visiting in person. They have pretty much any bath or body product you could ever need and a whole host of essential oil products as well. During quarantine, I've gotten really into using essential oils and The Soap Opera has about every scent under the sun! They've also become my go-to for hand sanitizer because you can pick the essential oil scent you want in your sanitizer and they ship it all in reused packaging in an effort to be more sustainable - aaaaall my favorite things under one roof! 🙂
Y'all. I've been low-key obsessed with these acne patches for a couple of years now, but they've become an essential now with the rise of the dreaded mask acne. My skin is generally moderate to mild when it comes to acne but if I'm wearing a mask all day I'll usually end up developing a couple pimples here and there. These acne patches suck up all of the goop and gunk in your pores so you can just pop a patch on and wake up the next morning with a significantly smaller, if not completely flattened pimple. In my experience, they've sped up the healing process by at least a couple of days, if not weeks, and have quickly become a staple in my stash of acne products.
Being home all of the time means your neighbors are also home all of the time and as an old lady who goes to bed at 9 pm every night these earplugs have become my favorite things in the whole wide world. While I generally don't have a problem with a couple of noises here and there, when it's past like 7 pm and I start to get cranky, I become super sensitive and easily irritated by noise. I've used a lot of earplugs in the past but none have been as effective as these ones. I discovered these earplugs when we stayed in a noisy 1st floor airbnb that provided them to help guests sleep better. These earplugs have been a life saver. They block out about 95% of the noise which allows me to sleep better and sleep-in longer as well.
Alright, this one is for those of you who share a smaller space with your sig other or roommates. My fiancee works mostly in our living/kitchen area which is great and all... until you realize he frequently has back-to-back meetings from 7:30 am until 3:00 pm and your coffee maker is "too loud" for his zoom meetings 😭Rather than get into fights about this (not that we haven't already haha - oops) the temporary solution I've come up with is to fill my Zojirushi travel mug with 3 cups worth of coffee so I can take it in to the bedroom and not get upset about the whole no-access-to-my-coffee situation. Zojirushi's are THE best travel mugs in the world by a landslide. They honestly keep hot water piping hot for 5-6 hours after the fact and actually do such a good job of keeping things hot that you have to be careful not to burn your tongue when drinking out of them.
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Hope you all are staying healthy out there during these crazy dumpster fire of a year. Don’t be too hard on yourself if you’re not being the most productive or happiest human being in the world. You’re doing the best you can. This is just a hard situation. Sending all of you lots and lots of love.
