Lately: Cheers

Lately: Highlighter High

In completely trivial news, I finally bought some highlighter.  The makeup, not the office accessory (I've been fully stocked on the colorful pens for decades).

And in completely superficial terms, it's freaking fantastic.  I finally get the hype.

Of course, I have no idea how to use it properly so it's completely possible that I look like this:

But whatever.  It masks the tired eyes (they're baaaack) and it's awesome.

The end.

Life or Something Like It

I'm still here, but just trying to adjust to my new normal.

Just kidding, I'm fine.  I just like this gif so much I used it anyway.

But lately, my prevailing mood has been an overwhelming sense of "eh, maybe later."  It's hard to describe but life just feels a bit hollow - like I'm going through the motions but standing still.  And yes, I realize that's a totally self-fulfilling feeling - I'm doing nothing therefore I feel like I'm doing nothing.  

Most days I have just enough energy/willpower to take care of Phoebe and get through the work day.  But after my obligations are met, I basically switch to Netflix zombie mode.

And yeah, I know it's not that great for me.  But eh.

Eventually, I'll muster up the motivation to add more dimension to my current life.  Buuuuut...

I'm probably going to snap out of it soon.  I've started getting the urge to make more ambitious plans for the week ahead.  But then, of course, the week actually rolls around and I'm still in "meh" mode:

But I remember how cathartic blogging was in Dubai, so I figured it would help me to just get it written down.  I'm not even motivated enough to write a full post about it, but gif-land is always fun. 

And look!  Just like that I feel accomplished.  I just did something other than work, sleep, and take Phoebe to the dog park (the height of our social life lately).