Happy Leap Day! I hope everyone’s year is starting off well. I don’t know about you but this last week of February feels like the longest week. I can’t believe it’s only Thursday and I still have to go to work tomorrow. I hope everyone is doing something fun today on our extra day of the year. I love that some restaurants are giving out free or discounted food today – I saw that Krispy Kreme was offering a dozen doughnuts for $2.29 and Chipotle was giving away free guacamole.
Also, in honor of Leap Day, you should read one of the craziest questions asked on Ask A Manager, about an employee born on Leap Day who wasn’t allowed to have her birthday off from work except every four years. If you’ve never read Ask A Manager, I highly recommend perusing the website and its archives.
Here is my monthly wrap-up of some of the other things I was up to in February.
What I’m eating:
The weather has not been great these past couple of weeks in Seattle. It’s been rainy and windy and we’ve gotten snow in some of our surrounding areas. Needless to say, I’ve been craving warm comfort food lately. I’ve been eating a lot of baked potatoes with chili and a lot of stews. I’ve been looking for something hearty and warm and filling. Spring will be here soon, so maybe I’ll be eating a lot of salads next month.
What I’m watching:
I started watching the show Constellation on Apple TV+. There are only 4 episodes out so far but I am really liking it. It’s kind of creepy and kind of mysterious and I don’t know what’s going on all the time but that’s ok. The show does a great job of creating tension and making you wonder if you saw what you think you saw.
What I’m loving:
I think I talked about this in another blog post but I have been playing the Connections game on the New York Times website just about every day. It’s a puzzle-type game where you have 16 different words and you group the words into 4 groups based on topics/categories. It’s funny – I either get all 4 categories super quick or I don’t. The majority of the time I can get 1 category pretty fast and then if I don’t get the other 3 right away, it takes me a while. A lot of time I can get 3 categories and then the last one is just whatever 4 words are left over. I’ve picked up some tips and tricks from seeing what previous categories have been used so I always try to remember them. I never feel bad if I don’t “win” the game that day. I love just exercising my brain and thinking about things in a different way.
See you next month!
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