Mid-week thoughts

I know I say this every month, but how are we already half way through February?! This month so far has been pretty fun. Here are some random things/thoughts I had so far this month:

Superbowl 

Okay, I am not an avid football game watcher but I am always down to watch the Superbowl. This year- The Rams and The Bengals played. I didn't really have any scientific approach to guess who was going to win this year; I looked at the important factors of: Hot Head Coach, Cute Quarterback, better team colors, better mascot and how everyone else was feeling. I picked the Rams (completely based on Sean McVey's good looks) and I was so excited to see they won!

The halftime show was something else this year. I love when they performers are from the area where the Superbowl is being held and there were so many funny memes coming out ahead of the Superbowl that I was curious to see what was going to happen. Overall it was a good show, I think it was targeted to a very specific age group (ie. the younger kids and the older generation maybe didn't love it as much) 

Congrats to the LA Rams for winning!

Wordle

Last month in my midweek thoughts I wrote about Wordle and how fun it has been to play. Well between now and then the New York Times has bought it and taken it over. 😕 I knew this was coming and I was really happy for the creator of Wordle to be getting paid for this creation but I had BIG worries that 1. NYT would make it impossibly hard and 2. you would have to pay for it.  Well since the take over, one day, users could have gotten one of two answers depending on what platform you played on (NYT.com or the original Wordle website), so much confusion from that. Then the next day, the solution from the NYT's Wordle was the original Wordle's solution. 

AND! in playing Wordle for over a month, I lost my streak for the very first time. I was so upset that day. Stupid ELDER. I think I actually cried. 😠😭

I am curious to see where NYT's takes this and what will happen to it and if it pops behind the NYT's paywall. 

Focus

I hate to admit it but staying focused has been really hard for me. Perhaps its the state of the world right now and how things are so messy, or that we are quickly approaching year three of the pandemic or just normal stress and anxiety, but focusing is really hard. 

I consistently give myself pep talks to try to motivate myself to get stuff done.  I recently heard of the Pomodoro method and I am interested in seeing if that helps. Setting the Focus setting on my phone has kinda helped too. 

Do you have any tips on how to stay focused? Or should I just wait until the world is back to normal?

Valentine's Candy

Now I remember a time when Valentine's candy would come out like Mid January and they stay around until after Valentine's Day AKA 1/2 price expensive chocolate day. THIS YEAR, I feel like Valentine's candy was out at the end of December and it was already gone by the end of January which meant there was no 1/2 price candy the day after Valentines day. I am pretty sure I saw bunnies out right before Valentine's Day; what is happening in the world?! 

WHEW! I think that is just about enough of my rambling thoughts for this week.

[[The Human body is 90% water. We're basically cucumbers with anxiety.]]