Salon post : March 16

[jenett]

Welcome to this week's salon post!

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Topic of the week
I took Monday and Tuesday off this week, to play catchup on life. It got me thinking about how I use vacation time, and what makes my life easier.

What do you do that improves your life? (Especially if it's a somewhat new thing.)

What I've been up to:
I am now cheerfully into the Martha seasons of New Who. But today, I'd love to rec a podcast, This Is Love (from the same people who do Criminal, which I also like a lot).

I listened to episode 5, "A Private Life" on the way into work this morning, and it is both adorable and a fascinating view of legal history around same-sex marriage and changing attitudes.


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Comments

[brithistorian]

Yay for shutting down and picking up a book. I've been trying to do that as well. I've been making a conscious effort to spend less time on Facebook, and generally find that the less time I spend there, there happier I am. Now I pretty much go in once a day, check my notifications, check to see if my wife posted anything, and then I'm out of there.

I've also been working on decluttering. One of my goals for the new year (I made quantifiable goals rather than resolutions, and it's helped me stick with them) has been to spend 15 minutes decluttering on at least 50% of days. Yesterday I got rid of a stack of old papers and magazine about a foot and a half high! ^_^

[alexseanchai]

(I made quantifiable goals rather than resolutions, and it's helped me stick with them)

awesome!