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5 Favorite Apps
What are your favorite 5 apps on your phone?
- Too Good To Go I just recently learned about this app and I’m obsessed. Designed to reduce food waste, Too Good To Go partners with local restaurants and stores to offer food that didn’t sell at reduced prices. My favorite thing to do on Friday nights is to get a surprise bag from a local pizza place and veg out in front of the TV. This is a very reasonable thing for a 50 year old person to do. $5.99 and I get enough pizza for dinner and lunch the next day. I’ve also gotten surprise bags from grocery stores, filled with a delightful assortment of fresh and canned/boxed items, all within date, and all things my family will eat. A $25 value for $7.99. Being cheap gives me such a thrill! And I also like the idea of reducing food waste, but mostly just being cheap.
- Duolingo I currently have a 1565 day streak on Duolingo. Super proud of that. I’ve been learning Spanish for over 4 years. I cannot speak Spanish. But I can understand a little (un poco) if the speaker speaks very slowly. I also use it to practice playing chess. I recently learned they do music lessons too! I use the paid version because I accidentally forgot to cancel my free trial, and every February I get charged like $80 and I’m like “Doh! Forgot to cancel Duolingo.” But I enjoy this app so I don’t mind paying for it.
- Libby My library app. I have a long commute to work so I listen to audiobooks all the time. I go through a couple of books a week.
- Spotify For my music. I use the free version so I have to listen to ads. I just dissociate when the ads come on. They gave me a several months long free trial of premium and it was nice, but I won’t pay for this app.
- NYT Games to play the Wordle every day. My favorite games are Wordle, connections, the Mini and Midi crossword, Spelling Bee, and Strands. I did pay like $18 for a year of this app because they locked all the games I liked 😡 but $18 a year wasn’t that much and it was worth it to me.
I do have all the social media apps but I didn’t list them because even though I use them a lot, they are not my favorites. I often delete them off my phone entirely because they are so addictive and I find myself wasting so much time.
Smartphones are amazing tools! It’s hard now to even imagine life without one, even though I grew up in the 80s. My phone helps me organize my life, keeps me connected to family and friends, and literally puts the entire world of information at my fingertips. But doomscrolling eats up hours of my life. It’s a delicate balance.
Look what I found!
What’s the best thing you’ve ever found randomly on the street?
Daily Haiku Week 2
Daily haiku: week 1
Decided I should write a haiku every day this year for my journal. I get bored with journaling because this season of life is very busy but also very mundane and I feel like all my journal entries are things like, “I’m going to the store and the bank later.” But if I can write a haiku about going to the bank that is more challenging and more fun and therefore I might actually do it. Anyway here is the first week of 2026.
2026
I don’t think 2026 is going to be my year any more than any other year has been my year or the year, but I am approaching this year a little differently because I’m turning 50 this year and I’m feeling this sort of creeping mid-life panic. Maybe not panic, but urgency. This sort of “oh, sh*t” feeling born of the realization that the next phase of my life is going to bring about my physical decline, the empty nest, the loss of even more friends and family… so much to look forward to! (Heavy sarcasm.)
So in the meantime I want to read more books, learn languages, go on adventures with my people while I have them, take care of my body, learn to draw, be more present and engaged in my journey.
Happy New Year 2026.
What are your favorite animals?
My favorite animals are the ones that have soft fur, wet noses, whiskers, and soft ears.
But I also like the ones that have feathers and fly and sing.
Oh but then there are the colorful ones that swim. And then there are some of the ones that swim that are really big and curious and smart.
I like the ones with big long necks and the ones with long funny noses that like peanuts but are afraid of mice. Is that really true?
I even like the ones that slither, although I keep my distance. And the ones that crawl, scurry, scamper, or hop. The ones that bray, or neigh, or moo.
I wonder if they like me too?
The oldest thing I own
What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?
Hmmm… I own a lot of old things. I collect old books, I have some pretty old coins, old photographs, old records. But I don’t use those things regularly. So I would have to say the oldest thing I own that I still use daily would be my body.
My body will be 48 this year and it’s a little worse for wear, with the arthritis, poor eyesight (got my first pair of bifocals last year), and skin beginning to sag.
What a drag it is getting old.
But I do love my body and I’m grateful for it. My body is a vehicle for moving my soul around in 3-D, and while it may not be aesthetically pleasing to some, it is strong and reliable.
If my body were a real vehicle it would look like this one
Classic.
Tagline
If humans had taglines, what would yours be?
“Let me do the worrying for you.”
I understand you’re looking forward to experiencing a carefree moment of joy? Rest assured I have already imagined every single unfortunate event that could befall you, both probable and improbable.
Do you know where the emergency exits are located? I do. And I have planned multiple paths to access them in many different scenarios.
See the thing is my brain believes that the fabric of the universe is woven together with the threads of my anxiety, so if I were to stop worrying about everything the entire universe would collapse.
You’re welcome for keeping it all together.
