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This is a soothing activity and i can sit doing it for 12 hours while watching “sex and the city” for the first time in my life. Most of the art in my home is art that i have made from paint by numbers and what’s amazing about it is that they have many different styles. For a long time i thought the only paint by numbers you could do was animals, and i generally hate animals, so i avoided it. But it turns out you can make van gogh-like paintings, or gorgeous vistas from italy’s cinque terra, or a cityscape. If you are looking for something a little less committal (I tend to spend 40 hours on one but i get extremely detailed ones) you should do a paint-and-sip class at Pinot’s Palette. They are all over the US and you get to take a group photo at the end that they put on facebook like you graduated from high school :)
Feb 15, 2024
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Jan 13, 2025
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i‘ve literally never judged others for doing them, but i always felt like if i (perfectionist…) did one, it was “cheating” of some kind. however, it is very relaxing and kind of a mindless but mindful task in the best way possible. ideally, i could quit my job to complete paint by numbers full time
Nov 18, 2024
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sometimes i grab a glass of wine and a cute book with pictures with some pens and start painting while i listen to music. it's so relaxing.
May 28, 2024
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I get very emotional recommending this because i don’t want to bring in fair weather fans and also as more people come i get on the jumbotron less, but you simply must start going to WNBA games. When the NY Liberty moved to Barclays in 2021, I started attending every single home game. It is the only place in the world i ever feel the full spectrum of emotions. These players are GOOD and many of them are DATING EACH OTHER which happens in no other sport at all basically!!!! Two years ago, 4 of the 5 starting players on Chicago’s team were literally married to each other (two couples, not poly though i wouldnt rule that out as something that could happen in the future). The tickets are so cheap because people do not value the league enough and then also the league itself thinks that people who attend the games have to be entertained the whole entire time or else no one will come, so they have programming for every second of the game, including a dance team of people aged 50+. It’s amazing and i cannot wait for next season.
Feb 15, 2024
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This is self-explanatory i think. I need to be on my computer or phone the second it gets dark out so that i dont think about how im going to die one day, so i usually do online shopping. But of course i cannot buy the things i want due to i’d lose everything in terms of my money, and also i am obsessed with designer clothing so i really cannot be behaving in that way. But i suspend my belief and open 100+ tabs of clothing/shoes/accessories that i like from TheRealReal, cos, ebay, to name a few and then just as i’m finally starting to get sleepy, i “apple Q” thousands of dollars away without ever adding anything to a cart so that i can start over the next day. It is like “50 first dates” but with retail therapy. Does this make sense?
Feb 15, 2024
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My wallet is the size of my forearm and i have never lost it in the 10 years ive had it. Yes it means im carrying a backpack most of the time because it doesn’t really fit in a normal purse so to speak, but ive never had to replace a credit card or an ID and that is worth looking like a child on the subway for.
Feb 15, 2024