I thought a little pop of positivity would be nice, so I’m curious what everyone else is looking forward to- it can be whenever, whether in the near immediacy or in the far off future- I’ll personally share one in the immediate short term, one in the near short term, and one further off! Anticipation and gratitude can be so lovely as a reminder that even in the thick of things, there’s still bright spots to look out for.
Today, I’m looking forward to repainting my nails- the last coat of polish was chipping off (I did a pretty pale pink shimmer polish gradient with a deeper, also shimmery pink) since my nails had grown out a bit. I’m going to use the same pale pink, and just keep it nice and simple. Because it’s such a pale polish, it takes a few coats to build up the colour, but the formula is fairly fast drying, so by the time I’ve finished painting one hand, I can go right back to the other one for the next top up.
On Friday, I’m going to be meeting up with a dear friend of mine as a bit of a almost-through-exams-week break. We’re going to have coffee, delicious cheesy buns, and I’m looking forward to giving her a great big hug, as we haven’t really seen much of each other (or anyone really!) lately. (We are both very conscious about pandemic safety- we only unmask in private rooms where it’s just the two of us and no one to come barging in, do daily health screenings, are triple vaccinated, have only been attending crucial settings like labs, mask and sanitize when we’re out purchasing our little snacks, wipe down the meeting rooms we sit in together to have our little picnics, and have kept meticulously small circles so that if someone gets sick or we do, we can easily figure out where/how/alert them. She’s basically the only person I’ve been seeing throughout all this, as we decided early on it would be best to otherwise limit contact to say, immediate family or like, lab instructors and so on.) Last time we met up, we had a cute little paint and sip (coffee, haha) girl’s night to celebrate Easter early.
And in the longer term, I am looking forward to sleeping in my own bed at home again, after the semester wraps up- and getting to see the little wild life that roams around our yard-that’s-been-left-to-go-natural, (with a delightful array of native wildflowers, clover-y bits, lush grasses, and not nearly as many weeds or drainage or soil run off issues because of allowing things to sort of balance themselves out there), like the adorable little bunnies, groundhogs, mourning doves, squirrels, and baby robins! I’m also looking forward to having my own room proper to play around with makeup (I prefer to write with lipstick on, it makes me feel very fancy and sophisticated, but that’s hard to do with masks on campus, haha) and my beloved French Press, rather than the instant coffee I’ve been subsisting off of in between fancy Starbucks drinks on hangouts with my friend.
