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Spending some time every day with my bass guitar or keyboard. It really does make me feel enjoyment and accomplishment.
I need to be anyways, being in basically two cover bands, but the depression from unemployment and the state of the world is making even that hard to do most days
I asked a girl to be my girlfriend and she said yes, so I think I'm exempt this week
Big W
Congrats!
Going to the beach with the fam! Water and fruits in the cooler! Mango peaches water melon and oranges! No sun screen!
That sounds like a blast, but you really should put on sun screen!!
The reason I say no sunscreen is cause they keep pulling them from the market for having a carcinogen called benzene. We have survived in the sun for thousands of years with out sunscreen and skin cancer is on the rise because people keep using sun screen. Marketing can be evil but do some research and you will find that we don't need sunscreen. Just need to tan a little bit at a time and your skin can naturally deal with the sun as we have for thousands of years before sunscreen.
I did not know that about benzene.
What I will say though is that sunlight is carcinogenic. Cancer of all types has always existed, but we're better about detecting it and treating it nowadays.
The reason why skin cancer is so much more prevalent now is because things like tanning and spending time in the sun are more popular in the western world than they were ages ago. People long ago used to physically shield themselves from it (before sunscreen). Asian cultures actually retained the desire to shield themselves from the sun. Whiter skin is more desirable in these countries, so people avoid tanning.
Long ago in the western world, whiter skin used to signify wealth. Farmers and day laborers would get tan tending the fields and such. So if your skin was whiter, it meant you could afford to be inside while people were doing physical labor for you.
Now in the western world, it's the opposite. Since most jobs nowadays are in the office, having tanner skin signifies having more wealth as you have more free time away from the office to sit in the sun.
In very ancient hunter gatherer times, I'm not sure that recreation was much of a thing. People likely tried to shield themselves from burns and such, but who knows. In ancient hunter gatherer times, you'd likely die of infection or malnutrition before cancer anyway.
Edit: Altho to be clear, I'm not saying that no sun is good either lol. Sun is actually super important for certain things like vitamin D! It's just that it's also carcinogenic!
Hitting the gym again and again and again.
Today is chest day, just few weeks to months away from 2 plates for reps.
Hopefully i'll tidy my room and exercise well. Those things make me happier. Nontheless, following through on them is hard.
I get this so much. Every night, I clean one corner of my room. At first it was tough, because I had no clue where to start.
My rule when cleaning is that "I cannot dirty another spot/place in my room while cleaning the corner"
It forces me to pack and throw away certain things.
I really hope the cleaning goes well 🎉
Trying to get back into regular meditation and exercise. It really helps but I keep skipping it because I'm busy with other stuff.
I was going to attend my weekly dance class, but it looks like it got too popular and the class is full!!! So I'm not really sure!!
Go on a run/jog
I really should get back into doing this, but I live in such a hot and humid climate that this means death unless I get my ass up before dawn lol
Apparently by drinking 5 cans of pepsi max lol.
Honestly tho, I might see about watching a movie or just sitting in bed after work lol