frivolity has its place.
Everyday the news is doom and gloom. Everyday someone I know is getting laid off (or having their hours/benefits reduced to nearly nothing) and frankly there is a little too much reality going on. I can really see why in the 1930s that movies (which were often very cheap to go to; especially when they would offer a gazillion promotions to get people into the theater) were so popular. The screwball romantic comedies, over the top musicals and the so on were the perfect escape. It didn't have to do with facing rising health insurance premiums, refinancing the house, paying off unexpected debt or planning for new debt on the horizon.
I am a fan of a little escape now and then.
Obviously I can't go to Capri and have meaningless conversations with the jet set over drinks; but I do like to leave the everyday world now and then and just not concern myself with banal details and common sense.
Even if it is just doing something like buying the most ridiculous pair of shoes that go with nothing I own and are totally insipid by some people's standards -it is worth it. Just the same with buying that insanely ridiculous expensive bar of chocolate or wearing a short skirt on a freezing cold day and privately pretending that it is a pretty day and I want to look good. I suspect there isn't going to be gold stars handed out at the end for being the most sensible and safe person ever. And even if there were -who wants that.
I have to be sensible most of the time, but I need my escape to feel a little more human.
How do you like to escape the doldrums and drudgery of reality?
I am a fan of a little escape now and then.
Obviously I can't go to Capri and have meaningless conversations with the jet set over drinks; but I do like to leave the everyday world now and then and just not concern myself with banal details and common sense.
Even if it is just doing something like buying the most ridiculous pair of shoes that go with nothing I own and are totally insipid by some people's standards -it is worth it. Just the same with buying that insanely ridiculous expensive bar of chocolate or wearing a short skirt on a freezing cold day and privately pretending that it is a pretty day and I want to look good. I suspect there isn't going to be gold stars handed out at the end for being the most sensible and safe person ever. And even if there were -who wants that.
I have to be sensible most of the time, but I need my escape to feel a little more human.
How do you like to escape the doldrums and drudgery of reality?
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liquor.
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Or I rip apart celebrities in an effort to make myself feel better than they are.
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I subscribe to Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP newsletter just so I can make fun of it.
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If I'd had enough caffeine (motivation), going running or working out helps me tremendously, too. Or walking outside.
But when I'm down and out, it can be really hard to get myself to "escape" into something that will shift my perspective.
I have a feeling movies will become more of an escape for me this year.
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Frivolity
Re-soling my trudging shoes.
Going grocery shopping without a list.
Milk on my all-bran.
Darning my dishrags.
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Okay, so I've been escaping to the gym...not a pleasurable escape, but an escape nonetheless. I've been splurging on lime perrier for my victory drink. Paying for water? Stupid as hell, I knows, but whatever.
My all purpose escape is the stitch'n'bitch. Not only do I have sexay yarn, but other ladies let me molest theirs. Also? We meet at places where both booze and pie are readily available. Hedonistic to the max, baybee.
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Escape!
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CSI reruns (although that's not that uplifting is it?)
Window shopping
And lately looking at baby things.
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I write porn.
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Really good tomatoes.
Oh, and planning trips, both real and fantasy.
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I draw and I read and basically live in a sort of cocoon.
I watch Star Wars every day.
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One of them watched Star Wars every single day for a couple of years. Another watched Ghostbusters everyday for a few years.
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books.
loud music.
very good chocolate.
torrid, inappropriate and extremely detailed sexual fantasies about one of my students.
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Valentine Boxes are important stuff.
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i highly recommend "my man godfrey."
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You need to come over and we can watch "North By Northwest" or something. We can knit too.
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A good beverage will do wonders.