To improve my quality of life i believe i need to decenter the phone

  • get a watch. hopefully a cloth strap won't suck. if it does, maybe double line it with a t-shirt fabric
  • keep notepads on you again
  • camera... i wonder if there is a thin, lightweight camera i could take? i think the phone is really the only thing that behaves as it does in that way. could also just jot down descriptions in notepad to tell people later
  • have only one phone home page, put all essential apps on that and keep everything else in the back folders. delete social media apps the instant they're going unused
  • use soundcloud, bandcamp, anything but spotify. dedicate more time to ripping your cds or listening to them at home. play jazz on vinyl again
  • make zines. maybe brave a zine-a-day challenge to get over yourself (with love)
  • figure out how to hem your pants by hand, how to alter clothes by hand
  • friendship bracelets are a good idle use of your hands
  • pick a book on your shelf and non-noncommittally flip through a few pages. go to a random chapter and read the first and last page, for example. then it can be put back, left alone if you don't want to keep going
  • make more tea, cook more meals
  • take longer bus rides out to further forests. go to bellevue or shoreline and see what those forests hold. go to ravenna and make a point of id-ing something, like the turkey tail mushrooms. explore more of the arboretum
  • find volunteering to do, already got a few leads on hold til after the season
  • do more stretches
  • clean something, wipe down some counters, sweep
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