how to have a really good weekend in september

ideas for u based on my lived experience

Go to Goodwill and buy a bunch of cut crystal dishes and trays to keep all your makeup and jewelry and matchboxes and candy and cotton balls and hairpins in and on

Buy some men’s blazers there as well

And an oil painting with a fancy gold frame if u can find it… to put in the kitchen

Go home and have butternut squash mac and cheese and a canned sparkling wine while you watch a B-movie preferably a shark movie. I recommend deep blue sea or the meg

Go for a run and then make the tiktok feta eggs for breakfast

Hang out with people you love but don’t normally hang out with

Get a little too tipsy off two fancy drinks and go to bed early

Buy a maxi skirt and a fun top at brandy

Read a Psalm

Get stuff to knit a sweater or some socks

Make your bed

Make a large iced coffee at home in one of those tj maxx disposable fall themed to-go coffee cups and put in some pumpkin spice creamer

Get up early and take the metro to meet your bestie at the farmer’s market

Eat a bagel

Paint your nails a transitional summer-to-fall shade. I chose this warm green color that matches castelvetrano olives (see below, where I am holding up a cat book)

Get a bunch of herbs and an onion and a lemon and a bag of beans and a little bouquet and whatever else you like

Make a canon meal: alison roman’s brothy beans and serve with a ton of lemon and parmesan and chopped herbs and also some sourdough toast you’ve rubbed with fresh garlic

Watch a couple episodes of a scifi show or a scifi movie with your bf who lives far away. Like Invasion or Star Trek Strange New Worlds or Foundation or Alien or Arrival or Stargate or something like that.

Get in a twitter fight about social norms

Try an experimental look. I bravely returned to my PNW roots this weekend and wore a fleece and tevas over a t-shirt and maxi skirt to go to the farmer’s market.

Go to the bookstore and get a book of cat poems and an umberto eco novel

Write some postcards

Call your grandma

Clean your apartment

Make some tea and drink it and maybe have a little shortbread and some blackberries and a piece of chocolate covered toffee alongside

Put a hair mask in your dry hair (on the ends) and rosemary oil at the roots (to help it grow) and then slick it all back into a bun and leave it in all day and then take a long shower and wash it all out

Buy a 5 pack of men’s boxers at Target because they’re chic now. Wear with fuzzy socks and a huge sweatshirt.

Check your email before bed so you’re not as stressed in the morning

Goodnight :)