COVID Checklist Week 10

I don’t even know. Week 9. Week 8. Week 7. Week 6. Week 5 here. Week 4 here. Week 3’s here. Week 2’s here. There is no Week 1 because we didn’t know back then.

I finally tried The Class, which is therapy in the guise of calisthenics, and I kind of hated it but loved it at the same time. 14-day free trial with livestream classes all day errrrryday.
A rep from a Starting Strength franchise in Houston reached out to me—unclear how I got on his radar—but I deeply respect the Starting Strength model (the first one in Austin opening on Anderson right around the time I moved back). Read their perspective on gyms reopening here. And then read their unfiltered perspective on gyms reopening here.

Charleston in June? OC in July? Road trips? When does Big Bend reopen? GET ME OUT OF HERE.

SUP dogs. Socializing on the SUP is lifesaving.
Join Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s pep rally via facebook + display your support!
Presented without commentary: an OMG scrolling experience on wealth.

THIS IS THE BEST THING ON THE INTERNET TODAY. Dad, How Do I youtube channel has gone viral, and for good reason—everyone’s new dad is the sweetest, most genuine man to ever make a youtube video. [My own dad, who has received many “Dad, how do I?” calls, had to rush over to my house last week to help me remove a piece of errant cinderblock from MY EYEBALL. This is not a covered scenario.]
File it under things I never would have watched if not in quarantine: remember my Chisos cowgirl boots I love with my whole heart? We’re deeply, deeply nerding out on boot construction over here.
Goodbye minutes to hours of your life, hello Astronaut.io. It’s a website that plays a few seconds of random YouTube videos with almost no views. It’s in all languages, and of anything. via Recomendo (which I also, ahem, recommendo).
As an ’80s baby, I feel like I didn’t actually watch a lot of these 80s classics. Now I might.

Ben & Jerry’s is just the best. In yet another hilarious stroke of genius, they collab-ed with Nike to release a sneaker called the CHUNKY DUNKY. Brilliant. Unbelievable. Perfect.
If tie-dye sweatsuits won the earlier part of the pandemic, caftans are most certainly winning the warm-weather portion. An article, a caftan, and a pocketed maxi dress.
Local Austin artist Eliana Bernard just released more of her stunning ceramics. At $52/mug they’re not in the pandemic budget, but they’re beautiful to click through anyway.

May 20, 2020