The joys of a weekend off.

I hadn't planned to take a social media break over the weekend but on Friday I found out that Saturday was #DigitalDetoxDay.

It seemed like a good prompt to pop my phone in a drawer and remove temptation, and to be honest it was such a good feeling that I extended it into Sunday as well.

I used to regularly take social media breaks but at some undefined point I stopped, probably around the time Covid started - convinced that I'd miss some vital nugget of information.

Of course, we all know that it doesn't work like that. You tell yourself that you are keeping up to date with vital information but really you are following gossip, argument and a whole lot of partials informed speculation.

Definitely not good for the mental health.

So, instead I had a lovely, calm weekend. Well, the usual preparing for back to school kerfuffle, but at least my brain was clearer and better able to deal with it.

I read a book - the Strawberry Thief by Joanne Harris and started a new sock yarn blanket (because... Why not?)

And more importantly, I felt in a better place to write, journal and set a few new moon intentions for the month ahead. (Today is New Moon in Virgo if you follow that sort of thing)

Now I just need to take that New Moon energy and channel it into some healthy online habits for the week ahead. Starting off the day here, rather than doom scrolling on Twitter sounds like a good start to me.