What's something you've done for yourself lately?

A Monday-after-the-weekend discussion thread

Good morning! Happy Monday.

If you celebrate it, I hope that you had a happy Easter, and regardless, I hope that the weather was as lovely where you live as it was here in Kentucky this weekend. It was sunny and warm here, but that kind of excessively nice, perfect warmth before the unbearable humidity of summer clamps down on us.

The trees were all in bloom, the smell of grass being cut by someone who isn’t me wafted in the air, and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. We took the kids hiking in a nature preserve, went for bike rides, searched for Easter eggs, and even attended in-person Easter Sunday services, my first time sitting down inside a building with strangers in over a year. (Strict distancing and masking protocols were adhered to, and we’re two weeks past our shots, FWIW.) It all felt wonderful; it felt both like a return to normal and very strange for feeling so normal, like something that hasn’t existed for a painfully long period of time.

Is this my way of saying I didn’t g…