Month In The Life: March 2024

Birthdays, bathrooms, and finding the perfect sunscreen(s).

Maybe more so than any other month this year, March seemed to fly by for me. One day, it was stretching out in front of me, full of possibility, and the next I was here, writing this. It was a good month, though, full of writing and house renovation milestones and taking myself on thrifting dates. But it was also a little more difficult for me to manage than February in some ways. As I write this, the vast majority of March in the rearview mirror, I am in the thick of a wave of anxiety that arrived out of nowhere yesterday and has yet to leave, despite my repeated attempts to subdue it (drink water, go on a walk, worry about something I can’t control, repeat). Sometimes that’s just how it is. I know it’ll pass.

March is also the month where I turned 31, and I’m so grateful for another year of this life. I’m also so excited for everything ahead of me over the new few months, and my god, I am excited for spring. I am ready. I used to think that the long wait for warmer weather was frustrating, and I think that’s the perception that a lot of people have of living in in the northeast, but I love it. I can see signs of it all around me, and yes it snowed for most of last weekend, but I know spring is going to come anyway, that it’s going to push through it all at some point and it’s going to feel that much better. There’s nothing better than that first day of sunshine, when you know that the coldest weather is behind you until next winter. As I write this it’s still cold outside, bits of snow still melting, but that’s ok. I know it’ll make that first day of real spring that much better.

For now, let’s get into what worked for me in March and what didn’t.

March 2024