What's going on, everyone, everyone, Emily Abadi here. You're listening to Five Minute Friday from Hurtle.

I am feeling all sorts of ready for a Memorial Day weekend in which I have absolutely no real plans.

I mean, literally the things on my bucket list for the weekend, to do list, I suppose. Spend some time by a pool. Check. Going to happen today on Friday. Clean the apartment. Check. Probably going to do that on Saturday. Go to the beach. Check. Going to do it on Sunday, and find some sort of barbecue

moment, perhaps, on Monday. Keeping it low key, I feel as though I have been a little bit

all over the place with good reason. I feel as though things are kind of rolling into one another,

that the projects that excite me, one thing happens, and then it's immediately onto a call,

a Zoom, some sort of strategy thing for the thing that's happening the following weekend. And

it's lovely. Don't get me wrong. But something that I've been really dialed into

lately for myself is understanding what it is that I need to do to appreciate what's happening

when it happens. Because when life is coming at you fast, like that classic quote from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, you miss things, right? And so I'm taking

the time to write things down. I'm taking the time to set aside time to be with myself, which I'm

traveling a lot. I'm often alone, but it's one thing to be alone and mindlessly watching

some sort of a television show or maybe even enjoying a book, a little bit more productive

use of time. But it's another to actually be sitting with your feelings and asking yourself,

how do I feel right now? How did this feel yesterday? What was a moment that really

stuck out for me? What was one thing that I tasted? One thing that I said. One thing that I

heard. One thing that I smelled that I really appreciated. How can you be more present with what

is happening on a day to day? And as things have been pretty hectic,

and I've been trying to do the best I can with what I have and navigating all the emotions

that go hand in hand with feeling slightly stretched thin, that exercise that I just mentioned, the five senses, touch,

sight, hearing, smell, taste. And I added said, reflecting on one thing that really stuck out

to me, sticks out to me in each of those areas really helps me into my body,

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