So as my mood slowly faded down, with a correction here and there, but the eventual decline. My morning routine changed. After my walk, instead of sitting down and eating breakfast and flipping / reading through my subscribed to cooking magazines, I spent quite a bit of time with cat lap time. So this me sitting on a chair, flipping through the news on my phone, drinking my cold brew coffee with 2% milk and I'll usually be joined by Moonshadow, sometimes Mani, and occasionally Freya (sometimes two at a time).

Frankly I like this as a start to the day.

Even after the cloud of misinterpretation has cleared, I realized that most of these magazines don't make sense. Cook's Illustrated / Country, I subscribe to them online ($), so getting the paper copy doesn't really make sense to me. Food & Wine turned into the direction of Saveur (more travel, more wine and a bit of food), which is why I let Saveur lapse a while ago (though Lucky Peach's extra time has re-subscribed me to Saveur). Food & Wine also has an over saturation of ads, making their website obnoxious to use. Bon Appetit, I'm debating on keeping that, I kept the renewal card from the most recent magazine, but I'm going to call amnesty on the stack of issues and just donate them for re-sale. (hopefully a quarter a piece for Planned Parenthood of the Heartland).

So on the other side of the cloud, I can see that some of the spending was wasteful (we're trying to cut back quite a bit), so it doesn't make a ton of sense to keep paying for them. Others, I just don't enjoy enough to justify the cost. Sure I'll pick up the Thanksgiving issues probably, but beyond that...