Blogmas 2020 Day 2 (stressed and exhausted)

I got my Spotify wrapped last night and I was so excited about it! In 2020 I listened to 23,099 minutes of music (on Spotify), discovered 663 new artists, and listened to 225 genres.

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I correctly guessed ahead of time that Maisie Peters was my top artist of the year; apparently, I spent 1,468 minutes listening to her music (and that’s 1,468 minutes well spent). I expected there to be lots of Lennon Stella and Ellen Halsinger, too (I do Ellen Halsinger vocal warmups) and I wasn’t surprised–Lennon Stella’s Jealous was my top song of the year (and hearing it took me straight back to quarantine in April). In fact, each of my top five tracks from 2020 reminds me of a very specific date, place, time, and activity.

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Also, honorable mention to the Living with Hope podcast! I normally don’t listen to podcasts because I’m not at all an auditory person and I just can’t do it, but this summer when various symptoms made it more and more difficult to function or even read, I started listening to podcasts while lying in bed with my eyes closed–and most of the time, the Freys’ Living with Hope was my podcast of choice.

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Okay… I know you all really cared about that and hate to move along, but here’s what I did today