This is going to be an interesting rest of the week. Tomorrow, May 1st, is May Day or Walpurgis Day, and today would be Walpurgis Eve. It's a huuuuuge celebration and a city carnival, and everybody wears their high school graduation hats. Especially university students celebrate for weeks leading up to May 1st, but the main festivities kick off at 6PM on Walpurgis Eve, when a specific statue in Helsinki is given its graduation hat and everybody else can also put their hat on. There's usually a crowd of at least 50 000 people gathered around the statue to watch the ceremony, so it's of course cancelled this year and the area around the statue is blocked by temporary walls. The Finnish graduation hat was traditionally worn by all graduates throughout the summer, and you're only allowed to wear it from 6PM at Walpurgis Eve to the end of September (and then on Independence Day in December), so this is also a big celebration for beginning of summer. The rest of the night is, well, a big party and lots of people drinking and going out. Then May Day is a day for outdoor brunches, gatherings and picnics, and there's a specific park in Helsinki that's the center of celebrations, with again about 50 000 people joining for a nice spring day and meeting friends, whether it's rain or shine.

Walpurgis Eve and Day is one of the biggest holidays of the year for me, and now it's effectively cancelled and I'm pretty upset. I still plan on putting my hat on at 6PM and simulating the experience as well as possible, which means taking a walk with my grad hat on and day drinking sparkling wine while on that walk. It's going to be super sad, and this is the most bummed I've been about anything during this social isolation.

PW. 132.2
CW 132.4

Well...I guess it is, what it is. Probably did indulge some for my husband's birthday. But thought the rest of the week I had behaved. Oh well next week is another opportunity to succeed. Cheers and happy May Day! (tomorrow) 😁

I am down from last week but up 1.8 for the month.
Ugh. This has def been a trying time but I have been more active this week, so baby steps walking into June.

Ohio begins phase 1 of opening back up tomorrow. This should be very interesting.
My mom has been in the hospital since Monday with no real update besides that she's got an infection in her lungs and that we are waiting on her Covid results