How to Make Sundays Not Scary (March 2025 Roundup)
Eating, dancing, loving through the very end of the first quarter.
Although March is longer than February by three days, it passed by just as quickly. I was excited to get back on Substack to share my month with you all. This month I saw snow, rain, and a few of the warmest San Francisco days of 2025. Here is my month, frozen in time, written in digital, from my Google doc to your screen.
Sundays
The perfect Sunday is always within arms reach. It’s waking up early, but not too early, 8:30 AM, the sweet spot. It’s walking to the farmers market from my apartment, hand in hand with Sergio. Stopping on the way for a matcha (for me) and a cappuccino (for him), then continuing our journey down the blocks. Buying produce — French radish, heirloom tomatoes, rainbow chard, mushrooms, Dino kale, we’ll eat them throughout the week. We taste test hummus and cheese from different stands before deciding on which to commit to. Before we embark on our walk back home, we’ll stop at our favorite to-go dim sum spots. It’s not the storefront with the most people lined up outside, but it’s our favorite. We’ve branched out in the past, waited in lines too long, ordered the wrong things, but we always come back to the faithful spot from our first perfect Sunday years ago. After grabbing our lunch we’ll trek back home with a tote full of greens, two to-go dim sum containers packed to the brim, holding hands once again.
Fashion & Culture Youtube Videos
I have never really been much of a binge watcher (in the television sense). Binge-watching YouTube videos though, is something I’m all too familiar with. Ever since the downfall of Cody Ko and the rebrand of TMG podcast, I didn’t know what brainless content would accompany me while I ate dinner or got ready in the morning. The ideal answer would be to not have a screen parallel playing like a split screen subway surfers-podcast TikTok clip. I’ve opted for diving into the world of fashion & culture commentary videos or video essays. My current go-to gals are Laini Ozark, for fashion, and Mina Le for culture commentary. Standouts I’ve watched recently are Laini Ozark’s “Playing Emma Chamberlain's "are you fashionable, or stylish?" and “75 day style hard challenge | 75 outfits, no buying, confessions of a shopaholic”, Mina Le’s “the death of personal style,”, “i don’t care that Marie Antoinette (2006) is historically inaccurate!”. The both of them ooze authenticity, they don’t have to convince the viewer that their taste should be trusted. I admire that they create within a niche and don’t oversell their lives for content. No clickbait-y AI enhanced thumbnail, just a woman, sharing her interests and expertise for other like minded people.
Rain
I visited far up north in California for the first time. It rained the entire 5 hour drive to Arcata, then the entire 2 hour drive to Oregon. Being the California girl I am, I’ve always despised any other weather but warm and sunny. But when we were driving back home to San Francisco, I was thankful for the downpour. The rolling green hills, the redwoods, the cows grazing on dewy grass.
Tinned Fish on Fridays of Lent
Throughout my 20s, I’ve been figuring out how I’d like to practice my faith. Growing up Catholic meant getting McDonald’s fish fillet sandwiches after school on the Fridays of Lent. Now at twenty-four years old, it’s tinned fish boards with Sergio.
The anatomy of a great tinned fish board is made up of 5 things.1) Three tins of fish, 2) a large plate full of vegetables, 3) toasted sourdough bread, 4) chili oil, 5) and lemon to squeeze on top. Occasionally, we include a few jammy eggs (as we did this time). The 3-stars of the show were: ★ Pesce Spada (brought across the sea with us from Italy), ★ Portuguese Sardines in Tomato Sauce, and ★ a basic tin of anchovies from Trader Joe’s. The vegetable accouterments were thinly sliced Persian cucumbers + shallots, purple + orange matchstick carrots, half an avocado, and green + red heirloom tomatoes. I’ve been keeping my refrigerator stocked with heirloom tomatoes. The savory fruit is my hyper fixation food as of recent. Chili oil is confidently my most used condiment, and to my fault, I didn’t have any at hand to pair with our omega-3 filled meal. To substitute, fermented Calabrian chilis. We ate the spread with sourdough bread. My favorite pairing was: the end piece of toast, a slice of tomato & a sliver of anchovy topped with lemon and fermented chilis.
Every Friday until Easter, we’ll make our way through our tinned fish collection.
Listen to my full March playlist on Spotify.
Bunny by Mona Awad
Truthfully I haven’t read a full book since a time too long ago to remember in 2023. I’ve been reading on the bus on the way to and from work. I picked up Bunny, as recommended to me by a friend and by my algorithm. The beginning was slow but I committed and fully fell into it eventually.
In April, Sergio and I are taking a 2-week trip to Mexico City. I’m excited to share my experience on next months’ roundup.
Until then,
Lindsay
xx
Want to hear more thoughts on Bunny!! It’s in my tbr :3 have many book recs too
Looking forward to your “bestseller”