My thinking during Covid’s uncertainty has produced a series of to-do lists, schedules and instructions which read like a recipe for controlling my breath through “hold” instructions. As many of us try our hand at baking away our uncertainty, I offer yet another addition to our recipes for disaster management. My sonic and textual recipes are a meditation on four quotidian breathing practices between 06:00 and 22:00, during meditative breathwork (30-60-15), running (3-2-3), smoking (1-2-3) and before sleep (4-7-8). This paper will be an experiment on how to articulate the directions for breathing in, through and around the repetitive cycle of trying to make life livable in the uncertainty of the triple crisis of misogynoir, racial capitalism and a global respiratory pandemic. In an attempt to fashion my own practice of somatic abolitionism, I devised these four recipes to soothe my vagus nerve.  I am interested in the pause, as a gesture towards control. I focus on counting, both as a means of measurement and capturing the rhythm of my breath in a 16 hour cycle. In articulating these instructions, I reflect on how to write in the ephemeral and intangible practice of being, interruption, becoming and unbecoming.