1. What’s something you enjoy now that your younger self would never have appreciated?

Hmm, I’ll say either running or horror movies. As a younger person, I scoffed at running. Even though I was athletic and loved to run as a kid, when I got to be an overweight teen, I thought exercise was dumb. Similarly, I told myself I was scared of horror movies without really seeing them but now, I sort of enjoy some – not all. But the old 80s ones have some value I enjoy.

2. What was peaceful about today?

This is an oddly vague question. Since I am writing this on a Monday and it’ll post Wednesday (and even if I wrote it Wednesday it would be so early that “WAS peaceful” doesn’t apply, I’m going to say what was peaceful about yesterday, which would be Sunday! (Confusing I know) I went out to put something back into the pool shed and the sounds of ate evening were really nice, after a full day in the kitchen and watching movies/soccer.

3. It’s National Blueberry Day (July 8). Will you celebrate?  You can have one of the following right now-a slice of blueberry pie, a warm blueberry muffin, or a stack of blueberry pancakes…which do you choose?

I would take the muffin, but if we are being honest, I rarely eat any of those things. Now, I will eat a handful of blueberries fairly often.

This or that-blueberries or raspberries? blueberries or strawberries?

I like all 3! I don’t want to choose.

4. Do you need a break? From what?

Actually, travel. We took that vacation, then came home for a couple days and went back out to Atlanta. I was just thinking how I don’t want to do much traveling at all this month.

5. What has surprised you most about getting older?

Hmm, I guess that my brain is still “young”. I think like a younger person but sometimes my body feels older than it thinks.

6. Insert your own random thought here.

Today got away from me! I woke up way early and couldn’t go back to sleep so I went ahead and went downstairs. After we did our normal morning walk, I took Dakota to camp, got gas, went to Lowe’s for something, then home. Isaac and I did some yardwork before the sun got too high and then went to the store. I had a leftover bratwurst I knew needed eating so I threw it into a huge salad: butter lettuce, mushrooms, cauliflower, celery, a little cheese, and I found a really nice-looking heirloom tomato, that I have not seen at my normal grocery store before. We were going to watch a movie but I had a hankering for ginger ale (I NEVER drink soda!) so instead, I went up to the gas station. I’m pretty picky; it is Canada Dry or nothing. I know my station at the roundabout doesn’t have it so I went another four minutes up the road to the other one and found it. I’m slowly getting back to better eating after the vacations but one step at a time. LOL. Keto salad but a soda isn’t TOO bad for one day.

There’s no soccer today which is both sad and a relief; we have watched almost all the games since June 11th and it’s been a lot! There have been some surprise endings, which is why I love sport. The internet would have you believe it’s rigged but if it was, then both Messi AND Ronaldo would have won and, well, Spain is just a better team than Portugal. The Switzerland win was a huge surprise to me as well. Looking forward to the next round.

On an entirely different note, (and maybe I talked about this?) I got reeled into buying a bathing suit from an Instagram ad. I liked the shorts and tank combo and it looked like it was for women my age who are not “fat” but have a little extra around the midsection. Anyway the price was right so I ordered it and promptly forgot until I got my shipping notification. At that point, I realized it was coming from Italy! They sent a lot of tracking updates from my purchase date, 5/27, until June 22nd, where I stopped getting updates. I emailed the company and they wrote back saying that seemed weird and they’d send me another one. I got a new tracking number and everything but now, nothing from THAT one either! I will either never get it or I’ll end up with two! I just hope they arrive before summer is over.