“It doesn't take much to convince yourself that you're doing okay, just some discretionary income and a regularity to your days.”

Like a lot of people, I read Ma's Severance at the start of the pandemic, and now I panic when an Amazon delivery is late. I think these are some new stories and some that were previously published, but I hadn't read ( Read more... )

Sunday I made French toast with blueberry lemon bread and bacon; changed the bed sheets; did laundry (clothes, sheets, and towels); made turkey, bacon, and avocado sandwiches for lunch; made coconut ice and did some dinner prep; read about 100 pages of Blue MarsFor supper I decided I wanted to do a picnic-y type meal, since it's the first week of ( Read more... )

Saturday I made breakfast, and after showering/dressing I picked up one of Phil's prescriptions, then went to Aromatic Infusions, the carwash, and the grocery store. I put away groceries and made lunch for the 'rents, then made another batch of dog treat dough, baking a 1/3 of it and putting the other 2/3 in the freezer. The last batch I made ( Read more... )

It was a day for impulse buys. I went into CVS for Advil, and they had all the large Ghirardelli and Lindt chocolate bars BOGO 1/2. So I bought a dark chocolate orange bar for me, and a caramel and sea salt bar for Mom ( Read more... )

So far my vacation is like any other weekend. I'm leaving Monday morning for Poverty Point and coming back Thursday. I haven't quite decided what to do with the Friday; I'm leaning towards going to the weird record store in Rayne that's never open on the weekends (so I rarely get to go there ( Read more... )

Saturday I made breakfast, then went to Tractor Supply for dog food, the carwash, and the grocery store. I made lunch for the 'rents after I put away the groceries, then ate leftover pizza and had some beers and read. I did light room-cleaning and watched the new episode of Loki. David didn't feel well enough to make supper, but no one let me know ( Read more... )

Saturday I made breakfast, then went to Walmart, Aromatic Infusions, and the grocery store. I told Phil before I left that I had extra errands to run, so he needed to make lunch and make sure Mom eats something. She always says she doesn't want anything for lunch, breakfast was too big, blah blah blah. But she's on too many medications because of ( Read more... )

When I left the house this morning it was legit cool, my car's temperature readout said 70°. Summer ain't gonna be over in this part of the world for a while, but it's starting to waver. July and August were just day after day after day of unrelenting oppressive heat, most of the time in the triple digits. It's been kind of unreal; south Louisiana ( Read more... )

Mom found another farm fresh egg connection, one of Phil's home healthcare nurses from last year/earlier this year. She comes by now and then on her own time (possibly more to see Penny than any human member of the family). And the sourdough was piling up in the freezer a bit, so breakfast was farm fresh fried eggs and sourdough toast ( Read more... )

Another hot-ass weekend spent freaking out about the a/c every 2 minutes and tracking what feels like a dozen storm systems. So far they all look like Florida's problems; also I realized duh, the a/c probably is making a different noise than usual, it's literally hotter than it has ever been. This was confirmed when I realized it was much quieter ( Read more... )