Easy day, housecleaning angel here, high temp only 93°.
Popcorn & ice cream for dinner while watching my youngest granddaughter graduate high school in NC. They even pronounced her multi-syllabic Italian surname correctly.
Vagabond son & DIL drove up to the summit of Pike’s Peak yesterday & sent the photo below. (The view from the summit inspired the ode that became the anthem, “America The Beautiful.”)
@3goodthings#3GoodThings 1) Seeing people’s amazing photos here 2) Builders next door telling risqué jokes & not realising how many of us can hear them 😂 3) Cold white wine
I need to reinstate my gratitude practice, because it definitely helps to end the day by thinking about things that went well. So I’m going to try and post my #3goodthings before I head for bed each night.
Familiar, comforting sounds all morning from the landscaping project next door (we remodeled everything in our first home). I think today is redwood deck day.
Also the day of tiny flying things - bumblebee, hummingbird, dragonfly, butterfly - in my garden. (Oleanders at their peak bloom, below.)
Clean house, clean sheets, & I still don’t have to cook, thank you taco soup. Another blissful Thursday.
Bonus: Trump GUILTY x 34.
@3goodthings #3goodthings from yesterday & today:
:meow1: i had a london fog yesterday morning and this morning
:meow2: mom & i are almost finished with the landscaping out front!!
:meow3: I GOT THE JOB YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY
1️⃣ - started setting up obsidian for interstitial journaling
2️⃣ - got some advanced french books to study, in hopes of unlocking that part of my brain (all my schooling, k-12 was in french and haven’t spoken it to anyone since)
3️⃣ - the general sentiment here in the #Fediverse that the internet, as it is, sucks a big fat one but we can build things and work together to make it better. that shit is punk af and i’m here for it.
My lovely spouse’s #birthday today, and attempts to make it special (in spite of a request for no gifts and us both being too caught up in life stuff to plan much together) apparently were well received.
Kiddo’s illustrations on cards for each of us were funny and expressive and pretty sophisticated for a 14yo. More proud dad moments!
Permitted to sit in fave salon for last 20 minutes of 320-minute wait for car maintenance, offered coffee, received free trim! Rewarded stylist with recipe for homemade lemonade.
A new recipe I trust because I've made several by the cookbook writer and enjoyed as I had ingredients for everything was just right for time and energy constraints and turned out delicious.
Using most of my 320-minute wait reading library books. @3goodthings
Homemade won ton soup last night but made with P.F. Chang dumplings, which I guess makes it dumpling soup. TGTBTASE (Too Good To Be True And So Easy)!
I’m a big fan of Aussie film/tv and of actor Simon Baker - found two newish movies of his: “Limbo,” which was EXCELLENT, and “Blaze” which I saved to watch today. Yay. 🍿🍿
Vagabond son & DIL sent these pics of Canyonlands NP.
I think the daily Mass crowd is starting to understand how I feel about their cellphones ringing incessantly every. single. day. Not once during Mass today.
My administration staff meeting went so far off the rails, I didn't even care where the rails were anymore.
I set up a NextCloud instance and threw everything from Google Drive and One Drive in, and set up Ubuntu. Still a lot of tuning to do, but I like it.