Hello, Dearies, Happy Wednesday!
For anyone who doesn't know me, I am Joan, 45 with a 16-year-old and a 13-year-old, a husband, a menagerie of pets. We live in Maryland, close enough to the bay bridge to put me in a bad mood every Friday in summer when the whole world wants to go to the ocean or the nearby state parks. (Yes, even with everything going on, it's still happening...) You should always read my "Hello Dearies" in a Rumplestiltskin voice, but you can decide if he's being charming or creepy depending on whatever suits you... I fell out of watching Once Upon a time somewhere around the Hades episodes, but I loved the Mr Gold character in the early seasons...
Let's see, my goals for the month are to lose 5 lbs, which used to be easy, but lately, not so much... Also to drink 64 oz of actual water per day...I hate plain water,.. but I want to see if doing that for a month makes any difference in how I feel. Today I am going to meal-plan a dinner menu for the month, then work out my other meals around the shared family meals... It's funny, I usually meal plan every month EXCEPT summers... so I have all these old calendars, but none for June or July, and only half of one for August... I was hoping to just pull up an old schedule and tweak it, but NOPE. Oh well. For exercise, I am going to say walk 2 miles twice per week. That doesn't sound like much, but it is achievable and separate from the time I am working in the garden, which doesn't seem to be accomplishing much for me physically (emotionally, it's great!)
My Woohoos...
-The baby bunny is still doing well. I saw him drinking actual water out of his dish yesterday, so that's a big milestone. He gobbles his formula, but if he's drinking water and eating solids, it means we can start weaning him.
-I remembered to put the tarp over my she-shtent yesterday evening, just in case, which is good, because it did, in fact, rain... We camped out in the tent the other night, just to check that summer checkbox, but with that done, the plan is to do that space up as a short-term she-shed, just to give me a place to get away... I bought an inflatable sofabed to go in there, and I ran out an electrical cord for lights and a fan. DD13 is already campaigning for a pinterest-style actual she-shed, but I can't see me ever spending that kind of money. It's a nice dream, though, and this is a nice compromise using mainly things I already have.
-And I am about to go over to an old friend's house... well, her porch, anyway, for a socially-distanced visit. Her parents are moving to Michigan today, and they have always been close, so I'm going to help distract her and little girl from the facts. The plan is for them to spend summers in a retirement condo up north near their brothers and sisters, then winters down here near their kids, so it's not a forever-thing, exactly, but the little girl has been very close with her Grammy, and it's going to be an adjustment for all of them... At least with the social distancing of the past few months, they had already stopped seeing each other every single day, and she can look forward to them coming back when the weather cools.