Realizing: that baked goods containing zucchini stress me out, and it’s okay if I don’t make zucchini bread, cookies, muffins, or brownies ever again.
Craving: sloppy joes and a teriyaki rice bowl, but not simultaneously.
Trying: to eat out less.
Changing: nothing. Because I’m old and stuck in my ways (so I’m not doing very well at eating out less as forementioned).
Watching:
Wearing: a Smith & Edwards t-shirt and the only shorts I currently fit into.
Enjoying: all forms of air conditioning.
Dreading: hotter temps.
Buying: hat organizers for my husband’s ridiculous collection of free baseball caps. He has so many, and they are all from vendors and golf tournaments.
Eating: meals planned around Scotty’s free birthday food. Yesterday we redeemed his free burger at Red Robin.
Procrastinating: getting new cpap supplies.
Singing: Mystical Magical
Playing: our annual round of Clue for Chad and Scotty’s birthdays. I found The Simpson’s Clue for $4 at DI a few weeks ago.
We also played Hanabi for the first time in several years.
Celebrating: Scotty’s birthday. He turned 45 on Thursday. Time for a colonoscopy! We went to Lagoon, Red Robin, and Desert Star on his birthday. It was fun, yummy, and exhausting.
Suffering from: dry eyes, which is very different from what I would assume by the term “dry eyes.” It’s an absolutely miserable condition. I just thought dry eyes meant your eyes were a wee bit dry, and some eye drops would fix it. No, no, no. My eyes burn and water constantly (it’s happening even as I write this). My eye doctor told me that my eye oils “should be like vegetable oil, but yours are like Crisco,” and he likes to squeeze the oil out of my eyes (I skipped my appointment this year to prevent the squeezing - I think, for him, there’s a joy in it, like people who like to pop zits).
My attempts at treating the condition include taking fish oil, using eye drops, and using a heated eye mask (“warm compresses” to melt my Crisco). I’ve also used a prescription eye drop that you can only use for one round every three months, and it was ridiculously expensive and didn’t help at all (I did two rounds).
My one remaining option is to do light therapy, which costs a couple thousand dollars. If I knew it would work, I would save up the money, and do it, but nothing works on me ever, so I’m not willing to take the financial risk and walk away with no results.
Wondering: if it’s normal for kids to constantly argue with their friends, or if my kids and their friends are weird.
Feeling: not my best. I always struggle with depression in the summer, and every year I think it will be the year I don’t, and then it hits by the end of June.
Tired of: divisiveness over every little thing. I’m consistently appalled by the things people will argue about. I could say “I clipped my toenails today” and some anti-toenail clipper will come out of the woodwork and start a debate over toenail maintenance.
Loving: the permanent holiday lights that Scotty installed on our house. We rocked the red, white, and blue.
Looking forward to: a little vacation we’re taking near the end of this month.
Planning: meals for the next week that will hopefully use up some of what we have in our freezer.
Annoyed by: potato bugs, earwigs, and mosquitoes.
Struggling with: giving other people grace. I’m frustrated and unsympathetic right now.
Grateful for: any time I get decent sleep.
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