Monday!!

Happy Monday things:

• The doctor believes that this is a new covid for me and not the one from a few weeks ago reemerging. Since my symptoms are fairly mild we are just using over-the-counter meds as needed to fight the symptoms. I haven’t used anything, because the symptoms are so mild. I am very thankful for that.
• Some of my time today was spent holiday shopping online. I was able to find a few things for some of the family. Bel and Folke should be getting their gifts delivered to them in Maryland. This was really the beginning of my shopping, so I have to put my thinking cap on for ideas.
• Zed did some shopping tonight and picked up a bunch of food for me.  I had him get simple things to prepare like frozen dinners and cans of soup.  I'm very thankful that he was willing to do that for me.
• The other day I reached an 1800 day streak on DuoLingo. Today was 1802. I forgot to post on day 1800 and I like that screenshot better:

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Currently listening to: Ridgeline, by Michael Punke.

Thank you for being part of my happy things. Stay safe.

Number One

Happy things for today:

• On Saturdays, DuoLingo adds an additional five points to the score during the first hour of practice.  For a short time I was number one in the Pearl League.
• The family got more cookies at Crumbl. I will never be able to give up gluten again if we keep getting yummy treats.
• Helping Keziah at the shop today. I mostly measured out fabric and built shelves. She opens her new shop in less than a week. There is still a bunch to do but it looks more and more like a craft store every day.

Now that is a lot of ribbon.

• Nanni thinks she's sunbathing.  🤣

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Currently reading: She's Come Undone, by Wally Lamb.

Currently listening to: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain.

Thank you for being part of my happy things. Stay safe.

Sleep

Happy things from today:

• Sleep is a wondrous thing. Today was so much better than yesterday. Work was good. They served waffles at mealtime.  Other than occasional mechanical difficulties with the equipment, it was a good day.
• At home I practiced on DuoLingo reaching a 1700 day streak. In all honesty, they have streak freezes that maintain a streak when a day is missed and I have used a few of them. For reaching this milestone I am getting three days of premium DuoLingo for free.

• It has been a while since I wandered the property. I only went to areas just outside the top driveway where things are overgrown and found three flowering plants.  I'm sure I'll get to the other twelve-ish acres at some point, but not today.  If I didn't already know what the flowers were, I used the Lens app to identify them.

Rabbit Tobacco

Platycodon grandiflorus or Chinese bellflower.

Hedge bindweed.

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Currently reading: She's Come Undone, by Wally Lamb.


Currently listening to: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain.

• I have listened to this before and started reading it in the spring. I thought I would be able to finish it faster by listening to it and finally have my turn to borrow it through Libby.

Thank you for being part of my happy things. Stay safe.

Happy Wednesday

Some happy things for today:

• Because of yesterday’s holiday I only worked a part day today. The sky was very bright from the sun being out. We have had so much rain lately seeing the sun and a blue sky was a welcome change.

• Last night I looked for the movie 1776 online but didn't find it for free. I did find some of the songs from the show to watch as I tried to go to sleep.
• A coworker asked me if I was mucho (a lot) happy today. I was able to respond that I was happy, but not mucho happy. So he asked if I was pequeno (small) happy and I agreed. It was an odd exchange. If not for Duolingo I wouldn't have understood pequeno.  The n should have a ~ over it, but I don't know how to do that on my laptop and my attempt failed.

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Currently listening to: Under the Whispering Door, by T. J. Klune.

Thank you for being part of my happy things. Stay Safe.