Today was a really lovely day, unlike the last two weeks. The weather has been excessively warm, I am certain warmer than the norm for June, and I have felt pretty much like I am roasting. We have had two rare summer cold fronts come through however and today felt like a lovely spring day. Tomorrow we are back to normal. Sigh.
I decided to spruce up one of my extra bedrooms, the one Bean stays in when she is over. I have an elaborate black iron daybed in there along with an antique chest, a black chest of drawers and a bookcase. In my last house I had the bed covered in a cute black and beige toile set with a matching shower curtain in the adjoining bathroom. I have grown tired of it, however, and wanted something lighter and brighter. So I replaced the set with white covers and lavender pillows with blue accent pillows. I will share pics when I am done. I have also hung some of Bean’s artwork that she has gifted me and it is much livelier in there now. I have a little lamp that goes with nothing. It has a parrot on it. I love it. I thought about swapping it out with something more in keeping with the new color scheme but I just can’t let go of that little parrot lamp.
I have been doing quite a bit of reading lately. My latest titles have been The Titanic Sisters and The Paris Seamstress. Both of these books were page turners and I recommend both of them. At the moment I am reading When We Believed in Mermaids. It is a page turner as well — the story of two sisters and Dylan. It is sad, a mystery, full of secrets, full of romance, full of promise and full of hurt. It is intense and again, a page turner. I am almost three quarters of the way through and, at this point, I recommend. I might change my tune when I am done — we will see.
I also read My San Antonio Childhood: A Memoir written by Michael L. Hall. Michael L. Hall is my cousin’s husband. He grew up in San Antonio, went to college in Texas and then ventured out into the wider world. After a lot of education and a long career, he and my cousin are back in Texas and he has written his memoir. It is a fun read, brought back many memories of time and place since I, too, grew up in San Antonio. I recommend it as well and it is available on Amazon.
I haven’t been feeling all that well lately so I decided to take the bull by the horns, act like a grown up lady and come to terms with my “issue”. My “issue” is that I am addicted …… to cookies. And, not just any cookies — chocolate chip cookies. I can pass up anything else, haven’t had a soda in years and years but I have a cookie problem. I don’t drink alcohol or participate in any sort of drug taking so I figure the reason I feel so rotten is my diet. By rotten I mean my achy joints and lack of energy and by diet I mean the cookies because I prepare and eat nutritious meals and in a moderate amount.
So I did some research on cookie addiction and who knew - it is a THING! Apparently chocolate chip cookies are as addictive as cocaine. There is research and papers and it is a thing. Not just cookies in general, but chocolate chip cookies specifically. So, I decided my copious amount of chocolate chip cookie ingestion is making me feel bad so the grown up lady thing to do is tell myself “Melissa, you are bigger than this cookie and you can conquer the cookie”. So, I have gotten rid of all the cookies in the house — chocolate chip and all others — and I have made up my mind to not fall down that rabbit hole again. I also decided to be diligent about taking my vitamins. I have just felt draggy and sluggish and since I have had anemia problems before I started thinking that maybe I was running a little anemic again. I could go get my blood work done but that would make my doctor absolutely giddy — he loves to do bloodwork. And we don’t want him too giddy. I digress.
So, anyway, since I haven’t had any sugary anything for almost two weeks and I have been vitaminized — I feel better! I have had energy, I am re-doing rooms and cleaning house and cooking a lot and my knees aren’t hurting as much. Now, I realize that a lot of my joint pain and muscle aches are side effects of a medication I take but I still feel different. So, yeah, conquering cookies has been taking up a lot of my time.
We have been very slow to get back out in the covid laden world even though we are both completely vaccinated. We are being cautious but gradually getting out and about. We had doctors appointments yesterday and stopped at our favorite coffee shop for a coffee and roll afterward. We actually went in, sat separated from everybody else and had a glorious thirty minutes. It felt downright normal. But, to be honest, I am in no hurry to jump back into “normal”. Part of me has enjoyed the isolation of this pandemic. It has given me time to do some thinking about things — I can’t tell you what exactly — but sorting out my feelings about things and what is important and what isn’t. I had all sorts of plans for my 70th year but I spent it in quarantine. That gives you something to think about for sure — An entire year of my life spent in my house away from other people. Jolting. So, I have done lots of soul searching and I think I have changed as a person — and I think that is probably a good thing so I am not being quick to leave my isolation — it has really been good for me in some respects.
So on that note, I have a few dishes to finish and I can call it a day! I am hoping to get back into the blogging groove now that life is getting back to some semblance of normalcy.
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