My husband’s brother gifted us with a deep tissue massage gun, and it is amazing! Even Mr. TOF loves to use it on his baseball muscles. It remarkably loosens up muscles. I love it on my shoulders, on my feet, even in my fleshy thumb muscle.
I really enjoyed watching video clips of the USA swimming trials. Swimming is one of my favorite sports to watch. (I don’t have very many sports I like to watch).
It is the season of lemon balm! I’m growing some on my porch, and I love to pair it with freshly sliced apples. The oregano has also grown enough to start using. I love to put oregano on potatoes.
I’ve been sneaking in quite a bit of reading time! I have a nice big stack of books to chew through.
My friend suggested that it might be interesting to try listening to audiobooks at baseball games. I tried it this week, and I really liked it! I could still pay attention to the game and watch Mr. TOF, and the story filled in for all of the slower moments of baseball. Best of all, I was not anticipating how my small little earbuds (the cheap discount kind with wires . . . so not fancy at all) blocked out the crowd sounds! Baseball chatter sends me over the edge. Parents hollering things sends me over the edge. Cheering sends me over the edge. Random applause sends me over the edge. For the life of me, I do NOT understand why people have a need to make so much stomach churning sound at sporting events. (Soccer is even worse because parents are yelling unhelpful comments!). Not hearing all of that made me so much more relaxed in my portable lawn chair. I think I’m hooked for good.
I am loving that for the past two Sundays we have been blessed with a lovely soaking rain.
Dr. Peds fixed the upstairs bathroom shower head, and I am loving showers with water pressure again! The pipes in our house are old, and every once in awhile he has to clean out the faucets and shower heads because the filters get jammed with little rocks or grit. Then, when clean, water pressure! It’s so great to go from a trickle of water to a full stream.
Although I have been struggling to maintain my positive attitude about driving kidlets to all the places they need to go, I have been loving reading poetry books while I’m in the car waiting for them. I keep a poetry book and a tin of book dart bookmarks in my car all the time.
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