A few highlights from the weekend!

Friday

  • Feeling great on my run.
  • Apollo and Starbuck’s annual vet appointment going smoothly with COVID-19 protocols in place. The vet told me the cats seemed pretty freaked out during their appointment, but why wouldn’t they be?! – I dropped them off and waited in the car while they were being prodded and poked with needles.
  • Finishing a book I loved that gave me warm fuzzy feelings (One to Watch).
  • Hitting 75 books read for the year.
  • Laughing and being too loud during my nail appointment with Lorena.
  • Trying a new recipe for dinner. I picked up the first Oh She Glows cookbook and marked a few recipes to try. The first one felt like a lot of work for something that was just so so, and so was the thing I made Saturday morning, so…
  • A book I’ve been wanting to read all summer (Beach Read) and have not been able to get from the library being $1.99 on the Amazon Kindle store.
  • Watching the Sex and the City movie.

Saturday

  • Sleeping in.
  • Making maple-cinnamon apple & pear baked oatmeal. A lot of work for it to taste like… baked oatmeal. Ha.
  • Helping Steven with Dragonstone. We’re doing prep work for the brick to be installed mid October.
  • The movie The Big Year being surprisingly enjoyable.

Sunday

  • Sleeping in again.
  • Feeling strong on my run despite feeling super out of it when I woke up.
  • Grilling lunch.
  • Starting a new puzzle.
  • Watching Sex and the City 2. I’ve seen this and the other move before, but they still make me laugh.

Lowlights

  • The vet telling us Starbuck is on the edge of being too skinny and can’t lose weight. Steven and I talk about how smรถl she is every day, so I wasn’t surprised to hear that, but it made me feel bad (not by the way the vet delivered it or anything – just cat mom guilt). Starbuck’s not very interested in food and Apollo and Khali sometimes push her out before she is done eating. I was already sneaking her food when her siblings weren’t around – now I know it’s okay to keep doing that.
  • Getting chais at the outlet mall after Sunday’s run. What the hell was I thinking going there midday on a weekend? It was a complete zoo. You’d never guess we were in a pandemic by the amount of people there (despite the masks), and I was just adding to it. Never again.
  • Nightmares.