A few highlights from the weekend!

Friday

• Breakfast sandwiches.
• Having a surprise half day! We got an email midweek that we could take 3 hours of leave Friday afternoon if we wanted.
• Going to the beach.
• Taking a nap.
• Getting the trust to do list ready. There is a lot on there, but it feels good to have things in motion and somewhat of an action plan.
• A bath.
• My images (xrays and ultrasounds) arriving at the house. Brief recap – they were done in one health system and my current health system said they never received them when I requested them in September. I had them sent to me, so they would not get lost when sent to the doctor. Ready to read some bs? The next day, I got another CD with the same images on it, from the health system who said they never received them. They had – the CD was dated September, when I first requested them. They just too freaking unorganized to have looked at them and put them in my system. Sigh. There is so much to unpack with how sh*tty that office is.
• A friendly neighborhood cat visiting. It was so cute – I went out to feed Snow Jr and this cat showed up! So Snow Jr let them eat their food then I fed Snow Jr after.
• El Famous for dinner.
• Finishing Top Gun: Maverick (we had started it the night before).

Saturday

• Going back to bed until 10:00. I had a sore throat and didn’t sleep well and needed the rest.
• Adding feet to the outdoor cat house and moving it closer to the deck. Steven has plans to put a concrete base (with heating?) around the house itself, and a wood skirt to match the deck. It’s already so heavy now, ha.
• Doing errands together. I was happy to drop more off at Goodwill. Bye bye, junk!
• Painting after dinner.

Sunday

• Taking a walk together. I hid my first rock of the year and decided to try to hide one a day for the year. We’ll see how long that lasts.
• Yummy salads for lunch.
• The new UV lamp working. Steven has been trying to find lamps that will cure my UV resin fast for months and finally found one – a reptile lamp!!!! Mind blown.
• Putting new pins in our world map. I ran out of black pins (which show places we’ve both been) and couldn’t find the same length of pins again so I bought all new, shorter ones (which we like better!) and we replaced ALL the pins and added six locations we hadn’t marked yet – Bayfield, WI; Eureka Springs, AR; Boulder, CO; Cheyenne, WY; Omaha, NE; and Los Angeles, CA.
• A bath.
• Chili and cornbread for dinner.

Monday

• A walk followed by lifting.
• Painting and watching Firefly Lane.
• Having a couple cups of tea.
• FaceTime with Val.
• More painting. There are not many highlights listed for this day, but it was another perfect day off!

Lowlights

• Instagram locking me out. I logged in and out of my account Saturday am to see if it would fix something (it didn’t) and I could not get back into my personal account. I have 2FA turned on and it NEVER texts me the code, so I tried the recovery codes and they didn’t work – even though they were from a few days prior. I had to submit a request with a video selfie for them to retrieve my account and they did it surprisingly fast but it was still super annoying. I changed my 2FA to an authentication app for both accounts.
• Being sick. It’s not horrible, but I didn’t sleep well for several days and felt a bit low on energy.