i had grand plans to write almost every day this month . . .
and here it is, february 20, and i have written five posts - this will be number six . . .
this morning, i was thinking about these pages, and wanting to keep writing here. i was thinking about an instagram friend who writes ten things every day - one word, one line, one thought, one short paragraph. lists of ten to track her days. she has written ten thousand nine hundred twenty-six lists of ten.
so, ten, today:
1. i am a firm believer in cake, pie, cookies, crumbles, desserts of all sorts as breakfast food
2. more viatmin d. and more vitamin d. how much vitamin d supplement will make up for the hours and hours of sunshine that i soak up in the summertime? one of my best medical friends is working on helping me figure that out!
3. i finished reading The Midnight Library [by Matt Haig] this morning. honest review - i loved all of it except about twenty pages in the middle where it just seemed to be going on without going anywhere - which i think is actually the way you are supposed to feel when you are reading that part of the book . . . there's some really, really good stuff about life in this book. and there's also some really good storytelling. i recomend reading it.
4. this afternoon, ben and i made a shopping list and then went to walmart. we bought a LOT of vitamins and we bought food that we know will make us feel good.
5. this morning, i gave both ben and i haircuts with my very fancy scissors that my friend ashley gave me for christmas.
6. this afternoon, my uncle dave called me and talked at me about all kinds of things - his neighbor who brought him christmas cookies and who comes to view his slide shows now, hikes that he took a quarter-century ago [in 1997 - why does he have to say "a quarter-century ago? that makes me feel like i am getting old], the techniques that won both WW1 and WW2 [or was it the Civil War and WW2?], the possibility of hauntings, the exact elevation of certain mountain tops and mountain passes, and a myriad of other interesting [and not-so-interesting] topics.
7. my valentine boquet is still actually quite lovely.
8. i kept all the lamps on in the living room all day today, becuase it was so grey and drab outside.
9. i am slightly cold, even though i have a wool sweater on and am under a blanket. i think i maybe need to eat some warm food.
10. maddie sent me an audio message this afternoon - she had made gluten free muffins and was about to bring some by to share with me when she realized she had used regular milk - and that was disappointing to her. i love that she thought of me. and that she sent a audio message, not just a text. i sent her an audio message back. i like her so much.
and with that - ten. i'll add a picture or two and post this.
love you, friends. so much love to you.