Laura's Reading

It's house cleaner day!! And we need to put away the finished puzzle and start a new one. And I could use a small trip to Safeway or Trader Joe's or, actually, even Costco but the latter is probably a next week thing. I do have one Amazon return so I might do it + one of the other two this morning.

Nothing else much going on. Bonny is going to Palm whatever, CA for two weeks on Friday and she's all a dither with getting ready. Jim Across The Hall is getting more anxious more often but his care givers are, at the same time, getting better at taking care of him. Jim Down the Hall has gone on a road trip with his girl friend. And everyone else is pretty much the same as usual.

I am grateful for our weather which is now just normal - we'll be in 50's and 60's and the occasional 70 until the end of June. No tornadoes. Maybe a random wind storm but probably not. The evening news is all about the newsworthy weather across the country. I'm grateful to not be any part of that. I've actually been watching SKY news and some BBC (BBC news is more cumbersome to stream on my TV, hence, the Sky).

Plus I'm really grateful for no utility bills. Also no real estate tax. I just got my annual reminder that my real estate tax bill was ready and this year... NOT MY PROBLEM!!! Woot Woot! Not owning real estate is really wonderful.

I've had my coffee maker for a while now. I've retired it, to try different/new ones/processes, but I always come back. It's a Keurig that they still have not improved upon. But its height requirement keeps it from being an option on my kitchen counter. So it was actually the impetus for my turning the half bath here into a utility room. Washer, litter box, printer, storage and coffee.

For the past a lotta years, I've pretty much stuck to rewarming coffee mugs. The way too expensive Ember and then, when it died, a pretty much just as expensive alternative. That one died last week. And I decided to change my ways. And then, yesterday, I redid the whole coffee area.

I switched to regular coffee mugs - those that can be washed in the dishwasher! - and heated coasters - one at my table and one at the sofa. Yesterday, I culled out some not needed stuff and made more counter space and then set up a lovely little proper coffee bar. It amuses the heck out of me how much delight I get out of a simple rearrangement of normal stuff.

This morning's coffee does taste better, my brain says.

I noticed on Flickr this morning that they have a legend which has probably been there forever and I never noticed it before. I've had my account since 2008. And as of this morning, I have 37,768 photos in it. Yikes! Probably half of those are trash takes which could be/should be/won't ever be deleted. Oh well.

No swimming this morning. There's a special pop up aerobics class at 11. There's a woman who used to teach here and retired but comes back once in a while and does these pop up classes and they are fab and fun. So I'm looking forward to today's. I may go down early and do some swimming before the class. I mean as long as I'm going to get my suit wet anyway.

I have a trip to Seattle Goodwill coming up. I now have 3 things on my 'hunt for at Goodwill' list and 3 is the minimum to make a trip by my Seattle Goodwill rules. I don't know if it will be this week or not but it's definitely on the horizon.