
HAPPY MONDAY & starting a new week everyone!! How was your weekend? Crazy and eventful, or relaxing and cozy? I’d love to hear about it! Mine was pretty peaceful, but fun for me because I went on an re-arranging spree within my cupboards and all of my pet stuff, and deciding what I was keeping and what I was giving away. Every weekend I choose a new project and I dig in. I love organizing.
THREE THINGS:
1.) All of my orders (except for one) from my Prime Day fun arrived and everything is almost perfect! I LOVE IT ALL, no returns required. My body pillow is extra stuffed (it’s huge!) but it’s so soft and squishy that I can deal with it ’cause it’s also the most comfortable pillow I’ve ever had the luxury of squishing into. YAY ME!!
2.) My pure white throw is exactly that. Pure white. Though so white it has a slight blue cast to it compared to the pure white areas of my comforter and sheets that, next to this white throw, have a more yellow cast to it? Anyway, it’s all pure white, but not the same white. Grrrr! LOL! I thought this was an issue with grey colors but that white would be a sure thing easy. I was wrong. Anyway, it’s super soft and will be a great snuggle throw anyway.
3.) Saturday I spent the day with my mom, on FaceTime (we connect via our iPads) like in my olden days when I lived on my own and my mom and I Β would be connected on FaceTime every single day together, like roommates, but in different houses. LOL! We’d just connect, and chit chat while we’d get our stuff done (like cooking together, or doing hobbies – her jewel art and me, reading), or just watching TV together. Sometimes we wouldn’t talk for hours, but just being “connected” and seeing each other going about our business in our homes was comforting. So this Saturday, my whole house crew went out on a fishing day (and most of the evening coming home late) so I spent the whole day with my mom, giving myself a pedicure, deep conditioning my hair (with my favorite Olaplex 3), etc… a “spa day” with my mom, and watching TV together. π Best day ever!
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Matching whites is impossible!! I have a spare room that I got a white duvet cover for and it had the blue cast against the older white bed skirt (which I have to use because the frame is hideous). I ended up replacing the white skirt with a khaki linen one, which looks great, but then the shams stood out so I ended up getting those in aqua. Whew! So much for my all-white room!
1. I have to find some new sunscreen. I thought as long as I used mineral sunscreen, I was safe but now they’ve found cancer causing ingredients in them too. It amazes me that the stuff I need to prevent cancer can potentially cause it.
2. I finished The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and wow those last 3 seasons were a struggle to get through. I only hung in there because of Lenny π. It started out great but everyone just got super annoying. Her family literally gave me anxiety.
3. I’ve given myself tennis elbow from reading ebooks in bed while lying on my side. I had to ice it down today, it hurt so bad. Husband tells me I need to stop for a while. Like stop, as in, *not* read in bed. Does not compute.
OMG IS THAT where my tennis elbow is from?? I have chronic tennis elbow and can barely pick heavy things up with my left arm, because the inside of my arm… elbow area, hurts and feels so weak. And of course the elbow bone hurts… and jolts right up my arm (when it’s a bad flare up) with the slightest touch or pressure on it.
It’s been this way for years and it comes and goes… sometimes it’s just fine like it never existed and then suddenly… weeks of this feeble arm!!
P.S. I’d LOVE a white room, and now I know it will be a work in progress for years until I get all the pieces right. *sigh*
Also… yes… stop reading in bed? I don’t even understand the language he’s speaking. π ππ
Mine is on the outside of my elbow but I bet it just depends on how you hold your device. I lie on my left side with my phone in my left hand and swipe pages with my right (the arm that hurts). I’m assuming it’s that constant movement! And yes, just picking up my yeti cup hurts!