1) Cedric is coming home today!! Cedric is coming home today!! Robby at Bike and Hike told me that every once in a while he'll hear Cedric calling my name. I can't wait to go for a "long" bike ride!!
2) There has been a whole lot of dancing going on around my house lately. I blame it on the coffee.
3) Oh Coffee. Dear Coffee. My love. There is absolutely nothing like a good, strong cup of coffee in the morning. I miss it so when I travel.
4) I believe the dancing I've been doing lately is the reason I'm currently sitting at my desk, with an ice pack wrapped around my knee. That, and the fact that I haven't been stretching like I should lately.
5) I did stretch today though. After I ran 5 miles. In honor of National Running Day. And, you know, just because I could.
6) Quote from me to the dad from last Sunday, during Sunday School: "If I have this many aches and pains now, what is it going to be like when I get old???" I know I do a lot of crazy things. And I'm pretty much the biggest klutz in the entire world. But ouch!
7) In addition to my knee, my feet also hate me.
8) Hmm...I think it's time to go shoe shopping.
9) Gardening is teaching me patience. Ok, during my lifetime, I have had a lot of opportunities to become a more patient person. But gardening is such a wonderful example of how a little time can pay off. I've never really gardened...at all...before. Unless you count killing a hanging basket every year when I lived in my apartment a few years ago. But it's been an amazing process for me since I moved home. To see the things that I planted a few weeks ago, blossoming into something so beautiful all around me. I feel so blessed to have this experience. I wait all this time. Seeing the once beautiful petals fall to the ground. And I prune the plants back to what seems like nothing. Then all of a sudden, almost over night, they once again blossom into something so beautiful. It's amazing.
10) I would much rather grow flowers than ever buy them from a florist.
11) Knee high by the 4th of July. It's the old standby saying for corn growth. If corn is to a person's knee (though, I see a challenge in this because it may depend on whose knee you're measuring by. There's quite a difference, for example, between the height of my knee from the ground compared to my mother. Me = tall. Mom = short) farmer's are going to have a good crop. Well, this year, I don't think it matters whose knee you measure by. I was driving home last night, late, and even in the dark, I could see that in the couple of days that I was gone, the corn all around my house had proverbially exploded. Holy guacamole!! It's huge!! I'd say this year, it's shoulder high by the 4th of July or bust!!
12) I think it's about time I write down an official bucket list. I've, without trying, created a list in my head. But it's time to put things on paper. Stay tuned.
13) I truly hope that no one pays close attention to me when I travel. Never mind the embarrassing in flight napping. I'm referring specifically to rental cars. Should anyone care to do so, I'm certain they would immediately call the local mental facility, because surely a patient has escaped. I hate rental cars. I always lose them when I'm in a parking lot, because I never remember exactly what the car looks like. And putting gas in the car is always a challenge, because every car is different. A couple of days ago, I spent 10 minutes just trying to get the cap back on the gas tank, because the Passat is so "special." This, after inadvertently popping the hood, instead of the gas cover, because IT WASN'T MARKED. By the way...VW Passat: Worst car ever!
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