The kids and I spent some time on Saturday doing a little yard work and building up some bricks around our fire pit – can’t wait to inaugurate that on a cool autumn evening.  We had a few limbs and branches down from the bits of wind we experienced so we gathered those and have them all stacked and ready.  Maybe I’ll wait till I’m finished with this Whole 30 though so I can enjoy a roasted marshmallow.  I guess in the mean time I could have a roasted …. potato?

Of course, I also spent some time chopping vegetables and prepping food, but that was actually alright.  I am pleasantly surprised that I have not missed desserts as desperately as I thought I would.  (Don’t get me wrong – I still want a piece of vanilla cake or a peppermint patty, but I thought I would be obsessed with the thoughts of them.)  It was sad to walk around the farmer’s market on Saturday morning and see the precious peanut butter diablo cookie that I could not enjoy.  Saturday night we had a delicious turkey squash chili that I will definitely make again – Whole 30 or not.  All of the kids enjoyed it too.

I unpacked a few more barn boxes and had fun putting up a few things on the walls.  It was Bergen’s idea to put our Keep Exploring sign at the front door – as if the adventure goes on when you exit our home.

 

 

Ryder has been under the weather this weekend and that is sad to see his bright and cheery self lounging around and limping on his back leg.  Poor sweet fellow.

My printer is acting wonky and says it has all the ink it needs but then prints out blank pages.  Ain’t nobody got time for that.  I even went to Staples to print a few things for school for the week.  It was pretty much a terrible experience.  Their internet connection was non existent and they require you to email them the document at the counter.  But how can I access the document on my computer without internet access? They did not see the irony when I pointed it out to them.  Also, they had no way to convert my document rom Pages to a pdf.  Which of course, I could have done on my computer (and did do) but they could not receive the email since — you got it, poor internet connection.  But seriously, doesn’t half the world use a Mac these days anyway?  Shouldn’t an office supply store and printing station be able to use both of the two mainstream computer systems that the world at large uses?  Honestly, I don’t think they ever would have figured it out.  Instead, a fellow customer loaned me her USB drive and I used that to get the document to them.  And they charged me a $13 “service fee” for my copies and when I asked him what that was for, he replied, “For printing it now.”  What?  I paid for printing it now?  Why didn’t he tell me if I waited he would charge me less?  There’s a “you want your copies on demand, like we advertise is our job, so you should pay extra” fee at Staples?

I guess my goal this week is to fix my own printer because what I do not care to do is to return to Staples again any time soon.

As London and I would jokingly say, “Bless”.

Oh – and I was at TJ Maxx and I found a little chair on clearance and I was trying to balance it on my tiny cart and as I was precariously rolling toward the check out, the chair went careening off and slid across the floor dramatically.  That’s alright.  I can handle it.  But then, as it falls, I look up.  I see a gentleman looking at me – a pretty attractive man (and I don’t know why I am including that detail but somehow it seems a part of the story) – and he catches my eye and grins at me.  At me, with my chair sprawling and clunking across the TJ Maxx floor.  He laughs.  And then walks on.  Yeah, this happens directly after my Staples experience so I feel really great about humanity as a whole right then.

That’s really the entire ramble, as a matter of fact.

A lot of amusing, you know.  And it’s just my regular life.

 

 

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