Light and Dark Balance

Keep cool in extreme summer heat without air conditioning : NPR https://share.google/wamIvbEdWnTMaYf3N

I'm going to hold your hand when I tell you this: anybody can back into a parking spot; it's not an achievement. You're not any cooler than you were ten minutes ago. 🤨

You're not doing it because it's easier to get out. 🙃🙈

My mom cancelled her physical therapy. I thought it would be a relaxing cozy morning. ☺️😌

But it just kept raining. 🙅‍♀️🚫

👓🙈I noticed that a couple of my neighbors moved their cars to their front lawns. Oh dear. 🫤

The whole street was flooded. And there's my brand new car sitting in the driveway as the water got higher. 🌊

I moved it to the front lawn which was covered in water. Okay, no big deal. 🤨

Then sewer water came through the downstairs toilet and wouldn't stop. 💩🦝🗑️

I will say no more. 🙊🤮

He played with the interactive mouse for 45 minutes. 🐀

Then something happened that never happened before... 🥺

He stopped playing and brought me the mouse. Just dropped it next to me on the couch. 🫳

It took me a second to realize what happened and then I made a big fuss. 😳👀👏😜😻

I am delighted. Delighted. 🙂

Cats do this in the wild. 🌱🌿🌳

They hunt, deliver, and eat. 🐅🎁🍴Hunt it, kill it, share it with the family, and eat. 💞❤️‍🔥🫶

It's super healthy to see an indoor feral cat do this. And I order him a little grass mat for next to the window. 🌱🌱🌱

I like to start out with hot water 🔥💧 then switch to cold 🥶 when I'm rinsing conditioner out of my hair. Anyone else do this?

I am just so happy that I can take hot showers again. 👏😁

Sometimes we woman reach a stage of our lives when hot showers are intolerable. 😶😔

It's amazingly horrid. 🤮

So, yeah, hot showers with lovely bubbles are a joy. 🫧 🥰🫧

I had to buy a new car because some dumb girl ran a stop sign. 😡

And now I have to wait to get a new bedroom window. My window won't shut. I didn't care in the winter because I love having the cold air wafting in.

But it's close to bedtime and it's crazy warm in here. 🥵

Still I am grateful for all of it. Why, I do not know.🥹

Although, in truth, I hope that girl who totalled my car lights her hair on fire. 🔥

Let's put the bag of little donuts on the floor next to the bed. 🍩

Then we'll really have to work to reach them.⛹️

Will it work? Based on the past, nooooo. But time will tell. 🤷‍♀️

I think I'll take myself to the movies on the third or fourth of July. 🍿🎦🎬 I'll barbecue on Saturday. 🌭🍔👩‍🍳 Okay I'm forming a plan to fight loneliness during the Fourth of July holiday. 🧨 🇺🇸

I have friends I could call, but I don't feel like it. 🤷‍♀️

I enjoy my own company enough to be good with doing stuff on my own. Been doing it my whole life. Take care of my parents and the kitty. Cook some good food. Get out and enjoy myself my way. 🤔💭

And, suddenly, I'm around 13 again with that aching, yearning feeling you get when lift and love are still mysterious and romantic.

Ah, but life is still mysterious and romantic...

🤷 I don't remember making this, but 12 songs in and I was singing along. 🧨

So far all 70s and 80s songs.🥳

But I think there's a 140 songs that I apparently like on this playlist that I must have spent hours putting together and yet don't remember making... 😉

So Present Me thanks Past Me. 🥹

Tee hee 🤭

The look on his face is intense! This little guy wants to hunt so bad! 🐁🐦

He was born in a cat colony near a Home Depot. 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈It's been there for over a decade and is a protected colony. His first memories are of being outside🌳 with his mother, brothers, and sisters.😻

But he got hurt, and someone rescued him and my husband took him. Now we are his family. 🥰

"You need to". She starts her sentences like this and it makes me crazy. Yesterday, she told me to not put the barbecue cover back on when the barbecue is hot. Are you serious? 😭 Oh girl, I am not new to this planet. I'm not a moron. 🤔

Back off. Mind your business and stay away from me. 😂

I have no problem cutting people out of my life. Family or not. Gotta shake off my annoyance. "Don't put a bird feeder in the backyard! You'll attract mice." Terrific . Thanks for sharing. I don't care. Ummm maybe yes, maybe no?! I'll be attracting birds and squirrels, biotch. 🙄 If anyone thinks I'll be attracting mice into the house, let me know because I'm asking. I didn't ask her. Exasperating as heck! Ugh 🤮

I had another laughing fit this morning. 😭 This is, at least, the second time this week that I've started laughing over practically nothing and couldn't stop. 🚦

I'm laughing, I'm crying. I must be seriously alive. 🤸

And to think at the beginning of 2025, I didn't want any of it. I didn't want to be around. 🫣🤷

You never, ever know what is going to happen. 😉

You must hold on tightly when life feels bleak.