So, I read a number of articles talking about how good it is for one's brain to write. To actually physically write with a writing instrument (pen / pencil / quill / whatever) in sentences. Not a list. But actual sentences. Apparently it fires up more parts of the brain and connects the different parts better. So we're trying an experiment. 15-20 minutes per day. Easy to do once you start. Hard to set a specific time for it so it doesn't get lost in the day. Want to see if it will help either of us.
That means that I get a lot of my thoughts down on paper. (And it's super fun because it isn't for anyone to read, totally private which makes it better.) And then I feel like I have no need to write here for my "journaling" because I've already taken note of the important stuff. But here we are. And I apparently still have things to record because it's important to me to record some things.
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Chatted with our friend the electrician at church the other day - yes, bad of me, so selfish and intrusive. The lights in the pantry are still flickering. Took one down to look at it because I figured it was a fluorescent bulb that needed replacing. Nope, at some point in the past the fluorescent bulbs were replaced with LED bulbs. Didn't think LED's ever quit working / burned out / flickered. But yes, they are still flickering. Driving me nuts every time I enter the pantry. That kind of flickering makes me feel weird. Our electrician friend suggested replacing the LED bulbs. If that doesn't work the ballast might have to be by-passed. Sheesh.
Yesterday we spent celebrating our friend's birthday with a late lunch at Cheesecake Factory. I love that place. We rarely go because it is so expensive. But our friend also likes to go there and every Christmas, Mother's Day, Father's Day and birthdays their kids (a blended family of 7 kids) give them gift cards to restaurants. Their stack is a deck of card stack thickness. We were lucky yesterday that I had saved my very generous gift card to Cheesecake from my birthday. Even so, the total for the dinner (they always want to get a piece of cheesecake and those are between $8 - $14) including tip was $75. My stomach just churns at the cost. I could have had a couple new sweaters for that. True, it's like a once a year thing for us. But seriously. The Husband wanted his own piece of cheesecake so I got what I thought was the simplest and cheapest. Could have and maybe should have just done without. We so rarely get to go out for festivities like that it felt important to just enjoy. Which I did. Until I saw the cost, then I didn't so much.
Had bought tickets to a movie (for discount Tuesday) and learned that this one is a sequel. So last night we streamed the first one. Wasn't sure I still wanted to see the one today. But decided since we already had the tickets we'd just go. And rarely for us, we bought a bucket of popcorn. Doesn't ever sit very well on my stomach. The first one was super intense and quite disturbing in how people can go completely nuts when their lives are at stake and there's a slight possibility of survival if they can only beat down the people in their way. The second one (today's movie) was slightly less disturbing but still sad and heartrending. I'm so conflicted about it. Think I'll watch something else tonight that will be more uplifting.
Finding gratitude today for food gift cards. We had one for The Husband's favorite bbq place on Saturday, then one for Cheesecake yesterday. Members of our family are very generous with us. I am grateful for my treadmill. We are in the middle of our typical January inversion so our air quality is ugly. Not going out and breathing it. Lovely to spend time reading for an hour while I'm getting some exercise and not inhaling all those nasty particulates. Grateful for a can of something I can open for dinner and grateful for a comfortable home where we can feel safe, protected and warm.
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