


Not only is it going to be a busy Monday, it’s going to be a busy week. I have to prepare for a class I’m teaching tomorrow. I’ll be teaching about objects I do not know anything about nor do I understand them. I just hope that when I pull the items, they make a bit more sense than when I looked them up in our database. I’m also hosting a guest today, which means not only a tour of the museum and several meetings, but also dinner tonight. It will be a long 12-hour day. I’ll leave home at around 7 am this morning and probably not get back home until at least 7 pm this evening. I just hope everything goes as planned today; if so, if it all goes smoothly, it shouldn’t be too tiring. At least I’ll get a good dinner tonight. We’ll be going to a restaurant that I love. The restaurant is really the only one nice enough to take guests to, but I’m told our former alternate restaurant is finally opening back up after being closed since the July floods caused massive damage in the restaurant. The rumor had been that it was closed permanently, but it looks like it will finally open again.

When I was growing up, my dad always had Good Friday as a holiday. It was the day he traditionally planted his garden. He always said that was the tradition that planting season started on Good Friday. I don’t know if anyone else has that tradition, and my father doesn’t keep that tradition anymore.

I need to go grocery shopping today. I’m working from home today and have nothing on my schedule, so I could run out anytime and do my shopping. I’ve put it off for a few days. After my Botox on Wednesday, I just wanted to get back home. Yesterday, I had a migraine, so I didn’t go then either. Today, I have to go. I’m not excited about having to leave my apartment today, but maybe once I get out, it won’t be too bad.
I use an app called AnyList to make my grocery list. the app allows you to create grocery shopping lists and collect and organize your recipes. I use it all the time to add recipes I think I might want to cook. Then when I want to make that recipe, I pull it up, add the ingredients and how much I’ll need to my grocery list.
So, my list is made out, and I’m ready to go buy groceries, but I’m not excited about it. Normally, I enjoy shopping, but I’m just not today. Oh well, we do what we have to do.
I hope everyone has a great weekend ahead! Maybe you even have Good Friday as a holiday today, in that case, enjoy an early start to your weekend!

I went to bed at 11 pm last night after I finished a book I was reading (A.J. Truman’s Out of Bounds, the 7th and last of his Browerton University Series). Isabella woke me a little after 4 am, and since I knew she would not give up until I fed her, I got up, fed her, and went back to bed. Since I’m working from home today and tomorrow, I was able to sleep until 5:30. As I write this, I haven’t fully woken up, but I’ll get there before I need to set up my laptop and start work by 7:30 am.
I’m a bit sore from the Botox injections yesterday, but everything went fine. I’m hoping it continues to help.
A Thursday Isabella Picture
