Monday, April 19

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

My sweetie helping with chores so I could get to town before the post office closes.

My package was there; supportive boots for River. R recommended we use them to hopefully prolong his useful years.

A productive trip to town. Went to the pharmacy, found a nice fancy wool shop that also sells actual wool socks at a very reasonable price (one of my biggest pet peeves right now is Smartwool and all other socks that do this thing of sort of wrapping wool onto a synthetic mesh. That mesh actually saws the wool to pieces, and in a year your expensive "technical" socks are garbage). I picked up some hay cubes and garden seeds at the co-op.

I went to the thrift store, and found a few nice clothing items and some books and DVDs. Giggled at things I overheard other people saying.

A woman in the thrift store struck up a conversation with me about the "Outlander" novels. She's apparently on her third time reading...the whole series (I think there's eight books now, and those books are HUGE). You'd have to really love those books to read them through more than once. I haven't gotten very far in them; I wonder how many times Jaime ends up in jail/gets butt raped, since it happened at least once in every book I've read so far. Sometimes he's in jail twice in one book. Seems like a lot to happen to one person.

Then I got groceries, and I'm very grateful for the means to buy food. There was a woman in the checkout talking about how her young daughter loves sardines, and I joked that she should make sure to send sardine sandwiches with her to school when she's old enough, and if anyone complains she should say "you can't tell her to stop eating those at school, it's our heritage!".

I'm grateful for my strong body, so that I could carry the mountains of stuff/groceries into the house and put it all away.

It feels crazy to be so busy, when the rest of the week I'm either at home or at the barn.