Here are popular search terms for this blog from the past 30 days: Nothing cheers me up faster than seeing how people come to read this blog *waves at all of you*. The sun is supposed to come out tomorrow, and so today I’m going to focus on Things That Make Me Smile. Just keep going! One more week! On the upside, the hostas are looking great and the grass is really green! I had optimistically written “weeding!” on my list of things to do today, but it looks like that is going to be a tomorrow job. There’s only one week left of school and as always during the last week of school, it feels like a lot of effort, just putting one foot in front of the other. It’s been pouring rain here the house is completely dark and no matter how well I wipe Barkley’s feet there are paw prints all over the floor. “I have been walking…I have been WALKING…for THREE DAYS…I do not want to spell my name.” Today I looked out the window at the pouring rain and said to myself in a fake Hungarian accent, It has been raining…FOR THREE DAYS…I do not want to walk the dog. On this vein, when something occurs more than a few days in a row, I am reminded of Count Almasy in the English Patient, when he leaves Katharine in the desert to go get help.

*note: my husband and kids would not say I am a barrel of fun.* I’m a barrel of fun! Just ask my husband and kids. God bless the chickpea.” Probably right now you’re thinking how awesome it must be to live with me. If I’m making lasagne, I constantly say “VEGETABLE LASAGNE” like Elaine Benes, if I’m making hummus I say “This hummus is amazing. You know how some pop-culture moments stay with you for many years after their relevance has dissipated? Nothing dates a person faster than saying something like “Where’s the beef?” or “How YOU doin’?” and yet, I find myself unable to stop.

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