If I didn't have ball I think I would trade my afternoon coffee for an afternoon whiskey.
I do love my kid. A lot.
And here are some other things I am loving...
1. Panera App
In a world of not really wanting to touch anything or talk to people my Panera App has made my lunch life so much easier. Even more awesome is there new Duets menu with a half size salad or sandwich and a cup of soup for $5.99. Download the app, get the free pastry, and thank me later.
Have you read this book? No? OK read it. It's such a good and thought provoking book about the good and bad in life and faith and lack of. It's set in days long gone by (fifties, sixties) and it is the story of four people...two couples as they maneuver about their youth and young adulthood into their careers and lives. There is heartache and there is joy and there is the desire to slap some people.
Good book by a favorite podcaster, Knox McCoy. I feel like I know he and Jamie Golden like my own close friends. Knox's sophomore release is a nice follow up to The Wondering Years. In All Things Reconsidered he seriously talks about the things he has reconsidered in his life - from Big Bird to God. Read it. And if you haven't read The Wandering Years - its awesome.
4. Pumpkin Spice Coffee Great Value K-Cups
In layman's terms the Walmart brand k-cups in pumpkin spice. I am not a huge pumpkin spice fan but these are pretty good. Not so overwhelming and you are in charge of how you make your coffee so it doesn't have to be a diabetic's nightmare. They will never top the caramel creme ones Great Value makes.
5. Fall ball...
The joys of being on the field with a dozen middle school girls. God save us all. I don't know what it is but this age is such a challenge that I love yet hate all at the same time. Our team has lost two of their two games. Glad I'm a Cubs fan...I'm used to these kind of seasons.
6. Dove Beauty Bar
I made a vow to cut the plastic. That means back to bar soap. I enjoy it. Weird - its nostalgia maybe to being three years old and my mamaw only allowing me an inch of water in the tub to get clean in because you don't play in a bath tub. Everyone knew that playing in a bathtub meant busting your face open. Swear she told me that. I get the pink Dove Beauty Bars - those are the best things in the world. I wash my freaking face with them and I must say my skin is looking great (I also use toner...) and they smell so good. I'm really going back to basics I should type more about that.
7. Challenge accepted....Tide in a box.
Another nostalgic piece of childhood - powder detergent. Yep...switched back to it too! OK I know you can get the liquid in the paper carton now but I like powder. I didn't realize how much I liked powder until I started back on it. Whoa that sounds like I'm referring to something else I did use powder and started back on it in the same sentence. TIDE not anything else people. TIDE.
8. Stuck on some Outlander.
That freaking Scottish porno has really got me sucked in. Oh? Its not a porno? Coulda fooled me. Actually, I just finished season three and its more like when they bow chicka bow wow it looks like animals on Discovery Channel but anyway....My sister-in-law said it starts to suck when they "come to America" - spoiler alert they never really came to America the whole show was filmed in Scotland. My only issue is when they go to the "West Indies" its blatant they are in Ireland. You can agree NC and Scotland look a like but the Caribbean and Scotland - no honey no no no. Anyway since I'm watching on Netflix I have to wait ever so patiently for season four to reach the 'flix because they stop at season three. Major bummer.
9. Election ads are killing me smalls.
Between the deforestation that both sides of the aisle are doing with their mailings and the horrid ads they paid too much to make I really need everyone who strives to be a politician to take a freaking pill and go to sleep for like fifty years. Please and thank you.
10. Bye Facebook.
I have an account but I took the app off my phone. I hate Facebook. I really hate it. What I hate the most is this...
Person: Did you hear so and so died?
Me: Oh my gosh! WHAT?
Person: Yeah. Why didn't you know?
Me: I hadn't heard.
Person: Ummm Facebook, Amanda.
Me: Palm to forehead Ughhhhh.
I hate Facebook, Boomerbook, ugh. Now I say I will allow FB for Fridays so I can take a glimpse of what "news" I need and then delete that ish back off my phone.
A few things to add to this post that I'm working on over the course of the next thirty days:
We're All Adults Here - reading this or rather having it read to me. I am liking Jenna's Book Club.
I was reintroduced to The Nester again a couple weeks ago. You know what drives me nuts? When people have super smart yet super non-novel ideas and they can make bucks off of them and make people like me slap my forehead and say, WHY DIDN'T I DO THAT ALREADY? Total respect to Myquillyn on taking the bull by the horns and reminding us of what is important in a home. So my current plan is to thin out the storage of ish in my house. I actually started this already by filling up laundry baskets on excess crap I do not need. Of course this all came on the heels of my husband getting a few boxes of his things from his late father's home. I'm a tosser he's a sentimentalist.
I have a YMCA membership and they said they are going to start charging me again. That means I need to carve out work out time - intentional work out time, in a gym, with other people. Scary!!!
Ratched...I pressed play and Mary Mother of Our Lord...can I get through it?
Pumpkin patch on the agenda of my brain but not the agenda of my agenda....it must happen.
Fall Ball needs a dub. Here's hoping they will start swinging at pitches and actually hitting them in the next couple of weeks.
Yard sale?
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That's it. That's all I gots.
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