I truly wonder what in the hell has changed about our home in three years that it increased in value by over $60,000 according to the county auditor. We’ve made no improvements, had no renovations, zip. I looked at comparable nearby home values and I think we’re all up the same creek.

A game of horseshoes!

We had a wonderful dinner date tonight. Michael is always at the top of my gratitude list. Always. Here are some photos we snapped of each other at the restaurant. Aren’t we a pair of hams?

👠 I thought Barbie was an extremely clever movie. Great blend of both subtle and over-the-top humor. The final line took a beat to land but as soon as I got it I let out a laugh and applauded.

Location check in 🗺 — Barbie!

Location check in 🗺 — Ted’s Montana Grill

👬 Date night with hubby - steak dinner then the Barbie movie! We haven’t been to dinner and a movie in years, so I’m looking very forward to it.

I love love love this song.

🚌 People have got to go back to driving school. Like, there needs to be a law or something. Saw a bus blocking an entire downtown intersection this morning because it had plowed into some idiot car. People are so reckless!

🚽 What weirdo decided restrooms should have more than one stall?

At the corner

This tracks.

Y’know what, box? You’re right. I DO deserve a donut.

📸 Day 9: Language When I took this, I wrote a hope-filled essay to go along with it. “Love is everywhere in everything if you look closely,” I wrote. But I lost hope during the pandemic. Not sure how much will return, or when, where to find it, or how to create it. Maybe I should check the bricks.

⛪ A Jesus freak followed me home. Not even kidding. I live in an urban neighborhood, not a suburb, across from a Catholic Church whose parish always takes up our on street parking whenever they do anything (love thy neighbor, and taketh his parking spot in the name of the Lord). There’s some dude sitting outside the church yelling “I am the King” and saying other crap about god or whatever.

🎵 Now Playing: Wildflowers by Tom Petty from the album Wildflowers on Music

🧟‍♂️ The Jesus freaks are out in full force downtown, shouting fire and brimstone from the sidewalks, calling for the apocalypse, and handing out poorly illustrated flyers about how we’re all going to Hell. (Actually they’ve indoctrinated kids to hand out the flyers, too. Fucking abusers.) One slimy woman tried to hand me a pamphlet and I yelled, “Absolutely not!” And kept walking. Few things burn my biscuits as much as placard wearing Christians.

📸 Day 8: yonder I have jury duty today. I’m at the back of this line and will check in way down yonder.

📸 Day 7: Panorama A close up panorama of Michael’s mantle.

📸 Day 6: well …Cupid by the hour sends valentines to my sweet lover and me 🎵

And THAT’S how you ask someone’s gender in a demographic question. Well done, apolitical.com !

🎵 Now Playing: iTunes media by from the album on Music

📸 Day 5: Forest “Mama says they was magic shoes. They could take me anywhere.” -“Forest” (Forrest) Gump (See what I did there? 😂🤣)

🎵 Now Playing: The Question Of U by Prince from the album Graffiti Bridge on Music

📸 Day 4: Orange Trying to choose bolder colors for things I wear or carry around. This is my orange lunchbox, which goes with my orange water bottle, which goes with my army-green-on-the-outside-orange-on-the-inside man purse. Not fascinating, but still, orange you glad I didn’t say banana?