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I have good formulas, routines, in place; the trick is to always do them!

Well, still on the slow side here. This is an unbelievably slow recovery. I have made a decision to keep doing what I can when I can and try not to become lazy. When I sit down I immediately go to sleep.

I did go in to church Sat. morning to help with a funeral. The hardest part was standing around waiting for the service to be done...we usually can sit down on the chairs back there, but they had the service in that place so we all stood in the kitchen. Intended to nap when I came back home but DH had plans to go up the palm trees in the front and trim and he asked me just to hold his ladder. Our trees have grown very tall so he's way up there. I did that, but it was very hot and humid and of course I have to keep dodging the cut fronds that are falling.

Then I helped him pull them over to the edge of the property where we stack them up. If he was strong like he used to be I wouldn't have felt like I had to help.

Sunday I helped with communion. Today it is very humid so I am trying to stay inside. I have heat intolerance right now. Did get a LOL hung outside.

Yikes, this sound so negative, I should just delete it all.

Haven't moved from my computer but did get a vacation to Nova Scotia booked. Airfare went up $150 each since Saturday morning but another airline came down in price so I split the booking and ended up paying on only $60 more for each of us. Our usual hotel in Dartmouth has changed hands and seems to have gone a bit in quality. Since it was iffy before, I've decided to pay a bit more each night and guarantee myself a nice place. So two nights are booked in that nice hotel and two nights at Whitepoint in a room as opposed to cabin. That will give us a chance to check out the rebuilt lodge.

Oh, still need a rental car. Then I'll be done. Forgot all about that since we've driven down the past few years.

Multiple colors of icing mixed and ready for DGS16 and LO to finish decorating the cheetah cake. I'm going to give LO 15 more minutes of napping then wake him up and get started on evening activities.

LO birthday celebration is officially done. Cake ended up being a bit of a weird looking cheetah, however LO was VERY HAPPY with it. LO received many gifts (toys, clothes, fireman uniform, money, etc) but his favorite gift turned out to be the trekking poles. He is absolutely thrilled to have his own poles. All is well that ends well.

I'm tired but can't stop yet. I took a break and drank a DPepsi in hopes it will give me a boost.

Alrighty! DW is running and most of the other dishes are done. House is picked up and looks company ready again. The 4 generations are coming to play with LO in the morning while we meet with lawyer.

I ready for a long hot shower (yes, hot....even though it is 97 degrees at 8pm!)

Great Day, OKay! Pat yourself on the back while you are in the shower!

Dinner turned out well. Well, the stew was just okay but I was missing an ingredient to guessed on substitutions. I made buttermilk biscuits that turned out amazingly, though. My biscuits are usually just edible. Had buttermilk to make my refrigerator muffin batter so decided to make biscuits as well. Mixed the dry and butter. Went to add in the buttermilk and discovered it had turned, despite it being 10 days before the best before date. Thankfully, I was measuring so didn't ruin the dry ingredients.

Used the vinegar in milk trick to 'make buttermilk' and used that instead. My recipe made 12 and there were 2 left after dinner. (There are just 3 of us at home!)

Ds came home from work early. There was an incident at work and they let him off early so he could avoid answering questions. Turns out gun wounds are mandatory reporting, not stab wounds but the police had called asking them to be on the lookout for a stabbing victim who had fled a scene. Ds got caught when the police asked for the hospital to break patient confidentiality (by tricking ds.) It was 30 minutes before end of his shift and the head nurse decided he could go home to guarantee he wouldn't have to stay past the end of his second shift of the day. The police arrived as he was packing up his stuff so he left quickly through a back entrance. No calls or texts since he got home so all must be fine.

Dh is heading off early in the morning so we're off to bed on time.