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National Chocolate Milk Day 2023
It’s National Chocolate Milk Day and I have to admit that it took ages for me to warm up to chocolate milk. My kids have always loved it, but it took me a while to get on the chocolate milk train.
Harmony
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
I always found it to be too diluted for my liking. People seem to make chocolate milk much more rich and creamy than I remember it from childhood. As a kid, I swore by strawberry milk.
As for the current, gloriously hygge season, I’m loving every minute of it.
The weather has turned and I’m able to use the oven at will. I can wear long sleeved tees and comfy long house pants. I even make use of a robe on those splendidly chilly mornings that have returned.
💛 Joy 🧡 Joy 🤎 Joy ❤️
So, I’m getting caught up on some of the stuff that my ailing internet connection had put me behind on and have done some extra trickery to help some projects along. This is more my speed. I like a manageable mixture of tasks to keep me busy, but I like to actually end the day and do me stuff in the evenings. I’m getting there.
Sweet & Smooth
Happy September Jazz ☕ Sweet Autumn Jazz & Bossa Nova for a new day of relaxation, study and work
Just like the modern version of chocolate milk, a few hours of jazz to chill with is both smooth and sweet. Given my diabetes, I need to up the jazz and dial down the chocolate milk.
We no longer have the run of the house, but after our little taste of freedom, we’re looking forward to making that a permanent situation.
Kids or no kids, we are into our cozy season and looking forward to doing cozy 🍂Autumn🍂 things. It’s been raining a lot, so campfires will have to wait.
While we wait for things to dry up outside, we’re keeping busy indoors. Kelly absolutely transformed the house in the last week or so. The thrift stores got a bounty of great stuff that we no longer needed and we got a few square feet of breathing room back.
I’m so lucky to have a tireless maniac like Kelly in my life. She’s amazing to me every day. There is always some new facet of her jolly personality that I get to enjoy. She’s a treasure trove of pleasures and my gratitude is as boundless as her many excellent qualities.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. ~Proverbs 31:10 (King James Version)
See What Happens
Let your mind alone, and see what happens. ~Virgil Thomson
So, for a variety of reasons, my mind has been hyperstimulated lately.
Being behind on work. Having a wedding to attend. Kids coming and going.
There have been a lot of demands on my mental bandwidth.
I knew that the onset of 🍂Autumn🍂 would be just the cure I needed.
Not that I have a great deal of difficulty getting to sleep, but rather that I’m a bit too guilt-ridden to actually succumb to the need for sleep.
If I slept as much as I felt a need for, I wouldn’t be awake long enough to get anything done.
Particularly now that we have such lovely sleeping weather, it’s a challenge not to just snuggle up in a blanket and do nothing but rest.
After the afterburners I’ve been charging on since springtime, I’m feeling rather worn down and glad that the cozy season has arrived to coax me into more sleep and less doing.
In any case, I still have plenty to do but I’m trying to be more judicious about how I schedule it all.
I’d like to say I’m being diligent about getting on with Carol’s Christmas, but I’m not. I’m busy and exhausted.
When I get caught up on work and sleep, the little grey cells will be ready to provide me the prose I need.
For now, bedtime.
Depending on when in the timeline you’d have encountered me, I may or may not have liked chocolate milk. I am currently in the likes-chocolate-milk camp these days, so I wish you a lovely 🍂Autumn🍂 and a cool drink of chocolate milk to get you through the week.