It's time for another mash-up post! Below you'll find a combination of Anne's "Currently" prompts and my responses from both July and August.
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going - In July, Keizo and I boarded a plane for the first time since 2019 and went to AZ and stayed with my parents for three weeks. We also met my niece for the first time, and got to spend time with my brother and sister-in-law for the first time since they got married in early 2020. While we definitely started talking about our next vacation before we'd even gotten back to MD, we haven't made any concrete plans. I don't know that I'm eager to fly again (though the anxiety about it was worse than the actual experience), but changing scenery after so much time at home is definitely welcome!
eating - Completing Whole 30 in mid-June is mostly a distant memory now. I'm back to eating and drinking pretty much everything and really enjoying the freedom and variety if not exactly how I'm feeling. I think I used to be better at moderation, but these days hard and fast rules seem to work better.
admiring - My niece Cora (and her parents). Over the three short weeks we were in AZ in July, she learned how to put her feet in her mouth, roll over on her own, and started eating solid food. The ~5 month old we met looks totally different from the 0-3 month photos hanging on our fridge!
enjoying - A week of unseasonably nice weather in the DMV - low 80's with low humidity and a breeze. After wishing I could spend every afternoon outside in a hammock with a book instead of inside on a computer for work, I finally made it happen Friday and finished up Case Histories by Kate Atkinson.
anticipating - In what is now feeling like a moment of pure insanity, Keizo signed us both up for the Seagull Century, a 100-mile bike ride on MD's Eastern Shore in early October. While he consistently bikes about 90 miles a week to get to and from work, my weekly average is maybe only a tenth of that, on a good week! We have a training plan printed out, and I hopped back on the bike trainer for the first time in months, but there's a lot of riding to be done over the next 9 weeks!
feeling - Kind of restless, especially as plans for returning to the office get pushed back and work doesn't seem to vary much from day to day - never ending emails, Teams meetings, Zoom calls, etc. on repeat, week in and week out.
