So Long May

This month flew by. I have no idea where it went or if I even participated in it. This is my monthly list of things I want to do each week to make me feel a little better and to enhance life. It is not a to-do list of chores. Those appear every day on a piece of paper with check marks for things I complete  or circled items, undone and  to be moved to the next day. These are just little extras and I truly refuse to feel bad if they don't get done, but if I see it on a regular basis, I am reminded to take a little time to smell the proverbial roses. As usual I will repost this but I am adding at least one thing, omitting another and changing a third to something more appropriate for right now.


1.  Either go to or rent a movie to watch by myself

Week 1: Fail

Week 2: Fail (too much going on right now)

Week 3: Green Book

Week 4: Mary Queen of Scots

2.  Listen to a new to me album (thanks Spotify)

Week 1: Jambayla John Boutté

Week 2: Cafe Bleu The Style Council (really good btw)

Week 3: In the Basement: The Chess Recordings Sugar Pie DeSanto

Week 4: Joshua Judges Ruth Lyle Lovett

3.  Read a book

Week 1: Gone Daddy Gone by Cheryl Bradshaw

Week 2: Promposal by Sariah.  Lame book I picked up for free via Bookbub. Don't bother reading it, even if it is still free.

Week 3: Tell  No One by Barbara Taylor Sissel

Week 4: A Night at the Opera by Sir Dennis Forman

4.  FaceTime with Pip

Week 1: Done

Week 2: Done Thanks to FT I got to see a brand new first lost tooth right after it happened.

Week 3: Fail
Week 4: Done

5.  Talk to each son and/or DIL

Week 1: Done

Week 2: Done

Week 3: Done

Week 4: Done

6.  Create something

Week 1: Fail (Unless you count creating a mess as creative activity)

Week 2: Reupholstered the breakfast room chairs.  Bottoms were a piece of cake, backs__ not so easy.

Week 3: I am obviously not in the mood to create anything and instead am just trying to catch up.
Week 4: Nope

7.  Rearrange a room (Can be full furniture re-arranging or just changing a few things)
I am giving myself a somewhat on this. I moved and changed things in various degrees in several rooms but made no wholesale changes in any single room. I am having to create sleeping spaces for 9 guests (OK 7 guests, Son3 and DIL3 are not counting as guests) and am trying to give each as much privacy as possible. I am probably only going to do necessary rearranging right now.

8.  Get rid of one item each day
Goodwill received well over 30 items

9.  Meet up with a friend for coffee or a meal
Week 1. Bookclub dinner
Week 2. Nope
Week 3. Nope
Week 4.Meal with our Mandarin class

10. Have an ethnic meal

Week 1: Chinese take out

Week 2: Fail

Week 3: Fail

Week 4: Ate Chinese

11. Use the "good" stuff (china, crystal, silverware) or eat on the deck casually. 

Week 1: Fail

Week 2: Fail

Week 3: Dinner on the Deck

Week 4: Deck meal

12. Burn candles daily

Did this about half the time. Now that it is summer  and I don't think the "warm" feeling of a candle is necessaryI might boot this anyway.

13. Spa Day (really means spa hour for some self indulgent "treatment")

Halfway did this each week. 

14. Fingernail polish, wear it!.
Kept the polish on every day this Month

15: Contact someone I have recently been out of touch with either by phone, email, or text

Week 1: Fail

Week 2: Fail

Week 3: Fail

Week 4: Fail, though I did send a couple of Sympathy cards to friends I have not seen in a while who have had losses recently.

16: Take Mom somewhere just to get her out of her house. Right now even the grocery store could be considered an outing. (I might change this to having Mom up for a lunch or dinner)

Week 1: Fail (but this is not due to lack of offering)

Week 2: Ditto

Week 3: Took Mom to the doctor then to get her a milkshake.

Week 4: Fail

17: Try something different. The door is wide open on this one!

Week 1: I am filling this in the second week of May and don't remember if I tried something or not.

Week 2: Tried to learn Country Line Dancing (not a fan)

Week 3: Planted several new to me plants (They may or may not work in this climate)

Week 4: Did not even try to do anything different and don't care that I did not try.

And now May is in the books and the door has opened to June!  Here's to a great and glorious summer for all unless you are in the other hemisphere and if so, happy winter! While you are getting out your winter coats I have swimsuits drying on a rack on the deck and am dreaming of perfectly ripe tomatoes.
Have a great June!