Daily Notes- August 6th- Sunshine today

 My all time favorite pan.  Frying pan.  Grilled cheese etc.  I have the orange one (flame) because I got my first of this brand as a wedding present in 1968 and it was flame/orange and so that's what I would buy over the years.   I do have a cherry pan as well.  My daughter gets the Aqua and my son the Steel gray as I see him being more black, white and gray.  My daughter loves water and the beach.  She should be looking for a beach shack to live in.  Just a rinse and a wipe and it's clean.

Yesterday's book was The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary.  A rom/com with mental health issues such as depression being worked thru in the plot.  I had just finished re-reading the Flatshare (emotional abuse issues) and I will be re-reading the Switch- a family dealing with the death of a family member from cancer.  Grandmother and granddaughter switch/lives/ houses for a few months.

I had taken Road Trip back to the library after 25 pages.  Before.  This time I started reading on page 30 something around  the French villa. Eventually- the story returned to the small car and the extended Road Trip which is actually only 8 hours long.  About how long it took me to read it with stops to make lunch and supper.  Not really meals.  I had toast. Twice.  He had chicken wings, chips and pickles.

One of the desk/checkout people at the library (my old job once upon a time) and I are exchanging titles of books we love reading.  She has Cut-de-sac Wars cued up and I told her it was wonderful and laugh out loud at times.  Just that little 5 minute chat each time I go in- wow- it so changes how a day feels.  To have an interesting chat.  What my Life had been once.  Daily interactions at work.  

So this week- a great mental health week.  A lunch date with an old friend and a new friend at the library to have a few minutes of shared information.  Writing it here- it seems like so little but it FEELS like so much.  Human Contact.  I'm sort of out of practice but...it feels good to make the effort.  

This blog thing...is pretty much one way.  Just me talking to myself most of the time. All the Time.