Mmm, espresso shake. That sounds so good! I think I used to get something like that from Rue de la Course? Somewhere. So simple and so good.

I am making cookies and cream popsicles in an attempt to (a) get my mojo back and (b) have something vaguely like a Blizzard to nom.

Steph, I love your shirt in the skating photo!

That was actually a memorial/fundraiser a few years ago for a local guy who was shot and killed by the police when he was unarmed. (The sadly shocking part is that he was a white guy, because it isn't white guys who the cops usually kill around here.) He was a drummer, so the crossbones of the sugar skull are drumsticks.

My favorite ice cream store makes an affogato that I am dying to try, but we are always going there after dinner, and I can't with the coffee 8 o'clock at night or I'll never get to sleep.

Well, popsicle mojo not entirely regained, although I have a much better success rate with my older single-serving quick pop maker than with the new three-serving one, so I feel a little bit justified in blaming my tools some.

I promised my boss I would work this weekend. She wants "to see some progress" on The Thing by 11am on Monday. And she tells me this on a Friday. It isn't even due until November! Damn it.

I do not like my coffee sweetened at all. But I do like it creamy. I don't drink tea much anymore but, when I do, it's sweet and milky. Aside from booze, I really only drink water now. I used to like the unsweetened Smart flavored waters--cucumber, lime, and such--but they stopped making those when they were bought by Coke. Of course.

My phone refuses to charge consistently anymore. One charger works somewhat but others don't at all. I could get an upgrade now but I'd have to pay $50 extra and I refuse on principal. Unless I really have to. Ugh, technology is the worst sometimes!

-t, we were given a 3-hole one and it ended up self-destructing in the cabinet so....

yes, I blame the tools also.

I have had an emotionally toxic day which is pointless to try to recap.

My new seersucker shorts, though, are, in a word, awesome pants!

Also, I have made an appointment to see a new eye doc. I'm having trouble seeing and lots of eyestrain. My usual doc doesn't have an opening for a month. So I'm going to a place in my neighborhood instead on Monday. We'll see how it goes.

Huh. Well, two points of anecdata makes a convincing line of something.

Yay seersucker!

Yay! A line!

My latest favorite drink is black currant iced tea (thanks, Kristen, for the rec!). I love iced tea in general though and drink it by the gallons.

She really does!