I feel very little inspiration for writing these days, but I still feel like I should.  I haven’t posted anywhere but Facebook since November.  This is my attempt to get back into it. 

I’ve been doing a lot of reading.  A little on my phone app for Kindle, listening to audio books when I drive, actual paper books for devotional time, and at bedtime to wind down for sleep. The book I’m reading on the Kindle app has been stagnant for weeks.  I just can’t seem to get into it anymore, although that used to be my favorite way to read.  I go through an audio book in, at most, a couple of weeks because it’s my go to now instead of music in the car.  It takes a while for me to get through a devotional book or the ones I read at bedtime because I only do a few pages at a time.  Still, it all adds up.  I am rereading the Outlander series at night and I’ve just started a new book for my devotional time, Discovering Fire by Robert  Wolsey of Kissing Fish fame. My current author for audio books is Karen Slaughter.

I’ve gone back to playing online games.  I play online solitaire or Mahjong while I listen to my audio books in line to pick up Damion and Elaina from school.  I let myself get sucked back in Farmville.  I used to play it on Facebook years ago and stopped when it got boring.  The new version is more challenging, but it’s becoming frustrating because they continually try to force you into spending money in order to advance.  I did that for a couple of months, but I’ve stopped spending and my progress is stagnating.  I have a feeling I’ll drop it soon.

I was cooking more.  I searched online for recipes and, for a while, it was a real challenge.  I’ve gotten burned out on that as well and, this week, I’ve reverted back to cooking about 3 or 4 days a week and eating leftovers the other days.  I’m also finding myself preparing the old faithful menus.

We are planning an extended trip in June.  It will be our first long journey since before Covid.  We did go to South Dakota to visit Brad and his family for a week last year.  But it was limited.  This trip will take us all the way across the country and it’s not to visit anyone, but just to explore someplace we haven’t been before.  I am looking forward to the experience.  I’m just worried a bit about my physical strength to make it.  I can barely walk a half mile without resting so there won’t be our usual extended hikes.  I’ve laid out the route, it will be a two week excursion (eight days driving and a week exploring Washington State), Jim is preparing to make hotel reservations and I’m researching locations.

I plan to add writing back into my daily routine.  We’ll see how that goes.