Things I’m loving this week

Bar/brewery/distillery hopping. We’ve tired of spending a fortune on dinner out and have started just going out for drinks, which is way more fun, anyway. This week, we hit Erie Ale Works, then headed over to Altered State because we took the Erie On The Rocks distillery challenge. Don’t worry…we’re too old to drink more than one at each location.

This lightweight dry-fast beach blanket. This whole thing is smaller than a sheet of paper, but stretches out into a decent size beach blanket. It’s soft, lightweight, and easily shakes free of sand when it’s time to go. I picked it up at Walmart in the summer seasonal section for $15.

Daffodils. Of course, traditional yellow daffodils a great, but I really like these ones with the sunny orange middles.
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Snapchat filters. I’m reluctantly on Snapchat because it’s the best way to communicate with my teen daughters. When they ignore me too long, I start bombarding them with Snapchat filter selfies till they respond.
Things I’m not loving this week

Extreme cooking. The latest obstacle sport — cooking with canines. Try to prepare an entire meal while straddling two dogs who are just waiting for you to slip up.

Water bottle wars. It’s come down to this — using a SHARPIE permanent marker on my gym water bottle so that it remains there in the fridge where I put it. You don’t know rage until you discover your water bottle is missing (again) at 5:45 a.m. when you just want to grab it and get to the d*** gym.
Florida. I don’t want to be mean or anything and …yes, I have friends and family that actually live in that backwards land but….let me just say that state can’t fall into the sea fast enough for me.