Monday Morning This and That

Good morning everyone.  Are you ready for the new week?  I am.  The heat wave broke with the rain storms on Friday, and we've had some wonderful summer weather.   Stayed in on Friday.  Actually slept late for a change.  I knew the storms were coming so there was no need to rush.  Actually, I do have to break myself of that habit.  Rushing.  I rise early in the morning. and sometimes I have a meal cooking by 8 am.  I'm retired now.  I have ALL day to do it.  Why does it have to be done in the morning.  I should be taking advantage of long, slow mornings, sipping my tea, and relaxing in my chair.  I bought a gratitude journal just for morning writings, but do I take the time to do it?  

Saturday I went to the park for about an hour.  Not my favorite park, but until I get my half fare card back, I'm only going to travel for classes and Weight Watchers.  I so dislike that subway station, and when they told me I would have to go there to buy a temporary card every day I needed one rather than sell me a few, I decided then that my favorite park would have to wait. 

This park is named after Leif Erickson.  Back in the day this was pretty much a Scandinavian area of Brooklyn, so the park has a Viking theme to it. If you enlarge and look closely you will see that the silver object is a Viking ship and the little statue off to the side is a little troll. 

Last night we had dinner out and went to the movies to see  the latest Jurassic Park; it was awesome with 3D glasses.  And we also saw Ralph's choice of movie, Super Fly.  Both were great, but I am partial to the first one.   For dinner we headed over to TGIF.  It's hard to make a good food choice there.  I wasn't so much concerned about calories or points as much as the fact that they are notoriously known for their heavy sodium use.  Checked online beforehand and pretty much knew what I was going to get--Dragon glazed chicken and super vegetables.

The chicken was delicious and tender enough to eat with a fork.  I did regret, however, that instead of a double order of supper veggies I chose to have one and an order of broccoli.  Took two bites of broccoli and left the rest.  It was so salty.  But it was a beautiful place, although quite noisy, and we had a window seat by the water.

Later we went to the movies and saw Jurassic World (my choice) and Sicario: Day of the Soldado (hubby's choice).  I lay in bed last night trying to imagine those great giants trudging through the area that was now my bedroom.   Hard to imagine they were once here.

Today I am off to my classes.  Sadly, today we say good bye to our meditation facilitator.  He upcoming school schedule interferes with the time of our class.  I will miss her greatly, but I do wish her well in all her future endeavors.