The next blog challenge prompt is “set your clock for 15 minutes and free-write about anything that comes to mind.” So I guess we’re going down a rabbit hole–buckle up.

You know that meme about how women have 50 million tabs open on their mental computer? Yeah… Let’s see what’s on my mind for a few minutes.

Learned the term “professional patient” awhile back. This certainly describes my reality. Life is an endless merry-go-round of doctor appointments and trips to the pharmacy. Currently a bit pissed off at my doctors cuz it feels like they are waiting for me to just kick it so they don’t have to fix this damn cough and lung mass that is the size of a kiwi.

Few things set my teeth on edge faster than having a long to-do list and giving myself a chance to sit down and relax for a bit, only to have someone decide I must be bored and free and it’s a great time to give me something to do. I can keep myself busy quite well, thank you.

Do you ever get tired of figuring out what to cook for meals day in and day out? I do. If it were up to me currently, I would just eat cereal for a few weeks for every meal until I didn’t feel so burned out. Unfortunately, my family members aren’t really fans of this plan, and my husband is under doctor’s orders to not use stoves or anything else that involves open flame thanks to his brain injury and seizure disorder. Ugh.

I’ve dipped my toe into a new author’s works this week–finished the first 1.5 novels in a series. Now it is an internal struggle to not rush out and buy the rest of the series when I need to watch my spending. Sigh…

Got a new phone a couple weeks ago. Still tweaking the settings, but I am having fun customizing notification sounds to each task or person. I wish Jesse Snider had “Juggernaut” as a ringtone so I could set that for my X notification since Jesse is the main one I get notifications for on that app.

Y’know the weirdest part for me when kids grow up? No longer having 24/7 access to my favorite people. I miss the days of their piling onto my bed and just chatting for hours, catching up on their day as they passed through the kitchen while I was fixing something, hearing them chatter in another room as they showed each other different music. They are cool people.

I am so glad fall is almost here–I am very much over these 90^o + days and can’t wait for cooler weather. I am not a fan of hot. Not crazy about ice and cold, either, but hot is mega YUCK.

Time’s up!