It’s ice cream truck season! This truck circles my parents’ house every summer, and the song never seems to change. I used to love running out and buying a Mississippi mud fudge ice cream sandwich from it as a kid.
I couldn’t help but laugh out loud at this ridiculously long receipt for my one item! That’s Tillamook medium white cheddar, for anyone wondering. I got this at the local supermarket, but Tillamook also has an awesome factory in Oregon where you can take a little tour, sample cheese, and buy their freshly made ice cream (their mudslide is RIDICULOUS… and apparently I really love mud-dy ice cream).
I went on a run and ended up at my old junior high– where I hadn’t been in almost 15 years. I particularly liked that it looks like kids in an English class were required to write out quotes from Romeo & Juliet on the ramp outside of their classroom. We read it in the 9th grade, too, and I loved it so much that I would sit in my room for hours memorizing passages.
Kona coffee glazed macadamia nuts. My awesome friend Yumi mailed these to me from her trip to Hawaii (thank you again, Yumi!) and they’re really good. I lived in Hawaii for a few years when I was younger, and for some reason, these and Dole pineapple soft serve always stick out in my mind from that time.
Strolled around the dock one afternoon. That’s me attempting to wave (which you can barely see to the left of my head) in the middle.
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This week has been a big exercise in patience for me. Sometimes there are things that you just want to happen already, but need to trust that things will work out in due time. In the meantime, I’ve continued working on my secret project, which I know I haven’t mentioned in a while, but am still plugging away at.
It’s still hard for me to believe how much has changed since I moved back in with my parents last year. In so many ways I feel like a completely different person. Still, I can feel that more change is coming, and I can feel myself paddling more with the current than against it now.
I hope you have a great weekend, with lots of sunshine. I’ll see you here next week!
