Thanks for the early birthday wishes in the last MMP! 
Today’s all-day meeting (the first in an all-week series) started at 7:30am, plus it’s truly autumn now, so on my way to the office I got to see my first sunrise in a while! Due to needing both hands for the driving[1] I couldn’t make like Mollie and take a picture, but it was purty. It was also the first time I needed to turn lights on in the house just to get downstairs. Heh. Anyway, it’s a boring meeting so I figured I’d pop into the MMP on an actual Monday.
Lunch with my dad and bro yesterday was fine. Dad indulged in a little reminiscing about how I wasn’t born on Fort Ord (he was in the Army) because the base hospital was being renovated, so I was delivered at a local civilian hospital instead. I got in some solid Lego-building once I was back home alone, and last night I was, indeed, grateful that I’d done my laundry on Saturday. Yay, past me!
This meeting is supposed to end at 4:30pm, and I plan to skedaddle home as soon as I can. I’m looking forward to more Lego time, plus what I’m planning for dinner. When I went to the grocery store last week, I decided to get the ingredients for something I used to make all of the time but have only had once since my bariatric surgery (almost five years ago): it’s sort of like tuna casserole, only with rice instead of pasta and it gets nuked instead of baked. Cream of mushroom soup + milk + tuna + Minute rice. Like I said, I used to make it very often – and I’d eat the entire thing at once (a whole can of soup, etc.) – but after surgery I found that rice would fill me up very quickly, and the one time I made it I got tired of it before I could finish all of the leftovers. That was a couple of years ago, though, and I’m willing to try again…even though now I’m also on a GLP-1 that reduces my appetite. It’s the only “pre-surgery” food that I actually miss, so I figured I’d make it again for my birthday and see how things go. I think I’ll be very happy, even if only for a few forkfulls. 
Catching up on some stuff from the last MMP before diving into this week’s…
Amazon actually has a pretty decent selection; this one came from eBay, as did one or two of the sets that I’ve bought for myself. For in-person shopping, I also sometimes get retired sets from a couple of local buy/sell/trade stores. Just warn your friend that retired sets tend to be $$$!
I’ve come to the same conclusion…I’m pretty lucky. 
Pffft…amateur.
Yay!!
Nice!
And happy early birthday! 
my car is a stick ↩︎