Eye Opening Weekend Recap

Hello again Monday.  Meh.

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I don't mind wondering where the weekend went when we are busy but when it's not much more than couch time, I feel like a do over.  Of course, most of it from Friday night through a good majority of Saturday was watching the Eco Challenge on Amazon Prime.  We used to watch that all the time when relatively unknown Mark Burnett began televising them on the Discovery Channel.  A long, arduous trek through some part of the world you're never likely to visit on your own.  We've seen some cringeworthy stuff on those too.  I'm talking leeches crawling in penises and dude getting it extracted screaming in labor pains then being like "yes, I can still hike 96 miles and repel down that cliff side."  Or the person with foot rot so bad they can't wait and are like "no worries, I'll army crawl the last 100 miles."  It was a test in strength, endurance mentally and physically as well as a dick measuring contest in the adventure racing world.  It was one of those things you wished you had the fortitude to test yourself on but glad you didn't.   The current version stays true to all of that sans leechy peens.  (Ooh, I'm going to use that as a new phrase for feeling like crap.  "How are you today?"  "Leechy peen, jellybean!")

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Friday the Mr got his refurbished EnChroma sunglasses.  He has the red/green colorblindness and you never realize just how skewed the world is to people who can see all colors.  I can't count how many times a checkout person says "swipe your card and press the green button."  Well, he can't see the green button, tell him what the button SAYS!  Or what about color graphs for work?  Nope.  When he was a kid, he would color his leaves brown and the trunk green.  He is still getting used to his new world but no viral video worthy reaction or tears about how his life has changed.  Literally the thing he was most impressed with was how red our cooler for delivery people was and that our petunias had actual contrast from front to back instead of being one muted tone.   They sent all of these balloons for him to finally see for the first time but he could name all of the colors before putting on the sunglasses.  If you're getting them for the colorblind person in your life, go in with lowish expectations and not a viral video reaction like my friend kept pinning her hopes on.  I don't think he told her yet but her expectations are waaaay too high for the feedback she'll receive.  But he likes them and will keep them.  You've got 60 days to try them out to see if they're worth it.  I'm looking forward to him seeing Fall for the first time.

For a visual representation...

(Source  The Mr's vision on the left without the glasses.  He sees a green wagon, not red even though he classifies it as red when he sees it.  I know, hard to describe or comprehend.)

Saturday, we ran some errands and grabbed lunch.   Later we had my single layer birthday cake which we later both confessed was the worst cake we've ever gotten from that place.  They've been doing our birthday cakes for over 20 years and about two years ago they stopped baking on site.  We're pretty sure they freeze the cake layers for God knows how long then decorate on site.  The icing was pretty tasteless as well so the only thing we could taste was the ice cream with it.  I guess they're off the list.  Why should birthday cakes not kinda suck this year too?   Thanks 2020.  I opened the Mr's presents as well as a friend of mine's gifts then just pepper in episodes of Eco Challenge until like midnight or something.  Ah, a scintillating pandemic birthday celebration.

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Sunday the Mr woke up with some phlegm (sorry!) so I made some hot tea.  Regular and a dose of green tea with turmeric and ginger tea and that seemed to exorcise the demon for now.  I got three solid signs from Grandma my presence was requested at her "condo" so instead of going to visit on my birthday, we went yesterday.  It was time to change out her pretties and give her the four fall bouquets I was holding onto since last year.  I think she liked them.  Her flag has been faded by the intense sunlight so I ordered a new one.  Everyone mentions how when they do go there, it helps to have her face to talk to.  Plus it acknowledges she was a loving mother and grandma since her husband didn't bother to correct her when they purchased her headstone after her diagnosis.  Definitely one of those things I know we as a family would change if given the chance.  Since it was almost 80 and the humidity wasn't too gross, I decided we should walk the cemetery a bit.  We haven't done it at that one before.  I really wish she wasn't buried there.  It's close to a freeway and off a very busy street so there is zero chance for 'eternal rest.'  I know, she's not there, but it does make it hard to feel any peace when visiting her, even less walking the perimeter but it did give us a new perspective of the place.

We came home and after a while we went down and did our Sunday workout.   If y'all need some new blood for your workouts, here's our schedule for the week.

Sunday 

Monday 

Tuesday

Wednesday-  Battle Ropes

Thursday

Fri-  Walk Away the Pounds

We did a small grocery pick up in which they gave me almost no usable bananas for the week and an expired item so yeah, that went well.  We had turkey tacos and Brussels for dinner and finished watching Valley Girl.  The Mr is reading the book I finished and we had a good chat about that for an hour before he headed up for bed.

How was your weekend?

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