Well, I’m sorry to say you’d never know I was on vacation last week from looking at my week in review. I really just hid out in the apartment, trying to stay cool. I did some errands that have been on the list for awhile, worked on some future blog posts, GOT THROUGH ALMOST ALL THE LIVING ROOM BOXES (!!!), but mostly just sort of puttered around. I guess around mid-week I was like I should probably get out in the world a bit, so I did do that.

So, yeah, the boxes. Just about everything is out and on the shelves (some things are other places in the apartment as it wouldn’t all fit on the one bookcase) and Storage Box Mountain is almost gone…

…but now most of the boxes are holding packing peanuts and bubble wrap (for ebay sales and next time I move) and are just over HERE. So I didn’t get RID of the boxes as much as I just moved them from one spot to another. At least they’re no longer in the living room.

I did a bunch of returning. I let the red and pink bag go. I LOVED it but I just didn’t have enough use for it. I really need a new everyday bag, the shoulder strap on mine is all cracking and looks horrible. The lovely billum bags I was coveting were finally listed on the website but in the new pictures I could see the straps were way too short for cross-body. Bags Will Not Stay On My Shoulder. Does anyone else have this problem? Even my right bra strap is constantly slipping off my shoulder. Do I tip right? Anyway, it makes it that a cross-body bag is a necessity. At least as my main everyday bag.

Ha, could these bags BE any more different??

On Wednesday I went with my friend to a street fair-ish event – a lot of towns are having these on summer evenings now. Once a week or every other week, they shut down Main St to cars, and vendors and food trucks come in, there are bands and bars create “drinking corrals” outside on the sidewalk. People mill around. We went to a new one out in Riverhead (about a 45-minute drive for us) and it was HOT SO HOT. There were going to be fireworks later in the evening, but…hot. There wasn’t really even much to take pictures of. I took some on my little disposable film camera but I won’t have those pictures for awhile.

Old pretty church.

Yup. I’m a real photographer.

Friday I hung out in a friend’s pool all afternoon, which was delightful…but no pictures.

Saturday we went out east to an open garden that was canceled when we went out there in the beginning of June. It was stunning and well worth the return trip but MAN was it hot. I’m only sharing one picture here cuz I’m going to do a blog post about it later this week.

And oh yeah, me. Just a tad warm.

And what have I been reading this week? Hmm.

I read “Love the One You’re With” by Emily Giffin. It was fine. I didn’t find it quite as peppy and enjoyable as her other books I’ve read, but if you read this book first you’d probably think it was fine. A basic contemporary story about relationship challenges. A quick, easy read if you’re wanting something for the beach or pool (or sofa). 2.95/5.

On a better note, I read the third JoJo Moyes book in the Louisa Clark trilogy, “Still Me.” The first (“Me Before You”) was still best, but I’ll give this one second best. 3.75 out of 5.

I watched two cute movies:

Juliet, Naked: just a nice, sweet story. Plus, I adore Ethan Hawke. Two thumbs up.

And Life Partners, which I’m pretty sure I’ve seen before…but totally forgot. It was cute. It gets a thumb and a pinky. I like Gillian Jacobs (Love and Community) and Adam Brody (The OC) and even Leighton Meester is growing on me thanks to Single Parents, which is sort of a dopey sweet tv show (but there is a growing dearth of 30-minute sit-coms and sometimes 30 minutes is all the tv I can take).

A song I’m currently obsessed with (don’t judge the song by the video). “When the Party’s Over” by Billie Eilish.

In the end, I only made one list, and that was just for Monday so I didn’t forget any errands or things I needed. I was really unscheduled and living day-to-day. And tomorrow is already back to work and there’s a work event one night this week, so…there’s that.

Seven weeks til the next vacation 🙂