We've Only Just Begun

My nephew and his girlfriend graduated from high school on Friday night, and we were there at his request.  Nice kids.  It's been 35 years since I attended a graduation ceremony.  Despite the pleas for respectful applause, there were still outbursts of celebrated screaming and cheering.  Mr. L maintains those came from the families where there was unlikely to be anyone else ever graduating or from the families where this was the culmination of success for them.  I don't completely disagree.  At least they did avoid air horns and the like (because they'd been warned they would be ejected if that happened).  I noted with interest the differing approaches from the various kids.  Most were a little sheepish and didn't seem to know quite how to approach it.  Some pulled off a solid sophisticated smoothness.  Most were someplace in between.  My nephew and his intended remained serious but pretty relaxed throughout -- conduct we could be proud to observe.  As a side note, why, oh why do people bring kids under five to these things?  I think we were surrounded by screaming babies and toddlers.

The Good Stuff:

• Got the yard mowed
• Tracked (I think I got it all), read, and did morning pages each day.
• As reported elsewhere, jury duty was a non-event.  I got called for a criminal case, but they must have settled or post-poned, because we were credited with serving and released.  I was back in Central Texas by Monday night.
• Rossie seemed to miss us.  She allowed herself to be handled and petted, and she hasn't escaped to one of her hiding places yet tonight.
• There are mountains in Oklahoma.  I got some pretty cool pictures.  I'll get a post put together this week and share a few from the trip.

Not So Good Stuff:

• Yadda, yadda, yadda -- broken record here.

The Week Ahead:

• Track, read, ride bike, morning pages
• Bloodwork and ultrasound on Tuesday
• Crown prep on Wednesday
• Mr. L goes to San Antonio for a couple of weeks on Thursday -- I plan to try to get some serious decluttering done while he's gone.  We've talked about where I should focus.
• Get some blog posts done. 
• Begin decluttering in areas discussed with Mr. L.
• Yard work (we had rain while we were gone, and everything grew!)
• I'm sure there's more.