What's a chore I've been putting off? We have to remove a wreath, on our front door, that a Robin made a nest in and safely brought into the world four babies. But we found out last night that one of the babies keeps coming home. At least we assume it's one of the babies, it's still pretty little. But they left a couple of weeks ago, like they've been out of our door and we kept forgetting to put the wreath in the trash because, as nice as that wreath is, they pooped all over it and our front door, which we have to clean the front door and the sidewalk in front of it, so it's kind of a chore. And then last night my fiancé went outside and scared the bird and then this morning I watched the bird fly out as I backed out of the driveway. So, one of the babies keeps coming back or mama came back and laid more eggs. I'm gonna have to check it out later. So, it might be a chore that just has to keep getting put off cuz I'm not gonna remove a nest with eggs. That's like my no no.

The occasion was my friend, her father turned 100 in May. I mean, like a week ago in May and they had a hundredth birthday party for him, with a lot of guests, there were over a hundred people there, they had good food, and polish dancers, and some storytelling, and it was just a really fabulous day. It's interesting with the pandemic because they had planned this last year to be his 99th party and then, of course, we know, what happened with pandemic. There's no way they could have a party. And they thought well maybe we can have it in a year's time so they, of course, are praying that their dad lives for another year. You have to get him through the pandemic, and also we're hopeful that, I mean they had to start making reservations and everything. Well before we were completely sure how open we would be,whether it would be okay to have a party, but they went ahead and did it, and it worked out really well because I was vaccinated, the friends that I had there were vaccinated, and I'm pretty sure all of the birthday boy's friends were vaccinated since they were all a lot older and, you know, among the first eligible. You know it was really special. I actually don't know my friend's Dad that well, I mean I've met him a few times but I've known her for like twenty years. So I certainly know about her family and uh-- so there was just something really life-affirming about celebrating somebody's hundredth birthday, and I thought how many-- I've never been invited to a hundredth birthday party before. I may never get invited to one again. I don't know. So it was really special and it was special to see him.He had come through this terrible year, like we all had. Many of his friends and relatives were there and, I was just like I said, it was just really life-affirming.

It's a really neat audiobook. Y'know, they're on this long journey across the state of Texas on horseback in 1870 and I kinda felt like I was on a long journey and that I had this little girl next to me that I was trying to deliver to someplace safe, but I would highly recommend that book. News of the World is, y'know, he makes his living by going to these small towns in northern Texas and he reads stories from the London Times and papers from all around the world. Not so much the local news, but papers from the East and West coasts and Canada and London and other parts of Europe and just shares -- y'know brings a peek into what's happening around the world because there's no clue when you're in Northern Texas in 1870, what's happening in the rest of the world and I just thought it's an interesting take on how we've -- how the world has changed. How we have instantaneous news and a global connection. People would pay a dime to listen to him read the news for an hour, hour and a half, in a local little theater in some of these small towns in Texas. Interesting way to make a living.

When I think about this week, this week has been pretty good. I'm under some pretty serious stress at work, but this morning I received news that I am expecting a child. So, I will be going through pregnancy in the times of COVID-19. I’m pretty nervous about it. I actually stopped at the store earlier today to pick up some avocados cuz it's the only thing in the world I want right now. Just the knowledge that I may be vaccinated, but the knowledge that COVID-19 in particular is really difficult and pregnant women are more susceptible to the effects of it, made me really nervous. But overall the week has been pretty good. I had a really good Mother's Day. I enjoyed spending it with my family.

Have you ever been voted most likely or best something? What was it? If not, what superlative do you think would most describe you? It's been a minute. Yeah, I like that image you put in the featured recordings, the paper plate awards. I always thought that was a fun, like, end of season thing for sports teams, when I was in like middle school, and going forward, but I just haven't really done it since then. What would describe me? Probably nerdy. Like even among my peers at work, I would probably be considered nerdy. Most nerdy. Yeah, that's interesting. I haven't reflected on that in long time.