A time I felt playful... Hmm... Well, I guess we could go with Easter, where I brought games. And Anomia was the game we played where my friend, bless his heart, somehow managed to read "type of puzzle" as "type of pizza," and was very sure of his answer being pepperoni. And we're just sitting there looking at him going, "What?" He's like, "Yeah, pepperoni!" It was like, "What kind of puzzle is a pepperoni? I mean, I guess you have to arrange it on the pizza." But anyways, so my friend answers and she takes his card instead, and he's like, "Oh, puzzle!" He's like, "I thought it said pizza." And we're sitting there going, "How? How did -- that's not even the same number of letters. And also, when we pointed it out, you could have changed your answer to sudoku or crossword!"

My grandfather was born blind. He had a little bit of vision, but he was, he was legally blind. He liked to push the envelope a little bit. He didn't allow that to stop him from doing anything, sometimes to his detriment. You know, he -- as a young man, when he was in high school, he really really wanted to play basketball. I mean, my grandfather absolutely loved sports. Sports fanatic. And because he was legally blind, the school wouldn't allow him to even try out. And so he convinced the coach to at least unlock, you know, the gymnasium for him after school so he could, you know -- he could just th- you know, shoot hoops on his own. He wasn't gonna try out. Knowing that the coach was gonna see him play. And through that, my grandfather got on the, the basketball team and he was able to, to play like he wanted, knowing that he was gonna be able to do it, and I, I think that's really fantastic and also just kind of a theme in his life. When he was 17, I remember -- not I remember, but I remember the story -- he was on the ice with some friends on Rainbow Lake and he actually fell through the ice and broke his neck. And he was in the hospital and he was paralyzed from the neck down. And they didn't think that he was ever going to walk again or be able to do anything, and he actually ended up making a full recovery. I have the news clipping from, from the accident and the picture that they chose of him was a photograph from a basketball game, and just talked about everything that had happened and where he was in his recovery. It's kind of incredible that he was able to come back from that, especially back then.

"What's been particularly difficult this week?" Ever since I broke up with my last boyfriend in May last year -- so almost a year, I realized I had a really hard time being alone. That was one of the things it's like I was like, I'm not happy in this relationship, but I felt like I couldn't break up with him. Our friends were interconnected, it had been three years, and I realized I was like -- things were just headed south and at the time when I felt like we were rebuilding our relationship, he started talking marriage and I -- we had different timelines. Sometimes I wonder if he brought that up intentionally. I don't know. But all it took was one, one argument where he was like, "Oh some friends of mine just got engaged in Paris. Gives me some ideas." And I had said, "Well, sometimes you're not really that nice to me. I feel like we need to be working on that." And that exploded into an argument. He said some pretty cruel things and I was willing to try to work through it I guess, but I felt like I had told him this so many times. So then the next day, like, it was the weirdest feeling. I felt like my soul -- like a butterfly flapped its wings, or it should've and it didn't, and I ended things. He lives in Boston, so I didn't have the money to go and visit him for a weekend to break up. I knew that it wouldn't -- I couldn't do that in person. And maybe that's not fair to him. But I agreed to see him multiple times after he'd come to Michigan. And that just started feeling like bad ideas. They felt like dates like it, it was hard.

My mother, my cousin, her daughter, my sister, and my sister-in-law all went to Shipshewana in Indiana. And, Shipshewana, there's booths and it's a big flea market. And then the town -- you can walk through and see all the different little shops that they have in town. But they're selling a lot of stuff so we had wandered in to get a drink. There was a little sit down area and we wandered in to get a drink and we were in a store, obviously, attached to the little soda fountain, soda fountain and, um, we were walking around. And the gals all -- their sodas came up so we all went and sat down and I had brought from what I was looking at to the table to show them. It was a little box and you just moved the top. But when you move the top, a spider jumped out and touched your finger and you’d scream and you’d laugh. Well, this doggone little spider got six of us women laughing so hard we were peeing ourselves, we were crying, we had stitches in our side, we hurt from, from laughing. And then somebody would do it again and it would set us off again and we would just laugh. We laughed for about 45 minutes. That silly little box with the spider attached to it had us, not giggling, but full out ugly laughing. It was so much fun.

One of them was, "Have you ever created a rule based on something that you did?" It wasn't me. It was my mother. She was a kindergarten teacher and there were certain things that she had her students bring in cash for. One of them was the book sale. She would send home book order with them and they were like on this really thin paper. It was like two pages front and back and you could order books for a pretty reasonable price and the kids would come in with their envelope full of, full of money, you know with what they -- and their order sheet and they would get, they would get these -- they would get the books and she would have popcorn sales. So it was like 50 cents for a bag of popcorn and the kids would bring in their money and that money then went back to the classroom so that they could purchase things for the classrooms and things. So she sometimes had all of this change that she would have to figure out what to do with, and so she usually would just take it to the bank and get it in bills, and, you know, instead of all of this, you know, just, just all kinds of, all kinds of change.  So she went to the bank and was in the outer lane. So not the lane that's up against the building where you can set your transaction into the slot that you know is directly into the building but rather at one of the terminals where y- -- it shoots up through the like the vacuum packed -- the vacuum sucker thing. Well, she just had coins and coins and coins and coins that she shoved into that, um, canister that went into the vacuum, um, chamber and apparently that did not go over well that there were all those coins in that, um, in that canister. The next time that she went there, there was a sign on the window that said, "Please do not put coins in this, in this canister," you know, "if you have coins you need to basically come inside or, you know, use the other window" or whatever. And I think that sign is, like, still up there. Like I'm pretty sure -- I mean this was -- I mean, my mom hasn't…