I did have a surprise in my washing machine... yesterday? Was it just yesterday? Yeah, there were two dead mice in my washing machine when I tried to do laundry yesterday. And I don't know why, like, seeing dead animals is like such a traumatic experience. I mean, I'm not really used to it, I'm not a hunter, I haven't really been exposed to many dead animals. Like, it just -- I guess I just don't really see it. I am a vegetarian. I don't really like seeing dead animals, but I don't think anybody actually really does. I don't know, maybe some people do. I don't know. But I had to somehow get them out of my washing machine, and I had no idea what to do. I did- I don’t have, like, a small shovel or a scoop or a -- I didn't know what to do. So I finally put baggies, two like Ziploc baggies around two like kitchen utensils, like a big scoop, you know, spoon scoop and a big spatula. And I, like, scooped 'em out of there, and I just -- as I was doing it, I literally said out loud to myself, you know, nobody else is in my apartment, said to myself, "Why is this so hard?" Like "Why is this, like, such a big deal?" And I, I just -- and I knew they were dead, like -- they, it's not like they were gonna move and attack me, or I mean, even if they were, they're mice, like, what are they gonna do to me, right? So I, it's just one of those things that's just really ridiculous. But I just -- I was sort of freaking out a little bit about it, which I feel like is just ridiculous. So I took 'em on the scoopers and threw them outside, which is probably ridiculous. Something's probably -- I mean, I hope something eats them and then, like, their death is not in vain and, you know, circle of life, I get all that, but…

And I was remarking that I feel like since the pandemic, I have been -- um, I've experienced far fewer colds like the one that I have now, or flu, or whatever it is. And I don't know why that is. I mean, during the pan- -- like, during lockdown, I understood why, because I wasn't going out as much, and, you know, I was really fastidious about washing my hands or using, you know, wipes, um, like when I would, you know, grab a grocery cart and so on. And, you know, I was wearing a mask. I don't, I haven't really kept up with those behaviors as much, but I still have gotten sick far less often than I did before the pandemic. Um, and I was speculating as to why that was. You know, possibly getting all those covid vaccines gave me some immunity to fighting off, you know, coronaviruses in general. It could be that even though it doesn't seem like I've really changed my behavior, maybe I'm better about washing my hands. I think that could be a piece of it, because there are definitely times where I come home and I just feel like I can't wait to get my hands washed, and I don't -- I feel like that is not something that was felt a lot during, you know, before the pandemic. One of my girlfriends also pointed out that maybe in some ways we've maybe kind of renormalized the idea of staying home when you're sick. So I'm encountering fewer sick people out, either ‘cause people can -- you know, people have proven that they can work remotely and so on, I don't know. I know I'm grateful, 'cause I used to be the kind of person that would catch anything weird that was going around. People said, "Oh, there's a bad flu going around. There's a cold going around." I'm like, "Yep, I'm gonna get it." And I used to just think I had a weak immune system. {Laughs} I don't know what my deal was. Well, I'm glad that things are a little better.

We went to Manchester, New Hampshire. And while we were in Ne- -- Manchester, New Hampshire, my husband went to a fly fishing shop in anticipation for going fly fishing the following day. And uh, we went to some different places and different, different things. And uh, while we were there, there was a yarn shop and so I went to visit it. While we were in the yarn shop, my husband went in with me, but he had did what he always does when he has to go to the yarn shop, he cornered one of the clerks and asked her where a good place to eat lunch would be. And she said, "Oh, if I were you, I would go to the furniture store next door." And my husband looked at her kinda funny because well, you know, "the furniture store." She said the Furniture Store is both a furniture store and the name of a restaurant. In the center of the furniture store, she said, they have a beautiful big, giant, pizza oven and she said "They make grilled sandwiches, and they make wonderful pizza. You should go there." She said while you're there in the furniture store, in the areas around there, they have tables and chairs that are for sale as well as just regular tables and chairs. And so, you can walk around and look at all the furniture as well as eat. So we went there, and they had wonderful thin crust pizza. And the thin crust pizza that we had was grilled shrimp with grilled onions and an onion sauce. It was a white -- basically a white pizza. And I have to say that that was possibly one of the best pizzas I have ever eaten in my life. It was just fabulous. Totally different from what you think of when you think of pizza. Probably you would say more that it was like a flatbread, but it was really, really good, and I would eat that again anytime. Ever, ever, ever.