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Happy Birthday to Denis! Yay!

When I was exercising in my garage yesterday, Bruno stood in the mudroom and watched me.

It made me think of the term liminal space – “…empty or abandoned places that appear eerie, forlorn, and often surreal. Liminal spaces are commonly places of transition…” (from Wikipedia).

I used to be a big-time cereal fiend. I ate it all the time. But it has so much sugar, which I really shouldn’t eat so much of. Sometime while I was in Maui, I just stopped eating cereal. It was the weirdest thing. But I wasn’t complaining. It was healthier for me.

In the last year, I’ve started to have cereal in my pantry again, but just one box, and it’s a lower-sugar option. Life cereal has been my most regular brand. I’ve also tried plain Cheerios.

Last time I went to the grocery store, I decided to try Kix. It has the lowest grams of sugar compared to any cereal I’ve tried so far. I like it. I would never have guessed that.

As I was writing this post, I looked at the nutritional information of several cereals, and I’m a little surprised to find that although Kix has quite a bit less sugar than regular sugary cereals, it has the same amount of calories. Interesting. Could it be not as healthy as I think? Maybe I can just use the designation: “less unhealthy”.

The big intersection by my house has several businesses, but they’re kind of a weird mish-mash. There’s a grocery store, which I like, but I don’t go to it very often because it doesn’t carry all the things I regularly buy. There’s a bank, a Starbucks, a Ross, some fast food places…

I suppose the weirdest thing is that at one point there were three different brands of dollar stores. It was too many, and two of them closed. But in the empty spot of one of the dollar stores, a Burlington opened. How exciting!

I visited it the other day. It was nice. It didn’t seem as big as other Burlingtons I’ve been to, but then again, it was packed.

Of all the discount stores like this, I’ve always had the best luck finding garden pots at Burlington. And now there’s one right next to me!

Yesterday my middle school went on a field trip to visit the USS Iowa – a World War II battleship that is berthed in LA Harbor. It was really cool.

The ship was cool, but they also had some hands-on activities to talk about projectile travel and buoyancy. I really enjoyed our visit. I think the kids did too.

These are the bunks. They are so close. I wondered if I would be able to sleep in them, or if I would feel claustrophobia.

Oh! And I saw some writing that made me chuckle.

Here are the big guns. They fired 16-inch rounds. They had round on display, and it was HUGE.

I think I’ll have to go back some time to get a more thorough look at the ship’s insides. It was fascinating!

Yesterday was the first day back to school after break. It went pretty well. I didn’t take any pictures of the day, so here’s a picture from a couple of weeks ago:

I think it’s the weirdest candle scent I’ve ever seen. Tomato?

The smell wasn’t what I thought. It smelled like tomato leaves. It was pretty close to the actual smell. I was amazed.