I can't seem to get motivated for this vacation. And that is interfering with preparing and packing. But I did get the laundry done, vacuumed, mowed. Picked up the prescriptions. All after work. I ironed during the last hour of work, it was so dead yesterday. Joined Audible for the $0.99 3-month trial, only so I could download James by Percival Everett to listen to on the 5-hr drive. I don’t usually take advantage of these cheap trials, but it is Amazon and I won’t feel guilty when I cancel upon my return because they steal from us and back down on their promises every day. Tit for tat.

But everytime I start thinking about what food to bring (because I have to bring the gluten-free and other special diet things that I likely can't find up north) and what we'll eat, I change the subject and distract myself with something else. Because I hate that I can't just walk into a restaurant and eat anything on the menu and that if I'm going to eat, I'm going to have to make it myself (which means making it for honey also) and is it really a vacation when I have to do all the chores I do when I'm not on vacation? But then again, do I really want to eat a sandwich at every meal for a week?

Well, see now? I've distracted myself for 45 minutes this morning writing this.

I wish I could be friends with the anteater. Friends that do stuff together but don't have to put all that effort into being social and entertaining to others. Because it is perfectly okay to just hang out with another person, even when the room is quiet and you don’t have much to say. Alone but not alone. I get it. I don't want to be exhausted after hanging out with someone. Groups of people are exhausting.

Oh well.

Finished listening to The Inheritance by Joanna Goodman (during that last hour of work). Loved it.

Honey also thinks the clinic mixed up my blood sample/test results with the other person there at the same time who shared my first name and similar age but was much larger in the middle. We're both trying to understand how my A1c could be prediabetic.

Extreme heat warning again today and tomorrow. I best get to it.