Up and in the general direction of ’em this morning. It was alarm that I didn’t want to hear this morning, and, fortunately, it wasn’t cold. Because if it had been cold I would have found a reason to stay in bed and go back to sleep, or wherever you go when you feel guilty about not getting up.
So I got up, feeling not guilty at all, and generally pleased with being right on time. And that it wasn’t cold.
I tried raspberry jelly on my toast, which was a first. I’ve decided to swap to a simple toast breakfast, and then had the further decision to branch out into the fruit preservative world. I’m a strawberry or apple guy, but there’s no reason I can’t try other things. Other things not including orange marmalade, which is disappointing and bad.
That was the memory I had at the grocery store on Monday: orange marmalade is just about the only orange product I can categorize as offensive. I’d waited until there was no one on the bread aisle — which is, I assume, how everyone is shopping these days — so that I could stand along among the jellies and ponder my options. My first observation: there are a few options, but not as many I’d imagined. There’s grape, no thanks. Strawberry, sure. I picked up a raspberry to try, and a blackberry flavor. There are a few combination offerings, generally those last three in various combinations. There was nothing exotic, however, at our giant, giant grocery store. The second observation was that you can’t pick up any jelly in a small sample size. If I don’t like blackberry I’m stuck with a fair amount of it for a good long while.
I also had an apple and peanut butter to make it a truly indulgent morning. Then I went to the office and waited until it was time to go into the studio. I watched Michael and Julianna and their crew and guests produce an episode of the morning show.
I’m a big fan of the events calendar.
And Lydia dropped in for a visit. She was one of the people that willed this show into existence in 2016 and 2017. We made them work for it, bringing this show to life, and it was worth it. She co-hosted the show for two years before she graduated. And they won some big awards in that time.
Lydia, who is one of those people who can do anything amazingly well pretty much the first time, is on her way to becoming a big shot at Adidas’ corporate offices. She does digital publishing, and nothing surprises me.
We sent that photo to the woman she created and co-hosted the show with. She hosts a prominent celebrity-entertainment show on YouTube these days. So they ran this show and now one lives in Oregon and the other is in Los Angeles.
And I’m in a place where we’re gearing up for the next four months of dreariness, where tonight’s barbecue is a rare treat, rather than a staple. (It wasn’t even good.)
But at least I got to try new a new jelly?
