1. Allergies/migraine. Since yesterday, my allergies have been in overdrive. I've been sneezing and blowing my nose and just in general feeling kind of yucky. It has been hot here, too, with temperatures in the upper 90s, so it's been uncomfortable. (The swamper is doing a good job about keeping the house cool, FYI.) This morning when I took the dogs for a walk, the temperature was already in the mid 80s and windy. My nose was runny, my eyes were itchy, and my throat was scratchy from sinus drainage. Around 10:30, I started to feel a little wobbly and nauseous and the words and numbers on my screen were not clear. My head was aching. At my lunch break, I decided to call it a day and took the afternoon off. I immediately went to bed in my cool, dark bedroom and slept for a couple of hours. I have been sleeping really well at night, thanks to Swampy, so it wasn't that I was feeling tired. I think I was having a low-grade migraine. I'm feeling a lot better now. I took a cool shower and laid around this evening. I'll be going to bed soon, too, so I'll get plenty of rest.
2. Awful fictional siblings. I just finished two books in which the older sibling was completely shitty to the younger sibling. In The Truth About the Devlins, John tried to frame is younger brother TJ with murder to cover his own ass. In The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits, Zoe said horrible things to Cassie that caused Cassie to run away from society and feel miserable for 20 years. John and Zoe were both awful characters, and I didn't feel any real redemption from either of them at the end of the books, although Zoe was closer to being forgivable. What I took away from these stories is that I am so thankful I have a good relationship with my sister!
3. Home Goods. During my lunch break from work on Tuesday, I decided to go check out a store in Bountiful called Home Goods. I've never been there before, and I hoped that I could find some flower pots for the deck. The store is amazingly huge and probably has just about anything you could possibly want for your home, except maybe appliances. I just walked through a very small section of the store, and I found plenty of stuff that interested me.
I ended up buying these two cute ceramic pots, made in Spain, and a small plant stand. The catmint in the back is sitting up on the stand. The pots were buy one get one half price, so I got both for a total of $30. Aren't they cute?! I put the coreopsis in one pot, but I haven't planted it there yet. In the photo you can also see the pretty lavender plant I just got from Lowes. I'll be going back to Home Goods for sure!