Welcome to Litsy!

❤️ married to my Highschool sweetheart for 29 years
❤️ raised two fierce daughters
❤️ been with Corrections almost 30 years
❤️ making a big job change to wrap up my career
❤️ survived the first year without my mom and have deepened my relationship with my dad and sister.

💙Get back to running and strength
💙Retire and find something new!
#wondrouswednesday

Thanks for the tag @ShelleyBooksie

1)Fall
2) Walking in the fallen leaves
3) is this a trick question …. All of them!
4) that my mother is back home

@Eggs

1. My new book is called The Medicine
2. The Not So Daring Adventures of a failed June Cleaver Impersonator
3. I love to write. I have about a dozen stories I've been working on over the years. Unfortunately, depression and life have put a real damper on that hobby.
4. An outlet. Because it's fun. Because my dreams are vivid and weird. 🤷
#humpdaypost @MinDea @DebbieGrillo

1. My new book is called out to the book club and I have no idea what it is.
2. I‘m working on one that‘s currently called Wild Roses! It might change though
3. Yes! I‘ve wanted to be a novelist since I was thirteen, and ever since then, my brain just comes up with characters and flags them at me!
4. Mostly for myself, right now.

1.My new book is called a great day for lunch today
2. I don‘t know - maybe how to have more energy
3. used to participate in nanowrimo but lost the focus and motivation to do it when my son was born - so at this point no - prefer to read others writing.
4. I have to write psycho-educational reports for my job and that‘s petty much the extent of my writing.

#humpdaypost @MinDea @DebbieGrillo

#humpday

🏖visit Hammonasset Beach State Park on CT shore
🏖colorful leaves
🏖on a beach, by the sea
🏖 from a scenic walk my sister & I did when at Cape Cod. View of Long Pond.

1. Well, since school started yesterday, our summer is over. 🤷🏻‍♀️
2. College football 🏈
3. On the porch of a cabin in the mountains while it's raining.
4. 3 for 1... My older daughter just started her senior year & got her casual senior photos done. 🎓 The photographer is a good friend, which made it a lot of fun. I love that we captured different parts of her personality - the dancer, the archer, & the pop culture fanatic.

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Thanks for the tag @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks !
Never have I ever...
— returned a borrowed book without finishing it
— had to stop / take a break from reading a book because it was too scary
— been taken to hospital by an ambulance
— been to Hungary 🇭🇺

#HumpDayPost @DebbieGrillo @MinDea

1️⃣ ok this is hard bc I‘m 67 yo and is there anything I‘ve never done?!?!!
Haven‘t killed anyone
2️⃣ haven‘t been to Europe
3️⃣ haven‘t raised sheep

What does it mean: # of times you‘d have to drink?

#humpdaypost @DebbieGrillo @MinDea

@gradcat
***oh now I get it😂😂

Is it sad that I had to look up the rules for this? I made a few comments on other littens posts and was wondering why everyone was posting emoji cocktails 🤣
1. Never have I ever played never have I ever
2. Never have I ever read an Agatha Christie book
3. Never have I ever paid a library fine
4. Never have I ever not spilled coffee on a book
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1. Walks in the Cotswolds

2. Justify a hot chocolate laced with Baileys and topped with whipped cream and marshmallows.

3. I alternate - sun until I feel too hot, then shade to cool down.

4. When I started writing this I was just about to do a body pump class!

#HumpDayPost @DebbieGrillo @MinDea

1. Finding spots tourists don't know about.

2. Living in San Diego, there's not much I can't do year-round. See green hills? Listen to the rain?

3. Usually shade, but my favorite is to alternate as I get chilly/hot.

4. Inexpert drop-and-crop job on the collage, but my current view is of my newest niece whom I'm visiting this Wednesday. She is the absolute cutest (tied with my other four nieces, of course).

#HumpDayPost @DebbieGrillo @MinDea

🍃 AC
🍁 take a walk outdoors without heatstroke and drowning in sweat. 3 seasons here: January, February, and Summer
🍂 shade in summer (see #2), a little sun in winter for vitamin D
🌿 stairway with family b&w pix

#humpdaypost @MinDea @DebbieGrillo

1. Lovely parks and beaches to enjoy 🏖🌳
2. Tough one, I really can't think of anything. I love the summer and don't really like winter ❄
3. I love the sun ☀️☀️☀️
4. Sat in the garden reading (Day 5 of the summer holidays)

#humpdaypost @DebbieGrillo @MinDea

#HumpDayPost @mindea @DebbieGrillo

A little late here but...

🐎 I thought I would have a career working with horses. I wanted to be a mounted park ranger.
👩‍💻 A CPA and an entrepreneur.
😁 Not sure about approve... but would not understand where things got side tracked.
😉 Always have a plan B because things tend not to work out as expected!
🤗🤗💜💜

1. A scientist or vet 🐾
2. Band teacher 🎼
3. I think so! That‘s my closest to 9 picture I could find above.
4. Keep up the studying 😉
5. 😍🥰❤️
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@DebbieGrillo @MinDea

1. When I was 12 I wrote that I wanted to be either a teacher or psychologist!
2. I‘m a school psychologist so I combined the two!!😀
3. I think so
4. Be more assertive - not so shy
5. ❤️❤️
@DebbieGrillo @MinDea #humpdaypost

1. A clown, a waitress, a teacher, a singer (I loved Linda Ronstadt), and, later, a long-haul trucker.

2. A homeschooling parent.

3. My 9-year-old self would be confused.

4. "The reason you have a stomachache every morning is the peanut butter toast and big glass of milk you always have for breakfast. You don't know what gluten and lactose are now, but trust me: it'll all make sense in 25 years."

5. ???
@DebbieGrillo @MinDea
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1. I think I wanted to be an actress, or a singer (the latter was never going to happen as I can‘t sing😂)

2. I‘m an accountant (head of finance at a large independent business)

3. I think she‘d be disappointed that I ended up in a career generally perceived as boring 😂😂

4. “Whatever you may think, you ARE good enough. You don‘t have to settle for a poor option because you think it‘s the best you‘ll get”

5. ❤️❤️❤️

#HumpDayPost

1. Eating noisely it drives me crazy!
2. A pony 🐴
3. Success should be measured by happiness. My parents for me, they are so happy and content with their lives 😍
4. 🖐🏽🖐🏻🖐🏿🖐🏼🖐🏾

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

1) Leftover pizza. I‘m not big on breakfast foods. Sometimes sausage with syrup hits the spot though.
2) I like the themed pop up restaurants they have in Japan. I saw a video about a Monster Hunter restaurant like that.
3) Nah, I‘m clumsy.
4) I think they pretty much make everything now. I‘d like to be able to reliably find Rum Raisin though.
5) I‘m late! Just tossing out a general tag!
@Eggs #WonderousWednesday

#humpdaypost @DebbieGrillo @MinDea

1. All of them for different purposes

2. Wastwater in the Lake District, most beautiful place in the world

3. Cinema - I love the ‘event‘ of going out to watch a film in the cinema watching them at home is never as good

4. Knock Down The House a doc about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other candidates in the midterms I really recommend it

5. I have varied taste it seems!

🛶Lake
🌌The Great Lakes
🎬Netflix
🧝🏻‍♀️The Dark Crystal
📖See picture!
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@DebbieGrillo @MinDea

1. Don't really have breakfast as I can't eat until I've been up afew hours. Do love Greek yogurt with fruit and honey when we're on holiday though 🍑🍯
2. The magic restroom cafe 🚽
3. I will read if I'm eating alone but otherwise no as I find it rude 😏
4. Not really an ice cream lover but rhubarb ice cream would be my choice🍦

#wonderouswednesday @Eggs

❤️ Massage, 3 mi/day walk, get lost in reading
💙 bookstore
🍎 summers full of reading outdoors under the shade tree
🇺🇸 ta da

#humpdaypost @MinDea @DebbieGrillo

Stupid volume popped up when I screenshot but too lazy to retake lol
1. I read, go out with friends, spend time doing things I like
2. Sweets and planning vacations
3. Getting new books on Christmas Day and staying up all night to read them.
4. This bad screenshot lol!
#humpdaypost @DebbieGrillo @MinDea

💐 Cafe Au Lait Dahlias, I had them in my wedding bouquet 💕
📚 A Prayer for Owen Meany ❤
🖥 The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency on HBO. The show is just as good as the books. 😁
I honestly don't enjoy poetry, but maybe Shel Silverstein?

@DebbieGrillo @MinDea #HumpdayPost

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🌸 I think that Peonies are beautiful. I fall hard for just about every flower...even some flowering weeds.
📖 I‘m rereading Harry Potter this month. It is always my favorite book whenever I‘m reading it.
📺 New Amsterdam (so much humanity) or season 1&2 of Designated Survivor.
💖 This one is tough because I have many favorite poets. Too many to list. I have many poets who have unmoored me with a single poem. Unable to choose.

#HumpDayPost @MinDea @DebbieGrillo

1. Pink tipped ivory roses

2. The only book I‘ve read this month (reading slump) 22 Britannia Road, by Amanda Hodgkinson

3. Jamestown on the PBS Masterpiece streaming channel.

4. Don‘t have one. Not into poetry.

#Humpdaypost @DebbieGrillo @MinDea

1. Sweet peas
2. The Language of Secrets Ausma Zehanat Khan
3. Currently on holiday so will be binge watching #thechase when I get back!!
4. William Blake and e e cummings

#HumpDayPost @DebbieGrillo @MinDea

1. Really, I love most flowers. Gladiolus, lilies, and daisies are probably the top three.
2. Firestorm by Nevada Barr
3. Currently sort of bingeing Downton Abbey and Elementary.
4. There are so many. Mary Oliver and W.B. Yeats probably are the top two though. I also love Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and e.e cummings.

1️⃣ I love lavender and baby‘s breath! My bridesmaids carried them at my wedding. (Not my photo)
2️⃣ THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by Tim O‘Brien
3️⃣ The Office is always a great binge!
4️⃣ Gwendolyn Brooks
#humpdaypost

1. White roses but I do like wildflowers too
2. The Feast of Sorrow
3. Dead to Me on Netflix or Amazon Prime
4. So not into poetry but I guess Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#humpdaypost @DebbieGrillo @MinDea

1. Ugh! How to pick just one?? Okay, the Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake. It‘s been highly recommended by some trusted friends, so I think it should prove to be an excellent read.
2. No, because my summer has been very hectic so far.
3. I don‘t do fitness at all, which is the problem! 😒
4. Our fur baby and Lord of All He Surveys (which is mainly us and the birds that land in the backyard), Oliver Kingsley!
#humpdaypost

1. Going to Celtic Fest with @cobwebmoth
2. The Story Changes, Chuck Ragan, Dave Hause, Over the Rhine, Shannon Perry Clark, Morphine, Birds of Chicago, Dream Theater
3. When I was 7, I cut my bangs off right before we were supposed to leave the house.
4. Action figure customization
5. Fresh salsa time! Also, a nice fountain at a local cemetery. (You always find water type Pokemon there.)

#HumpDayPost @DebbieGrillo @MinDea

1. After a really busy first half of the year, I haven‘t got much planned now😩

2. I very rarely listen to music

3. I‘m very boring, I‘ve never really had a seriously bad ‘do. Apart from the big 80s perm, but everyone had one of those!

4. I love doing jigsaws

5. Pic from today on my lunchtime walk, and Sunday with members of my running club doing Race For Life.

1. Trip to Florida this weekend/next week to see my son who recently moved there. Also 25th anniversary trip next month with my sweetie ❤️
2. New music? No idea lol
3. I got it cut super short when I was like nine. That was a bad look on me.
4. My daughter @wideeyedreader has introduced almost the whole family to D&D.
5. Husband‘s work had a family day last weekend and both pictures are from that.

@DebbieGrillo @MinDea #humpdaypost

1. My morning coffee, every morning.
2. I‘m horribly out of the loop when it comes to music.
3. A big-ass perm that was all the rage in the late 80‘s/early 90‘s.
4. Always have to have a blanket on me, no matter how hot it is.
5. Top: the coffee mug my mom bought me. Bottom: my kids bonding at the library.
#humpdaypost @DebbieGrillo @MinDea

1. We just decided to take our grandkids to see Cirque du Soliel later this summer!
2. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I mostly listen to spa stuff in my office. But have you heard of Idan Raichel? Amazing 🎶
3. Straightening my curls until they got chemical burns
4. Photography? Writing? Puzzles!
5. My neighbor‘s cat on our deck and an outdoor concert (Eagles tribute band)

#humpdaypost

1. My morning coffee to finish brewing
2. My students totally got me hooked on Billie Eilish and Lil Peep.
3. I cut my own hair in middle school ?
4. I played (will sometimes still play) Magic the Gathering. My true love is Pokémon though.
5. My chef cousin gave me a yummy recipe, and my kids bonding.
#humpdaypost

1. Going to the Red Sox game this afternoon
2. Idk “new” music, but some of my favorites are Bon Iver, the Civil Wars, and Jeff Buckley.
3. My mom made me get a perm in 6th grade and the kids at the bus stop called me lion 🦁
4. Coloring and listening to true crime podcasts
5. Some views from our drive through Maine on Saturday.

#humpdaypost

1. Leaving for first road trip of the summer Friday-to Colorado
2. Currently loving First Aid Kit, not sure if that counts as super new
3. Went to a cheap hair chain and they used a weird to curved comb to trim my hair, it was bad
4. I play World of Warcraft #glorytotheguild #WoW
5. My dogs feature prominently
#HumpDayPost @DebbieGrillo @MinDea

1. Going to visit friends in Scotland from last years holiday in Rhodes
2. Sam Fender 🎶
3. Dyed it pink 💗
4. Playing chess ♟
5. Drinking in the garden and the cinema with my niece 🍺🎬🍿

#humpdaypost @DebbieGrillo @MinDea

1. My birthday and my giveaway on here
2. I‘m kinda liking lovelytheband lately
3.putting peroxide in my dark brown hair when I was 14 and it turned orange. My mother wouldn‘t let me die it back by she was mad so it had t grow out!
4. Hmmm.... watching old game shows
5. Me and my son at his field day and some events at our local park
#humpdaypost @MinDea

1) I found out that I will be getting 4 days off work (in a row!) later this month and I didn't even ask for it.
2) Don't reread often but have with Harry Potter in different formats.
3) ...What?
4) The Princess Bride

#HumpDayPost @DebbieGrillo @MinDea

1. My grandpa seems to be doing better. Saw someone from school, if i wasnt awkward when talking to someone who is attractive might jhave ended different.
2. Misty of chincoteague as a kid. I dont reread as an adult.
3. Toronto sick of seeing golden state. Football is definitely denver broncos
4. Anything edgar allan poe
Anyone who hasnt done it.
@DebbieGrillo @MinDea

☔️ Rain showers WITHOUT hail
📖 Shadow of the Wind
🏀 Golden State Warriors for the love of K.D., but it would be nice to see another team come out on top. Go, Raptors!
📚 The Good Earth

TAG: @Chelleo @MicheleinPhilly @MoniqueReads305

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