What's on your Monday Menu?

Very sweet of your cousin!

That is too sweet that he got you a trophy!

Your cousin sounds very thoughtful.

Good Monday morning!

JB - I hope the neck thing is not serious. Keep us posted after you talk to your Dr.

If y'all get a chance to see the the Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit when it comes to your town do it. It's beautiful and mesmerizing. DH and I saw it on Sun and it was a great short get away to San Francisco. While reading the credits at the end I noticed the majority of the names were italian. So when we left I looked it up. Lo and behold the creator and the composer are both italian. Something else for me to be proud of, besides our football championship.

QOTD: my two hubbies: crochet and knitting. Doing more intricate patterns. There is a lot of math going into the patterns and I love figuring it out when the items need to be smaller or bigger. Like you JB, I would love to put 10,000 hours into baking but then I'd be back to 260 in less than 300 hours into the 10,000 hr program.

I know it's not picture day but wanted to share some of the pics from the exhibit.

My meals yesterday

• B: coffee + quest protein bar
• L: shish kabob, hummus, pita
• S: icecream bar X 2
• D: skipped
• E: Rest day

Happy Monday!

Looks gorgeous!!!

I can't wait to see it!

Wow the Van Gogh Exhibit is intriguing. I'll have to see it when it gets here. thank you for the heads up.

My hairdresser showed me pictures when he went in February here, but I was too scared to be in public back then. But you inspired me to get tix when it comes back to town in the fall! Gorgeous!

Wow! Stunning pics.

A 40 hour workweek with 2 weeks of vacation every year ends up being 10,000 in five years. So if you put 4 hours a day into your passion, it would be ten years to get to 10,000 hours. The time will pass anyway, so I have always followed any passion for as long as I retained interest.

I wanted to be a history teacher, but being practical studied computers and business instead. I can't go back and live a different life, but I do devote a lot of time to studying history. At the moment, I am studying the history of slavery and the confederacy. I never thought about it before, but wonder how many hours of my spare time I have devoted to studying history through the years. I am sure it is many thousands of hours, and that is barely scratching the surface.

I am glad I did not know what Sweet Tooth was about because that would not have appealed to me. But I started watching it and got immediately hooked on the story. I can't want for the next season. The other Netflix show I really enjoyed is Sex/Life. I think it is really well written with a lot of humor.

I feel very confident that you have a swollen lymph node. I have had them before but always get them checked out. Cancer is no longer the scary word that it once was to me. For one thing, cancer grows much more slowly as we age and it therefore easier to detect and treat. One of the few advantages of being older. The situation in your school district would attract professional union organizers in Ohio. Telling you to take sick time while working from home will cause a great deal of resentment.

When I worked for HP, there was a 10% pay cut passed for everyone in the organization. But the office workers in Germany had a professional union and they staged a walkout. The company quickly gave them back their 10% pay cut, but the rest of us had a lower pay. There was a lot of talk back then about organizing in the US.

In the 1800's the Catholic church was against labor unions and the Pope issued a decree that any Catholic who joined a labor union would be excommunicated. That meant they would still be a Catholic and have to go to church, but not allowed to receive Communion.

Cardinal Gibbons was an American cardinal. Cardinal is the highest rank in the church under the pope. The cardinal sailed to Rome and explained to the pope that workers in America would be slaves if they were not allowed to join a union and fight for their rights. The pope was convinced and announced that Catholics could belong to labor unions.

Recently the American Catholic bishops wanted to excommunicate Biden for not condemning abortion. When I was first married, in 1969, women were often excommunicated if it was learned that they were taking birth control pills. They gave up on that when they realized that women were not going to stop taking the pill.