Slept even later this morning, 6:45. Ray had taken Cameron with him, but Zoe seems to be ill. She is old and may be dying...she wouldn't eat a biscuit when he offered it. I picked a few blueberries, but they are about to decline... we may have to go pay to pick some somewhere so we can freeze some.

After breakfast and bath (the secret of life), took Mom to yoga. Ray waited while I went in at my office and got the smoke alarms that had to be returned to Lowe's. Stopped downtown to pay my fine for my speeding ticket ($170!), just before the deadline. Court date was July 1. I had to go through a metal detector to get into the building, as I have done many times. They said, "do you have a metal nail file in here?" "Yes." "Well, you'll have to take it back outside." "Can't I just leave it here--I'm only going to be a few minutes, I just have to pay a fine." "No, if you leave it in the building, we will confiscate it and throw it away." Jeez, I have brought that same purse with the same nail file in this building many times... I went outside and set it on a ledge, then went back in, through the metal detector again...paid my fine, and left, picking up my nail file on the way.

Dropped Ray in front of his building, drove out to Lowe's and returned the smoke detectors. I bought a couple books for myself, no willpower: Vegetable Gardening in Georgia and Backyard Chickens. I felt a little decadent, but I am sure we will enjoy them.

Back to the office, spent some time recoding the QuickBooks entries and hoping that they will be acceptable. Went to Kroger and bought lots of milk, fruit and some other things for the residents, including baby wipes and dishwashing liquid. I left a little early to take a reimbursement request to HED and a grant report to United Way. Logged a few miles today for work. It was hot.

Then I went to see my counselor, Robyn. I really like her and I am always torn about going to her, because I would like to be friends, but you can't be friends with your counselor. On the other hand, it is great to have someone to talk to and feel completely comfortable with. She doesn't patronize me, she knows I know the drill. And she is not the non-committal, stereotypical: how do you feel about that? (although she did ask me that once today). I didn't really know where to start, so I started talking about my Dad when we were growing up and on through about a year ago, talking some about my kids, and my visits to France. She agreed I needed to cover the background and next week I will talk more about right now. At one point, I said I should write a book, but it seems like a lot of work. She said it might be therapeutic...I might be getting closer to doing it. The other day I took a pen and a pad and sat down to write, but the pen didn't work! I took that as a sign and read instead... Sigh.

Now I am home and I realize I have been writing about today instead of yesterday, so I will have nothing to say if I have time to write tomorrow...and I have lost yesterday entirely.

Well, I did go to a new doctor yesterday for a physical. I liked her. She is Jeanne Marie Martin and her partner is Melissa Martin, but they are not related! I waited more than 30 minutes and there were lots of screaming babies and she doesn't do gynecological exams, so I will have to get another doctor for that. But I liked her, so I guess that's good. Also the office was too cold and when I mentioned it to the clerk, she said, "just step outside." That's the point--it isn't healthy to have it too cold inside to make too much of a contrast...