Weekly Journal 6.29.26
Reading
Gone Girl came and went without leaving a real emotional impression. So did Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You, a memoir by Lucinda Williams, who is a musician I love. I relished learning more about her life and inspirations, but this is the kind of book where a paragraph about a significant incident from the author's childhood ends with "Needless to say, it was a memorable experience" and offers no further details.
Watching
Not gonna pretend, I've been rewatching Friends again, mostly as a background show for cooking, cleaning, or falling asleep. Monica and Chandler are now openly a couple and reciting sappy dialogue about it. This is part of the show's downhill slide where everyone starts to act like caricatures of themselves. Still I find it perversely comforting, especially if I try to ignore how skinny Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox were during those years.
Cooking
The future is bright with berry pies, muffins, and compote. Our blueberries and raspberries are in full swing. I'm being responsible this year and preparing most of them for freezer storage as soon as they've been picked. This is a delightful bit of work, more pleasant than the actual harvesting, which has me bending over for minutes at a time to pick blueberries from their low branches. I need to get some kind of low-slung chair that I can move from bush to bush and sit in while I'm picking.
Doing
I shopped for new glasses recently, not so much because my prescription changed (although it did, slightly) but because after a while of wearing the same glasses, I always start nitpicking the way they look on my face. I ordered a pair online that I thought would be perfect. When I finally held them and put them on, they just seemed too small for my head. So I'm taking advantage of the free exchange policy and sending them back. I already know that I'm going to be neurotic about the new pair, but I hope I can settle on them.
Listening
Today I discovered a singer named Fenne Lily, thanks to the CBB-FM podcast, and enjoyed having my brain tingled by two albums' worth of her gorgeous, mellow voice.