Today is Sunday August 4th and currently at my mom’s house in Stockton. The temperature is 95 degrees outside so all we can really do is stay indoors lol. I walked Marley earlier around 930AM when the temperature was still around 75 degrees so that was good. I actually should let him outside again to pee real quick – luckily there’s a shady area in my mom’s front yard that he goes when it’s hot outside so glad there’s that lol.
But anyways, trying to organize my thoughts today. Lots of emotions, but first I’ll start with that I finished watching the first 2 episodes of Simole Biles’ documentary on Netflix and it’s so good! Love her and honestly she is my new hero along with Suni Lee <3. I’ll write a separate post later, but I’ve been so inspired by the Olympics this year, particularly the USA Women’s gymnasts. Honestly, I feel like I have been kind of in a funk this year, and feel like I’ve been trying to find inspiration again. But watching the Olympics this past week has been so inspiring to watch and seeing all of their achievements, but also learning about their past struggles helps me to remember that everyone goes through hard times. Doesn’t matter if you’re a professional athlete or whoever, but everyone has high and lows, and not everyone’s path is perfect. Again, will elaborate more on that later, but yes Simone Biles is so inspirational and I will be following her even more now.
Other than that, trying to figure out what else I’m doing today. Going back home to the bay later and trying to figure out what time. I think I want to head back before 3PM so we don’t get back too late. I need to go through my dresses that are here at my mom’s house and decide which dress to wear to my friend’s wedding this coming weekend. And yes, I will be repeating a dress, but whatever lol I have been trying to not buy as many new clothes this past year since I’m paying off debt, but it’s been fine since I have a lot of clothes, and even clothes I’ve never worn yet lol so yeah. Will go look at dresses after this and I already have an idea of which one I want to wear.
I also thought about going to Target out here, but I don’t think I really feel like doing that today. It’s already 145PM, so yeah should go look at the dresses and start preparing to go back then. There’s some other things that happened this weekend that I’m still building up the strength to fully talk about, but I got some sad news about my dog, Marley. Basically found out this past Friday that he doesn’t have that much time left with us, and the vet told me he only has about 1 month left. So I’ve been really sad the past couple of days, and my brother and sister-in-law came to visit yesterday. My mom has also been with me and has just been praying for Marley which I appreciate <3. I’ve been doing some more research online, and I think there’s a chance that he actually will have longer than a month, and maybe 2-3 months but we’ll see. I’ve been telling myself to just enjoy the time left with him. Also I don’t think he wants me to be sad, so just trying to be strong and also plan to do all of his favorite things, and just make sure he’s comfortable and happy.
Okay well going to end this now. Here’s a pic of Marley just resting on the couch next to me yesterday. I actually decided to have a quick photoshoot of us on the couch lol but I will post more of those later. Okay see ya 💕
-Carolyn 💜
Carolyn Grace 