Today is our first official day on our own. Nate left last week, but we still had Tara here to help out. She found a new place to live and is happily moved in. This leaves me with a huge empty space (where her bed was) in what was the workout room for my audiobooks! While monkey napped, I used up the space to sort and organize the audiobooks. YAY!

Now I just have to get back into a regular listening schedule. I’m shooting for 3 hours of listening each day. I think it can be done – I just have to make sure to do it!

Monkey is still asleep – or at least that’s what he’s led me to believe. Once he gets up, we’ll snack and try to get to the community pool for a quick swim before the huge thunderstorm arrives.

This weekend is the 4th of July. I’m not big on going out to watch fireworks, but I think Monkey would really enjoy it. If the local mall has the fireworks we can see them from the house. If not, we might go to Dade City for Sparklebration. We went there once – but left well before the fireworks. We’ll see… Maybe my mom will stop by for the fun.