Another Broken Flip Flop
Here we go......another broken flip flop. I keep the whole ones with my Burning Man stuff. So this whole one is going into a bag with all the other whole ones from a broken pair, to be worn at Burning Man.

It's been kind of hot. In Europe too. All over the world I guess unless you live somewhere cold like Svalbard. There is no need for AC in Astoria but I think that in Portland AC is needed, since the last few summers have been rather hot, unless you live in a house or apartment with great ventilation or shade then you can do without AC. One year I had to escape the heat in Portland and go camping in Mount Hood. Even several fans in my apartment did not help. Senna and Kaya were too hot so the solution was to go camping. It doesn't stay super hot for too long so it is manageable.
In Vegas I would dread the summers, several months of feeling like you were living in a hot oven.
The blackberries are everywhere right now. Today I discovered a new place (for me) to walk Kaya. I am super happy over that.
When people ask me what I do for fun.......? Spend time with my dog basically. I read a lot. And spend time with my dog.
My "fun" times are gone. In the past. I have been thinking about that the last few days. I spend most my days alone with Kaya. I rarely hang out with other people. And I go to Burning Man. There you have it.
When I lived in Vegas I had more of a social life. I would do things almost daily with a friend. Go to raves. Do stuff. After I moved to Portland and Astoria I rarely spend time with other people. It is what it is.

They have espresso ice cubes at Driftwood Coffee (in Portland), one of the places I go. I like that. I think this is something more coffee places should do.

This bottle cap came off a bottle of tea, I saved it. I have a few saved ones with different text that resonated with me, I keep them in a cupholder in my car.
I will continue telling my stories for a bit longer. I have so much more to tell, so many feelings, opinions, memories. All of us do. Mine are not better or more special than yours. The last year has been extremely stressful for me with a lot of sadness. Deep sadness. And the last couple of years I was living under a lot of almost daily stress and dealt with some stressfull situations. It affected me. I am no longer in a certain situation since about a month. So I can step away from that. I still carry a heavy load of sadness and that sadness I will carry for the rest of my life. So yea, I am sad a lot. And throughout the day I either think of, or read, or see something that is sad so then that makes me more sad. The state of the world, an animal suffering, anything like that and I get sad. Sad and stressful.......I don't even want to count how many times I wrote those words in this entry. But those words describe what I have been through lately.
