8/31/2024

Miss Vivien Butterfly and I woke up early to go for a hike. It was a hike on a small island that I've never been on before. It was interesting and definitely gave me a different perspective. 

When we got back I immediately started making vegan chocolates. I made dark chocolate with cranberry puree inside, dark chocolate with orange cream, barely dark chocolate with hazelnut praline and milk chocolate with peanut butter. It basically took me about 5 hours to make 60 chocolates. I then spent a little bit of time decorating some of them. I put together one of my new boxes and got them ready to take tomorrow to a vegan event. 

Until tomorrow...

8/30/2024

I stayed up late today in order to put together a website for my vegan chocolates. I think it looks good for a first draft but it will need some work. I can't figure out how to make the logo small enough to put on the website. 

Miss Vivien Butterfly went for her monthly allergy shot. She's such a good girl. She gets shots because her feet itch and her eyes are watery. The shots seem to help. 

I worked on my second English project with my ex-foster child. He needs help with some of his English, spelling and grammar. I admit I did a lot more than I expected on his first English project but on this project I'm making him take a first shot at doing the project before I look at it. 

Until tomorrow...

8/29/2024

I've fallen a bit behind on my posts. I miss a post and then miss the second post and then I feel like I'm too far behind to make it up. 

I have this weird thing where I don't want to miss posting for a day so I get far behind and then it's hard for me to catch up.

It's like the invoicing for my clients I talk about all the time. I hate invoicing and then my second thing that I hate is when I get far behind and my blog posts. I promise to do better. 

Until tomorrow...

8/28/24

Tough morning after the late night concert. It was hard to get motivated to do anything but sit on the couch resting. 

But I've got lots to do between my consulting work and my new Chocolate company work. There's no time to rest. 

Until tomorrow...

8/27 CONCERT

That's the day of work, I got in my car it drove to an outdoor concert. I've seen Santana before but I thought it would be fun to see him again. I did not anticipate a two-car pile up right at the exit I was supposed to take which backed up traffic for miles. And then because I was late I was caught in all of the traffic of people going to the concert. 

Concert itself was good. I wouldn't say it's my best concert ever but it was good. I left with two songs left because I didn't want to get stuck in the tens of thousands of people trying to get out of the parking lot. I have to go to the same venue in a week and I use this as a judge on what time to leave to drive to the concert next week. 

Until tomorrow...

8/26 STARTED COLLEGE

My ex-fostet kid started college today. I am so proud. Over 50% of foster kids never finish high school. Only 48% of high school graduates (that 50%) attend college. That would mean that if there were 1,000 kids in foster care and 50% graduates high school that eleould equal 500 kids. Then if you take 48% of that 500 you would get 240 attending college. That is 24% of the original 1,000 kids. 64% of non-foster kids who finish high school attend college. 

Off my soapbox. I'm just super proud. Of course I got a call last night from the kid telling me they wanted to take a gap year. Today I got a call saying they are dropping out. I convinced them to give it a week. Change is hard.

Until tomorrow...

8/25 SECOND HIKE OF THE WEEKEND

Miss Vivien Butterfly and I went on another hike down south. We drop along a beautiful freeway and went near the ocean. 

Lots of hikes. 

Until tomorrow...

8/24 NICE HIKE

Miss Vivien Butterfly and I went on a nice hike. There were cliffs and other people hiking. 

Until tomorrow...

8/23 REMEMBERING A FRIEND

It is the birthday of my friend who took their own life. It is always hard to think of how she died. It's a sad day. 

Until tomorrow...

COYOTE WEBINAR

Last night I attended a webinar on coyotes. I knew a lot of it but there was some interesting information. It turns out the coyote I saw a few weeks ago, was not stalking me but escorting me away from their pups. There must have been a den nearby with pups. My dog was a threat so the coyote was escorting me away. 

It was super interesting to hear. 

Until tomorrow...