It has been another very quiet week. Not much new on the Covid front. It seems like things here are mostly the same. We did turn down two invites from neighbors, one hosting a wine evening, and the other a dinner party. Both events sounded like a lot of fun and we really like our neighbors, but it just was outside of our comfort zone with social distancing. Hopefully they will keep inviting us and we can join events when things are safer.
I found out that I came in 7th in my heat for the first round of the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction competition. I was very pleased. This weekend, I had 48 hours to write a 1000 word story in a spy genre, located on an oil spill, and I must include the prop of barbed wire. I will find out the results in October. I love these challenges. They force me to write outside of my normal genres and within constraints. I’m also motivated to win!
I used my fun Llama tea diffuser that Dan bought me for my birthday! My novelty tea diffuser collection is enormous now.
We watched a new documentary on HBO Max called Class Action Park, about New Jersey’s infamous Action Park amusement and water park. The park was known for flaunting rules and allowing kids to run wild, including very dangerous situations leading to many injuries and deaths. Beyond the safety violations, Class Action Park speaks to a sense of both nostalgia and anger that many klds of the 70’s and 80’s felt from the freedom that their parents gave them. As a latch-key kid growing up in that era, I can definitely relate. Action Park has since been purchased by a former employee and has been rebranded, I imagine with safety precautions front and center. I’d love to visit this infamous theme park.
Finally, cute cat pictures! Tom is giving his new “purple thing” a bath and Slinky is licking fresh whipped cream, getting more on his face than in his mouth.
