had a good long weekend - partner and i went to the beach! drove up to the netherlands and avoided roughly half of the current heatwave back home. hotel has AC, seaside has lots of wind. alas, it came from the east which meant unpredictable jellyfish. and it was strong enough to stir up tall strong waves even very close to the shore. so there wasn't much swimming but a lot of wading and a few "endurance" dips (try not to get bowled over). generally lots of being outside, 200% nature.
there were seagulls playing in the humans' sand castles and crows playing pull-the-tail with the seagulls. there was lots of good food (weird tacos!) and many cute doggos in the beachfront restaurants. lots of sports-watching (our default hotel activity) - wimbledon, world cup, tour de france, some rugby even? we had fun trying to guess the rules.
oh, i need to update the wishlist post - we did arrive in a magic/crystal shop where i finally got those silver rings (one with rose quartz, one with clear quartz + tourmaline inclusions). and just before we left i was presented with a coffee grinder! a bountiful birthday this year, and my scent samples haven't even arrived yet!
now we're back and i'm trying to tweak the planner system again. i do like the weekly layout and the supportive habit tracking, but i'm not so good at doing things off my personal projects list. thinking of going back to a simple daily bullet journal sort of entry although slightly worried about flipping back and forth between that and the tracker spread, usually the journal just stays open on one page. it would have to be the entry for that day... guess i'll just try it this week and see!
