September, but still summer

What I'm doing this week:

Reading: 

How sad to say, I haven't read anything new since I last posted here.  I was busy with work, then doing summer vacationy things.  I've been reading articles online -- this article on GMOs, most recently -- but no books.  It's Read A Book day, I'll have to fix that!

Listening to: 

This guy, at the Scotch Plains Italian Festival.  He's a lot of fun to watch, and has a nice variety of oldies and classics in his repertoire.

Watching: 
RWBY (enjoyable animated show about a couple teams of teen monster hunters).  I"m lobbying heavily for Barney Miller and Rockford Files, to no avail.

Doing: 
Having summer vacation!  Meeting Joe in Hoboken for lunch, walking along the Hudson River, going to Sandy Hook Beach with friends, going Back to School shopping, going to the Italian Festival with friends.  Today we're sleeping in, having breakfast potatoes and scrambled eggs.  Tomorrow we're choosing between Meadowlands Environment Center, Palisades Pkwy overlook, Rutherford Labor Day street fair, or heading back to Scotch Plains to catch the VooDudes.

Eating/Cooking:  

Lots of breakfast potatoes.  Raymond's has not been as good, recently -- their sourdough toast is a little sweet, which is really off-putting with home fries and eggs, the eggs themselves are a little overdone, and the homefries have been bland -- so we've been staying home more often, both for budgetary and culinary reasons.  Our home-breakfasts tend to be breakfast potatoes (inspired by The Pioneer Woman's, although ours skip the cayenne pepper and the bell peppers) and scrambled eggs (inspired by these lazy eggs, although I do whisk them before sticking them in the pan, and I skip the milk).  Occasionally with the extra indulgence of Gina's apple turnovers.

Something that went particularly well this week:  
Everything about summer vacation has been going well.  One thing that stands out, though -- friends were in town and invited a bunch of folks to meet them at the Italian festival, so we got to see lots of people we don't see often enough (both the friends who were in for the visit, as well as the mutual friends who came to the festival to see them) and got to experience a classic summer church festival in the midst of our let's-fit-in-all-the-summer-we-can week.  

Something that went less well:  
Some of the Back to School shopping was frustrating.  It's amazing how hard it can be to find clothes for a teen who just wants tshirts, plain jeans, comfy underthings, and kickass boots.

Something I'm grateful for: 
Having enough to eat, and a sturdy home, and a network of friends and family.

Something I'm thinking about:  

How to maintain good work boundaries, this school year.   How I can best help the Syrian refugees (always so hard to know where money will do the most good, or what sorts of letters to write to representatives).

Something I'm looking forward to:
The rain.  (yes, I wrote this last month, too.  Still, the rain.  It's been a dry summer, here.)