10 Things I'm Enthralled With Today

For lack of anything better to chat about this evening...

1. I decided to use Gramps for my genealogy research.  It's free and supposedly uber-powerful and now I just need to learn how to use it.  I also got the birth and death certificates that I ordered for my mom today which was a bit surreal.
2. I picked up a knife to use today and was...enthralled.  My sister-in-law just moved to Florida and when she was cleaning out her house she was nice enough to send us a big box of cooking things because she knows hubby likes to cook.  Turns out the knife was a $100 knife...I don't think I've every used a $100 knife before.  Wow!
3. I'm trying to psych myself up to do the Whole30.  As you know I have crappy willpower but I think if I could hang with this program for a month it would totally and completely change my health.
4. I was bored today so I whipped up a new website for a client using an awesome template I found here. The difference between coding a website from scratch and using a template is (for me) days.
5. Reddit.  Actually there are about a dozen subreddits I frequent like r/frugal and r/webdesign. I am always enthralled by reddit.  Warning: reddit can be addictive and it is a huge time waster!
6. I was fiending for my favorite ice cream today which you can only find in the Pacific Northwest.  Their Espresso Madness is truly divine.  I settled for a bland store brand :(
7. I read this article today and was wistful for our days of freely traveling.  It seems odd that we get mail every day (we got a mail delivery once a month when we were traveling).  Unfortunately most of our mail now is house/utility bills (something I definitely miss as we didn't get any bills at all while we were traveling!).
8. I want to volunteer somewhere.  I love helping people but I haven't done so in ages so I am considering volunteering at a school, at the library, or at the hospital.  For a brief moment I considered starting another non-profit but just as quickly dismissed that idea--I don't want to do THAT MUCH work.
9. I am reading one of Julia Quinn's novels and am totally enthralled by her writing style!
10. I was enthralled to learn--today in fact--that there is a mountainous area nearby complete with trees and waterfalls.  Who knew?  We will be checking this out soon!