@Jennifer 1967, I so think Beth was on the money above with what brought on your horrible respiratory illness. You've been so challenged with stress for such a long while. Sending supportive hugs. Please try to rest as well as possible and try to deliberately think more pleasant thoughts. Summer has a ways to go. Many more float days.

@Nammu, I am salivating over the ribs, and happy b-day to your grand daughter. Like Beth's daughter, I confess I was more of a tom boy in interests as a kid. I liked forts, digging holes, and spending most of the day on my bike. I could possibly say I was mimiking my brother (also very naughty and wild), who I kinda worshiped, but though I'm full female, I still enjoy some "guy things" and tend to do better in conversations with them. I also always wanted to be an adult as long as I could remember, so my "dolls" of choice were Barbies living adult lives. I was sent to the corner in school, a lot. And liked it! Strange how people differ! In any case, the mermaid emoji is pretty cute! My favorite flavors were always vanilla and orange and I adored grapes and donuts (vanilla cream filled). I did always love music and dancing, perhaps the latter of which is a bit more "girly".

@*Beth*, and @Mountaindewed, I'm also so extremely sad, and have been, about the political situation in the US. And this is likely just the beginning of attempts to limit rights there. The outcry is nowhere near where it should be, I think that still for many people they don't yet feel sufficiently personally affected in a negative way, plus many are numbed by these past years. It's sadly going to require further limitations to really get outcry to where it needs to be. I, too, am originally from a "safer" state, but the bordering state to my childhood hometown could easily go either way. The poor and other most vulnerable, as always, will be the most affected.