Simply walking (in)to Mordor, making lembas bread, Shaun the Sheep, and goth ice cream

I really enjoy reading Hollie’s daily blog posts and I often mean to establish a daily blog posting habit, but many of my weekdays are so samey that it doesn’t feel worth it. “Dear Blog, Today I went to work and was too tired to limit my kid’s screen time” would get repetitive after a while and makes me think of that time in Firefly when Jayne finds Simon’s diary. “Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy.” (Actually, that could be my diary too. If you drop the pompous part, it could be either of my siblings’ diary.) So, Tuesday through Friday never feels like blogging about it would be very interesting, but sometimes I do get up to stuff on the weekends, especially now that we’re 6 weeks into the school year and the weather is gorgeous. So! Case in point! M. and I are very sedentary creatures, which is not great for either of our cardiovascular fitness or general physical stamina, and we have recently watched the Lord of the Rings movies (he’s not interested in reading…