Memes and Honey Lavender Salted Iced Latte

I had to let Instagram go for a couple of weeks for the sake of my own sanity. What that tells me is I need to cull my feed and somehow curate the information I'm getting through that godforsaken app. Easier said than done, right? Maybe that'll be a project for this coming weekend. I miss my friends there but I'm tired of having information fed to me via the algorithm, instead of choosing what I want to see.

 --Things I don't like: whiny moms trying to juggle working with daycare/camp scheduling, moms who send their kids to 4-6 weeks of camp, overdone trend posting with the trending audio, anyone saying you get only 18 summers with your kids, anyone talking to me while they're driving, content creators in general, asmr anything.--

---Things I do like: book recommendations, pet photos, life updates, truly funny reels, and recipes.---

Anyway, I've gotten into finding recipes on there. I adapted this and made it my own. We do have a nespresso but this is better with instant espresso and, dare I say, it's coffeeshop quality for much, much less. I'm not saying I have ADHD but I also am not very sensitive to caffeine...I am able, on any given day, to drink a cup of coffee and go back to sleep. I did this a lot when the kids were very little babies and were up at 5am for the day...I'd have coffee, put them down for a morning nap at 7am, and then go back to sleep for 2 hours. 

All that to say, this espresso powder works for me and has a nice kick to it. Perfect for that 2:00 pm pick-me-up (adrenal cocktail*, if you will). 

Honey Lavender Salted Iced Latte
makes 2 servings, cut in half for 1 drink

4 teaspoons espresso powder
1/2 cup warm water
2 teaspoons honey

2 pinches SEA salt (about 1/4 teaspoon total)

Mix the above ingredients in a mug/cup and stir well (or froth) until the espresso powder and honey are dissolved.

Add to a blender bottle or shaker with:

1 cup milk of choice

2 teaspoons lavender syrup --if you have a pump bottle, do 2 pumps of syrup

Ice

Shake and pour over ice.

These are red wine glasses. Judge away. 

I don't have fancy glasses for iced coffee and I don't like my regular drinking glasses very much. Don't we all just drink out of water bottles/tumblers anyway? On my list for maybe this Christmas since we're settled for a few years is new glasses for such frivolous uses...gin and tonics and iced lattes.

*A health-wellness influencer trend is to not drink caffeine at all and instead have an adrenal cocktail consisting of orange juice, coconut water, salt in the afternoon for a jumpstart. I cannot stop laughing at that. This is the same crowd who is 25 and childless and/or has babies or toddlers who sleep through the night. 

Scott was traveling and went to see The Odyssey. I asked him if he ever read the book. He's like "it's a movie". I said "no, like it was written by Homer" and he's like "oh, no I didn't, did you". I said "yes". 

We read excerpts of it in 7th grade and then I read it again in college for a Greek history class. Does anyone else remember actually reading in college? I feel like I was reading constantly with all of my history classes.

I can't believe we've lived in this place for 2 and a half months. I feel like we moved in yesterday and also it looks like we moved in a week ago in a lot of ways. It's always so much easier to settle into a rental because you don't have to fix/change anything. 

I saw a reddit post saying that influencers are different than content creators and, sorry, I don't buy that line. They are exactly the same. The CCs just haven't made it big enough to be an influencer but that's always their goal.