"Today We Celebrate Our Independence Day...."

Midweek July 4th.  Brief little holiday.  Catch up on life day.  Roll out of bed really late day.  Venture with Sis out for brunch/lunch day.  Clean the toilet day.  Get sucked into the black hole of Facebook day.  Get lost in dreams of cute boy day.  Step out onto terrace to check on progress of roof repair day.  Harvest purple weedy shiso for dinner day.  Finally start some laundry late in the day to ready for houseguest arrival the following day day.  Bring down some paper recycling day.  Quickly make dinner of last of long-term houseguest's potato garlic soup in a carton, adding harvested shiso day.  Quickly run out to esplanade to catch Macy's fireworks with Sis and her tourist Internet acquaintance and her hostel mate day.  Take a few photos and reciprocate holiday wishes with law school friends day.  Then chill and enjoy the fireworks day.  Retrieve laundry and finish dinner day.  Look up and learn the nutritional content of shiso, and discover serendipitously it contains the iron and consuming itwilll help to correct worrisome deficiency day.  Write brief blog post day.  Vow to awake early to finish house chores the following morning day.