Good morning Blenders! Your friendly weekend ghost (guest-host, if you’re new!), Coby, here!

Let’s just get to the picture right away. This guy with the bedroom eyes and pretty coral and black coloring is a Gila (pronounced “hee-luh”) Monster. It’s the only venomous lizard native to the United States, found in the desert Southwest. Now, growing up in Arizona, I never saw one in the wild, but was certainly aware of my surroundings if trekking out in the desert. As I kid, the rumor was that if one bit you, it would hold on and never let go, unless you submerged it in water. Great! But...there’s not much water out in the middle of the desert, so that wasn’t a very good remedy. I actually don’t know if that’s true or not, but I DO know that Gila Monsters are actually very sluggish and slow-moving, so you’d have to really try hard and perhaps be a bit of a dunce to get bitten by one.

Enough about deserts and dunces! What’s on the workout schedule for today? Are you resting and taking it easy? Or perhaps working up a sweat? Getting out into some sunshine if it’s warm enough? I haven’t figured out my workout today- probably something involving my core, and a walk around the neighborhood because if I don’t get out of the house I am going to eat my people! 😑

Speaking of eating, what’s for dinner? Or breakfast or lunch? Since I am actually not a cannibal and I love my people, I think we’ll have some real food! I don’t know what just yet. Maybe I can convince hubby to grill some burgers and I’ll roast some sweet potatoes and make some buns?That sounds good to me!

All right Blenders. Please don’t worry about my people- I promise not to eat them. Don’t worry about Gila Monsters either. In fact, let’s just try not to worry at all today. I think I’m quoting this correctly, but “worrying today only robs tomorrow of its strength.” And we’re STRONG!

***Editing: I totally quoted that wrong! 🤦🏽‍♀️ It’s more like “worrying about tomorrow only robs TODAY of its strength.” That works much better!