Ailana’s Journal—2026-04-07 (Patreon)

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GOOD MORNING

Tuesday, anyone? What do you say? Let’s make it great together.

I’d like to start today with a greeting to the many people who have followed in the recent weeks. I am so happy you are joining things here in Ailana’s Journal.

If you haven’t realized it yet, what appears here are reports on my day—and on the days of other people around me. It’s not always bikinis on the beach or on a yacht. Many times, it’s just everyday life.

Today, the weather is clearing up, but it will be windy and mostly cloudy. I have some work to do—you know, the job thing—but I’ve also been commissioned by the other three families in this condo building to go to Walmart and do some shopping.

I know, I know… exciting stuff! I’ll share something from the store, though. Those who have been around a while know I don’t gloss over the fact that life includes work and errands.

I know that a lot of folks joined things on Instagram from a bikini post on the yacht. Be sure that’s not the last bikini you’ll see! But not every day—as much as I wish otherwise—can be exclusively fun and play.

Something else those of you new here might not yet realize… Across the causeway, we have a photo studio we use for some of our work. We have an arrangement with an agent in Chicago—Naomi—who contracts work to us, and yesterday she said we’ll start to see more in the near future.

I’d like to issue an invitation. Those of you who’ve been around for a while, drop a comment about what you like most in the Journal. Those of you who are new here, come back again and check out what they’ve said.

I think it will be fun to see what you all have to say.

Now, for me, I need to get rid of the bed sheet, grab some coffee, hit the shower, and get ready for a day of shopping. I’ll check in later, so see you soon!

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WALMART

As promised, I’m at the Port Isabel Walmart. Geoni stopped me on the way to the Honda.

“Salad luncheon? What do you think? One o’clock?”

“If you do that homemade honey mustard dressing, I’m all in!”

She nodded. “Sasha is going to bake rolls. Jasmine said she’d whip up some chicken salad.”

“This is going to be awesome.” We actually did a high-five like it was still in style.

I’ve got to say that, now on day two of my third year of posting (No, I’m not going to count up every day going forward!) I’m once more reminded how much better things are now than those first weeks that I was out trying to make my way alone. Sasha joined me that first summer when I was on my own in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and things just kept getting better from then on.

I’ll spare you a deep personal introspection this time, but until these last 18 months, I wouldn’t say I really had close, trusted friends—aside from Jason and Grace from high school. Now, I do.

I will also say that I look forward to hearing from many of you every day. Your comments mean so much to me.

I try to acknowledge and respond to all of them. I wrote elsewhere that the comments actually extend the canon with more details and reactions!

Anyway, from here at Walmart, I’m going to stop by Sea Glass and say hello to Kirina. She’s one of the friends I mentioned this morning whose stories also get shared here.

As I close this out, I’d be interested in hearing how you like your salads. What’s a “must have” and what is “leave it off” for you?

I’ll be back tonight from somewhere. As is often the case, the whole day isn’t planned out yet. Whatever comes up, I’ll share it with you.

SEA GLASS by Ricky Martinez

Those of you who recall my recent past can guess just how much getting hired by Kirina to help run Sea Glass means to me. Honestly, I didn’t know how down I was until things changed for me.

Kirina said I should share a little about the menu and how we stock for it. The mainstay of our menu is deli sandwiches and panini. We get fresh bread delivered from a nearby bakery each morning. Many of the deli meats come from a distributor, and we slice them as we go. However, we also oven roast some boneless chicken breast, turkey breasts, and roast beef that go on our premium offerings.

As lunch sides, we have individual bags of chips from the distributor, also—Frito Lays brand. As another side, we offer fresh vegetable stick cups. We get fresh vegetables from the distributor that are pre-sliced in bulk. We portion them out into cups.

Breakfast is a little less fresh-made. We get bulk biscuits—similar to what you’d find at a grocery store, just in larger quantities—and bake them as we go. We have pre-cooked microwave sausages (which I think are delicious) that we prepare as needed for sausage and biscuits. We have muffins delivered from the bakery that are ready to be plated and served, or heated up if desired.

All of our dining room orders are plated on real dishes that we wash and reuse. All paper products are sourced from recycled materials and are certified biodegradable or compostable. We’re trying to respect the environment and have a smaller impact on landfills.

That’s the big picture at Sea Glass. Min, from the clinic where Isabela works, wants us to get a gas station hotdog roller machine and add hotdogs to the menu. It’s an idea on the table, but we want to survey some customers before we do that!

That’s it for my Sea Glass update. Next time, I’ll share more about how this has affected Isabela and me.

GOOD NIGHT

As amazing as our salad luncheon was, Sasha, Clay, Jason, and I decided to try something new for dinner tonight—a place we’ve walked past for a year and never tried.

We just finished dinner at Daddy's Seafood & Cajun Kitchen, and no one is mad about it! Wow. I could use all the available space for this post just talking about the menu. I’ll say that the botanas got things started off right, and I urge you to check out the menu on Google Maps or their website.

What I want to talk about has nothing to do with what we ate—I want to touch on part of the conversation.

We’d navigated our way through the day, then through plans for the week. There was a bit of a lull, and Jason filled it with a question.

“Speaking of planning, you two are still thinking about having a baby?”

I was a little surprised that Jason brought it up, but Clay didn’t seem bothered.

He shook his head. “Just Sasha will have it. I’m trying to do my part in getting things started.”

Sasha nodded. “I’m hoping for some good swimmers soon so that we might have a New Year’s baby.”

“New Year’s?” Jason said.

I quickly did the math. “So, you’re thinking… what? You’ll know something next month? January?”

Clay nodded. “Yeah, we’re hoping for it.”

Sasha sipped her iced tea. “I’ll be thirty in February.”

She just let that stand as if it were a definitive explanation for their timetable.

Clay let that hang, then added, “We feel like after 35, risks increase. We’d like to keep the window open for maybe a second in a few years.”

Sasha followed up with what was all but a dare. “You two can have June as newlyweds, then come July, start cooking up a baby Keller of your own.”

Jason laughed. I didn’t.

Jason answered for us. “Not likely going to happen like that. Maybe our first and your second can cook together. That is if we decide to go that way.”

Clay nodded. “Adoption is a solid choice, too.”

“Yeah,” I replied. “Maybe that one day. It’s a lot to think about. Let us get married first.”

“Deal,” Sasha replied.

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