Cupcakes - good job! While I don’t ever expect to see numbers that I saw in my 20s, my current practice of more fruits and veggies/no snacking after dinner/avoid the treats at work has me down about 30# from my peak. I don’t know if anyone else can see the difference, but I know all my pants are baggy and my tops aren’t as clingy. I have a number in mind as an unofficial goal, which is still heavier than my “ideal” but healthier than where I am now. I figure running after a grandbaby should help a lot!
Speaking of grandbaby, guess why I woke at 5:30 today? Go ahead - guess! And I was sleeping so well for a change. Oh well, such is life.
Today’s plans, apart from the usual weekend chores, include cleaning the critter fountain and helping **FCD **in the shop, deburring the parts he’s been making all week. He’ll deliver them on Moanday - 2 weeks late, alas, because of programming problems, but he seems to have that all ironed out. I had hoped to do some yard rakeage, too, but it poured last night. I don’t need to deal with wet leaves. Maybe tomorrow? We shall see.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 54 Amurrkin out and dark (TWPTB say cloudy) with a predicted high of 59 and cloudy for the day. Winter is sayin’ hello again. The big plan of the day is gettin’ the big feast for tonight over to the church house ready. I shall be there around one this afternoon. Actually even a little earlier. We are promised a dry week this next week so Ima go buy weed killer stuff and take it over there today. Weedicide shall occur!
CupCakes yay on the weight loss. I need to lose some weight again. Since I am now bein’ a lot more active physically perhaps I shall.
MOOOOOOM for got to say yestiddy, but sorry about FCDaughter’s car woes. Hope it gets fixed soonest.
Juliet hope the floodin’ is gettin’ less up your way.
Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, alas and alack, I must purtify and once again don appropriate bein’ about the public attire.
Blessed sleep. I and hubby had a full night of sleep. He is still puny as expected. The site of pokeage is very sore on him. He is going to be a slug today which is much harder to do than it should be. This man just does not rest…we shall see.
Today is the St.Patricks Day parade downtown. The businesses on the street will all be open, including the Celtic Fox, my favorite place to get a beer. I may open them up.
It’s a bright and N.O.S. 41 degrees outside, supposed to get up to 50.
I slept in until 8:30 this am, so feeling pretty good.
I have lots to do today, a lot of stuff to catch up on.
Will probably go to the park again too.
I got a better look at the Adam lookalike this morning and I think I am going to have to try to catch him/her. Something is very wrong with his/her tail, looks like the last half may just be a bone sticking out, but I can’t tell for sure. He/she is very timid, I’ll probably have to get a live trap.
Morning erranding went well. I got my hair cut - FINALLY!!! - filled FCD’s car with gas, got my glasses adjusted, and picked up some cat and dog treats. The cat box is clean and first load is in the washer. Next is the critter fountain. Go me!!
Mrs. L.A. posted her truck in the local paper the other day. For ‘good’ condition, Kelly Blue Book says it’s worth $7,200. I would call it ‘excellent’ condition. She’s firm at $6,000. A guy called and said he wanted a 4WD for $5,000. The funny thing is that Mrs. L.A. was looking at Craigslist earlier, and there were other 2000-and-earlier 2WDs going for more than she’s asking for her 2WD truck. The guy might have a tough search.
Vehicle buyers sometimes have very unreal expectations. Personally, I’d like a van with all the latest electronics, electrically controlled seats, 40MPG city in pristine condition for $2000… Am I asking too much??
Well, I did not open the bar but I was there early enough to easily get a seat at the bar itself. Guinness is SO good. Walked around downtown as the crowds grew waiting for the parade, then stood and waved as different groups went by. I was the only person I saw that put their hand over their heart when the color guard marched by.
The weather was chill and somewhat windy but sunny as well, much better than the last two years when it was flat out cold and gray. I bought munchies and definitely went off of my diet. All in all had a good time.
Irked earlier; literally scrubbing the floor (grouting) with a toothbrush. It was really quiet, no guests coming in, bosses and whole family on holiday (family business, half of them live onsite), and the day’s itinerary was announced in advance, with the option to take the day off instead. Normally there are around 10 of us cleaners, today there were 3.
Now up to 70% of this 10-part assignment done, still a bit over a week to go. Should be OK. I kinda feel like I should have started earlier, but then I’d be writing about stuff we hadn’t covered in class at all yet…
Awake at 6:15am and three minutes later got a phone call that my soccer field for the 6-year old girls was closed and that they were moving me to another field–in another park. So had to rush around, get e-mails out, made up some signs and went to the original park and posted them for people sending them to the right place, then drove out there to find…no goals and large stalks of crabgrass sticking up because it hadn’t been mown in a while. We made it work out, then went up to another field and worked four hours with the 8-9 year old boys. Finally got home about 3:30pm.
Needless to say, I am a bit tired. Am trying my best not to lie down, because if I do I’ll be asleep in 2 minutes and don’t want to do that this close to the evening. I’ll muddle through.
Would love to respond to all the interesting messages today, but I’m just too damn tired too concentrate. Old age can be hell at times, even though it is self-inflicted in this case.
Will hopefully be my bright and cheery self tomorrow.
heh johnny I sold used video games in a swap meet in the early to mid-90s (the one i regretted not buying last week)
My boss couldn’t make it a full-time store… and the swap meet was cheap so she had a permanent stand there on the weekends (sometimes she sold them out of her house if you were a trusted customer … )
But she physically fixed and cleaned the systems and games by hand made her own tools to do so … she had rheumatoid arthritis so her hands were messed up and she couldn’t walk
Now, most of her games were 15 to 20 bucks a piece … she didn’t price by title or genre or rarity like every place does now … So you could get a newly released game that was going in the store for 60 for 20 bucks if you waited a month or so …
every weekend some jackass would want a game that was going for at least 30 or more in what few stores we had to sell them, for 5 bucks and when he was shot down … hed complain " Well isn’t this a “used” swap meet?
I thought things were supposed to be cheap " id say well go to the store and look at the prices … 90 percent of the time they’d come back and id twist the knife juust a lil … and say “were we wrong”?
One parent who tried that came back with their kid and snarled " just gimme the damn game " id laugh …
Oh and when they sold us the games were worse … although i did think she was a bit miserly on her buying prices but there’s another tale or two talking about buying from the public …
four points i think was in Pearblossom … if you seen a loudmouth feisty lady sitting next to a guy in glasses usually reading a book parked next to a blue van … well that was us… we were along the side fence
Yep, that’s the one. I used to go to that one in the '80s. It’s where I got my fist pre-recorded VHS tape. It was either A Boy And His Dog, or Logan’s Run.
In other news, I’ve listed my Bolex-Paillard underwater housing and camera on eBay – and Marketplace.
Temps fell, I taught hunter ed, now I’m just relaxing and catching up here. Nothing big planned for the weekend other than bad movies and some good pizza.
