A hectic Saturday -- as usual

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Today was a kinda bittersweet day.  While it started out okay - kinda chilly & rainy - it warmed up nicely and was very nice.  We had plans for all the things that needed done (yeah, I know.  Right.)  I started off my day by trying to pay the bills.  I thought I could pay 4 to 5 bills this week - wrong.  I could pay 2.  TWO.  That was it.  After discussing this with Ron before he went out into the garage, we finally came to the decision that, perhaps, it was time to look into re-fi-ing the house and see what can happen there.  We have to do SOMEthing. While Ron and Corgan were out in the garage goofing around -- since it was rainy and stuff, the plan for Ron to take his truck to my brother's had not panned out, so they were just still here.  No biggie, right?  Well, then, 12:30, 1:00, he comes in - "I finally called your brother, and I'm going to take the truck on down there, and get to work on it."  I swear, my mouth dropped open and my bottom jaw hit the floor.  NOW??? AFTER noon?  You've got to be kidding!  You were supposed to do that this morning, and we were supposed to go down the road when you were finished, and be back home by 2 or so....sigh.  MEN.  Well, ok, I say.  He says he'll call me and let me know something.

After he leaves, I do my Wii training and my Wii Body Test to get my weight for my Biggest Loser contest weigh-in.  I got my flowers on my Wii for losing my 5 pounds in a month!  Yay, me!  If my figuring is correct, I lost just over 3 pounds since last Saturday.  <<happy dance>>  I guess that means I'm gonna have to keep on doing some kind of workout every stinking day.
About a half hour later, he's calling and telling me to come pick him up, bring him clean clothes to change into, and we'll go on down the road -- just like we had planned.  Never mind that it's 3 or 4 hours later than it should have been.  Oh, my goodness.  Just like that, no big deal.  I will strangle him one day.....

So, like a good little wifey-poo, I do as he wants, and go to pick him up.  Of course, once at my brother's, I have to sit and visit with my brother and his wife, as well as wait for both Ron and Corgan to decide to finally get out from under the truck's hood and go change and c a n  w e  l e a v e  n o w ??  He just doesn't get why I get so stressed about having no time to get things done - and he is the main cause!  Ugh!

So, we go on over to Eastgate.  We decide to go to Applebee's for lunch - we haven't been there in a zillion years, so it will be a nice change.  Of course, on the way over, we had to stop at Auto Zone, too.  Luckily, that is the only parts store we pass.  We had very nice lunches - he had a parmesan chicken dish, and I had a napa portobello chicken dish (UNDER 550 calories!  yay, me!)
When we leave Applebee's, he goes over to PepBoy's to check out their parts prices, then on to Jungle Jim's we go.  We go hither and yon in the store, looking for the things we are looking for - we don't go there often enough to know where anything is - and they don't have some of them, so we pay for what we found and skedaddle.
We stop at O'Reilly's Auto Parts in Amelia on the way home, and finally get home about quarter to six.  I had to text Josh and let him know we are running a bit late and won't get Corgan home til around 7:30 now.  Then, all three of us start working like crazy on dessert for us to take as our donation to supper - individual apple pies.  The guys peeled and cubed the apples, while I measured and cut the crusts, as well as mixed the ingredients that will mix with the apples.  Luckily, we got a message that we didn't have to rush - we didn't need to get Corgan home until 8.  No rush now.  Whew.....a little time to breathe!

So, our little apple pies got done, we put them in a hot/cold bag in the car, and off we went!  When we got down to their house, I put them in the oven (not on), just to help them stay warm in the confined space while we ate supper.  We had manwich and mac&cheese for supper, then the little apple pies with ice cream for dessert.  It was a little late, but HEY!  better late than never, right?

Then Josh, Jean, and I played Jeopardy and Josh kicked our butts, as usual, in the first game.  In the second game, Jean ended up winning, and I came in second!!  Josh was the whiny butt loser.  Yay, us.


Today gets four stars for food - it would be five, but supper was so late.  I was under on my calories, though!  Today gets four stars for exercise, too.  I got a workout of Wii training in, and then all the runnng around Jungle Jim's - that's a pretty big store!