Friday, November 15, 2013
Today started early - for me, anyway. The alarm went off at 9, and I was not ready. But, I knew there was a lot that I needed to get done today, so I dragged my nappy ass out of bed and into the shower and got started. I was just getting out, and my cell phone was ringing - I run for it, and it's Ron checking to see if I'm up yet, cause I said last night that I wanted to get up and get going at 9 (he WOULD remember that, wouldn't he?) and it's after 9, so he's calling, and blah blah blah. I told him, yeah, I'm up and I'm getting out of the shower and now I'm freezing so I'm getting off the phone and going back in the warm bathroom!
I got dressed and made my tea, left home at quarter til ten, and promptly had to turn around (three miles away) because I had forgotten the bag of stuff I got together for Ruth - which, sure as shit, I forgot to put her biscuits into AGAIN - although, I must say I'm glad I wasn't all the way uptown. I would have been super pissed at myself! It was bad enough as it was. Anyway, I got uptown - only ten minutes late - and we (the Bereavement Committee at church) did what we needed to do getting the Parish Center ready for the reception tomorrow.
I left just after noon, just as was planned, to do my errands around Bethel before heading up and having lunch with, and doing things for, Ruth. Boy, did they take longer than I anticipate! I am so glad that I brought a Cinnamon Blossom from home, too, because after all the lugging of tables, moving of chairs, and walking, walking, walking in the Center, and then all the errands (more walking to and from) around town, I was feeling a mite peckish. I demolished that thing before I got to Hamersville! But, it's almost 1:30 now. Jiminy Christmas! This day is now way out of control. I finally get to Georgetown, do one more errand - this place will be closed by the time I get back here - and finally go and steal Ron's truck. Actually, I trade him vehicles. I left him my car, and took his truck. Off to Winchester I went.
I get to Ruth's and off we go to lunch (finally! I am starving!) and I decided to be 'bad' and splurge on a bacon cheeseburger. We shared an order of chili cheese fries (appetizer-sized) for our fries, instead of us each getting them - it was definitely cheaper that way. Her granddaughter got a kids meal of a hot dog (no bun), fries - and ICE CREAM. Ice cream! You should have seen her eyes light up! She ate all the food on her plate, so she got her ice cream, then she chose chocolate, and she scarfed it up, too! She did very good.
We were at Cruiser's Diner, at 247 & 32 in Seaman, which is only maybe 5 miles from Ruth's, and after we were done, we went over across 32 to the Family Dollar so Ruth could pick up a few things. When we got back to Ruth's, we loaded the truck up with the stuff I went up there to get in the first place (why I needed the truck) and I headed for home - it's only after 4 by now. Just barely, but after 4. So much for my plan to be home by dark, I am thinking. Sigh. I still have my Georgetown running to do.
I text my sister Jean, so she can meet me with my grandson, then head on back to Georgetown. Well, I MISS - totally MISS - the turnoff of the shortcut between Winchester and Georgetown, so 30 minutes and 20-25 extra miles later, I finally get to Georgetown. I am calling myself all kinds of freaking names - and not very many of them are nice, let me tell you!
Pulling into Save-A-Lot, they are already there - surprise - and Corgan and I go in to do the little bit of shopping I was doing there. I really just wanted to check turkey prices, but I have to make a dish to take to the reception tomorrow, so it all worked out. Don't go there for your turkey, by the way, not this week anyway. Yipes, were they expensive. Cheapest was $1.19/lb. WalMart is only $.88/lb. I'll take 88 cents per pound over a dollar plus any day of the week! Maybe they'll go down next week - the big shopping week - but definitely not this week.
The shopping done, Corgan and I loaded up the truck and headed for home. I didn't do any of the other running I had been planning on doing in Georgetown while I was there. I was going to start at the IGA and go down that strip, putting in applications all the way to Shopko (the store that used to be Pamida). Then I was going to stop at Long John Silver's and do the same. But....I simply ran out of time. I guess now all that is going to be my plan for some other day. Some day when I get back from Gatlinburg. There must be a reason it didn't work out today, right?
After Ron got home, he told us he almost got a deer in MY car! We hadn't even seen a single one! He was only about fifteen minutes behind us, too. Man. I knew I should have waited for him at Save-A-Lot and traded back vehicles. We each know our own vehicles so much better. Luckily, though, he did NOT hit it, but he did throw everything onto the floors hitting the brakes.
We then made supper. I made us fish fillets and Corgan made himself some Ramen noodles - the chili kind. Then he decided that he wanted a fish fillet, also, because the chili had made his mouth too hot, so he had to eat something else to cool it off (his reasoning, not mine). So, I ended up with 2 fish, Ron 3, and Corgan 1. After catching my stuff up on the pute, I also had a nut bar. Don't know why I ended up eating so much today. I didn't need the nut bar, but I saw the box in the kitchen, and it was 'why not?'
When I put all my food in myfitnesspal today, I was over 500 calories OVER, so I guess I made up for yesterday - not that they consider that - but I don't feel much different than I did yesterday. I probably didn't put things in correctly, either, because I didn't put in half an appetizer of chili cheese fries, I had a container of Wendy's chili and I marked half of that, and I marked 1 slice of Colby Jack cheese for the cheese. I figured it was all close enough, and it is - for me. I really hate trying to find 'new' food (like the chili cheese fries) that I'll probably only have this one time, so I improvise. I figure it all will balance out. I also claimed walking for a mile and a half for all the work I did in the Center this morning - lugging tables & chairs, walking, walking, walking to set things up and all that, and then all the errands. I should get some kind of credit for all that, don't you think? I sure do!
Today is only getting four stars for food - there was a lot of carbs. It was tasty, but way too many carbs. Exercise is getting five stars, too. My hips tell me that I walked too much, and my feet don't like me very much - every time I get up, they scream 'No! No!' at me. My ankles are swollen, too. I think it might be bedtime. After all, it IS tomorrow already, and the alarm will go off at 8:30. Ugh.
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