Saturday, November 16, 2013
Today started early. The alarm went off at 8:45, and I got up by 9. It was not easy, not on a Saturday, let me tell you.
I tried to play a Wii game with Corgan, but he "has played this game four times and it's easy" and this is the first time I've played it. Does he help me, give me hints, tell me things? Nope. He says something vague instruction-wise, and when I try to do as he just said, I mess up (of course) and he sneers and says "No, Granny - you HAVE to do ________(whatever - something totally different than what he just told me) in a just-how-stupid-are-you? tone of voice. After the third time, I admit, I lost my temper, threw the remote at him and told him - quite loudly - to turn MY television off. Right this fucking minute. And go get dressed to leave. And I stormed off into the bedroom to get dressed. I calmed down while I was in there, and came back out to the living room. There is Corgan, sitting on the floor in front of the front door, putting on his shoes, in a Smashing Pumpkins T-Shirt, so I blow my top again. I point at him. "NO! NO, no, no!! Where's the good shirt you brought to wear this morning?" I scream at him. "I don't know!" he screams back (never mind that he is the one who carried it into the house) at me, which made me scream back, "Well, where did you lay it down at?" and this went on for a few minutes, and I finally found it LAYING ON THE FLOOR RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. He stomped off down the hall to his bedroom to change his shirt in his room. I said something to Ron about letting him speak to me like that, and he said that he HAD said something to him, didn't I hear him, and I told him, no, that I had gone back to get dressed and that I had missed him talking to Corgan. I apologized to him, because I did miss him saying something, but accused him of not saying anything. I was wrong on that count.
Anyway, that was all finally over and we got gone - up to the reception at church. Man! And the day is just starting. Putting happy faces on in public is not always easy. But, I guess since I didn't have to stick right beside them the whole time - since I am on the Bereavement Committee, I had to 'help' with the drinks and desserts and all that - it all worked out okay. By the time I got my plate of food and sat down to eat, Corgan was even speaking to me, so I guess it was all over in his mind. One thing about our family, our little to-dos tend to blow up, be loud, and then be over, and that's a good thing.
The family putting this Memorial Mass and reception on today is from the Phillipines, and they had traditional food at the reception. I did not recognize some of the foods (and stayed away from those) and only got just a bit of the rice and the pork kebob and things like that. I did get quite a few of the veggies - can't go wrong there, right? - and I had a little bit of this, and a little of that. It was all pretty tasty, I must say.
When we left there - Ron and Corgan left before I did, I stayed to help clean up - the guys came home, and I went down to Walgreen's to pick up our prescriptions so neither of us would run out before I get back from Gatlinburg. While I wasn't planning an extra trip to Amelia, this one was unavoidable, because I'm sure not going to be able to squeeze it in on Monday or Tuesday, that's for sure!
When I got home, I got on the pute and managed to get my games all caught up before time to make supper before the rest of my family is coming up for supper and to pick Corgan up.
As I am making supper, I realized that I had forgotten to do my weigh-in this morning. Phooey! I text the chairwoman of the biggest loser contest and let her know (I can do it in the morning! Yay!) and go on making supper. I am making the tater tot casserole that they all like so much.
I made biscuits to go with the casserole, and there was some of the fruit (a fruit salad, if you will) that I had taken to the reception as my donation as a dessert. That was supper.
After I got the table cleared off, we all (except Ron) played the board game "What's Yours Like?" - even Corgan - and Corgan did pretty good playing an "adult" game, even if he did get restless every now and then and we'd have to remind him to play with us, he needed to sit still and play. with. us. After that, Chelle didn't want to play any more (she worked this morning), so Josh, Jean, and I played Jeopardy on the Wii, and Jean won this time! Go, Butterbean!
When I put all my food into myfitnesspal (the reception food went in as Chinese Buffet food - that was already in my food list. LOL), believe it or not, I was 7 calories short for the day! Hot damn, I'll take it! I did not claim any exercise, even though I walked and stood and walked and walked at the reception. Still, just food - 7 calories short. HA!
Food is getting five stars today, and exercise three.
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