Election day blues

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Today is/was election day.  I did my civic duty and voted.  I certainly hope my little bit will make some small difference in the long run.

My plan for today was to get up around 10, go uptown and do the errands I needed to do (only 4 of them!), one of which WAS voting. Welllllllll, I woke up around 8:30.  EIGHT THIRTY!  So, I laid in bed and read a bit, finally getting up between 9:30 and 10, when I was gonna get up anyway.  I got dressed, and headed out.  Went to drop off some outgrown clothes at the free store, then to the post office, then to vote, and finally into IGA for paper towels (it's always something...).  Back home, I did dishes, then it was pute time!

I finally had my lunch around 12:30.  I had chicken salad, walnuts, and a banana.  I also spent time getting up and getting my kitchen table cleaned off and ready for us to make the bake sale items for this weekend.  Josh was going to stop after work and we would trade cars back, and Chelle, Jean, and Corgan were coming up to help make the bake sale goodies.  A nice family evening in the middle of the week for a change!  Those don't happen very often, and are very nice when they do happen!  I also put on a pot of beans for supper, so that was taken care of, too.  I would make cornbread to go with it, when it was time.

I just played on the pute until they all got there - and, get this!  RON  got home at 3:30, too!  So he was home to enjoy this family evening, too.  How wonderful is that?!  Not that he would help with the goodies, but at least he was there with us.  The fellers all ended up going outside and goofing around - Corgan did make a few Nutter Butter snowmen, but the call of "outside" just got to be too much for him to resist.

I did have to go uptown at 6:30 to do my weigh-in for TOPS - we didn't have a meeting tonight, because of voting - and they all ate supper while I was doing that.  I wasn't going to eat supper until I got back, anyway - I sure didn't want to eat and then go get weighed!  That could have been very bad!  As it was, I gained a pound.  I was happy that it was only ONE pound, since I had been bad on my Free Day on Sunday.  I am okay with that, and I can work like hell to take care of that one pound during this week.

I did have my bowl of beans and 2 pieces of cornbread when I got home.  I also claimed a couple of snacks, since I did lick my fingers, spoons, etc. while making the goodies, like any good cook does...LOL.  If you want some of these goodies, please come to the bake sale at the Craft Show at St. Mary's Church on Friday and Saturday this weekend.  We made Nutter Butter Snowmen, Oreo Balls, Pretzel/Kiss/M&M candies, and I will make individual apple pies tomorrow.  YUM!

Today will get five stars for food.  I was under on calories, even with giving myself extra snacks.  Exercise gets zero - I was a slacker on that score today.