Not your (my) regular boring Saturday!

Saturday, March 8, 2014

When I woke up this morning, I just laid in bed reading, because there was no sense in getting up - Ron was gone to work and it would be another day, just like all the others.  I'm going to see my sister and give her books on Monday, and I want to finish the one I'm reading, because I know she'll really like this one, so -- why not?

After a while, though, even that gets old, and I was getting restless.  I got up and did my weigh-in for my Biggest Loser contest, and I had lost a couple more pounds according to my Wii!  One more pound to go to one of my goals!  Then I can do another happy dance, I think.  I might even be able to start doing more happy dance, more often, for longer amounts of time!  I make myself a peanut butter and jelly (orange marmalade) sandwich for my lunch, and then it's time to get on the pute.

Just about then, luckily, I got a text from Josh.  They are going to go to Trader's World when Chelle gets off of work, and am I doing anything today?
I quickly texted Ron to find out if he's just about done with work for the day (sometimes Saturdays end up short, sometimes they last all day), and he is up in Wilmington and will still be a couple of hours, and then is going to go help work on my brother's truck when he gets off work, so go ahead, he says - HE sure doesn't want to go!  I text Josh back, and we make arrangements for them to stop here and then we'll take my car so we'll have a bit more room.  So, I got stuck driving up there, but that's okay once I got past damn ol' 125.

Oh, Trader's World!  How I had forgotten just how large that place is.  I didn't have to stop to sit and rest until we were halfway through, or more, and I was proud of myself for that, but my hips and the front of my legs certainly let me know that I was doing some serious walking.  I am always so amazed at two things up there.  1) the diversity of stuff they have there, and the wonder of some of the stuff they have there, and 2) the JUNK they have there!  It's unbelievable, sometimes, the same things they have (junkish) over and over and over again.  Makes you wonder if the same people have more than one booth.   But they (different booths) have some amazing things, too.  It's always a fun, interesting, and profitable (for Santa or the Easter Bunny) afternoon to go up there!

When we left there, Chelle told Josh, "Time to call your dad!" and he did.  Why was he calling his dad?  So Ron could come down and meet us at Hibachi Grill & Buffet for supper!!  LOL  That's too funny.  I had told Ron not to be surprised if that would happen, and I got a little thrill out of being right (it doesn't happen all that often any more) about that, and about where!
Ron did come down and joined us, and we had a very pleasant meal.  Chelle even got to drive Ron's truck home, since he was a little tired after working today.  She was tickled over that!

When I put my food and exercise (I claimed walking a mile and a half, slow pace) on MFP, I was 180 calories short for the day - believe it or not, there is a "waytoomuch Chinese buffet" on MFP (500 calories a plate!) - but that's okay, it was worth it for the family time!