A most satisfying day....til evening came around

Sunday, June 22, 2014
Monday. June 23, 2014


6/22

Another plain ol' boring day.  Ron went to church, came home, we had cookout leftovers for lunch, and then he put his brand-new Armor-All to good use.  His truck is now detailed, inside and out, top to bottom - the man is nuts!  I stayed inside in the A/C.  I like to think I have the better brain - hahahahahha.  I did not eat any supper, still being full from my lunch, but I did finish off my little container (it costed a whole dollar!) of cotton candy for a snack.
Yep, another plain ol' boring day for me.  A fun day for Ron!



6/23

I woke up this morning next to my husband!  Do you know how wonderful that is?  It sure doesn't happen very often!  He is on vacation this week, and he stayed up til 11:30 last night - he watched the news, he claims - and so, he was still sleeping when the alarm went off at 9.  Actually, he had gotten up at his 'normal' time and had come back to bed, so he was back asleep, but...whatever.  He was there, in the bed beside me, when the alarm went off!
The alarm was set because we had doctor appointments today - him for his blood pressure, me for my diabetes.  We both, of course, needed showers and time to dress before leaving, and we managed to get on the road 5 minutes before our expected leave time, how about that?

Our doctor visit went very well.
Ron's blood pressure was 117/79, which is excellent.  'Normal' is 120/80, so we really couldn't ask for much better than that!
My HbA1c, which is my glucose level over the last few months, and should be under 7.0 - last time it was taken, it was 8.0 - was 7.4!  I was so glad, I was worried the steroid shot would have really messed it up, even though it was just last week.
So both Ron and I are doing something right with our respective health problems, and that is certainly good news.  We also talked with Doc about other things going on with me and my back, and he and Ron always talk about motorcycles and stuff like that.   It was a very good visit.

When we left Doc's, since he is in Milford, we went to Crackhead Barrel for lunch (Cracker Barrel Old Country Store for you purists), even though it was peak lunch hour.  We don't get over there that often, so that's a rare treat for us.  He had one of their summertime chicken meals - it came in aluminum foil like it was cooked over a campfire - with carrots, whole little red potatoes, and stuff like that all in the pan.  I had a 'special' chicken-n-dumplings dinner, with three sides.  I got green beans and hashbrown casserole for me, and the cucumber, tomato, & onion salad for him.  I could barely finish my meal, and even brought a big hunk of chicken home, along with the salad that he couldn't eat.  Oh, man, were those meals good!
And, get this, I did NOT go shopping in the store when we were done eating!  I sat during the whole meal, and my back was telling me to get back out into the car, onto that reclining seat pronto.  I was sad about that - I love, love, love to wander through those stores!!!

When we got home, I went to bed and stayed there the rest of the afternoon.  Ron stayed out here in the living room and watched TV.
Around 8, I got up to get on the pute, and he went in the kitchen to make himself some supper (I didn't want anything).  No sooner had he started the microwave than the electricity went out!  I asked him, "what did you do?"  and it came back on.  Just a few seconds later, it went back out again and stayed out.  Great.

The electricity was out.  It stayed out.  And stayed out.  And stayed out.
For TWO AND A HALF HOURS.  No A/C.   No pute.  No fans.   No TV.  No nothing.
We went outside to sit - me to read, him to play on his DS - for a while, until it got too dark.  I came back in then, while he stayed out for a bit longer.
We did get to know our new neighbors in this small crisis - and there is another story I'll tell you tomorrow - we were so glad when the electricity came back on just after 10:30, so we would have the A/C to sleep in.

Yes, I think we are spoiled.