All ready for the holiday now...the shopping part, anyway

Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Thursday, July 3, 2014


7/2
Another one of those plain ol' 'normal' days - although I did do two loads of laundry during my UP times today!  I did a load of regular clothes, something Ron has not done (well, he said he did, but what he called regular clothes was a mix of everything, and if I had done that, he would have cried and cried, "You don't mix jeans and clothes and towels - you know better than that!" But when HE does it....), and I was out of clean capris, so it was up to me to do it, or it wasn't gonna get done at all, I don't think.
All I had for lunch was a banana, then after Ron got home, we had supper, and we went very skimpy with our supper tonight.  We had lunchmeat sandwiches with muchies - he had Doritos, and I had dry roasted peanuts.  I was bound and determined to have a decent calorie day after the poor showing on my first day back on myfitnesspal!   I did have a good calorie day - MFP hollered at me - so I was okay with that.

7/3
I did NOT sleep last night.  I had to get up at midnight thirty to take a sleeping pill (a Tylenol PM), and then I was still awake when Ron left for work.  I was so tired, but just could not fall asleep - I tried everything.  I finally fell asleep sometime between 5 and 5:30, then woke up - wide awake - pretty much right at 11.  Now, those of you that know me, know that I sleep (most of the time) between 9 and 10 hours a night, and this 5 or 6 hours of sleep is crap!  As soon as I woke up, I knew I was still tired, but my brain said 'nope, you are awake!' and so...
Today started out as another long boring day, but then I talked on the phone to a friend for over half an hour, got up for the second time and did my round of exercises ('frog kicks,' marching in place, and bicep curls), and then my daughter-in-law texted me that the family was coming my way to go shopping, and did I want them to stop and pick me up to go, also?  (I had texted them earlier this morning, and got negative replies)
I said 'Yes!' so they stopped to get me, and I got a good WalMart walk in today, and Ron gets to get out of shopping tomorrow (I didn't really want to go shopping on the holiday, anyway), and then the whole family, minus Ron, went to Hibachi Grill for our supper.  This was Josh's choice for supper - what a surprise!  We didn't leave there until quarter til nine!  We had a great time.

So...I was up from 5, with getting dressed and sitting in the living room waiting for them, shopping (and I forgot my walking stick!), then sitting in the restaurant, plus the drive home - and the seat is almost sitting back straight back, it's just reclined once now) until after 9:30.  Yep, my back is letting me know it's there!
I think a pain pill is calling me.  I think I will sleep tonight!

Looking forward to being creative in the kitchen tomorrow, getting ready for the cookout we are going to on Saturday!  Making the corn salad I tried out on the family, and a red-white-and-blue dessert to take with us!