A trip down the road that was MEANT TO BE...

Saturday, September 6, 2014

Saturday.  Nothing planned today but my weigh-in, paying some bills, and then piddling around here at home.  Ha!  I woke up around 10:30, read a little bit, then got up and did my weigh-in.  Good news!  According to my Wii, I have lost a little over a pound and a half!  Yay!
My 'new' plan is going in good effect next week (since I went grocery shopping yesterday), but I think my closer watching of what I'm eating is starting to work!  I do miss the accountability of MFP, and I may go back to it and just lower my calorie count.  On the days I go over, I just won't fret over it - it happens!  I'll stick with this unless I start having sugar lows, then I would definitely have to re-think it!  But, right now, all is going okay.

After my weigh-in, I started in on the bill paying.  Such fun, you know.  I check my bank on the pute first, then go from there.  I have a couple of checks written when Ron and Corgan come in, frantic - or as frantic as then get - because a belt has broken on the lawnmower (the Zero Turn) and he thinks Clermont Equipment closes at noon, and what are we going to do?  It's quarter after!  I tell him to find the business card, call them, and find out for sure what time they close.  Noon?  On a Saturday?  Really?  The card, which hangs on the bulletin board in the kitchen isn't hard to find, and he calls and finds out that they close at 1.
Ron and I try to figure out whether or not he wants to go (gotta put stuff away outside, I'm not dressed, etc., etc.) and I told him that IF he could get on the road by 12:30, we would make it, and he finally says, "OK - let's go" by 20 after, and he gets back outside to get stuff out there ready to go and close down the garage doors with Corgan's help, and I went to get myself out of my housedress and into some real clothes.  Five minutes later, we were pulling out of the driveway!

This trip down the road was AMAZING!!  Just amazing.  First of all, we didn't hit very many red lights, which is a small miracle in itself, and then the real miracles started.   Clermont Equipment is down 125, just past the theatres and Kimba bank but before 8 Mile Road - in other words, between traffic lights.  Headed that way, it's a left turn into their parking lot.  I was a bit worried that we would be too late because of that left turn.  Well, when we got there, at 10 til 1, the light at 8 Mile was red, and we were able to turn in with no problem whatsoever!  Whew!
Ron and Corgan go in, but come out empty-handed.  They had no belts there at that store.  They had them at the Milford store, but they're closing in 5 minutes, so...bummer.
We sat there in the car and talked about going to lunch, since we were down the road, and Ron said, "Why don't we go to Hibachi?" and I said, "OK, if I can turn left out of here."  I pulled up to the edge of the parking lot, to 125, and there was not a single car on 125.  Across all 5 lanes, including the turn lane in the center!!!  Not a single one.  Either way.  Red lights both ways, and cars sitting at both of them.  I was flabbergasted!  I laughed and told Ron that it was meant to be for us to go to Hibachi!

We got down to Hibachi, which is close to 275, and guess what?  Not a single car coming again, and we make that left turn with no problem.  It was totally amazing - I told Ron, once again, that it must be meant to be that we come here for lunch today, because it was amazing how easy it was for us to get here.  We went in and enjoyed our lunch (as always), then headed back toward home.
We had one more stop to make - I wanted to pay the electric bill at the dry cleaners, but we couldn't stop on the way down the road because of the time restraint - then a stop at WalMart to see if maybe, just maybe, they had the belt.  Sometimes they have stuff like that.  Never hurts to check.
Once more, amazingly, when we had to make a left turn, there was a super gap in the traffic and we got right in!  I tell you, my head was blowing up a little bit (okay, a lot!) by now.  I do the errand and we go to leave.  There is ONE car, then nothing.  Boom.  Easy left turn, and back on the road.  Talk about things meant to be.......

We stop at WalMart, and - again, unheard of on a Saturday - I find a parking spot only a few spots from the front!  We go in, Ron and Corgan head for the Garden (where lawnmower crap is), and I head elsewhere.  We meet back up, and Ron hands me Bengals stuff!  "Do you have this?"  "NO WAY!"  It's back in the Garden!  Why in the hell are they hiding Bengals stuff back in the Garden?  No wonder I can't find it, and I've been looking!  So I go back there and look through it and pick me out a couple of things (just stickers, calm down) and we check out and come home.

Ron was teasing Corgan on the way home about taking a nap when we get home, and Corgan, as most 9-year-olds do, thought his grandpa was nuts - "sleep in the car, Grandpa!"  When we got home, Ron went out and mowed (he does have more than one mower, and then he has pushmowers) and weed-eated, I finished paying the bills, then played on the pute, and Corgan sat in my recliner - and fell asleep and took a nap!  When he woke up, I laughed at him, and he just said, "yeah, well...."

Around 5, I went out and started supper.  I peeled potatoes, cooked bacon, and put it all together as needed to make the dish for supper.  It was a 9x13 pan with sliced potatoes on the bottom, with half of a soup mix (I used a can of cream of chicken, a can of cream of mushroom, and milk) over, or with, them.  Cover this with foil and bake for 1/2 hour.  In the meantime, sear the chicken breasts in the bacon grease, and when the 1/2 is done, put the chicken breasts in on top of the potatoes, putting the rest of the soup mix over them - not that it stays.  Put foil back over and bake for another 1/2 hour.  At the end of that 1/2 hour, remove the foil, top the breasts with shredded cheddar and the bacon bits and put back in the oven until the cheese melts.  Voila!
Jean came in while supper was cooking, as was planned, and when it was done, we all ate supper, then sat at the table talking.

Then we decided to go outside and sit around the fire pit.  Oh, what a beautiful night for a fire!  We had a wonderful time sitting around the fire and talking.  We didn't roast marshmallows or anything, just sat and talked.  But it was all we needed tonight, and it was great!

Today was such a lovely, restful, happy day, even with a bit of rushing in it.  Even with that, it all fell together so well, it was all meant to be!  It had to be.
And we are so grateful.