Getting through another weekend...

Saturday, April 25, 2015
Sunday, April 26, 2015


4/25
As planned, I got up and Corgan and I went over so I could do my final weigh-in for this go-round of the Biggest Loser contest.  (It's also the initial weigh-in for the next one, so I guess I'll do it one more time.  Just one more, then I'll have done it for three years, and I think maybe that's enough.)  As I expected, I had gained - weight, inches, everything - so this time was a bust.  Blah!
When I was finished, Corgan and I went to go eat, but he said that he didn't want to go to Crackhead Barrel.  What??  So we discussed where we wanted to go, seeing that we were in the Eastgate area and had plenty of choices and finally decided on Longhorn (Corgan wanted a steak), but they didn't open until 11:00, so we went to Meijer to kill the time until then.  He found the toy he wanted - a Minecraft something - as his "All A report card" reward.  Grandpa and Granny are nice like that!
We finally got to Longhorn, and, as we're pulling in, Corgan tells me that he changed his mind and doesn't want a steak now and let's go to Crackhead Barrel.  I told him "too bad," that I wasn't changing MY mind again and I'd already talked myself out of my chicken-n-dumplings and am now ready for my almost-perfect salad.  He's just gonna have to find himself something else to eat if he doesn't want steak.  So he did - he got himself some shrimp.

When we left Longhorn, it was pouring down the rain, and it didn't let up all the way, and we got drenched as we visited the Wals (Walgreen's and WalMart), stopped at IGA for a bag of ice, and at Family Dollar to see if they had the car charger that I forgot to look for at WalMart.  Blah!
We got home, got everything carried in, so now the "fun" part of the day started for Corgan - he gets to go play out in the garage with Grandpa!  First of all, he fixed, with Grandpa's supervision, the freezer door handle that he broke last weekend and didn't tell us. Then they started in on the lawn mower - Corgan's mower - the one that Grandpa blew the motor up on last week.  Time to put a new motor on it.  Whee....I went in and took a nap.

Josh and Chelle took a little weekend trip down to Gatlinburg - well, a one-day trip, really - and they texted when they were close to home, and I got up and started fixing supper.  Ron had woken me up earlier, but I was still laying in bed reading and tableting, waiting for my notification.
I made a meatloaf, my shrimp dish, buttered noodles, corn, and peas for our supper.  It was a late supper, but we were all hungry and a bit excited, and we made quite good inroads in the food.
They went on home, and Ron and I went on to bed.



4/26
Sunday.  Church and lunch.
And that's exactly what happened.
After church, we went to the Barn for our lunch.  Ron got his fried chicken, and I got a bacon cheeseburger and fries.  Then we went over to WalMart to get the car charger and the veggies for our salads for the week. I can't buy them any earlier or they'll go bad before we can eat them.  We are going to start taking this stuff seriously!

We got home.  He went out to work on the mowers some more, while I went to take a nap.  (Did I tell you that I did NOT sleep Friday night into Saturday morning?  Well, I didn't - just about 2-1/2 or 3 hours, and I am still trying to catch up. It's an awful feeling, that.)
He finally came in, we started watching Starsky and Hutch, and he fell asleep.  Surprise!  I let him sleep, and when he woke up, we made our suppers and rewatched the episode he just slept through.  He stayed awake this time!  We watched a second episode, even though he kept dozing off, but he said that he didn't like this one and didn't want to replay it.  He's funny.

A little after 10:00, he went to bed (after he woke up from a doze), and I finished watching a dead guy show, then moved here to the pute, and here I am.

Nothing planned for tomorrow.  I think I might do some Wii exercises, though.  Eating better alone isn't going to do much if exercise isn't added.  Ack!  That evil E word!