A long, busy, hot week...

Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Friday, July 31, 2015


7/28
Tuesday.  Happy Homemaker Day.  Whee!
After a shower and a change of clothes, I went to my TOPS meeting, where we were having our Christmas in July party instead of a meeting tonight.  We each brought a white elephant gift, and we've been saving little green dollars earned by losing pounds to spend for first chance at these gifts.  The winner had 31, so she chose first, then the one who had 27, then another person and I who each had 21, and so on.   It was a blast - and we're starting over again to do this for December!  Losing weight pays off!!  (btw, my gift was a box of granola bars)
We weighed in before the party started, and I was Loser of the Week this week!  I lost 2.8 pounds!  Yay, me!!


7/29
Wednesday.  I had errands to run today.
Once I got up and got going, I got some errands around Bethel done, stopped at Gold Star for my lunch, then went to Amelia for a meeting with other concerned citizens at the USDA offices concerning the ALB.  It was a bunch of horseshit as usual - they talk out of both sides of their mouths and contradict themselves over and over - and I left feeling as though my head was spinning.  It was very frustrating.  I stopped for gasoline (I think I got siphoned, even though I didn't think that was possible.  It sure disappeared for me not going anywhere...) and did a couple other little errands while I was in Amelia, too, then headed for home.  One last stop at the bank, hitting the ATM, and I was done for the day.
Man, was I beat!


7/30
Thursday.  Fair Day!! Josh dropped Corgan off on his way to work this morning, and when I got up, Corgan and I went to the Clermont County Fair.  I had a schedule that said there was stuff going on all day long, and our friends' grandchildren were showing rabbits at 1:00, so we figured that we could have a full day over there.
What a crock!
No games were open.  Very little food booths were open.  Some booths were open, but neither Corgan nor I were interested in buying anything - we wanted to SEE stuff and DO stuff!  We walked through and looked at all the animals, then we finally decided to go up on the grandstand and watch the Antique Tractor Pull even though neither one of us gave a rat's ass about it.  We figured we could tell Grandpa about the tractors if nothing else.
Yep, it was boring as all get-out.  The best thing that could be said was that at least - once we grew brains - we got to sit in the shade.  How do people "just love" tractor pulls??  Snore-ville.  My friend finally called me and said they were there, over by the rabbits, so we got down and walked over to talk to them.  We weren't allowed in to see the rabbits because the kids were being judged on showmanship, but we got to stand under a tree to talk, so we weren't in the blazing sun.  They had to go help their grandchildren, so we climbed back up and watched some more snoreville.  I scraped my leg crawling the last step up and Corgan bounced around the steps like they were nothing.  Kids!  He found another kid to talk to and I sat there, in the shade, reading my book.
It got to be 12:30 and we decided to go get some lunch, so we walked to the caboose and got a Pork Tenderloin sandwich (my choice), over a row to get an elephant ear (both of us chose that - besides, the Fair is the only place to get one!), then over to get Corgan a slice of pizza and a drink.  At the pizza booth, they didn't have pizza - they had stromboli and breadsticks.  Talk about false advertising - it says pizza all over the booth!!  Corgan decides to just eat the elephant ear, so we walk all the way back to the back, near the animal barns, to the picnic table pavilion, to sit in the shade and eat our lunch.  Our friends call to find out where we are, and I explain, and they get their lunch and come join us.  We had a pleasant time together, talking and enjoying the fair food.
FINALLY, at 2:00, the rides opened, so Corgan and I went to ride the rides.  I was kinda surprised at how many of them he wanted to ride.  I hadn't really intended to ride any, but I ended up riding 2 with him.  I rode the Paratroopers and one called Rock Star.  No jerking, no problems at all for my back.  I didn't dare chance any of the others!  He tried to talk me into them, but I resisted.
I was starting to melt, standing around waiting for him to finish riding, and after he climbed the rock wall and rode the Scrambler one last time, we left.  It was near 3:30, and I was so ready.

Josh stopped to pick Corgan up on his way home.  Ron and Josh changed the brakes on Josh's car, and then Josh and Corgan stayed for supper.  Josh and I played Wheel of Fortune on the Wii while we ate supper, and then it was decided that Corgan would go ahead and stay, since he would just be coming back up tomorrow night anyway.

I went to bed early.


7/31
Friday.  Another errand day - actually, it's shopping day!
Corgan and I did the few errands I had listed, then we went to lunch at the Mexican place (Don Rigo).  Then it was on to WalMart and shopping....we're having Josh and Chelle's birthday dinner tomorrow night, so I had quite a bit of shopping to do so I can just stay home tomorrow and put everything together.

When Ron got home, we played on the Wii.  First those two, then I joined in after getting some accounting/bookwork done after having to call Verizon again because the damn pute is playing tricks and won't give me my internet.  After another 45 minutes on the phone, I hope to hell that I have this problem fixed once and for all!
After playing on the Wii, I came back to catch up my blog.  Ron is sleeping in his recliner, and Corgan is science-ing on the TV.  Another normal Friday.

Thank God for normal.
It's still too hot.  I still can't handle it.  I am a wuss.