March marches on...

Tuesday, March 1, 2016
      Monday, March 7, 2016

Tuesday - I have a doctor's appointment today, and lunch with Bert and Teresa afterward!  It's gonna be a great day!
I wake to the alarm blaring, get up and take a shower (even shaving my legs!) and get moving.
I had a long list of stuff to talk to Doc about, and even though I left a paper that needs filled out at home on the table, my entire list got covered and it was a very productive office visit.  I love getting answers to my questions!
I managed to get in a little bit of shopping at Meijer before meeting Bert and Teresa, too, and found a few things to talk to the Easter Bunny about - HA!  Then came lunch.....which lasted until 5:30.  I love, love, love our long lunches and talks!!  I ate good, too, having only one plate, then a little later a bowl of clam chowder, then a little later, a baked potato.

Needless to say, when I weighed in at my TOPS meeting that night, I gained.  Only .8 of a pound (again), but a gain.  I have got to stop doing this on a Tuesday!
I had a bowl of cereal as a late-night snack while a pretty mean rainstorm carried on.


Wednesday was a long slow boring day.  Then I got a phone call at 7:30 - am I on my way to the Altar Society meeting?  Oh, shit!!  I forgot!  And I had forgotten all day to write/type up my reports for said meeting, too.  Crap, crap, crap!
I quickly got uptown to the meeting, but flew by the seat of my pants on the reports, just giving oral reports.  I felt so stupid....but I did make the meeting, even though late.

Thursday was another Happy Homemaker Day.  Dishes.  Laundry - 2 different loads. AND it snowed all day!  It was raining snow when I first got up, then the snow changed three or four different times during the day, finally being big fat fluffy flakes as it got dark.  Luckily, it ddi not stick to the road(s) and there were not any problems.
I totally beat Ron's ass at Wii mini-golf, too, winning all three levels handily.  We did our Thursday night weigh-in on Wii Fit, also, and according to it, Ron gained again and I lost 2.2 pounds.  I can handle those small gains on Tuesdays at TOPS if I have losses here at home on Thursdays.

Friday was my escape-the-house day, as usual.  Josh joined me for lunch at LaRosa's, too, which was a pleasant surprise.  Usually I text him too late for him to be able to join me, but today worked out - I was a happy mom!  We had a nice time, and it was good talking to him one-on-one.
Then I got the little bit of shopping I had to do this week done, and I got home not long before Ron and Corgan showed up.  After that, it was our normal Friday evening at home - especially since we've taught Corgan some card games.
Ron went to bed, and a few hours later, when I joined him, he woke up and he and I talked - which turned into an rip-roaring argument - and then calmed back down into a serious talk.  It was way overdue, and all is good.

Ron went to work Saturday morning, but luckily got back home by 9 - which was definitely before I was up.  After he took a nap, we just hung out all afternoon, waiting for Chip to come in.  He is stopping here for the night on his way to training for a new job in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.  After his training, he'll go back up to Niagara Falls to open a new store for this company.  Guess where we're having supper?  Yep, Gold Star - at Chip's request.
Chip finally got here, took a shower to refresh, then just chilled a little.  We went up to Gold Star as planned and waited for other family and friends to join us.  Jean came up, K.O. and his wife Beth came up, and as we were sitting there - our former neighbor Danny Brittain showed up! So we had a nice little party going on.  It was a lot of fun!
Afterward, Jean and Corgan came back to the house to visit a little longer, but Chip kinda crashed so they didn't stay long.  It definitely was a different Saturday!

I woke early on Sunday morning and heard Chip leave, even though I didn't answer him when he said, "See ya, guys," to us before leaving.  I thought it was nice that he did that when he probably thought we were both asleep...
I was fighting nausea, and continued to fight it most of the morning.  I am SO glad that I didn't puke - I HATE puking! - but, finally, my stomach settled.

After church, we decided to follow our plan from last week and go over to Roy Rogers (Roney's) for our lunch.  Oh, how I had forgotten how much I love those sandwiches - which are called Lucky Rs now, not Double Rs.  But, oh, they were good!!  We didn't get home until close to 3:30.

Monday was a normal Happy Homemaker Day.  Absolutely nothing happened, and I kinda enjoyed that.

The hits just kept on coming, though.....the IRS kept our federal refund because of my student loans.  That's not good.  We could have - would have - used that money to help us out of our predicament. shitshitshitshitshit