Thursday, May 12, 2016 -
Friday, May 13, 2016
May the 12th.....always a bittersweet day for me, because that's my Mamma's (Mamma is pronounced Mammaw) birthday. This year, if she were still alive - and I'm glad she isn't - she would be turning 110. 110! She was my mother's mother, and she was the main everything in our young lives. If it weren't for her, God only knows how we would have turned out. It is very hard to believe that a woman such as my mother came from a woman such as her mother, but I guess each made decisions that made it so.
Anyway, she was the driving force behind us, and she made sure that we had things (a new school outfit, for one) that we would not have gotten otherwise, and she was always there as a sounding board if we needed one. She lived in a trailer (they weren't called "mobile homes" back then, they were trailers) in our back yard, and she was always available to us.
I still miss her an awful lot. I miss talking to her. I miss her cooking for us, and I still can't make cole slaw worth a damn. I just don't have those Mamma germs.....
My Thursday was a strange day because I still wasn't feeling great. Still rather blah-ish, but now I feel as though if I don't get out of the house, I will explode! I have no reason to go anywhere, but I must. I MUST. So I finally talk myself into going up to Gold Star for my lunch - nothing else, no other errands, just lunch. I have not done that (come up with convenient excuse(s) to go uptown or down the road, just to have lunch) at all this year and feel disgusted with myself doing so today. But I did it. Went uptown, had lunch, came back home. Ugh.
When Ron texted me, I walked out to meet him and that was the extent of my exercise for the day. I have been trying to ride the exercise bike a little bit every day, but it's so easy to "forget" to!
After he got home, we did our weigh-in on the Wii, and we have both lost weight! Eating those salads does some good! He had lost 5+ pounds, and I lost 1.3 - which, after the gain at TOPS was good to see! - so I guess we'll continue with the salads.
I also remembered to turn on Bones tonight, too, only ten minutes late. Sigh. After that, it was dead guy time for the rest of the night.
Friday was a normal Friday. Wake up, tablet, read, shower, dress, drive down the road to eat lunch and SHOP.
Gas had gone up, too - again! - up to $2.29 or so, and when I passed a station where it was $2.07, I quickly turned around and pulled in there. I put $20.00 in my car, when I usually only put $10.00 in every week. At 20 cents plus difference per gallon - why not?
I got home from shopping, got everything carried in and put away, and then my phone started going off. It was Chelle - she wanted to know if we wanted to come down and meet them at Hibachi for supper. Well, it's barely 4:00 and Ron isn't home yet, so I can't answer that. We are trying to get ahold of him and it takes quite a while before he answers anyone. But he does agree to go, so we make our plans. After a flurry of texts, everything is settled and our evening is set.
We drive Ron's truck down the road, and that gas station IS still at $2.07, so we were able to fill his truck up for next week at this wonderful price, too! How awesome is that?!
We had our usual scrumptious dinner at Hibachi - those guys do love their crab legs! - and then came on home. Josh (and Chelle) stopped to help Ron move the picnic table around to the front yard, just in case it does not rain and we can have a yard sale tomorrow. It's not likely, but we want to be ready if we can. I sure can't help him carry that picnic table, that's for sure!
They leave, and Ron and I come in the house. He plops in his recliner, turns on the TV, and - you guessed it - falls asleep. I am here on the pute, and our happy evening is drawing to an end.
We are very pleased with this Friday the 13th.
Here's hoping we will be just as pleased with our 39th anniversary tomorrow!
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