Saturday, May 14, 2016 -
Monday, May 16, 2016
May 14th. Our 39th anniversary! We don't have anything planned, even though it's on the weekend this year, because we don't have any extra money and we are hoping to have a yard sale (Bethel's free weekend) so maybe we can do something next weekend....life is a bitch sometimes.
But it ended up so much better than we could have planned!! It was great!
We got up around 8:00 and the rain was pouring down. That put all yard sale plans to an end - no way could we set up in the rain! We both went back to bed, and when I got up around 10:30, it wasn't raining any longer but everything was so soggy, that we figured it was not a good idea to set up, so the whole yard sale idea was scrapped for this week. There was more rain called for during the day, and the sky didn't look all that good, either, so we agreed on this.
After that, we agreed to go out for a special anniversary lunch. Even though we probably shouldn't have spent the money, we decided that we'd only have one 39th anniversary on a Saturday, so - why not? We finally decided on Longhorn's, so that we could each have a good salad. We're doing good with having our salads for supper, so why not keep it up when and where we can?
I had my almost-perfect salad (the chicken-strawberry salad) and he had the salmon salad. We also shared the bread (we were bad - 2 loaves) and a bowl of peanuts, but that was it. No dessert, no drinks, no nothing else. We came back home to just chill for the rest of the day....no big deal, right?
Well, after a bit, we got to talking about Sunday. We then decided to go to church tonight so that we wouldn't have to get up in the morning, and, besides that, tomorrow morning was First Communion at the Mass we attend and did we really want to "do" that? (No.)
So, at the last minute, I got everything together to take up to church and off we went. We were a few minutes late, but nothing too bad.
When Mass was over, we visited with friends and were invited to join them up at Frisch's. Now, we hadn't planned on any kind of supper, but - why not? After talking to other friends, finding out about some people who have been ill and also starting to spread my news, we finally got up to Frisch's. Our little party has turned into a dozen people! Ron and I were the last ones there and we had to scoot another table over to add to what was already there. We had such a joyous time, visiting with all these friends who had, for various reasons, decided to come to church tonight. Some almost always come on Saturday night, but some, like us, usually come on Sunday, but had family plans fall through or whatever and so came tonight. It was great. One couple at a time started leaving, and we were one of the last to go...we had to get over to Save-A-Lot before they closed!
We went over to Save-A-Lot to get our bacon and sausage for our breakfast tomorrow morning - I did already have eggs and bread - and then we went home. Needless to say, Ron didn't last too long once he was ensconced in his recliner, and the night was over.
Sunday. Church and lunch - NOPE!! Not today!! No alarms, no rush. WhooHoo!!
Ron was already up when I woke up, but he came back into the bedroom when he "thought he heard" me moving around. (I got up to go to the bathroom...silly man.) After we talked for a few minutes about the luxury of no alarms and not having to go anywhere, we got up and started our breakfast.
Bacon, sausage, eggs. No toast, just bread, because we don't have a toaster, but since he wanted a bacon sandwich that worked out just fine.
As we ate, and after we ate, we watched dead guys and continued to do so all day long. We didn't even get dressed as the day went on - just lounged. All day long. It was a wonderful day!!
Ron, of course, dozed off and on all day long, too. I guess he needed more sleep than either of us knew! Around 6pm, I cooked up the small steaks that I had thawed out to cook for our suppers the day before along with buttered noodles and mixed vegetables, and that was the most energy expended all day.
Doing nothing makes you more tired than doing all kinds of stuff, I think, because I went to bed early, too - I turned my light off before midnight!
On Monday, everything was back to normal. Ron went to work, and - once I got up after tableting and reading - I got right into Happy Homemaker mode. Dishes, laundry, and straightening up my desk. It's just about time to move all the mail out to the kitchen table and go through it all again....ugh, ugh, and double ugh.
I had to go uptown to buy our salad stuff for supper tonight at Save-A-Lot (can you tell we're glad there is a store in town again?) and went to Gold Star for my lunch. I had two Goritos instead of my normal Gorito and Chili Cheese Fries. Back home, I finished up some housework and when Ron texted, I was ready to walk out and meet him. I even made it all the way to our half mile mark, too! Of course, he had stopped for a bag of ice and that helped...
Once home, Ron went to take his shower after checking the news for the weather. Then we got to chopping and cutting to make our salads for our supper. Then it was dead guys for the rest of the night.
Nothing planned for tomorrow until time for me to go to my TOPS meeting. I'm hoping for good things there - no "just went out to lunch" like last week and all these salads we've been having for supper. I'm hoping, I'm hoping, I'm hoping!!
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