A banner day! For being by myself.

Planoamy
Wow, do I feel accomplished! Today turned out to be quite productive in a number of ways. It's the first real day of vacation, and I wanted to be up by 8 am so I could really enjoy not logging in. HAHA It was wonderful. Of course I was actually up much earlier, to roust Sweetie out of bed and start his coffeepot and make his lunch while he did his routine. Getting ready for work. Ha

I didn't hang around the house, either! As soon as I waved him out of the drive, I took off for Meijer, which is like a super Wal-Mart, only it's clean and the people there bathe. On average. And I took my time and went up and down all the aisles and enjoyed no time limit nor the hordes of weird kids that trail behind their frazzled mothers.

I didn't get nearly enough at Meijer, so I went straight across the parking lot to the Target. Got in early while they were still doing laser inventories and moving pallets. Oh yes. Found several goodies, including a dress blouse and a new purse. And the Target version of those Crystal Lite on the go pouches which are wonderful for my desk at work. Saw all the clearance end caps and sales racks and only got aggravated a few times when the dumb cart caught on a display rack sitting too close to a shelf. But nothing was knocked down so I got away with it!

But I still didn't feel accomplished! I put anti-bacterial lotion on my hands up to the elbows and went down the street to the SuperWalmart. I know what you are saying--but it isn't even Christmas Eve! Well, it was early and I have almost forgotten why I quit going there. I loaded up a trash can with cleaning and apartment stuff for my little brother who moves to NKU this fall to start Law School. I want him to remember if he is in a mess, I helped him clean it up. Thus, when he's a lawyer...

Of course, it was almost noon, and the children started showing up, and screaming, and there were only 3 lanes open. But a cashier started on a lane and let me be first! Wow!

I came home and put my goodies away--that is, I hid all the bags and put the new stuff in the guest room where NO ONE looks. Then I went out and got in the garage, which is actually an old barn that was on the property and a previous owner vinyl sided. It's spooky in there, what with the spiders and all, so I did the girly try-to-open-the-latch-with-just-three-fingers thing but that was taking too long and I lost my temper and kicked the door from the inside so it scared the neighbors. Oh yeah, I went in through the side door, but it's too small for the mower. I finally got the blamed thing out. It died like 20 times because 1, I never mow. 2. the grass has had a hurricane of rain to make it thick and luxurious. 3. the birch trees in the back yard dropped almost all their leaves in the drought leading up to said hurricane. I was not a very lady-like neighbor this afternoon. But I got all that done and got cleaned up and went BACK to the Walmart. That's right, to get my eyes checked and some new contacts. I sort of made a 6 month supply of disposables last the 3 and a half years since I married, and figured, your contacts aren't supposed to be gray when you put them in your night time solution. She was cool and hooked me up with some acuvues and plenty of comp solution.

Then--Da da da dah da dah! I lost my first 20 pounds officially at my Weight Watchers meeting tonight! I got a cool keychain thingie and a gold looking charm and a round of applause and a sticker for the fridge. It was a long time coming and I am still working on it but that was a big hurdle and yay I made it!

I will stop on a positive note because if I start talking about the DVD player...Oh I will do it anyway, the hateful spiteful piece of Devil's engineering! We have 5 remotes. Only 1 is for the Sanyo piece of crap that you can put a DVD into. It takes the DVD. It plays it, counting seconds very nicely. But the TV just keeps right on. And I sat there with 5 (insert extremely bad public school bus word here) remote controls pushing buttons through 2 episodes of COPS and never did get my Spencer Tracey movie started! Sweetie is gone to the movies with his best friend Robbie tonight--they have to bond or something, I don't know. I think the movie THEY are seeing is very actiony, black leathery or explosivey or something. The movie I am seeing is whatever TBS is putting on tonight. DANG IT!

But the rest of the day was great!

Oh yeah and I went out after my WW meeting and bought myself some cheese sticks at Captain D's. Hey, life's too short to deny yourself cheese sticks!