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We also went to...Target...didn't get much, a jumper for Anya, shampoo and conditioner, a candle...
The girls' friends came over, and silliness ensued. Evelyn came over and brought snacks, Grace and Irene brought cider and cookies, and they watched, "Miss Congeniality", which is quite funny.
I saw this and could relate....I'm on my 15th teenager driving, and it hasn't gotten easier, ugh.
I have to drive Paul to the airport soon. Sunny suspects something, she knows what a suitcase means. She is going to be a sad puppy for the next few weeks. She loves me, but Paul is her person. She loves everyone, except for Ben, she is scared of Ben...because he said RAH to her when he first moved back here, five years ago. When Ashley comes over, she hides under the table until she determines Ben isn't with her, then she'll come out. She'll come out eventually when Ben is here, but she'll evade and avoid him, she doesn't growl or anything, she just keeps her cautious distance. She's the kind of dog who sees the dog brush in your hand, and off she goes, to under the table.
It's a sinus headache day. I woke up with it, took a nice hot shower, but it didn't go away. Perhaps I'm getting a cold, blah. I don't like just taking ibuprofen willy-nilly, because even if it's over-the-counter, there are still side effects, but you have to live your life, too, and a Saturday with a pounder is challenging..especially when it pounds and makes you feel like you're going to toss your cookies, and I don't even eat cookies!
Yes, that's the hard part, I should be skinny, it's not fair. I baked all those cookies, and didn't even have a taste of the dough, not a bite of one. The house smelled heavenly all day, and I enjoy making them, I just know that I cannot eat them....last time I told myself nonsense, you can eat a cookie!, I ate like ten. I did have a few Hershey kisses last night though....
Anyway. Have a nice cozy Saturday...
...the lamps weren't on, just a kitchen light, giving the living room a dusky, shadowy hue. The dogs were snoring, and the geese were honking. The coffee was getting cold, but getting up to make another meant leaving the comfy chair, so she sipped at the dregs, and wished there were a waitress with a hot pot, hovering about, not judging her for being lazy.
But, lazy she was. Yesterday, oh my! Kathryn needs a new car seat, and Target had one in stock, I had a 20% off coupon, so off we went, after Camille's physical therapy appointment. (Target didn't actually have any, although it showed in their app that they had two).
The REAL price for the crockpot was located down on the bottom of the bottom shelf where the crockpots were SUPPOSED to be, but who can see all the way down there? And who would think to look down there, when the pots are up here? oh dear. It wasn't a great big deal, but jeepers.
We got home, put our things away (just a package of chicken breasts, and some new sweatpants for me...I love a nice new pair, I wear them every day around the house, 40% off, still pricey, but they had them in my size, and they weren't black or gray, like my other ones, a nice light brown...Camille got a sweatshirt, and a bra from the clearance rack, and we bought some sour gummy worms).
Home...not for long! I had a package to bring up to Sam, and I have been wanting to visit Sam and Grace and see their new place. I brought Grant a little car and track set, where you send the car flying through the loop-t-loop...it was fun, and it's Grandma's job to spoil the grandkids a little tiny bit, right?
We had gone to the thrift store, all Evelyn bought there were some Sorel boots for Wulf, I got a few books and a wood car track for the grand kids.
Camille's dr. visit was a good one, the NP we see is thorough, and was concerned about the "rash", it has gone away, but I showed her some pictures. She hadn't gotten a copy of the lab work, they never send these things when they say they will. She confirmed that if the CBC was good, and Cam didn't have those outbreaks anywhere else, or since that time a few weeks ago, she is probably fine. She said she would get a copy of the labs, and call me if it was concerning...
She called when we were on our way home from our fun, driving along admiring the random crimson leaves set among the greens, golds, and oranges. You know, I got a bit anxious, when I realized who was calling, and I kept expecting her to say BUT...she said Camille's CBC was absolutely fine, red counts, white counts all good. The Epstein-Barr (mono) test was negative, and the other tests they ordered which were inconclusive, were because they didn't have enough blood for them, but they weren't necessary because of the good results of everything else...so nothing to worry about. Call if it returns...
So it was a relief....
Evelyn came over to visit for a while, we sat on the deck and enjoyed the sunshine...the days are getting shorter, and cold is coming...so we need to get that vitamin D while we can.
...in the car-ar...this we used to sing as we got ready to go out the door. Anyone else sing all the time, changing the words to fit the situation?
This fine morning is quiet, Miss Charlotte Claire got on the bus, Sonja K. left for lab, all professional in her nursing white coat, Camille is in her room, the dogs are snoring, Paul is in our room/his office, working. I've done a few things around here this morning, but not much. I'm on the second cup, the last cup until afternoon, when I'll have one more.
Camille has an appointment for a check-up, and to find out if anything is amiss, due to that scary "rash" a few weeks ago. Evelyn has a day off from work today, so she's driving down to come with us, so we can go thrifting and maybe other adventures, afterwards.
Yesterday was just an ordinary Target day, but oh dear, it's so nice to go with Kathryn and the kids! I get to push Rhys in the cart. She has a little cold, and is a little cranky, and she sneezed and sorry! I'll spare the details, but I couldn't find a tissue in my purse, just a mask(it worked!)...so I picked out a box of tissues and opened them, but of course we bought them.
She likes me, and likes to sing, and likes to grab things, and is used to sitting nicely in the cart, and she does look for her mama when we wander off, but not in a crying way, just a curios way, Mama! Too cute. Well, we walked up and down the toy aisles, because grandma loves toys, and the Cocomelon piano was on sale for $8.99 (regularly $14.99), so I handed one to Rhys. That kept her totally occupied and happy, and I sang along with the ABC's, I don't really care who thinks I'm crazy, Rhys likes it.
She will be warm for her first New York winter, there are little booties that go with it too.
One of my stops today when I go out and about is to a little coffee roaster place near the prison. Did you know that the small city where we do lots of our shopping and dr visits is home of a maximum security prison, the only city in the country with such a facility within city limits? Well, a few doors down from that is a little place that roasts coffee beans to order, and it's the absolute best coffee I've ever had. It smells positively heavenly. And shh, of COURSE I never pointed to the prison and told my kids if you're bad, you'll grow up and go there.
Ah well, time to get moving. As the days get cooler and it's dark and cozy in the morning, it's easier to spend too much time in my comfy chair...tomorrow morning Cam has physical therapy, early, and Friday, I hope to get back to water aerobics...I am also going to be doing some baking on Friday, for the weekend...the girls run a little coffee shop at church, and we're gathering on Saturday, for a mission feast (raising money for churches in poorer countries), and Sunday too. So I'll bake pumpkin muffins and chocolate chip cookies to sell with the coffee...
Too bad I can't think of anything else to write about, this chair is pretty nice...off I go...
So it turns out that Paul's eye issue is part of normal aging. The details of what happens to the eye as we grow old: yucky blucky, but they definitely change, and sometimes this happens more abruptly and we notice it more. He had leakage of fluid, but no retinal tear. He does have to go back in to be checked in a few weeks to make sure, as when one has symptoms like that, it could indicate a retinal tear, which would have to be dealt with quickly, as to minimize damage.
And, Sonja got a 90 on that test yesterday! It was a very difficult exam, she's so thrilled. I didn't want to tell her it was because of kind thoughts and prayers from my blog friends, because then I'd be telling her that I blogged about her, ha. What? You wrote about that?!
Yesterday, Camille and I drove up to her orthopedic dr. Her range of motion in the knee which had the surgery is 20 degrees less than the other knee, and her quads aren't nearly as strong as they'd like to see them. So she needs to continue physical therapy and continue her exercises at home. She was also told it's almost inevitable that her other knee will dislocate again, statistically when it happens at a young age, it happens again. She also learned that the pain she's been having is normal, because of where nerves were severed for the surgery, and it could last for months...a year, even. Take ibuprofen, massage it, ice it...ugh. So, I bought her a vanilla chai from Dunkin on the way home...well, I had a free beverage reward that was expiring, ha.
We did go into Aldi, because it's right down the road from her dr., we just got potatoes and lemon juice, heavy cream, a pizza dough, and some frozen chicken wings. I also stopped at Tops, because they have their ground beef buy one get one free this week, so 85% beef for $3.10 a pound, not bad for these days.
When we got home, I cleaned. I washed bedding and vacuumed and straightened. I cleaned our room because Paul was off at his appointment, his office is in our room, so I can't usually vacuum whenever I want.
In the afternoon, he had to drive up to the city where Margaret and Adrian live, so I asked Margaret if I could visit...she said yes! :). Grace came over with Grant and Ruth, because Sam has classes on Monday night, and Adrian was in class.
