There's no place like home---!
Feb. 5th, 2012 11:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vanillafluffyGot a call from PJ literally two minutes after turning my alarm off. (8:02 AM) Alarming news: They were off the boat, on the road, and expected to be home by noon. Going by what I know of cruises, I hadn't even expected them to be off the frackin' boat before 11.
That blew my plan of going calmly to church and coming back to the house to pack right out of the water. And unfortunately, I *couldn't* skip church, because PJ had printed out the programs for this week and entrusted them to me to deliver.
Had a very Ogden Nash morning: "When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout"... Add to that hospitality---I'd made a special trip to the price club on Saturday so I could do something nice: I planned tortellini salad with genoa salami, stuffed mushrooms, ruggala and grapes for dessert. Alas, packing took all my cooking time; I delivered the desserts---stressed spelled backward!---and dashed into WalMart on the way there.
Got to church and discovered that I was WRONG, that someone else was down for hospitality, although I think the fresh fried chicken was an improvement over cole slaw and cookies. (I have always thought cole slaw is a terrible thing to do to defenseless cabbage; if an atrocity is going to be committed on that veg, I much prefer sauerkraut.)
I went back afterward; the C's were back. I snagged my fridge stuff and departed. I'll have to got ahold of them, as I forgot my Tracfone charger and a loaf of bread, plus I need to let them know I have a package of fabric swatches coming. Honestly, when you place an order for something on Saturday, you except it to be shipped Monday, don't you? Certainly before Wednesday. Sheesh.
In good news---yes, there is some!---my glasses arrived Friday, and I zoomed up there because scary or no, I couldn't stand to wait two more days. (I would've posted before this, but the internet was out over at The Peaceable Kingdom. Really frackin' annoying.) They look good, and I've gotten used to the glass-block effect at the sides---they're considerably thicker than my old pair. And heavier---I'm pushing them back up on my nose every 47 seconds or so. I'll get some pix for y'all as soon as I have decent light.
Thinking that I was going to the theater on Saturday---postponed til next week at least, because J couldn't get tickets---I visited Fashion Bug's clearance racks Friday after grabbing my glasses and got a wee bit carried away: I got TWO new dresses. Both are black and white. One's short-sleeved, the other long. The short-sleeved one is a 3x microfiber jersey in an all-over print. The long-sleeved one...okay, I probably didn't really NEED a long-sleeved cotton jersey dress, this being Florida. But it's divine! The bodice is a print, the bottom two-thirds is solid black, and OMG, it does fab things for my figure and it's a size 24!!! The last time I could get into a 24, Reagan was leaving the White House. I am stoked.
More good news: The other stuff I'd ordered arrived on Saturday---both books and the LUSHness. Still reading Stephen King, so I haven't dug into the books yet, but I enjoyed a shower with my sugar scrub and NEW shampoo.
When I got home this afternoon, I had half a nap---I can tell I'm back in Home-Sweet-Hell, because They were out there being noisy---before the Super Bowl. (I only watch it for the commercials. Loved Wego, the Ferris Bueller spoof and Pepsi for Everyone. Could've done without Seinfield, especially twice over.) Anyway, between the naplet and kickoff, I did a mad thing: I got on my scale.
Dedicated dieters are probably boggling already, because as we all know, no one weighs during the afternoon. After having had lunch. Wearing clothes and not taking off one's cell phone. What was I thinking?!?! I don't know, but I'm down about four pounds from where I was before I left. Woohoo!
Supposedly my fence gets installed tomorrow. Fingers crossed!
.
That blew my plan of going calmly to church and coming back to the house to pack right out of the water. And unfortunately, I *couldn't* skip church, because PJ had printed out the programs for this week and entrusted them to me to deliver.
Had a very Ogden Nash morning: "When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout"... Add to that hospitality---I'd made a special trip to the price club on Saturday so I could do something nice: I planned tortellini salad with genoa salami, stuffed mushrooms, ruggala and grapes for dessert. Alas, packing took all my cooking time; I delivered the desserts---stressed spelled backward!---and dashed into WalMart on the way there.
Got to church and discovered that I was WRONG, that someone else was down for hospitality, although I think the fresh fried chicken was an improvement over cole slaw and cookies. (I have always thought cole slaw is a terrible thing to do to defenseless cabbage; if an atrocity is going to be committed on that veg, I much prefer sauerkraut.)
I went back afterward; the C's were back. I snagged my fridge stuff and departed. I'll have to got ahold of them, as I forgot my Tracfone charger and a loaf of bread, plus I need to let them know I have a package of fabric swatches coming. Honestly, when you place an order for something on Saturday, you except it to be shipped Monday, don't you? Certainly before Wednesday. Sheesh.
In good news---yes, there is some!---my glasses arrived Friday, and I zoomed up there because scary or no, I couldn't stand to wait two more days. (I would've posted before this, but the internet was out over at The Peaceable Kingdom. Really frackin' annoying.) They look good, and I've gotten used to the glass-block effect at the sides---they're considerably thicker than my old pair. And heavier---I'm pushing them back up on my nose every 47 seconds or so. I'll get some pix for y'all as soon as I have decent light.
Thinking that I was going to the theater on Saturday---postponed til next week at least, because J couldn't get tickets---I visited Fashion Bug's clearance racks Friday after grabbing my glasses and got a wee bit carried away: I got TWO new dresses. Both are black and white. One's short-sleeved, the other long. The short-sleeved one is a 3x microfiber jersey in an all-over print. The long-sleeved one...okay, I probably didn't really NEED a long-sleeved cotton jersey dress, this being Florida. But it's divine! The bodice is a print, the bottom two-thirds is solid black, and OMG, it does fab things for my figure and it's a size 24!!! The last time I could get into a 24, Reagan was leaving the White House. I am stoked.
More good news: The other stuff I'd ordered arrived on Saturday---both books and the LUSHness. Still reading Stephen King, so I haven't dug into the books yet, but I enjoyed a shower with my sugar scrub and NEW shampoo.
When I got home this afternoon, I had half a nap---I can tell I'm back in Home-Sweet-Hell, because They were out there being noisy---before the Super Bowl. (I only watch it for the commercials. Loved Wego, the Ferris Bueller spoof and Pepsi for Everyone. Could've done without Seinfield, especially twice over.) Anyway, between the naplet and kickoff, I did a mad thing: I got on my scale.
Dedicated dieters are probably boggling already, because as we all know, no one weighs during the afternoon. After having had lunch. Wearing clothes and not taking off one's cell phone. What was I thinking?!?! I don't know, but I'm down about four pounds from where I was before I left. Woohoo!
Supposedly my fence gets installed tomorrow. Fingers crossed!
.