Five subjects on my mind today that might be a little long to take from me.
Saturdays – Summer is coming though you couldn’t tell by the 50 degree weather today. Yet Saturdays starting in April (sometimes March) become the day of garage sales. Only because I don’t have enough crap in my house. I have my crap, my ex’s, my daughter’s, some leftovers from my sister (it is her house I am renting), and her two kids. Though one has his own place and one is away at college this is still home to them. I guess they should be thankful someone else didn’t rent the place. I think it might have been inappropriate to show up at 2:30 am and need their old room back for the night.
I enjoy finding the bargains. A perfectly great bike for $10, a new pair of Asics Gels for $3, a corkboard for $1, and I have been collecting wooden boxes. The boxes must be brown and have cool engravings or color pattern to be deemed acceptable to sit on my shelf.
I miss sleeping in as I did on Saturdays in the winter time. Getting up, cleaning, and then doing nothing the rest of the cold day. Now I have traded in sleep and cleaning for spending money and exhaustion. But I love it. Yet the house is not as clean as it could or should be. I certainly don’t come home and clean. I take a nap and watch TV or read. I’m hoping when it gets warmer, and not as rainy as today I will replace the nap or evening TV with a nice bike ride with Grace.
Guests – Maybe I should say family and their friends. I do appreciate the armed forces and it feels kinda patriotic to have them around the house. But, my nephew needed up at 3:00 to get ready to check in to the Reserves and his roommate is up before 7:00 to check in to the National Guard. Where does this leave me? Sleep deprived because I hear it all or if not the dog lets me know something is going on. Not that 3:00 would have bothered me, but the dog was going mad wanting to go outside. Could the nephew do that? He can help defend the country but at the same time let the poor dog whine and suffer while doing the pee pee dance. It just made me a little more exhausted at the end of the garage sales today.
Habits – Bad or good they are both hard to stop and hard to start. Starting point includes for me eating healthy, continue exercising, and keep a ‘diet’ going. ‘Diet’ because it should be just a combination of healthy living and nix the word diet from the vocabulary. Bad habits include going to the casino. This isn’t bad if I’d budget more appropriately which means spend less. (More on budget issues on a later day.) The worst is gravitating toward everything my ex would like while browsing tables at each sale. I think “Oh, he’d really like the fishing rod, or that grill, or that drill, or this or that…” Quite depressing. Money saver but makes me sad to be alone again. When will this habit end? When will I go past the filet knife, the antique cooler, the Indian prints and close my eyes and mind to the past 16 months.
Potentials – Speaking of sad to be alone. Dear man at Casey’s you were smoking hot and I’m glad we couldn’t keep our eyes off each other. However, as I’ve told my friends and family I should just stamp ‘ASSHOLE’ on your forehead and move on. But, nothing wrong in looking and that quick flash of butterflies through the stomach. So sorry Mr. Man at Casey’s if I was the only one with a staring problem. Sorry to Cranky Single Mom for not having balls to do anything about this moment in time that felt like it lasted forever.
Catching Up – I read all the Harry Potter books. I even stood at Hy-Vee waiting on midnight to get a copy of The Deathly Hallows. I am behind on the movies. I just finished The Half-Blood Prince. Grace and I are going to go crawl into my bed (‘my’ bed no longer an ‘our’ bed) and watch The Deathly Hallows Part I.
Have now since seen the movie. Talk about cranky! My internet hit an all time low. Didn’t think I’d be back on all weekend.
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