The Usual

Well, it seems I am back to my usual self, my usual pattern. I go strong for days then nothing.

Last weekend was really nice up until Sunday. Little Sis S spent the night (first time in new house) and I dog-sat her dogs until late Sunday afternoon. Her mom and step-dad were out of town for his birthday, and to use the 2-nights at the West Yellowstone hotel I gave them for their wedding. [Gotta love some of the perks I can occasionally get for my job.] So Friday after work I went out to their house in the valley to pick up the dogs. I didn't mind the additional time or mileage, because it's just getting to the really good parts of "Rebecca" on audio book, so any excuse to drive...Then I headed back to E.H. to pick up S at her Dad's (thankfully just up the road from my place) and to my house. Pretty much from 6pm to 9pm we didn't stop moving. Seriously. First we had to cook our dinner, and then I had to fix Scully's home-cooked meal. Then we sat and ate (never takes as long as the prep, does it) and then there was cleaning up from all that cooking! I said to S "Now you know why I only cook a few times a week." [g]

By that point friends had shown up with their 14 y.o. son J. to mow my yard (desperately needed). It was very weird - the section outside my back door, in the bend of the L-shape of my house, the grass was literally taller than my knees. But just at the end of the short part of the L, as if someone drew a line off the edge of the house, the grass dropped down to only 4 inches tall. No fooling. Very bizarre!

S. was very much into her drama/diva persona while J. was there. She did help with the cleanup, oh, yes, because that got her outside where he was. LOL. And she was so insistent on showing me the latest flips and cartwheels and fantastic things she can do from gymnastics. By the time we were done, I took my friend P. for a tour of the house (she hadn't seen the inside yet) and S. stayed outside with J. It would have been so cute if it hadn't been scary. I guess the teen years are not as far away as her mom and I would like to think!

Anyway, shortly after they left we crashed. Hard. LOL. Put me in front of the TV and I fall asleep every time (I swear I inherited this from mom!). Didn't think the same would happen to S. But I guess she'd had a long day too.

Saturday I went with my friend Morning Owl to the big "4th Annual Spring Garage Sale" at the county fairgrounds. What a let-down! It was very small. But we were having such a good time we got a list of garage sales from the paper and spent most of the day hunting for bargains. I didn't find a bicycle, but found a few other things. Biggest find of the day was when we got into the "rich people" side of town. [Up the hill behind the capitol...my gosh, there are roads up there I didn't realize existed!] This one house had so many audio books on CD it was insane! There were these two huge bags full, almost as tall as me. I couldn't get through most of it. I got two J.D. Robb books on audio CD - unabridged - for $20! They're usually $40 each so this was great. :) Made myself stop looking at that point as I was out of money.

By the time I got home that afternoon I was wiped out. Had a migraine by Sunday, and ended up cancelling our outing to see "Fiddler on the Roof". S was upset, naturally, but understood. I hated doing it, but was in so much pain and of course, was out of my migraine meds. Sigh. I hate re-filling that prescription. It's just wrong to have to pay $50 for nine lousy pills. It's just plain wrong!

Funnily enough, a cup of hot chocolate and 2 pieces of peanut butter toast helped 'cure' the migraine enough for me to go to bed and actually sleep! Naturally, by end of day yesterday it was back in full force, but hey...beggars can't be choosers!