HAD TO SIT

HAD TO SIT IN MY COMFY CHAIR as my upper back began to complain with an ache.  I did real good all day with my old body until I got HOME from running errands and started packing my WINTER SWEATERS into boxes.  The way my brain works these days, I get sidetracked so easy it's humorous.

I went upstairs to box up the contents of the file cabinet.  Didn't make it.  Instead, I made a sharp turn right, went down the hall to a bedroom and started taking sweaters out of the chest of drawers to pack in boxes.  It was in the middle of this that my back started to scream.  Okay, I'll go sit for a bit and return later.

Earlier in the day, my plans for the day changed after my Husband telephoned the Doctor's Office to see if he could be seen for an appointment to visit with our doc about his C-PAP breathing machine.

He needs a different style mask and has to get a prescription to get a new one.  When the nurse told him he could come in at 3:30, I had to change my plans like that.  So as to stay on track with packing for the move, I emptied some file cabinet drawers then got ready to go to TOWN.

We loaded the car up with donation stuff from the carriage house to drop off at GOODWILL before heading out.  Had a large load to haul.  Filled up the back end of our lil Cruiser and away we went. 

Donated decorative oversized sofa pillows, quite a few children's CDs, decorating books, Civil War Books, misc. glassware, Teddy Bears, Teddy Bears, Teddy Bears, Christmas Ornaments (what a surprise), 3 Christmas Towel Sets, pretty lamp shade and clothing.   G o o d  g r i e f.   What else have I collected that I no longer need or want?  AND the list goes on and on.  

I might seem like a HOARDER to some and on certain days I am leaning toward thinking I could pass as a first cousin to one.  Not a healthy thing to be.  Shedding all this stuff has to be done.  I have to believe it's alright to have less STUFF and more ORDER.  Easier on the eye and calms the nerves.  ORDER.

After we drove to the GOODWILL drop off, we visited Starbucks for a trenta unsweetened Iced Green Tea.  My favorite.  Filled the car with fuel and went to the doctor's appointment.  I stayed in the car cleaning the console and the side pockets of the doors as Hubby attended his appointment.  

As I sat in the car waiting, I put some make-up on and re-did my hair. Hubby actually noticed that my face had changed colors as I applied Almond Hustle by Maybelline on my lips and did an old Sophia Loren trick of using lipstick for the creamy blush.  I also applied a small amount on my eyelids for shadow.  Fully coordinated today.

The lipstick has a creamy consistency and lasted a while.  Liked it.  Pinks and mauves are usually my first choice, but today it was more on the orange side of things.     

Off to an early supper at McAlisters to have a Pecan Strawberry Chicken Salad (380 calories).  NOT BAD.  It was the best one I have ever had.  I should have stopped there, but I have been craving Carrot Cake.  I splurged with a slice of Carrot Cake (1170) which I shared with Hubby.  1170 plus 380 = 1550 is way too many calories for one meal for me.  Thinking about how easy it has been to cave in when dining out.  It was the quiet time of day to eat so we could talk turkey about what we are doing.

Visited the grocery store next to get some turkey bacon and turkey sausage plus a few more things like Cracked Pepper Crackers.  I saw some Special K Cereal which I haven't had in a few years so I picked up one of these small boxes.  We actually had a HUMAN CHECKER this time. Their self-check lanes were busy, but we grabbed a HUMAN. Is the world going to pass me on by?  Probably, as I am more contented living a slower paced life most of the time.

More and more places of business have self-check and the humans have disappeared.  Hy-Vee is one of those places.  After they remodeled last year, they installed the self-check stations.  The first time I experienced this at this grocery store, it turned me off.  No one to bag my purchases.  I'm use to placing the items on the conveyor belt and bagging at Aldi, but not at Hy-Vee.  Placing the items on a conveyor belt before was doable as the clerk checked me out and saw to it that the items were bagged.  GONE are the days where the groceries are taken to your vehicle and placed inside by an employee.  Slowly customer service has vanished. 

Our local DOLLAR GENERALS have been closed for remodeling and when the big day came for them to open, there they were, self-check stations.  The refrigerator units had increased and for a small town that has no grocery store this is a great feature.  

Last time I went to DOLLAR GENERAL in the small town where my Mom lives, we waited about 5 minutes at the check-out before a human came to assist us.  Hollering for assistance when there isn't any, takes a chunk out of the customer's patience especially when elderly.  SO now with self-check, the waiting is less for now.  It seems like we have entered into a futuristic realm where humans are overlooked.  Less interaction and communication between people.    

Drive down Main Street and went to the Flower Gardens at KSU.  It will be about a month before the Irises bloom?  I know the year that my Mom turned 80, 11 years ago, the Irises bloomed second week of April.  Doesn't seem possible that this time of year is fast approaching.  The Tulips are showing their leaves as well.  We drove our old neighborhood in which we left back in 2005.  Blows my mind that it's been this long since we lived there.

I do not miss it, but still decorate the house in my mind thinking if we had stayed, I would have done thus and so.  grins.  The habitual decorator in me seems to do this a lot for inexpensive entertainment. Can you believe it?

Drove about the campus of KSU then drove HOME to unload groceries as by this time I was fading.  Tired.  Before I sat down for the evening, this is when I went upstairs to empty some drawers in the file cabinet just to get distracted with sweaters.

If you can say that getting older is funny then things like this don't have to disturb you.  Senior moments take place.  Sometimes it's frustrating when thoughts vapor lock vanishing into the corridors of my mind, lost.  Wish there was a mental flashlight to shine and locate that thought ushering it back to the front of the line and placing it in the lost and found.

Oh well,  
~d