Finally, I was able to sleep in. Till 8 am. Its really not so important when you get up as it is being able to get out of bed when you want to. Just the feeling of control makes it all better. Neither of us had time sensitive plans for the day. Another key part of the days plans.
I did do something, quite accidental, this morning that sounds stupid but ended up being brilliant. Since that’s how it ended up I am going with being brilliant. So, I get two packets of diet food out of pantry. One is the pancakes (nasty cakes) I have spoken of and the other is oatmeal which I make for Emily. She likes it, I do not. I make it then add a few blueberries and some lite maple flavor syrup (gag). Anyway, a funny thing happened on the way to the forum. As usual, I mixxed up The oatmeal and put it in the microwave. Then while it cooked its 2.5 mins I went out to get the Sunday paper. I come back in and realize that the circuit breaker, that runs the microwave, has tripped. Happens often, old house, loaded circuit. So I take a guess and add time to microwave. Hit start. Watch it, and it kinda blows up in the bowl. I figure, oh it’s done. With the breaker and such, who knows. It looked weird and was nicely thicker than usual. So on go the berries and syrup. And I take it to Emily upstairs. Then I go downstairs to make my cakes (nasty). But, there is a package of oatmeal on the counter. Oops. I quickly head upstairs and reclaim a bowl of pancakes cooked oatmeal style. Then I make real oatmeal for Em. But, instead of wasting said bowl of cakes, I try it. Awesome. Fantastic. Amazing. Now, the recipe for oatmeal I used has double water and more cooking than the pancakes. But the result is strangely worth posting to some diet site I dont know where. Like I said, brilliant. Who knew Sunday could be so great?
Emily went to school to work on whatever teachers work on when no kids are there. It was 930 and she said she was going shopping after school then home by 12.
I, on the other hand, stayed home and read the paper while drinking coffee. Someboday has got to do it. After the strenous exercise of news reading I went upstairs for morning ablutions and get dressed.
Next stop, outside on the driveway. I wanted to wash the car but felt it better to rake all the leaves off the driveway first. Hard to rake the leaves when they are wet and soggy. Got driveway clear and then washed the car. Damn thing was filthy from all the recent rains so I actually had hard work to do. Even wiping down the sills was extra hard from all the muddy water. The car is now shiny and beautiful
See what I mean. Its ok to be jealous.
After the car I continued with the leaves. I had raked the driveway but still had to rake the back lawn. The walnut tree leaves kill my lawn. I have experience with this. Which is why I rake. It sure isnt because I love yardwork. Because I dont.
The volume of leaves is so great I dont have enough garbage can capacity for them. I do fill the garbage can but I then wheel it out to the burn pile and dump it there. I can torch it after 5/31 due to burn rules. Some idiot is worried about winter air quality. I dont like regulation.
I am now officially chore free for today. Its 125. I am going into Vacaville to do some stocking shopping. Probably run into Emily. She just called. I think I will take the convertible and give it a run. Its a sunny day and kinda cold but top down might be refreshing. And I can always crank the heater.
What a pain. The first store I went to did not have what I needed. They were out. No rainchecks on the sale either. When they do get more I will have to argue with them for sale price. I have a couple particular things I needed for Ems stocking and that one thing is available at only this store. Its proprietary. I moved on to other stores and continually struck out. It really starts to annoy when you cant find any gifts. But I pushed onward. I hit the hardware store, on recommendation of another store. They had housewares but not what I wanted. Then off to Target. And nothing there either. Christ. Then off to Grocery Outlet. Thats right, go to a grocery store for stocking stuffers. Found a few things that were just fine. And a great deal on garbage bags to boot. From there to Nugget Market, another grocery store but they have loads of overpriced stocking stuffers. Found a few more things, all on sale. I should stick to grocery stores. Found some good stuff for stockings. Then to Bed Bath and Beyond where I got a few more items I could not live without. Or she cant. Then I went home. And, at 530 sun down, it was brisk and cold. Heater way up, which is a freeze and fry situation with heat at feet and cold wind at top. Hey, its a convertible, get used to it.
Emily was home and had been all day. She did her shopping much earlier today. We had a cocktail, which really tops off the long day. We made dinner, pork loin steaks with a sweet habanero sauce. Plus some roasted asparagus on the side. We had wine with dinner as well. We have far too much wine inventory in the house.
Then we watched TV for an hour or so. Emily finished off the bottle. Hey, an extra glass isnt that much. The TV upstairs is not working, again, so we have to watch downstairs. Oh well. Quieter when I go to bed, at the least, with no TV. So here we sit.
While we sit here, my idiot son has been texting me. Lots of inane chatter and not much else out of him. I think he is not as funny as he thinks he is. Obviously. Anyhow, we are watching TV downstairs, again. TV upstairs still broke. So, I went upstairs, managed to get the TV box, which was dead, to reset. So, 15 minutes of rebooting and we have TV. Too bad. Now Emily will go to sleep with the TV on, she drops off VERY quickly, and I cant shut it off because she claims she watches it in her sleep. Or she says she was not asleep. Snoring be damned.
I read a book for a few minutes and went to sleep.