Saturday's Thoughts
Managed to go a whole week (while The Hubby was out of town) without playing a single computer game.
Today's movie: Avatar 3D. (I don't think I was supposed to laugh.)
Five Guys Burgers: Best meal I had all week long. (bacon burger, mustard, ketchup, pickles - I'm simplistic when it comes to food.)
Preparing for the musical number for tomorrow: Still not completely comfortable with the section that has 5 sharps. (The arranger must have a slightly sadistic streak.)
Still shaking my head over the two 7-11 stores directly across the street from each other - with different gasoline prices.
Sore Backside
Had my first bike ride of the season - YAY!! W-a-y cold, fun and so worth the exercise. (Thanks kind lady for keeping your ginormous dog from attacking me.) Goldilocks ride: here I come!
Heaven
Felt like I got a teensy inkling/peek at heaven today, worrying that we three kept a couple ladies waiting on us at the Temple, but then remembering that relationships are the binding force for all that goes on there. Joyful meetings, reunions, greetings and connections are the stuff of relationships, and hopefully the stuff of Heaven as well.
Alarm
The Hubby asked me a question this morning that gave me pause. I told him I couldn't sleep well for fear that I would sleep through the alarm.
He said, "Now tell me, have you ever in your life overslept?"
I guess there's no need to even think about that answer.
Book Group
Around the kitchen table is the very best place to visit with friends. (It's even better with pie!)
Jeans
So, I 'm in the dressing room trying on jeans. (Big mistake: going straight from a big lunch to try on jeans. I could hardly fold at the waist!) I've grabbed my usual size, have 4 or 5 pair and am grousing and grumbling (in my head); and I'm struggling with these jeans! (You can just picture the scene, can't you...) What is going on? I'm thinking it must be this new "secret slimming" thing they've got on the label. I am not happy.
Out of the clear blue this voice from the next cube floats over "Are you finding that the sizes are generally running much larger these days? Everything seems so big." What? She can't be talking to me.
Seriously?!
Granddaughter
(No restaurants in store for me today - not in the mood - what's wrong with me?)
My 3 year old granddaughter told me today that she likes the rain because she can stick out her tongue and get a drink.
Restaurants
I've got another shot at seeing how many different restaurants I can get to in the space of 5 days. All the while trying to minimize my caloric intake. Are those counter productive goals?
Afternoon Walk
One thing to count on in Utah: the weather is changeable. In the span of our 75 minute walk we experienced dark clouds, wind, cold, snow and sunshine. Made us grateful for hoods, gloves and tissues.
Hair
In my next life I'm requesting great, thick, beautiful hair (and a slender build, good eyes, beautiful skin, strong fingernails, good teeth......)
Rainy Day
Sometimes rainy days are just the best days for taking care of a couple things (getting glasses re-fitted/fixed, getting new phone technical help, etc.) & going to lunch with My Love (Thursday is Cafe Rio tamale day - love them!)
Today I was excited to be part of a club that I rarely join: the get-a-drink-with-lunch-refill-the drink-and-carry-the-full-cup-out-to-the-car-club. I'm coming up in the world!
Book
I read a book this afternoon. Wanted to record a couple thoughts that resonated with me:
1. The secret to happiness - be satisfied (I interpreted that to be content; one of my favorite concepts) and be grateful.
2. We are told to repent exactly one day before we die. How do you know it's the day before you die?.....Exactly.
This hearkens to the exhortation from one of my Institute teachers - to repent daily. There is always something to repent of, every day.
So glad I spent the day reading this book that I was, frankly, expecting to not like at all.
Birthday Cards
Went to buy a card today for a friend. Noticed a marked difference in cards for men vs. cards for women.
Decided it's more fun to buy cards for women.
Runabout Car
It is decreed: Any person who shall call The Hubby's car a "Barbie" car will not ever be allowed inside it.
"Friend"
This is such a great word - usually inspires tender feelings.
The dictionary lists one definition as: one who is not hostile. That was unexpected.
And yet, as I've been thinking about this word lately, people can interpret it very loosely.
Here's wishing and hoping (for me and all those I know) that only the very best kind of friends inhabit our/your lives.
Already Thinking
Only 7:30 a.m. and I already have a couple thoughts to put down:
1. Feeling nervous about being brave. I registered to ride my bike in a non-competitive charity ride in May. Doing the 15 mile section (rain or shine they say). I think I can...I think I can....
2. Still chuckling over the primary girls attempting to anonymously leave us a "heart attack" on our front door. Taping a cute heart garland undetected is difficult to do when the door is full glass, and the homeowners are walking past and see you. What fun - thanks girls!
3. Five Guys still have the best burgers and anytime I can go there and not have to cook is a gift!
Valentine's Day
Haven't ever really cared for this holiday. But this year The Hubby gave me a gift that I love and will thoroughly enjoy: he got new batteries for 6 of my (dead) watches! What a Guy!! (As always, thanks, My Love!)
The Hubby
Sometimes I feel like a submarine when The Hubby uses his vocal "sonar" to locate me. (ping....ping....ping....ping....)
cookies
Peanut Butter cookies (which I haven't had in ever so long) are a good way to round out the food intake for the day.
Anti-Social
I know I'm always saying how anti-social I am. (Translation: very comfortable at home, uncomfortable in social situations.) Still, I'm grumpy about not being invited. I would still invite me.
Mondays
Mondays don't always have to be fraught with difficulties.
Good things about this Monday:
I was back out on the trail for sunrise and loved it.
The Hubby had no trouble resolving the billing issues with the clinic over my foot problem. (Thanks, My Love.)
The credit union fixed my "pin" issue "on-the-spot".
Packages that arrive on time in good shape.
Baby-back ribs for dinner.
People
Tonight I'm grateful for sweet people who give me a hug and a smile. I might not look like I need those two things, but looks can be deceiving.
Finished a Book
One of my favorite lines from the one I finished tonight: "I feel better when I think about how showing respect to one person makes every person worth more."
Symphony
Our evening at the Symphony also included The Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - what a wild night. Classical music first, Swing / Jazz / Rock (Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is hard to label) second. Wow!
Only noticed the dispenser of ear-plugs on our way OUT of the building.
Faith and Life
It occurred to me as I was renewing our season tickets to the symphony, that it requires a certain amount of faith to do that...to plan something so far ahead. Much of life involves that same sort of faith - that things will work out.
Thursday That Feels Like Friday
Sunshine made the day so lovely. Even did a yard "walk-a-bout" with our grandson looking for the tips of flower bulbs peeking through the dirt. We actually found quite a few.
A drive with The Hubby for service on the car and lunch after also was more enjoyable in the sunshine - after a very dreary January.
Sunshine did not, however, improve the book I've been reading for book group. I totally get that I'm in the minority, but I do not enjoy reading such explicit, frequent sex (particularly from a woman author) nor do I enjoy the awful language. Is she just trying to prove that a woman can write the same filth that a man can? I think this is most likely a book I'll not finish. I have better things to do with my time.
People
Just because a person thinks a thought doesn't mean that it is a requirement to voice that thought. Particularly when it isn't maybe a kind thought. (Unkind thoughts are best kept a secret.)
cellphone
New phone: fairly small.
User manual: gargantuan.
Texting: Much more fun. (Hopefully more accurate, too.)
Frustrations: minimal. Thanks, My Love, for your help!
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