The weekend isn’t a total loss after all. I know, I’m shocked. We woke up this morning feeling MUCH better. Well, okay, I woke up with a splitting migraine headache, but other than that, MUCH better. And I, for one, was happy to be able to get out of the house again. Yesterday, that just wasn’t gonna happen. Here Miss Zoot is running a marathon and I’m lounging around in my PJ’s watching “Shanghai Knights”. And don’t think that realization didn’t just depress the heck out of me either.
But today, we struck out. We went to church like the good little Christians we are. Then we met NewFriend and her family and OtherFriend and her family for lunch at Applebee’s. And, yet again, I ordered the Bruschetta Burger because I am a creature of habit and utterly incapable of ordering anything else. But the boys had fun, as you can see.
We did our big shopping trip afterward and I’m proud to report that we made it through Wal-Mart in record time. I told Kile that we don’t need to pore over “per item” prices, that we know by now what the good deals are and what we’re willing to spend a few extra $ on. Let’s just jam through it, and get the heck home. Which we did. Yay! Go us!
After we put some groceries away, we saw our neighbor across the street outside. Kile went over to talk to her and I followed. Turns out? Her husband had a stroke on Monday. We felt like giant tools, only learning about it now. He’s not that old a guy, in his 50’s. Active, healthy… It was a very bad stroke, but it was bad enough. We spoke to him a bit, and he was having difficulty searching for words from time to time, but it was nice to see he hadn’t lost his sense of humor. Right now, they have a lot of family pitching in to help them out, but we’d like to do a little something for them, just to let them know we’re here and we care. I just don’t know what yet. Such a shame, they’re very nice people.
Anyhow, didn’t mean to end that on such a downer, it really was a pretty good day around here. And I feel as though my weekend has been salvaged somewhat. A very, very good thing.
