Cheap Thrills More Crochet and More Digestive Issues

Digestive issues. Just part of getting old I guess. As mysteriously as my...whisper...diarrhea issues started up last year they have just as mysteriously gone and now I am back to the daily challenge of trying to get enough fiber and water in the hopes of everything that goes in comes back out again. I had just gotten used to not straying too far from a bathroom and actually liking the part about losing weight because the fats in my foods were not getting digested when okay, enough of that, now you are not going to be able to go at all! So...metamucil is once again my friend and how many times a day can you drink that stuff anyway? I keep a bottle of magnesium citrate saline solution on hand for emergencies but be careful with that stuff and definitely don't drink too much of it! It's cheap though and doesn't taste too bad nor does it give you cramps like some laxative pills can.

I try to get fiber in my foods but my appetite is just so bad these days, food does not sound good but I still get very hungry and have to eat something, anything! Unfortunately my taste for sweet stuff looks like it will never go away, but my taste for anything healthy like chicken or a salad is just non existent. And lets not even get into cooking anything, it's too hot to cook and I just plain old don't like doing it, especially when I just can't face eating the end result because it just doesn't look or sound good. I do mix up and drink a lot of Trutein protein shakes (which come in wonderful flavors like peanut butter marshmallow!) but as far as real food goes, ugh.

We did go out to lunch with Joe last week and went to a cafe down the road that we hadn't been to in years. They had expanded both the cafe and the menu since we were last there. I seem to remember it only being open for breakfast and lunch but it's now open for dinner too and they also have a full bar, not that either one of us can drink any liquor anymore. I opted for the hamburger patty diet plate and it was really good, the hamburger was really tasty and tender and the sliced tomatoes and fruit that came with it did whet my appetite and tasted really good. Keith had pork chops and eggs and Joe had bacon and eggs which came with home fried potatoes and a biscuit and gravy (yum!). The service was really good and the heavily tattooed waitress very cafe/truck stop friendly so I'm pretty sure that we will go back next time we are looking for a good meal. However I don't think I'll be trying the tongue sandwich that is on their menu any time soon.

We went to the movies last week to see Jason Bourne which was good, but I have an incredibly hard time sitting through a movie in a movie theatre these days. I get very uncomfortable and always have to go to the bathroom halfway through and am looking around for the remote control so that I can put the movie on pause. It's also really expensive to go to the movies, $10.00 each to get in and then Keith spent another $14.00 or so on a small popcorn, coke and a bottle of water.

Yesterday Keith created his 'poor man's water park' in the back yard by propping up the hose so that it would shower down on him. Millie does not like water spraying on her so she watched from the sidelines looking quite confused as to what Papa was doing.

He sat out there for about 30 minutes under the water and said it was very relaxing. Plus it cooled him off after we had worked in the front yard getting things cleaned up that morning.

More crochet. I've gotten a lot of patterns off of Etsy and am really enjoying trying them all out. I did this mandala coaster pattern yesterday.

I have so many different colors of the 'I Love This Cotton Yarn' brand from Hobby Lobby that I could probably make hundreds of these in all different color combinations. I went a little overboard last time I was at Hobby Lobby and now have boxes full of yarn!

What We Did This Weekend

Saturday morning I was planning to go to Target to do my Christmas shopping and get gifts for the company party that night. I was ready to go at 8am. Keith wasn't. So, my day started out waiting for him to finally get up and get dressed and stop reading his magazine and get dressed and stop playing with the cats and get dressed and come on already, let's get going before everyone else in the world decides to go to Target.

I wanted to drop packages off at the post office so decided to stop at the Other Target which is near the post office but first we stopped at Carl's Jr to get something to eat because there were no eggs in the house or anything else to eat for breakfast and we didn't want to go to a real restaurant and have to sit there for an hour while everyone else in the world bought all the stuff that I was planning to buy at Target. However, stopping at the Other Target was a mistake because what I was planning to buy was nowhere to be found, either that or we had been beaten to them by everyone else in the world, so let's just go to Our Target where I know exactly where want I want to buy is. But first we need to go into Pier One because something else that I wanted to buy is in there. We got a little exercise by parking between the two stores and then walking instead of parking, walking, shopping, driving, parking, walking, shopping. Our Target had exactly what I wanted to buy. But then we needed to go to the Dollar Store for gift bags and gift wrap, but at least the Dollar Store was prepared and had lots of checkstands open so it was fairly painless to shop there and since everything is a dollar, not much money spent either.

Then we had to go to the Company Christmas Party slash Safety Meeting that night. They used to have it at the nearby Golf Course in the clubhouse with really good food prepared by the golf course people but it was getting too expensive so they opted for the meeting room in the only fancy motel in Wasco and have it catered by some barbecue company. So we drive to Wasco and pass by the only other motel in town, the Motel Cinderella that promises Color TV on their sign and go to the Best Western which is right across the street from the Motel Cinderella and I'm sure the Motel Cinderella was really annoyed that the Best Western moved in across the street. Not that anyone puts Wasco on their list of vacation destinations.

I wasn't real impressed by the food, tri-tip and chicken and very soggy green beans and rice. Before dinner there were 'appetizers' of cut up weenies in barbecue sauce and some icky meatballs and chips and dip. Dessert was grocery store bakery cake.

Safety and the next growth phase of the company were talked about and safety bonus checks were handed out and handshaking done and we did the gift exchange and we actually got something usable this year, a blanket for the couch and a Starbucks coffee sampler. No massaging slippers this year- yay! Someone did give a bubbling pet fountain as a gift, and why in the world would you think a bubbling pet fountain would be a good gift for the company gift exchange anyway?

The not so good food and the coffee after dinner gave me an upset stomach and I kept waking up feeling kind of sick all night long so on Sunday I was feeling not so good and tired. Keith slept late again and then wandered around in his underwear, finally settling on the couch to watch football. Still in his underwear.

I worked on my shops for a while and then decided to mow the lawn which was looking a little shaggy. Keith finally put some pants on and came out to do the weed whacking and help me finish up. We decided to go to the movies which we haven't done in months, so grabbed our free movie tickets (thanks, Jennifer!) that we've been hoarding, and off to the movies to see J Edgar. Which was a good movie, very interesting, and Leonardo Di Caprio is one of my favorite actors, but the movie theater was so cold that my feet and legs were aching and it was very hard to sit through the whole movie. Plus the seats are nothing like being at home on your reclining couch and being able to pause the movie to go to the bathroom. Note to self, either bring a blanket next time or wear three pairs of socks and two pairs of pants. Or just save movie going for the summertime when you want to sit inside a cold dark place.