What's on your agenda for today?

Good sunny Sunday morning from the Atlanta area. I've been sort of MIA for a couple of days for no particular reason. I've been lurking but not posting. Would it be okay to blame it on being tired in the morning when I get up and being tired in the afternoon when I get home? Working five days a week, even if it is usually only 4-5 hours, is getting old. On Wednesday this week there's a job that won't start until 10 am and probably last until at least 5 or 6. I'm doing this why? Oh. Right. Money! I like the nice green color, the nice green feel and the nice green way it looks in my bank account.

Spring is 54 days away. I really don't want to wait 54 days because I WANT SPRING RIGHT NOW THIS MINUTE! Oh. Sorry. I was shouting. But can it please be spring early?

Ameriscot, only a week left before you have to go back to winter? At least you'll have memories of a great vacation to keep you warm! It really doesn't seem like you've been gone long at all.

Georgia Lady, enjoy your trip to Florida. I hope you get to stay long enough to miss whatever strange weather is in store for us in middle to north Georgia for Feb-u-dreary. Remember Lewis Grizzard? That was his term for the second month of the year:)
 

DSW is great. My only "complaint" is that there are soooo many choices. It's sort of like going to Baskin-Robbins:)

QS, Whole Foods is such a fun place, but it really should be called Whole Paycheck!
 

We don't have a Whole Foods near us but I've heard quite a lot about the prices from folks who've shopped at one. The DSW is about ten miles away and I haven't gone there often. Ordering stuff online is Soooooo easy, especially in awful weather, that my urge to travel to go shopping has dwindled some. Are there DSW stores in the UK?
 
Georgia, believe me I know what it's like to be tired. I work 11 hour days 4 days a week ...up at 5am..get to work for 7, not finished until 6pm sometimes later...tired all the time!!..so I fully understand how you're feeling.

No DSW shops in the UK...but we have lots of shoe shops/

In fact I've just come back from returning a pair of tan rider boots I bought at Christmas, they'd been in the Boxing day sale at £50 reduced from £150, but the leather had started to come off after just one wear, and this from a high end store...so I took 'em back today and got my money refunded.

From there we went to the Pub restaurant to have a Sunday Carvery for lunch.. I had Roast beef, yorkshire pudding, roast spuds, carrots, red cabbage and gravy and I am stuffed to the brim now. Restaurant was packed..it's soo cold out that I think everyone had the same idea.. :D
 
I see you live in Atlanta. I used to live in Atlanta for 15 years. Went to Georgia Baptist Nursing School there. When my children entered school, hubby and I wanted to move to his hometown in Southern Ga.
I live on the Ga/FL line, so we get very little cold weather. I remember those cold icy winters in Atlanta. Sometimes you would get iced in for a week.
I like to go to Miami/Key West area in Winter and get on the beach.
I can't wait for June when I will go to Blue Ridge Mountains in Daughter's RV
Stay warm and don't work too hard.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
DSW is great. My only "complaint" is that there are soooo many choices. It's sort of like going to Baskin-Robbins:)

QS, Whole Foods is such a fun place, but it really should be called Whole Paycheck!
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That's for sure... I would never do my entire grocery shopping there.. but there are a few items I like to get. They have a pasta substitute made from soy that is very low in calories.. and today I bought some ground flax with apples and cinnamon.. and an assortment of dipping sauces..


At DSW I found a very comfortable pair of shoes for work.. AND then I made the mistake of wandering over to the handbags... I broke the bank with a $200 Michael Kor.. If you want to believe the tag, it was marked down from $368.. but I never believe that.. I'll have to check it out online.
 
QS, when it comes to spending on myself I'm tighter than bark on a tree, but I wasn't always like this. When I started really pinching pennies, it occurred to me one day that there was really no need for me to carry a purse. Mostly what I wear is Levi's so I keep my driver's license, debit card and insurance card in one back pocket and a tissue in the other. In one front pocket I keep a Chapstick; in the other I keep my phone.

When I have to go somewhere besides work or to Walmart and it's necessary to wear "real" clothes, I make sure I wear something with pockets because I've gotten so used to not carrying a purse that I don't want to be bothered.

Back in the olden days...maybe in the 70s?...I spent $100 on a Stone Mountain Leather Company purse. That was a heckuva lot of $$ in those days. I still had plenty of stuff to tote around in that purse, but money wasn't one of them!
 
Our day consisted of something that wasn`t on the agenda-playing ambulance. We drove out behind us to see the kids,they were dirt bike riding. You have to drive slowly along rocks and through streams If we had any rain to speak of,you wouldn`t be able to drive out there at all,but we`re still not getting any rain. Anyway,we suddenly see a bunch of guys standing around in a circle looking at something on the ground. Then I realized one of the guys was our son in law. I got nervous but hubby says "Nobody`s hurt,it`s just a bike they`re looking at." Got closer and realized someone WAS hurt. I then got VERY nervous,afraid it was one of our grandsons. Turned out it was a friend of theirs. They think he broke his leg. So we took the back seats out of my Tahoe,laid the other seats flat and the guys picked him up and slid him in. Son in law called his grandma,who is raising him,and told her to meet us at the ER. Got him there and a nurse came out with a wheelchair and we got him out just as grandma arrived. Went back out and still got there in time for the BBQ chicken. Hoping we hear soon how the kiddo is doing-I guess last time he crashed he split his head wide open so grandma was relieved this time that there was no blood....
 
Holly, you sure have to put in a heckuva long work week. If it were me working those hours, I'd be flat on the floor. I'm sorry your great bargain buy didn't work out. Sometimes it makes me wonder about deep-discounted merchandise.

Mrs. R.-Seems like you had a mind-rattling day! I sure hope the young person with the broken leg heals fast. Thank goodness you were there with a vehicle to take him to get help! Let's hope your future drives are quieter and disaster-free!

I love reading messages from our Georgia folks on here - it takes me back to the 8 years I lived in suburban Atlanta. That is one city that was made for shop-a-holics. I worked downtown and sometimes during my lunch hour I would walk over to Macy's Dept. Store and lead myself into temptation. On days off, my pals and I would head over to the mall at Lenox which had everything under the sun, most of it priced sky-high. Now shopping isn't that convenient but, actually, retirement means I don't need all the clothes I used to buy.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Good sunny Sunday morning from the Atlanta area. I've been sort of MIA for a couple of days for no particular reason. I've been lurking but not posting. Would it be okay to blame it on being tired in the morning when I get up and being tired in the afternoon when I get home? Working five days a week, even if it is usually only 4-5 hours, is getting old. On Wednesday this week there's a job that won't start until 10 am and probably last until at least 5 or 6. I'm doing this why? Oh. Right. Money! I like the nice green color, the nice green feel and the nice green way it looks in my bank account.

Spring is 54 days away. I really don't want to wait 54 days because I WANT SPRING RIGHT NOW THIS MINUTE! Oh. Sorry. I was shouting. But can it please be spring early?

Ameriscot, only a week left before you have to go back to winter? At least you'll have memories of a great vacation to keep you warm! It really doesn't seem like you've been gone long at all.

Georgia Lady, enjoy your trip to Florida. I hope you get to stay long enough to miss whatever strange weather is in store for us in middle to north Georgia for Feb-u-dreary. Remember Lewis Grizzard? That was his term for the second month of the year:)
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Aye. Arrived in Bangkok Nov 28th and been on this island since Dec 1st. We bought quite a few things to use in this house and they will be stored here for us until we come back in 11 months. Next year will be Jan and Feb.

In our area of Scotland we start to get flowers blooming in Feb. But should be in the 40'sF. There have been high winds and quite a bit of snow which is unusual. Hope it's not too cold when we get back, I have a light fleece jacket, thin trousers and trainers (tennis shoes), raincoat, and hubby has raincoat and sport jacket.

Today I need to top up my phone as my 2 30 day packages are finished.
 
Mrs. R, glad you were there to help out and glad you got back in time to eat!

Kath, I don't know when you left, but the Atlanta area has undergone some big-time changes. I gotten over the urge to shop, but when I still enjoyed retail therapy, my favorite thing to do was to head to the outlet malls outside the city, especially the one that was a day trip to Boaz, Alabama. When we'd get home again, we'd add up how much all our stuff would have cost just so we could crow about how much we saved. One day it occurred to me that "saved" wasn't what we'd done at all. Can't "save" by spending! LOL

Gosh, Ameriscot, have you really been gone that long? It seems like you only just left a few weeks ago. Enjoy your last few days there before going home to not-quite-spring.
 
Hi all..mid-day here in the UK...and it's been raining on and off all morning. Sun is out now but for how long..who knows.

Kath, yes my owrk hours are very demanding, but fortunately I don't work every day. I work on a rota which differs every week, 3 or 4 days ..so a total of about 44 hours. Some days I work my rota all in a row and others like this week, I have a day off in between..so I'm off today and in tomorrow, off Wednesday in Thursday etc.. I prefer it that way it gives me a chance for some recovery from the previous day.

Mrs Robinson..thank goodness you came along for the sake of the injured lad..By the sounds of it , it would have been difficult for paramedics to have got to him, so your fast action may have prevented lingering suffering for him.

Accch AS..I can hardly believe like the others that 2 months have gone by already..that's flown. Oh well you only have another 11 months until your back there again.. :D
 
It's due to snow again today (whoopee :() so I just pushed the trash can to the curb for pickup, drove to pharmacy to pick up some prescriptions, and also got some dog food. We've had so much snow so far it's ridiculous. I would really like to go on a trip somewhere but I'm kind of nervous to be gone while my husband is so sick. If the hospice people needed to reach me, it would be such a bad situation if I was quite far away.

AS, it does seem like you haven't been gone as long as you actually have. I think it might be because we got messages from you regularly so it didn't seem like you were quite so GONE as if we hadn't messaged back and forth. I'll bet you are really looking forward to returning!
 
It's plenty cold here (and snowing), R.Rose, but you are in Canada so it's no wonder your door froze shut! I've only been to Canada in summer so I've never really experienced the cold there. My first trip to Canada was when I was 12 and my parents drove us through Canada in the family car - especially remember Montreal and Quebec and my brother getting carsick at least twice a day.
 
Not really looking forward to being cold but am looking forward to not having to wear mozzie repellant or be sweaty and having to peel my clothes off. I will very much miss the Thais, the food, wearing shorts and sandals, and swimming in the gorgeously warm pool and sea.
 
Well I've been up since 5 am this morning, thought today was my early doctor appointment.....looked it up and it is Wednesday....lol..so that means I'll take a nap right after lunch today, doing laundry and when it warms up I'm going to pickup trash on the road in front of my property...why why why do people throw trash out their car windows ? :mad:
 
hollydolly said:
Hi all..mid-day here in the UK...and it's been raining on and off all morning. Sun is out now but for how long..who knows.



Mrs Robinson..thank goodness you came along for the sake of the injured lad..By the sounds of it , it would have been difficult for paramedics to have got to him, so your fast action may have prevented lingering suffering for him.
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Actually,ambulances won`t even go out there unless a helicopter can`t fly due to weather. Otherwise,the helicopter flies out and it costs you a minimum of $30,000. There is an insurance policy available to all of us here to pay for that-it`s only $65.00 a year and well worth it. Well,$130.00 really,as there are two companies that fly and you don`t get a choice as to who is coming for you so you really have to have a policy with both. Don`t know if this kiddo`s family has the coverage or not but it was easy enough for us to just transport him. Got an update on him last night-the ligaments in his knee snapped and his kneecap is fractured. He has to have surgery this week,poor kid.
 
No plans for today. Have to admit that although I enjoyed seeing in-laws for two weeks and our friends (different accommodations), I most enjoy when it's just hubby and me. Likely to be just us next year.
 
Work, work, work (heavy sigh). My favorite part of cleaning other people's houses is being done and admiring my handiwork:)

Cold here but the sun's out today.
 
Lazy day today but a nice 45 min kayak before dinner. Bought a huge storage box today that we can leave until next year. We bought lots of stuff for the house and hated to just leave them behind and have to buy them all again.

Tomorrow is our friends' last day on the island so we're planning a nice drive and seaside lunch.
 

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