Hello, how are you doing? I hope well and that you had a good weekend. Mine is about to wrap up. It was really good overall. I spent a lot of time with the cats. All day Sunday. It was raining out and I wanted to get out but put it off because of the rain and wound up spending the entire day in my room, watching TV.
Saturday I had breakfast at home and was able to go back to bed to get more sleep. Then I headed out on my quest to the buffet. Damn 1 hour and 30 minutes of driving. Kind of felt like I was never going to get there. Lots of things are the same but a few things have changed. This was truly a good workout for the vehicle as I got the best gas mileage ever. 29.5mpg and I left on a full tank. I thought for sure that the mileage would change on the way back but nope it just kept getting better, much to my surprise. I was trying to hit 30mpg but never made it. It’s only got 58 thousand miles on it and I think it’s just breaking in. They told me when I bought the car back in 2017 that modern cars now days do not have a break in period. However, my gas mileage was crap when I first got it. I lived at the gas station twice per week, of course that was back in the olden days when I was going in 5 days per week. Based on my experience I’d say modern cars still have a break in period. I didn’t get really good gas mileage out of my last long term car until it hit 50 thousand miles.
The buffet experience was les than I had hoped for. No one to greet me and seat me when I arrived. I had to seat myself, I marked my spot by grabbing my own silverware. A waitress came up to me in line and asked me for my drink order. I had Mashed Potatoes, Corn, Fried Chicken, Some stringy garlic flavored Roast Beef that was sitting in it’s own juices which was mostly water (wasn’t that bad but wasn’t the greatest) and Cat Fish Nuggets. The cat fish was on par but as per usual someone when crazy with the salt shaker. I made two trips and got the Roast Beef only on the second trip. As I sensed I was starting to fill up I saved room for desert. Some bread pudding with a dab of ice cream on top. It was good and the only thing that could have made it better was having someone to enjoy the meal with. I was shocked that they added a convenience fee for using a credit card. The local bank branches all changed and I don’t carry an ATM Card so no way for me to get cash. Prices were still dirt cheap, especially on soda it was only $2.75 for unlimited refills. Whereas at home soda goes for $3 to $4 for the same thing, depends on where you eat at. It’s almost to the point where I am ready to ask for water instead of soda.
When I walked in I saw a rather large man come out of the rest room. He returned to his table. Then made another buffet run, returned to his table then back to the bathroom. Seemed like he was in there forever but came back out and went back to eating, then made another run to the buffet. I hate public restrooms and I wanted to use it but for the life of me I just imagined that things wouldn’t be the best if I walked in. I was fine until I started to get closer to home.
I had a flawless plan on getting home. I knew that part of the town would be closed due to homecoming but my timing was off and I forgot about the parade. I wound up being told to turn around by the cops. I really thought about going around him but didn’t feel like explaining things or risking a fine. I just wanted to grab the mail and unless they take up both lanes of the two lane road I needed to travel on I would have been fine. However, I turned around drove like a mad man because I needed to get the bathroom. Made it to the post office, then home and avoided any accidents. I was so happy to be home.
This morning Rudy had me up at 6a, he was hungry. I managed to keep him at bay for 30 minutes then I got up. Got food for Rudy and his sister. Then I made it to the shower and got dressed. I went out for breakfast. I came back home afterwards, started laundry and took a nap. Then I got up and headed out to get a haircut and hit up the grocery store. I came home got everything put away and continued laundry.
I ventured out to attempt to get pizza for supper. The place I went to was closed on Monday. Didn’t know that and wound up at Olive Garden. I had nothing to bring home but I did have an enjoyable dinner.
The newest thing I found on YouTube is Hypnotic videos. A guy hypnotizes a good group of college or high school students. Then the fun begins. He’s got them dancing, singing, thinking that he is their favorite celebrity and gets one person to forget their first name and no matter how hard they try they can’t remember. It’s really funny. I can see how if your a good subject that this cane be used for all sorts of things like quitting smoking, losing weight, depression, anxiety, etc. No idea how much it costs but I can pretty much tell you that it’s not something that I would think health insurance would cover. Kind of like cosmetic surgery.
I didn’t interact with any friends this weekend and am still am in a very good mood. Something changed late last week with my mood and it’s a positive change. I can’t really put my finger on it but I hope that the happy continues because it beats being depressed and thinking about checking out.
I’ve got to get laundry out of the dryer, put everything away and make the bed, make my lunch for tomorrow ( I am going in and that means Rudy gets to made biscuits at 6a) vacuum and get the trash out. Plus put a new sticker on my license plates.
The only real negative thing that happened this weekend was this morning Morea got sick, it wasn’t a lot and it contained the “normal” food. I do think the Hairball food is working for her. Her brother eats it as well but I haven’t brushed her since Friday. Were limping along on what is left of the canned food. We will make it to Saturday and if not then I will make a trip over earlier than I wanted to. I just didn’t want to spend the money and honestly there is no way I could have made it through that store after supper. I was stuffed and needed to sit down and rest.
Now that I am comfortable, Rudy is curled up next to me and Morea is sleeping on my bed. They both got some basement time but it was murder to get them back upstairs. I took Morea only down with me this morning when I did laundry and she was so good that she followed me back upstairs when I was ready. I had to call her but she came with me. They both smother me with attention but out of both of them she is by far the most clingy.
It’s kind of a sad day in that if she was alive this would be Momma’s birthday and she would be 20. Gator and her siblings would have their 19th birthday on Wednesday. It’s really sad that Gator isn’t here I still miss her a bunch. I do look forward in a couple of weeks getting to ring in the 4th birthday of Morea & Rudy on the 4th of July. I can already tell you that Morea hates Thunder and I don’t think either of them are going to do well with fireworks. It also sucks that the 4th of July is on a Tuesday. I’d take that Monday off just to make a long weekend but I am on-call. My boss always covers the 4th that is the one day per year that we can count on him. Whoopie, nothing ever happens.
Back to the fun tomorrow and it’s supposed to rain so hopefully traffic won’t be bad. I know that having shorter hair will help to get me out early in the morning. I hope that I am able to leave early. I am not a fan of being in traffic during the week but weekends seems to be fine, depending on timing.
Take care and be well. We will talk again soon.
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