Joys In Spite Of The Occasional Bump In The Road

Sunday began the week with a bang, but by Monday things went downhill for a few days. I was feeling under the weather but not sick enough to go to the doctor. 

Because TheHub felt almost the same way we are fairly sure we had a mild case of food poisoning. The joy was absolutely in the word MILD,

Sunday: We went to church then came home with (probably slightly tainted) lunch. Then we watched the FedEx tournament. Well done Viktor. I would also like to make 26 million dollars in 8 days. After dinner we watched Justified. We have less than half of a season before we are completely through with it.

I began feeling little icky but thought I might just be tired.

Monday: I did not feel well at all Monday but I did go to The Pig for their double free items. This week it was a pound of bananas and a jar of Planter's dry roasted peanuts. I still had to spend an additional 10 bucks on other items, but I had a list of their sale items I needed and made it out of the store spending just $11 and change.  

Then I hurried back home to beat the approaching storm and basically vegetated in the recliner. I did get up to cook pork chops then melted back into the chair. 

After dinner ( a lame meal for TheHub, cucumber slices, toast and ginger ale for me) I was freezing, took a hot shower, put on flannel pjs, a bed jacket, fluffy slippers then sat in the recliner with two blankets wrapped around me. Even with all of that I was still cold. I stayed in that stupid chair, sipping ginger ale until about 4, when I finally felt like I would be able to sleep.

Tuesday: I still did not feel great, but I did feel better. At least I was no longer cold, but I also was not setting the world on fire with activity. The only thing I really did that was productive was laundry, and the bare minimum of housework. 

I was thrilled to find a package of instant grits for the morning and glad I bought potatoes at ThePig Monday.  Grits, a baked potato and a little Mac and cheese worked for the days meals, and the ginger ale and iced tea kept me hydrated

Fortunately I had a true mood lifter__a phone call from Sluggy!

Wednesday: TheHub decided he wanted  to start breaking up the week by going somewhere together Wednesday nights. I thought I had planned the perfect outing; Aldi and Sprouts. It was not what he had in mind so we added dinner at Culver's before shopping. 

It is kind of funny because he loves doing his recreational shopping trip to Publix, but get him out of his store comfort zone and he gets a little antsy. If I am at the store with him (exclusive of Publix or Costco) I have to have a list and zing through the store with no time for impulse browsing. It kinda makes me laugh at, not with, him

Thursday: My Beloved Sister came over and we spent a couple of hours talking and laughing. Shhh! don't tell anyone but we might have eaten an ice cream sandwich to add to the merriment. After she left I high tailed it to the laundry room to go through another cabinet. I am doing a wholesale decluttering by physically touching every single item in the house. In the keep it or coast it conundrum I am leaning as much as possible toward the Goodwill pile. I found items I did not even remember ever having, so I definitely have no use for them now.

Friday: I have been a faithful subscriber of Spectrum and all of the prior incarnations of the company for decades. The last bill increased a good bit so we decided to cancel the service and give YouTube TV a whirl. It is substantially less and the quality seems to be about\ the same. I installed YouTube in about 10 minutes,  and watched the 20 minute preview before finally committing to it. Then I called Spectrum to cancel our TV services.

 I spoke to a representative, told her I wanted to end the TV portion of our service and was told I had to be transferred to another department. No big deal__the little voice that piped up every few minutes while I was holding kept telling me I had a 5-12 minute late. After listening to the lying recording for over an hour I finally hung up. 

I swear they do this so you will just hang up and forget to cancel. Ha! I have until the 13th which is the last day of the billing cycle and I will try every day until I get someone to complete the cancelation.

Thankfully Sluggy answered when I called her and lent me her ears while I griped about Spectrum.

After dinner we watched the last two episodes of Justified. I enjoyed it but I am glad we are finished.

Saturday: TheHub and I got out early to do our usual Saturday morning running around, then came home to watch a little football (compliments of YouTube TV. Take that Spectrum!) Tennessee was killing their opponent so we turned it on the Colorado/TCU game. I did not care one way or another who won but it was a fantastic game to watch. 

I thought about watching Auburn's game but they scored their first three possessions of the game, so I read, then took a short unintentional nap. When I woke the Auburn game was out of hand, which gave me time to do my least favorite thing___clean a little!

Son2 and TheHub were going to the Bama game and DIL2 came over with Reesey. She is adorable, but discovered the kitchen has all kinds of interesting things (like a garbage can) and she could not resist trotting into the kitchen over and over. 

Still she is a fantastic dog.

We watched the game kind of, but mainly we kept an eye on Reesey. . Bama won, but a real test will be next week when they face Texas.

Joys abound as long as you look for them, even if that joy is Spectrum messing up your ball game viewing. There is always something like Youtube TV to come to the rescue. (Metaphor here for that old one door closing another opening thing. I just want to make it personal)

May all your weeds be wildflowers.

Anne