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Last post was Wed.  I haven’t been doing much the past couple days.  Wed.  I did do another Body Electric workout.  After that…I dunno.  It’s been crummy and rainy the past two days and today is yucky too.  And chilly.  My feet are cold, and I’m wearing socks and have a fleece throw over my legs and feet. 

I’m sort of glad we didn’t waste the money on our getaway, given that the crummy weather would have us staying indoors most of the time.  I have, however, managed to take the dog out for walks the past two days in between showers.  On Wed. bf and I went out for a late lunch and then visited his mum in the hospital.  She was herself and seemed fine, but was staying another night and awaiting more test results.  (She’s back home now, and the docs didn’t find any problems w/ the heart. They are attributing the chest pain and high BP to muscle spasms.  ??)   Can’t recall the rest of Wed. except we got a call that our friends had their baby that evening. 

Thursday I puttered the morning away with tv and who knows what.  Bf went to the noon funeral service and post-service lunch for his friend’s mother.  In the meantime, I touched up the paint in the DR - bf had spackled spots where we’d removed drapery rods and other spots a long while back, but had never gone back to sand or paint.  There was also some poorly painted spots I touched up.  We’re both poor painters.  The imperfections on the walls don’t help matters either.   Except for some spots that I decided to re-spackle and finish “another day”, I finished that and ate some lunch.  I started on my pillow cover sewing project when bf got home. 

We went to visit our friends and their new baby at the hospital.  Everyone is doing well, thankfully.  The hardest part is yet to come.  Lots of visitors present, including the grandparents, both sides of which asked bf and I when we were having a baby.  Ha ha.  I joked that we had our dog baby and that was enough.  I really wanted to say, hey people, I’m 45 years old  - I’m not having a baby.  But I didn’t say that, I just decided to enjoy the fact that they still thought we were young enough, and not one of those freaky old women who have babies when they’re 60 or men who father them when they’re 70+.  Rest of evening was dinner out and tv at home. 

Getting to be late morning here.  I’ve been having very leisurely mornings the past several days, and I’m split between (1) enjoying reading my book, drinking my tea and otherwise enjoying the leisure and (2) feeling like times a-wasting and why am I spending the morning in my pj’s doing virtually nothing?  But it’s rainy and crappy out and I have no urge to do anything outdoorish.  I keep saying I should get out and shop for the new bath and shower stuff, and, sigh, shop for shoes, but somehow I never get around to it.  (These vacation days seem to fly by at warp speed you know.)  I consider my online shopping for the dog stuff, my Lands End stuff, and the measly pair of khakis from Kohl’s to be an achievement of sorts for me, LOL.  BTW, the Lands End stuff is all keepers.  Sheesh, I could actually start wearing all those long sleeve tops today given the weather! 

But maybe I’ll actually do some more shopping today.  I was also supposed to get together with my friend for dinner and a movie or something tonight, but I don’t know now.  I haven’t talked to her, even to acknowlege her message on Monday about her ex’s/my bf’s friend’s mother’s death and related arrangements.  I’m sort of ambivalent about getting together - want to do something with myself, but sort of half hoping that she’ll postpone - after all, she had to take yesterday off work to attend the funeral service.   I feel sorry her son didn’t get more time w/ his paternal grandmother. 

Okay, I’m just rambling on.  I think I’ll publish this and then shower  - if for nothing more than to get my feet warm - and then get out for a dogwalk.  Oh, feeling guilty for being such a slug and eating out so much so I’ll do another Body Electric workout.