Good early morning everyone! I woke up at 4, let Fortune out and fed him, and then decided to just stay up. My knees have been killing me because of this weather the last couple days and this morning my feet hurt for some reason. I did do a lot of walking yesterday and I had on flip flops, which finally fit since the swelling from water retention is going down little by little. I am sure they will feel better today, but my knees are going to have to have some tlc because they just ache this morning again. I hobbled around town doing errands yesterday and crawling in and out of the suv was murder!
Fortune looks all pretty again and smells nice too. He has a skin condition so I only have him bathed once a month or he scratches himself silly. I can't get down in the tub to bathe him myself as I have special oatmeal shampoo and he is too big for the sink. I am thinking though to take him to the vets with my shampoo every couple weeks and have them bathe him for me. It costs me, but it would be worth it to make him comfortable. They were laughing at him when I took him in yesterday. The vet tech who adores him said, "Fortune you look like you have been in a hurricane." His facial fur was all higglty pigglty.
I got the library card replaced and after 3 hours yesterday Jack and I finally figured out how to put the audiobooks I took out on my iphone. You have to download from library to our computer, down load the program they use, download special windows media security stuff, then you download the audiobook from the computer to the program, then download the audiobook from the program to the Iphone. I kept going round in circles with it and Jack spent an hour and a half and finally did it. Unfortunately, one of the books wouldn't download because they didn't have the license to download to an apple product and you can only take out three total ebooks and/or audiobooks at a time. Also, I didn't know how to give them back but finally found an answer at the library website after searching for at least an hour. They delete automatically at the end of the lending period, which was 21 days and you can't "send them back" any earlier so I am stuck with a book I can't even read. From now on, I will shorten the lending time I think just in case.
Since I had the car, we just ate out last night at Jason's Deli. Jack splurged on a cornbeef and pastrami sandwich, but I had salad. I don't particularly like the sandwiches at this place, but Jack does and it is close by. They have a great salad bar with lots of veggie choices, tiny sweet and corn muffins, little crunchy garlic rounds and even have strawberry shortcake sometimes. They have free soft serve ice cream, but we bypassed the desserts. I got a text from Kelly while we were eating as she got a new phone now that she is changing jobs. Her last day is on Tuesday and she can't wait. She hates where she works now, but has hung in there for a long time. She starts her new job with St Judes in their Alsac division Aug 1.
Anyway, she said we should come swimming that thomas is always up for it, so we went after dinner for awhile. They have done some lovely landscaping to their yard, which is huge with a lot of trees. Her mil, her husband's aunt and niece were there when we got there and we visited with them. I felt bad when we left because we asked Thomas where his mom was as her car was home. He said she was in her bedroom on her new blackberry and so I didn't have him go get her or even tell her we were there as I didn't want to disturb her. I think she was a bit upset when we were getting ready to leave she had just come downstairs. I wasn't trying to slight her, I just didn't want to bother her if she was doing something with her phone for her new job. I will email her later and explain.
Jean: We have the dreaded commissary tomorrow. Jack opted for that since they open later and we always try and go as soon as they open to avoid the crowds. Tomorrow is an off payday week though so shouldn't be a lot of people there. Fortune's flea and tick is put between his shoulders and it is oily. He tries to rub it off when I put it on and I have to yell at him until it dries. It is especially hard if he has just been groomed and since I take him to be groomed on paydays, I rearranged his flea and tick schedule so it would come the week before a payday and he would have more fur to hold it onto his skin. You put it down at his skin level, but it does seep into his fur and if he has just been groomed he doesn't have a lot of fur around his neck. I have some of those pretty red and yellow cherries I can't think of the name at the moment, but I haven't eaten any yet. Jack doesn't like cherries at all and they are one of my favorites, especially in pie. Oooh, pie, I haven't had a piece of pie in probably 4 months now.
Maggie: We had an elderly little mexican lady that used to make potato burritos when we lived in New Mexico. She would go shop to shop and I worked in a dress shop at the time and sell them at lunch time. They were wonderful. I am not a big burrito eater, but enjoy one once in awhile. Jack and I are keeping neck and neck at the moment losing. I have lost as of today a total of 35 lbs to his 32 lbs. I do have to work a lot harder at it. I can always tell when my hormones take a big tumble because I am starving all the time, otherwise I don't really get hungry.
Well gals, need to post this, sit and listen to my audio book and knit that sock!!! Have a great Saturday. TTFN! Faye