for the birthday wishes everyone. Very festive!!!
It's a chilly, rainy, overcast day. Sort of matches my mood. I am so frustrated with myself because a few months back I set into place a simple plan to make some needed changes. And just like MFP - if you miss a day, it leads to 2 or 3 and next thing you know, the wheels have fallen off the track. I really need to get my head in the game and make a schedule and stick to it. I'm not sure we'll do much of anything today - it's rather lousy out there and we have at least one bear roaming the property so you have to be extra careful - even going from house to garage. Right now they are mostly foraging at night so you are pretty much ok during the day. And I hardly ever go on the back grounds, so I'm cautiously careful. Garbage cans are safely tucked into the garage and our bird feeders have been either swiped or broken so that's the end of that for a while. Move NORTH bears - go to the woods
Yesterday we we headed up north. Checked out some barbeque grills as well as stair railing for the new thrift shop - nothing is cheap it seems. Then since we were in town, we HAD to stop at my new favorite grocery store. I am stocked with my sushi fix and we also picked up some lovely fish and steaks. We then headed over to a casino we had never been to before and went deeper into the state of Minnesota than we had ever gone. It was a bit farther than I had thought it was, but it's a new place - light and air with high ceilings and thank goodness very few smokers. We had a nice play - even walked out a few bucks ahead. We were starving when we got there so we decided to try out the buffet. VERY NICE. They had some higher end entrée selections including beef wellington, roast duck, a fancy stuffed pork roll and the usual carved meats. I tried the duck as I had never had it before. Not bad. Also not something I'd made as a regular menu item, thank you very much. Hard to eat duck when I drive down the road and the little mallards are starting to repopulate the small ponds out this way
We had a really nice meal. Just a 2 hour ride one way is a long way to go unless you can bundle a few errands like we did. Since I have such great food at home right now and many of the nicer restaurants are still closed for the season until next week, I will probably whip up something here for dinner tonight. I'm thinking baked halibut.
Friday I had a hair appointment and just before I was about to leave, she called me and said she is running late. She is usually running late so I never hurry to get there early. But I was glad for the call and the extra 30 minutes to get some mail ready to post. So I came when she suggested and sure enough, she was still working on a client. I have to admit as 10 minutes waiting turned into 20, I was starting to get perturbed. She got out the chair at 20 minutes and then proceeded to talk to the hairdresser about her upcoming vacation and was dawdling about making her next appointment. All in all I had to wait 30 minutes
more beyond the 30 minute extension she asked for. So when she came over all bubbly and chatty and asked what we were doing today, I could not help but look a bit miffed. She asked if I was mad, and I said I didn't mind her running 30 minutes behind - especially since she called me - but I really did mind waiting another 30 minutes beyond that. This set me back over an hour from my schedule for the day (not to mention that it pushed back all of her clients after me). I'm sure this was the result of "squeezing someone in" to a timeslot there clearly wasn't enough time for. And that's a peeve of mine - whether I am waiting for the doctor or the hairdresser. I come on time, I expect to be taken care of within 15 minutes of my appointment. What if I showed up 45 minutes late - oh sorry
Like I said, it was being an hour late that bugged me - guess my time isn't valuable either. And I wasn't mean or snippy - I was very calm - just wanted to get the point across that time management is important to everyone. Very often we stew about something and don't say anything. Her 2pm appointment walked in just as she finished washing my hair and she still had to cut, dry and style it. She said she was running late and that one of the other stylists would give her a free scalp and shoulder massage while she was waiting. So I think that client benefited because of me
and she did remove the charge for a haircut as an apology so it was all good. Nice hair cut too although I have to work with the round brush a bit to get it to come out nice. We just colored it - current highlights are good and we talked a bit about trying to keep my head out of the pool as much as possible to keep from "going green"
I am planning on staying home today and I am committed to taking back some of the control I lost. Also need to sort out the bags of stuff I have sitting here for the thrift shop - new supplies and things like recycled grocery bags and newpaper for wrapping stuff. Need to pull together some donations also. Rummaging through boxes I also found the missing water reservoir for my beloved steam mop so I'm going to give the tile floors a good cleaning. And that's all the excitement I can stand.
Ceejay - I see that line of thunderstorms headed up your way. Hope the weather is not too severe. Please be careful when out and about and driving. I sure don't miss those scary spring tornado storms.
I'm glad they got the mower business straightened out. A new one is a fair trade I think. Congrats on the new great nephew? is it?? Sorry to hear about the cousin's son - that's far too young to die.
Quite weekend as usual around here - hope you are all enjoying your Sunday. It's noon - time to go enjoy some sushi.
We had a gas mower for the front and a smaller electric mower for the back to mow around the pool and such. I agree that the electric one is good for trimming - just slightly better than a weed whacker. Looks like there is some dangerous weather coming your way this weekend. Do be careful! Wow - that was some damage that dum dum did with his NEW car. Caused a lot of people grief too with the electrical poles. 
