Mid March- It's all about ME!

I guess life has been kinda low key the last 10 days. Maybe I have just been preoccupied thou. Last week Pat went to Bama to see the house remodel get finished. I told him he can not come home until its finished, lol. Last Friday I was off and it was gonna rain all day so I did not go to Bama, but I was off and hated to waste an off Friday in Vicksburg, so I decided I would go to Jackson soon as the kids left for school and shop for a few things, specifically Dustin and Jacy's shower gift and me something to wear to the wedding. I am really not "BIG" on shopping, but sometimes you just have to. I have lost about 30 lbs and I did not realise I had very few clothes that fit. These work uniforms I have to wear just don't matter to me what I look like in them and I refuse to buy more pants this close to retirement. The company does furnish my clothes I just prefer to buy the pants myself, because I don't like the ones they give me. By the way I have only 36 working days left until I retire, however I have 102 days until the retirement date. :) It was raining Friday morning as I had expected , and as I started out the door about 8:00 a.m I got the call from work to come in if I could, well I decided they were not jerking me around and I was gonna go on with my plans rain and all. I must also tell you that for several weeks now I have been researching a sewing machine that I want, and when I checked the price I almost fainted. I decided that I have never seen this sewing machine operate and have no clue why it cost so much, what it does or how it does it, so I found they do have a store that carries them in Jackson close to where I will be going so I would possibly have time to check them out before the mall opened. I just happened to leave early enough that I was in Jackson 1 hr before the mall opened and gosh what would I do? Oh! I can go check out the sewing machine, lol. The people were very nice and I was there before they were, lol. I was really impressed with the machine and was glad I had talked with them because I learned quiet a bit about what I really wanted now. I got all the information I could and 2 hrs later I was headed toward the mall. It was raining real hard when I got to my next shopping spot, so I sat in the car and waited for the rain to slack up, I called Pat and told him about my adventure of the day at the sewing center. I told him " You know I am going to get me this machine, I just don't know when, where or how." There is no way I can justify this kind of money for me, other that I have always told myself that when I retire I will buy me a new sewing machine. My machine I have had since I was about 9 years old and my parents got it when they joined some buyer club thingy. I did upgrade about 4 years ago with one for Sears outlet on EBAY for about $60.00. I will say Pat has never told me NO on anything I wanted to buy and it is a good thing that I have a level head on spending or it would be a big problem. I spent a lot of time looking for the gift and just generally browsing in Bed Bath and Beyond, I do like that store and it was so hard to decide what to buy. I finally made it to the mall around 1 p.m. I looked and looked for the perfect dress, but I never found what I wanted so I finally just had to start trying on, cause I did not even know for sure what size to get. I bet I tried on 12 dresses, I finally decided on 2 I liked best cause I was burned out on shopping, I am still not sure of them, in fact 1 is probably too big and I should have gotten the next size. I saved receipts so I can return if I get a chance to shop and find another I like better. I had continued to ponder this sewing machine while I had been completing the real task of my shopping trip. I called and talked to Pat before I left the mall, maybe to give him one more chance to say NO!, lol. I told him that I was gonna call and see if they had the one I wanted in stock and possibly get it on the 6 months no interest plan and maybe I could figure out how to pay for it by then, lol. I called and they did not have one in stock but could get one in 2 days, BUT, then she said I can sale you the display at a reduced price if you want it. I thought heck for $400.00 off and it was on SALE too, YES!!!!I will take the display. So away I went to get my machine. So far I love it and it has absorbed most of my time since just learning about it. No pictures, not even pictures of stuff I have done, lol. No floors swept or vacuumed either, just kidding. I keep asking myself "What have you done?... you are tired of learning new stuff.... that's why you are retiring,........ you are tired of reading stuff..... that is why you are retiring.....But you deserve it and you want it even if there is no way you can ever justify it and the only way to get it is to ....JUST DO IT!" My Retirement to me, lol.

News from other family members, Whitney had her tonsils out on Monday and is doing fine. Tyler's new medicine is doing real good , so we are all excited about that. Elaine has been in Arkansas and had time for a phone call or too, that has been nice, look forward to seeing her soon, maybe when the fish start biting which should be real soon.

Now back to the floors, I am just so thrilled with Kyle, he has become very good at cooking and cleaning the kitchen. He has run me out of my kitchen and taken over. He is now fussing at me about my messes in the den from my new sewing machine, asking when are you gonna clean up your Hot Spots. He spent a few days at his Moms, while Blake and Chris were here, they did not meet Kyle's expectations on the kitchen detail. He came home fussing about he had his counter tops all shiny and they had messed them up etc. I think Kyle can now feel frustration that many of us feel. The kids have been out of school this week which has been nice for all of us. Brooke's mom came to stay the week and has had her out visiting family and shopping. Kyle spent a few days at his Mom's and blake has been content watching TV, lol since his dad has allowed that, he has had pick of TV and chair. I am going to post this today, boring as it may be. I sometimes wonder if anyone reads this boring stuff, but I guess I like hearing myself think about what I did or did not do. I am headed to Bama today and will probably have another update with pictures by the end of March. So out of here for now.