This Thursday Times

I was so worn out last night that I fell asleep in my chair somewhere around 2000 and did not wake up until about 2230. At that time I was so groggy that I just about did not make it upstairs. Once I managed to make the climb, I had all I could do to just brush and floss my teeth and then fall into bed. So I was not overly surprised when I woke up at 0515 and could not get back to sleep.

So after trying for about a half hour, I finally got up around 0545, went outside, got the paper and watered the fuchsia and then made myself a bowl of Chex cereal with a banana for breakfast. Before I added the milk to the cereal, I emptied the dishwasher and then did the pans from last nights dinner.

Now I could add the milk and sit down and enjoy my cereal. The bananas are past the point that I could eat them just plain, and almost to the point where I could even eat them in cereal, but I managed to get it down with the help of the raisins that I added to the cereal to kind of mask the mushiness of the banana.

Anyway, after breakfast, I put my dishes into the dishwasher and went in and read the paper. Thursday's paper is usually the second largest of the week with only Sunday's paper being larger, so it took a little while to get through it.

After I finished the paper I went outside to prune the spent roses, there is something about two days of rain that does not bode well with rose flowers. After dumping the rose prunings into the yard debris can, I decided to go to work on the ivy since the pick up for yard debris is tomorrow and I only had the can half full. I hate to not fill the can on yard debris day because I have so much yard debris, it is usually just a matter of my getting it into the can.

Amway, I started doing the roses about 0930 and finished up about 1130, so I was pretty dirty and sweaty. So after taking the can up front, I went into the house and cleaned up. My hair looked much better after it was shampooed. There is just something not appealing about sweaty matted hair.

My hair can go three or four days without being shampooed if I do not do anything, but whenever I do something it gets really ugly fast. If I had the energy I would have to shampoo it two times a day, but luckily, I do not have that kind of energy anymore.

So after drying off, I made my self kind of a snack/lunch consisting of an open faced cheese sandwich, a little cottage cheese and a dill pickle. Then I went upstairs to change clothes and get ready for out financial advisors appointment at 1330.

Kathleen had not gotten dressed yet, so after I got dressed I went downstairs and waited for here to make her way downstairs. I was hoping to leave the house at 1230, just to make sure we had plenty of time to get there, but we did not get out of here until 1245.

Kathleen drove, as she knows that side of town better than I do and she thought that our appointment was at 1300, so she was racing over there and it was not until we were a couple miles away that I reminded her that our appointment was at 1330. So instead of getting there fifteen minutes late we were actually fifteen minutes early...kind of a refreshing change.

Anyway, our report was good, and they felt that with our new reduced budget our finances should last us okay. Last month they were a little concerned about in not lasting long enough, but with the market doing so well and our cutting back spending wise, we have a much better forecast.

We left there about 1530 and it was almost 1700 by the time we got back home. Traffic was really bad in a couple spots, but most of the way was kind of what one would expect.

For dinner tonight Kathleen made a salmon spread with the left-over salmon from last night and we had it on pita bread with some mango cut up on the side. Our new neighbor gave us some baklava, a Greek sweet pastry, which we had for dessert, yum, yum!

Well, Kathleen is off to a baby shower and I am out of things to say except until tomorrow, have a good night!