Wednesday...Run Around Day

This morning when I got up I planned on not getting very much done, so I had a slow breakfast, read the paper, washed a sink load of dishes loaded the dishwasher up and then started it. The mail came a little early today so I went and got it, there was not much there other that one of my Jeep magazines and a few things for Kathleen.

Kathleen had an appointment with her sleep doctor at 1130 and then at 1300 we had an appointment with our financial advisers so I started to load up the washing machine with towels and then realized that Kathleen was not up yet. Just about the time I was going to go upstairs I heard her moving around and then I heard the shower so I waited until she finished and then gathered up her towels and put them into the washer.

I had already put the detergent, a little softener into the tray but it was too late to start it up as we needed to leave in ten minutes and I do not really like to have the washer run while I am not at home in case something goes wrong.

We left the house a little after 1100 and got there about five minutes early. We were there for a little over an hour and when we left we just had enough time to make it to the financial advisers in time for our appointment.

We spent over two hours with them and even though the stock market is not doing so well my investments are doing much better than the market although this month I am not doing much better than the market. We agreed to move some of my small cap stocks to mid cap and some of my international stocks to some large caps as they seem to be doing better and are not as volatile.

After we left there Kathleen wanted to stop off at Montavilla Sewing Center (Beaverton) to see if they had done the work on her sewing machine. The person who use to work over on our side of the river is now the manager at the Beaverton store and that is who Kathleen was having do the work.

After she finished there we walked into the mill end store and looked around for a while. Then we were off to Rockler, as Kathleen wanted to get some stain for the stair rail. Since Trader Joe's is in the same shopping center we had to go there and pick up some items; five bags worth.

Since it was commuter time we decided to stop and have something to eat; there was a Burgerville across the street, so we stopped there and had a Tillamook cheese burger with a couple fresh strawberry shakes and Yukon fries. When we finished we headed into town; the traffic into Portland was not bad, it was not until we crossed the river that the traffic started to back up.

Evidently there was an accident not too far from where we get off the freeway. So it took longer to get from the I5 interchange as it did on I84 home; it was stop and go all the way. That is one
reason that I dislike going across the river so much traffic is always so bad either on this side of the river or the other side.

When we first moved to Portland it was not bad at all, but today it is almost as bad as Los Angeles and the freeways are not nearly as good as they are down there.

When we finally got home I unloaded the SUV and helped put things away. Then I started up the washing machine. Well, I just heard it go off so I need to put the towels into the dryer so I think that I will just say good night for now.