Tuesday, November 6, 2012

2 ft tall walking doll

The picture is of my 2 ft tall walking doll.  She is so pretty.  I'm still searching for shoes/socks for her...I'm thinking I can get real children's shoes/socks to put on her.  Some of these were branded under well-known toy manufacturers, some were known as "grocery store" dolls and were unbranded (but often made by the same companies).  I keep telling myself I need to give them up but I like them too much to do that!

Readjusting to owning my days, not having to get up at 6 a.m.  It's marvelous!  Last Friday I had lunch with high school gal pals, and on Saturday we had a wonderfully lazy day.  Yesterday (Sunday) was so nice we just had to take advantage of it.  We loaded up the the doggies an dheaded out to Lipan.  We drove to Granbury and then thru Thorpe Springs.  Beautiful ride thru the fall landscape.

We stopped at the cemetery to say hello to Mother, Grandma, Papa, Aunt Florence, Uncle Chris, and cousin Kennie and allowed the fur babies to enjoy being out on the prairie a bit.  It is such a peaceful yet somehow extremely lonely place.  The family plot is at the curve of the little road and there is a pasture directly across from them.  The donkeys were all at the fence line braying and laughing, so that pretty much brings things into perspective!

After the cemetery we went to the main "town" of Lipan as usual and stopped at the combination store, gas station, eatery.  I selected a couple of diet cokes and a couple of snack items for Ken and myself as he was in the car with the babies.  Went to pay for my things and discovered my credit card was missing.  Had to pay with cash - and thank goodness I had some on me, because I rarely do!

On return to the car Ken helped me trace my steps back to the last time I used the card -- yep, at lunch with the girls on Friday!  Ken called the place and sure enough they still had the card.  So, after getting home and resting a bit we headed to Burleson to retrieve the card and eat dinner.  No point in wasting a stop at the Mexican Inn!  We shared an order of fajitas...lately ordering a meal for each of us is too much - we're getting old - can't eat as much as we used to!

Looking south toward main Crowley as we were on the backroads between FW and Crowley on our way to eat at Mexican Inn Monday evening

It was nice to spend Monday out and about and not running into the weekend traffic.

Today I had an appointment at 10:30 with my opthomologist (I KNOW that's not spelled correctly) - anyway, my eye specialist.  I have to go twice per year since I lost my sight completely way back in 2005/2006.  Everything is stable and I can actually see pretty good!  There's been a tiny bit of improvement in my left eye.  The right eye is still good.

Did you catch that the appointment was for 10:30?   The worry wart in this house woke me up at 7 a.m. - or at least tried - so I wouldn't be late!  Now what part of "I don't need to get up that early" does he not understand?  After all, I took my shower already, my hair is easy, I can't wear make up because they will be messing with my eyes/face, so it should take me a grand total of about 30 minutes to get my butt out the door.  And I knew I had gas in the car and didn't need to stop for it.  Considering it takes me about 30 minutes to get my butt downtown to Harris Hospital, I figure if I'm up by 9 I will get there!!!  Turns out HE had an appointment this morning and he wanted to be sure I was awake before he left.

I'm free for the remainder of the afternoon - so will have time to work on a quilt or something.  I think I may take one to the post office and get it mailed off....maybe.

This evening we have to be at the party for Charles (Chuck) Bradley by 6:30 to help celebrate or else cry in our beer over his campaign for U.S. Representative for District 33.  Sure hope he gets it.  He's a good guy with a good heart.  And of course everybody knows how I feel about the Presidential election!!!  I'm praying about that outcome.  Our country will not survive another 4 years under BO.

For now, I'm off of here.  I truly miss my students but they were about finished with their program/classes so we would have been parting ways anyway.  Since I have their email addresses maybe I can stay in touch with them that way.  I heard from one of them via email already.

So much for Tuesday...if anything interesting occurs later today I'll be sure to post it.