July 4, 2013
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Honey! I’m Home………!
TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM
I’m home and glad of it even though I enjoyed myself. The bad part was my planes both ways ran into bad weather. One of my flights to Chicago (I had to take two) was so *bumpy* and felt like we were on a wild roller coaster ride that a woman across the aisle from me had to use the barf bag. She was so embarrassed. I told her, *Honey, don’t be embarrassed. You will never see any of us after this ride.* A couple of us women around her handed her some tissues to wipe her mouth. She smiled as we all moved away to our own paths.
I got my rental car (with an upgrade, of course, so I had a GPS to get around). Turns out that I finally managed to figure it out (It was called a *Never Lost* GPS, of course) just as I finally got ahold of my ex-sister-in-law, Kay and it turns out I was just a few minutes from her house just from memory….LOL.
It was dark when I finally got to her front door (it was dark when I pulled into the gas station and figured out the GPS…it didn’t suddenly go dark during the 10 minutes to Kay’s). I stayed up to unwind and ended up sending my nephew, Ray-Ray, to pick up liquor and mixer. Now THAT was weird to me since he turned 21 while my back was turned but I was really too damn tired to drive. I had one drink and that was all it took to send me to dreamland. So that was the end of Day #1 of my vacation.
Day#2
I woke up totally disoriented and both Kay and Sweet Pea had gone to work. Sweet Pea left the house around 1:30am. Kay leaves at 5:30am to catch her train into the city. Sweet Pea gets home around 3:30pm and Kay gets home around 5:30pm. The bad part is that Sweet Pea has OCD (I’m pretty sure) so he has to make his rounds of *his* areas before he can lay down and get some sleep. He usually grabs something to eat before heading for bed even though on THIS day, he knew he didn’t have to go to work since he has Friday night and Saturday night off. If my brain were working right this minute, I might remember if he goes to work until Monday night but I’m really not sure. He had a double *gig* on Saturday up in Lake Charles with a band he plays with and likes. That matters to him. I think I took them out to eat on Friday night. I forget the name of the restaurant but it was a steak house and the food was wonderful. My real regret was that the *Surf* part of my meal was overdone. Damn near rubber but, since they enjoy eating there, I didn’t tell them. My *Turf* was done just perfect I should mention.
I talked to a couple of my girlfriends who I was meeting up with on Sunday and then headed for the shopping mall to pick up a few things for myself. I needed a bathing suit since I had forgotten mine at home. And I wanted to pick up some smaller pants since the ones I had at home were getting too big on me. I also wanted some new summery tops. I hit the Mall and hit a couple great sales. I can’t tell you what all I got but I did get three new summer sleep sets, two pair of slacks, five tops and a new bra. I bought a purse at another store along with a belt. I bought an aloe vera plant that I kept watered then wrapped in two plastic bags for the trip home. I stopped and had my nails done with acrylic and my nails are already showing signs of needing fills. **Sigh** But I wanted them to look good when I met with my girlfriends on Sunday. I headed back to Kay’s around 4:30pm and Sweet Pea wasn’t home yet.
Even his son was surprised. He got home shortly after I got back and before Kay got home. So we ate dinner later then came home and crashed from being full.And that was really the end of Day 2.
Love you all. HAVE A FANTASTIC FOURTH OF JULY!
