Happy Fourth of July...

Another one of those "cannot possibly fall asleep nights"--even though I am very tired.  I've been lying in bed for at least three hours, trying to sleep.  Of course, the fact that I have had a slight case of diarrhea most of the afternoon and evening may be contributing to my wakefulness.  I don't really feel sick, so I don't think I have the flu.  I think it was the sandwich meat I had for lunch--it was pretty greasy.

Anyhow--that is probably TMI, but there you have it.

On Thursday of this week, I drove home with a carload of stuff.  Mom and I unloaded it with the little red wagon.  That little wagon has been a life saver.  It was hideously hot all day Thursday and Friday. 

After unloading the car, Mom and I headed into Owatonna to meet DeAnn at the Chinese buffet near Walmart for lunch.  It was so hot and humid that I didn't have much of an appetite.  However, I did eat four of the large slices of fried zucchini.  That stuff is delicious.

After lunch, we went to the theater and saw Bridesmaids.  It was pretty racy in the beginning with Annie (the main character) having every kind of tawdry sex imaginable with a gross slimey guy with slick hair who kind of reminded me of the evil Brett Joyce.  Yuck.  He had that same arrogant "I am so much more important than you" attitude.

Anyhow--I hoped mom would not be completely turned off by it, but she enjoyed it, despite the sexy parts.  DeAnn and I laughed throughout the whole thing too.  There were a lot of hilarious parts--the part that tickled me the most was after Annie had arranged dinner at a Brazilian restaurant then they went to a fancy wedding place to look at bridesmaid's gowns.  Unfortunately, all of them got food poisoning except Helen, the "bad guy" in the film (she turned out not to be a real bad guy--just a lonely, friendless, unfortunate woman. 

There was puking and diarrhea galore, all while the fancy pantsy bridal shop employee was freaking out because these dresses were all hundreds and hundreds of dollars.  Well, they were puke and shit rags after that episode.  Ha.

After the movie, Mom and I went to Walmart and picked up some groceries.  I bought a small seedless watermelon for Lucas because he had written on his facebook that he wanted watermelon.  It was a thank you gift for him hauling so much stuff downstairs for me.  After Walmart, we went through the drive thru at McDonalds and got four sweet teas.  We dropped two off at Kim's for her and Lucas, along with the watermelon.  Kim does day care, and some of the kids she has are truly spawns of hell.  (No doubt as a result of their parents' lack of parenting skills.)  I feel sorry for the little monsters, but I also understand how Kim gets frustrated with their destructive behavior.

I love being able to give people a special little treat now and then. 

On Friday, Jerry and Lily came over and Jerry put up the new ceiling fan in my underground lair.  It has made it much more tolerable down here--both for the fan and for the light being much brighter and cheerier than the fixture that was there before.

I spent most of the two days I was at Mom's sorting through my material.  I devided it into different drawers for each major color. I discovered I have tons of blue, pink, green and brown.  Surprisingly, I have very little red.  I have a whole tote full of flannel and pj material.  There is another small amount of fabric to organize--mostly holiday prints.  I have a lot of Christmas, Valentine's Day, and Halloween fabric.  I also have a lot of fancy silky and satiny  material that I got at a garage sale.  It's really pretty stuff, but I don't usually sew fancy clothes like that.

I am thinking I need to go through the fabric again and thin it down some more.  I still have more fabric at home, and most of my drawers are too full now.  Yet, I MUST look through each and every one of the boxes of fabric.  I have so much really cute stuff. 

Jack and Kari had us over for supper on Friday night--Kari served chicken breasts that had been cooked in the slow cooker with a can of mushroom soup.  They were quite tender and moist.  I must remember to do that some time.  I will probably add some other stuff like onions and other vegetables, though.  I like vegetables.

After supper, we watched the movie You Again, which surprised me by having a very similar theme to Bridesmaids. Jealousy, dissatisfaction with one's self, and just plain wedding day craziness.

On Saturday afternoon, I went back to West Concord where I continued to work on packing and sorting.  All of the pay per view movies were being offered for 99 cents, so I rented Battlefield LA, which I really wanted to see in the the theater but didn't make it.  It was okay.  

I worked upstairs packing and organizing for a few hours.  

I was able to pack all the stuff I was hoping to get home.  I managed to drag it to the top of the stairs.  DeAnn and Jim kindly carried it all downstairs and packing it into my car.  My car was literally STUFFED full of stuff.  It was actually lucky that I did not get a ticket for obstructed vision.  But, I got safely to walmart to get some chips and stuff for tomorrow---we  are all going up to Tammy's house for a Fourth of July celebration. 

I stopped at Jack and Kari's on the way home--mom was already there.  We watched the new version of True Grit.  I will have to buy it for my collection, as I actually believe the new version is better than the old John Wayne movie.

Well, I am now dozing off at the keyboard while trying to sleep.  It is 2:08 am, so I will probably  be able to sleep now.  

Good night all.