Monday

ROC's first day of school today...my replacement apparently seemed nervous, according to my informants.  She did NOT bring the homeroom rolls or "Welcome Back to School" packages like I always did.  I felt so lonely for the kids and sad all day. 

I felt completely scummy, so I took a nice soaking bath upstairs.  The thing I miss the most about my house is my bathtub.

To take my mind off of things, I went to Owatonna.  I was completely out of chocolate and in times like these, chocolate is essential to survival and sanity.

I was feeling the weird low-blood sugar thing, as I had not eaten breakfast before I left, and so I stopped first at Taco Johns and got myself a hard shell taco and a beef burrito along with a large ice tea with extra ice. 

I swung by my sister Kim's house as I had my extra CD player in the trunk along with my pots and pans and some other stuff that I gave to Kim.  By a miraculous stroke of good fortune, my brother-in-law was not there!  This meant that she and Lucas could take all of the stuff into the house then and there instead of my having to drop it off by dribs and drabs because Mr. Arrogance, though he neither works at a job NOR around the house, thinks HE is the one who gets to say what comes into the house....and rather than openly fight him over it, Kim just sneaks stuff in when he is not at home.

Now, I would say to him, "Fuck you.  When you start pulling your weight around here, you will be allowed to express your preferences.  Until that time, stfu, and I will do as I please."  Of course, I would have divorced him shortly before my last child was born. 

My poor sister does not deserve the life she leads.

My nephew and his sweet little buddy Thomas were making smoothies when I got there, and so they made me one too.  It was an odd concoction, but it tasted delicious.  It had blue berries, strawberries, tropical V8, and orange sherbet all blended together.  There might have been some other fruit in there too, but I don't recall.

After that, I went Walmart.  It was a pretty quick trip.  I got some paper towel so I can clean the bathroom.  I do not like to use rags to clean a bathroom.  It's too gross.  I prefer to clean with paper towel and then just flip the soiled paper towel in the garbage.  My bathroom is stinky.  I suppose it is from that standing water in the furnace room.  While I was gone, I cranked the air conditioner down to 70 so it would suck the moisture out of the basement, especially from the furnace room and my bedroom.  It smelled like dirty socks in the whole basement.  It smelled much better when I got home.

I also got a new cat pillow just like the one I had before.  That one got soaked in the flood, and I am going to throw it away.  I am sure it will never be the same and it will probably get mildewy and just be gross.

I was almost out of my 1-a-day aspirin, so I picked up another bottle.  I got the hair spray for the gnats.  I couldn't find any of the good old fashioned stuff that turned your hair into a helmet--something like Aquanet.  The stuff I got is inferior for gnat killing.  I think I heard one sneeze, but it doesn't seem to be paralyzing them.  I have some other junk I can try--it is a gloss finish spray for ceramics.  That oughta do 'em in.

I might have some spray starch too.  That also should work.

I though about buying a couple of new rugs for the bathroom as Mom's are so dark and dreary.  They had some very pretty white fluffy ones, but even at Walmart they were expensive.  Maybe I will find something in the clearance aisle another day.

I bought some big black garbage bags as I am going to go through my towels first thing tomorrow and get ride of any that are not nice and fluffy and in good repair.  I may take a quick tour through my closet as well and see if there is anything else in there that should go away.

I spent 97 cents on a new plastic pencil box for my top drawer in my little bedside dresser...I have quite a few of them,  but they are all full of a variety of things, and I needed one in that drawer to hold things like my cold-sore cream, my Moisture Eyes, my Capzacine, my lip balms, and so on.  It made the drawer MUCH neater and made things ever so much easier to locate.

I bought two bags of mini KitKats, three bags of Bliss milk chocolate squares, and a bag of red licorice.  That ought to last me for a month or more...  At this point in my life, it is either chocolate or Heroin, and chocolate is less expensive and legal.

I almost bought a package of Werthers Caramel drops, but I restrained myself.

I bought one of those pre-cut packages of spotted fabric in a variety of colors so I could make something suitable for Mickey and Minnie so they will not be nekkid any more. 

Although I have dozens of totes, I bought a tall one with a cover with a handle on it to put the accessories and clothing for my Chrysalis doll.  She is a beautiful little Asian girl with shiny black braids tied at the ends with red ribbons.  She is not the one I wanted, but she is the one I could afford.  I am growing very fond of her though.  I have been struggling with a name for her...I have been considering Chrissie as she is a Chyrsalis doll.  Maybe Christine.  Chrissie for short.  She came to me nekkid, and I had to scramble to find something that fit her.  I need a couple of good patterns for her too, but the only ones I have found on line are really excissively fancy duds.  My girls are simple country girls.  They don't need reproductions of gowns worn in the French court. 

I can't think of anything else I bought except a bottle of diet coke.

I stopped at Jimmy Johns on the way out of town and got a sandwich to eat for supper.  I specifically requested no lettuce, but they put lettuce on it anyway.  They have gotten my order wrong so many times there that I am getting irritated with them.  I didn't call because this would have been the fourth time I've complained, and I am afraid they will think I am bullshitting them to get free food.

On the way home, I saw a semi and a car on the side of the interstate and a red car in the ditch, sideways, and crashed into one of those computerized highway signs that say things like, "Buckle up, it's the law"  or "Slow traffic ahead."  One of its legs was completely smashed in half and the sign was about half knocked over.  There were big squeal marks on the road showing where the guy hit his brakes and took the ditch.  He's lucky he didn't hit those big metal posts head on.  It looked like he had spun half way around and slammed into it with his rear end.

It looked like the red car had slammed on its brakes to avoid being hit or hitting someone else. 

Nobody looked hurt,  and no one was freaking out of anything, so I just journeyed onward. 

I got everything into the house except the cat pillow.  I figure I can get that in tomorrow. 

I worked in my room, getting things in order all the rest of the day.  I came out around 7 pm to eat my Jimmy Johns sandwich, discovering the damn lettuce which always gets kinda wilty and nasty when it sits for a while.  I ate it anyway.  Haven't died of it.

I have washed two loads of laundry and dried one.  I'd throw in the other one, but I'd have to fold all the white clothes now so I could use the basket, and I am just not up for it at this time.

I moved the little rocking chair out of here--it was occupying a space that I can use to put a tall storage drawer system in, something that will be very useful to me, unlike the little rocking chair, that, while cute, did nothing for me at all.  I have an empty "tower" up in the porch too--so tomorrow morning, I will go up and bring it down.  I am going to put a lot of my doll accessories in there--like shoes and purses and "toys" for the children dolls and food and dishes in scale to the dolls.

I have tons and tons and TONS of that kind of stuff.  I have been getting rid of some of it, but it is all so dang cute that I don't WANT to get rid of most of it.  I have some uber cool vintage food that came with a kitchen set that was sold in the late fifties, early sixties.  It is so dang cute.  I will get some pictures to post eventually.

I am feeling pretty tired now and ready to call it a night.  I have to force myself to get up early so I can get a lot more done before Mom gets home.  I'd sure like to have everything out of the family room and all the stuff in my bedroom put away and my bed made up with fresh sheets and the "new" bedspread that I have had for a few years but have never used.  Also, I'd like to clean that stinky bathroom and was those nasty rugs.  Mom is not a big believer in washing rugs.  Me, I wash them any time I feel they are not as fresh as they should be.

I guess that's about it for me.

Good night!