Family Ties, Farmers Markets & Friends...A Great Weekend

Hey, all! Sorry I am getting to a post kind of late today. After a great weekend off, it was kind of hard to get back into the swing of things today and I just didn't get around to it this morning before I left. 

The not being up to par this morning turned out to not be a good thing. I worked on the not-dementia-side of the building under the critically watchful eye of my not-so-nice boss. It would have been an okay day, maybe, but the maintenance guys brought all the fall decorations out of storage and plopped them in the main gathering room at the home. They can't stay there so we had to do all our regular stuff plus get as much of the fall decorating done as possible. 

We ran our butts off going back and forth across the entire facility today. I've been feeling kind of stiff the last couple of days and today really kicked my behind. I am done in tonight. And of course, my boss found a couple of things to criticize me about. Sigh. I'm not over there every day. I don't know how she expects me to be up on the constant changes in how things are done over there...when the regulars aren't even always on top of things. (I won't mention that my boss is extremely unorganized and runs around telling us to do things one way and often comes back a short time later to tell us to do it differently. It is impossible to keep up with it all if you aren't there every day.)

But, enough about work! Who wants to talk about work anyway? Not me! Let's talk about the weekend instead.

I came home from work Friday night (I worked until 8:00) to find Tim already asleep on the couch, but didn't mind since he was going to be home all weekend. He hadn't gotten the mail, which is unusual, so I walked the dog and got it. Total awesomeness! There was a long letter from my newly discovered half-sister!! Gosh, did reading it make my day. I smiled and laughed and was amazed the whole way through it. It seems like we are a LOT alike in the way we think, things we like to do, even the way we do things, and some of the life experiences we've had. For the first time, I didn't have any doubts that it's going to be pretty cool having a sister.

On Saturday I had been planning to get a lot of things done around the house. I did go on a grocery run first thing, but when I got back Tim said "Let's go to the farm market" and off we went. He took one wrong turn and we ended up taking a really long, drive through the countryside to get there. Once there we stocked up on wonderful fresh veggies and picked up a bottle of blueberry wine and a small block of Amish gourmet smoked cheddar cheese.

We were hungry after that and it was 12:30 or so when we finished shopping so we did another drive on back roads to have lunch at Panera Bread. I had the Fuji apple salad and the turkey, apple, and cheddar sandwich. YUM!

Once we finally got home, Colton and Leah came over to stay with us (me, because Tim was napping) while our daughter and her husband finished cutting out the shrubs and ivy surrounding their house. Colton and I made Pillsbury Halloween cookies and watched The Secret Lives of Pets 2. It was really cute and really funny!

After supper we went to visit a friend who had just gotten home from the hospital. He'd had to go to Pittsburgh to have his gallbladder removed because he had a lot of scar tissue and his insides are not exactly where God put them since he had a ruptured hernia that nearly killed him, colon cancer that was very advanced and resulted in a colostomy, and a hernia that wrapped around what was left of his bowel and killed it making it necessary to rework all the connections from the colostomy. Yeah, he is pretty much a walking miracle! We told him no more surgeries cause he's out of spare parts. Ha!

Sunday was finally the day at home. We spent it puttering around, me inside and Tim outside, but we also spent a lot of time just relaxing and watching movies and the History Channel.

All in all, it was a pretty good weekend. Now I'm going to hit "publish" and head off to check email and blogs and then call it a night.

See you tomorrow!