POST HOLIDAY

Widespread showers and thunderstorms developing by 10am. Cloudy with temperatures rising towards the mid 70s. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 85%.

They promised thunderstorms last night but for us they were quit a bit in the distance. I could barely hear the thunder as I was half asleep. I had a restless sleep. Maybe because the weather was changing and I was waiting for the storm.

I didn't end up putting to much into the garage sale so I only ended up getting $50 out of it. We sold an old bike of my daughter's and I sold a set of dishes that I had gotten when the color scheme in my dinning room was blue. I have decided that white dishes and clear glasses is the only way to go for me in the dinning room. I don't like keeping a color for very long.

My neighbor on the other hand had a lot to sell and a lot to pack up in the end. She says nothing is going back in her house so she will call around to Good Will, Salvation Army etc., to see if she can find any takers for the stuff/junk.

We had a nice relaxing day yesterday. I spent some time sitting at the garage sale, sitting with my husband on the front porch, sitting on the back patio enjoying the breeze, getting my baby fix from my neighbors great granddaughter and sitting with my brother later in the evening when he came to raid my refrigerator. I had plenty of leftovers from Sunday so we just added a couple of burgers and we were all set.

My daughter only has three more days in CT and then she will be home. But the craziness will start because she needs to get buy a car. She leased the one she is driving now with a milegage limit of 15,000 a year for three years. Well with all the driving she has done this last year she has gone over the mileage. They will charge 25 cents a mile for every mile you go over and she still has some months left on the lease. She never anticipated that she would be traveling for instance to CT for five weeks and her and her girlfriend drove to NYC a couple of times. So she will try to see if she can turn in the car early on a new one of the same brand. She may have to eat the remaining couple of months on the lease. But that will be better than trying to keep the mileage down on the car to the end of the lease. She did get paid for mileage from the company she works for driving back and forth to CT so that will help.

Has this every happened to you? I was in the market doing grocery shoppping on Sunday morning bright and early with my husband. I was going up the aisle and someone is come down the aisle toward m. I realized that I knew this person, someone I grew up with, someone who was in my life up until they married back in 1971 right as we got out of high school, someone whom I have eaten many dinners at their house, played in their backyard, socialized with their family and extended family. You say hello with a great big smile. You are obviously so happy to see them, it's been so long, probably the last time was at a wake of a mutual friend or family member. She had two little children with them, probably grandchildren, I was anxious to find who they belonged too. This person says hello and before you can continue the conversation, they turn and keep on walking. I was stunned, what was that. I am still bothered by it. I have never done anything to hurt this person, why did she shun me?

My daughter's condo is in a community of condo's that have bi laws, I think this is common with this type of living, at least in this area. They have rules governing many things, like garbage cans need to be put out for pick up during a certain time period and brought back in during a certain time period after they have been emptied. So while my daughter is away we are taking care of her garbage. There would not be any garbage accumulated while she was gone if she didn't have a cat and if she didn't come home for two days at a time and then leave again. And coincidently she is never home on the days the garbage is picked up. So instead of worrying about getting the garbage cans in and out on cue we just packed up the garbage yesterday and brought it home and put it with our garbage this morning. Well what I am getting at is that I was helping my husband by reaching for the rear door of his older model Jeep Cherokee, instead of grabbing the handle of the door I grabbed under the frame of the license plate holder and pulled. I wasn't looking at where my hand was I was feeling and it felt like the handle of the hatch. I heard a crack and I thought I broke the handle, once I looked I realized I had cracked the license plate from and bent the license plate. UT OH!!! My husband just threw up his hands, just to add to the manny careless things I do. I tell him I make life for him interesting. He said you better blog about this.

We visited daughter's cat this evening, everything is good there. Two more days of this going back and forth. Her condo is only about 15 minutes away but I hate traveling during rush hour. I could not get my husband to agree on eating leftovers again today. So we ordered Chinese food for dinner. A day off tomorrow. Maybe I can come up with a new recipe for dinner. Nothing planned for my day off so I will just play it by ear.

The Assistant to the Administrator where I work is going to have surgery on the 11th of June so they are going to ask me to pick up some of her slack. This probably means I will work five days a week for the two weeks she is suppose to be out and maybe an hour or two more a day. I don't mind as long as it doesn't last all summer. And the extra pay will come in handy for our vacation in September. My daughter and I are going on a cruise out of Miami with my female relatives who live in Ft Lauderdale and a couple of female friends of ours where we live and a cuple of friends of theirs from Florida. Last September we went and their were 13 of us. We voted one girl off, LOL!!! She was a friend of one of my cousins in Florida. She just didn't fit in. She doesn't know we voted her off. She just wasn't invited and probably would not have come any way. The only reason she was able to come last year was because one of the other friend's of my cousin was paying for a double cabin and didn't have a roomate. The cast off from this year didn't have the money to go last year so she was invited for a free ride. One of the reasons it just didn't work. We had a blast. We are so looking forward to it again.