Full Saturday

Could not find a picture that captured my day yesterday so I will allow you to create your own "vision". Here is the outline:
1. 9 a.m. to Bank of America to cash in my $9.60 of coins I have been stashing in my change jar on my desk
2. Stopped at Kohls and Shaws - looking for a gift for the Monday office birthday and an oatmeal cookie mix. I did not find a gift AND I found cookie mix but at $2.89 and I passed.
3. Stopped at Big Y and found the same cookie mix at 3 for $5.00 so I bought one. On my way out of the store, I called my mother and told her I was on the way to her house to do my wash AND make cookies so would she take out a stick of butter since the mix called for a softened stick of butter.
4. Got to my parents and did two loads of wash, make 2 dozen cookies, gave my father the box of candies I got from friends in NC, read the paper, and had lunch.
5. Stopped back at Big Y to do my shopping and get the ingredients for the the fruit salad and whipped cream that the birthday girl at work has requested. Also, got gingerale and OJ that was on sale for me.
6. Back home and carried laundry and groceries and cookies up the stairs - 4 trips up 4 flights required.
7. Walked back to the Shoppes to buy the gift for Monday at Blue Tulip. On the way home ran into an old family friend and chatted for a minute.
8. Off to 5 p.m. mass
9. Off to Hartt College for a vocal recital.
10. Home - long bath AND the great feeling of clean sheets, clean pajamas and clean body jumping into bed! What a great day.

BUT I did not go to the funeral or the winter work day with the Land Conservation people OR pick up the lamp (although I made two trips to work to see if it was there). I am thinking that the girl took the money I left at the front desk for her, but "forgot" to leave me the lamp. We will see if it is there on Monday morning. I will write her a note about returning my money if I do not get a lamp in exchange. I know she is only a senior in high school, but I don't want her to think I am of the "ilk" who can pay $39,000 a year to go to high school and the money does mean something to me. I will stay out of the negative about it until Monday morning to make sure that it is not there.

As to the funeral - it was one of those fact or fiction events for me. I realized that eventhough the sons of the family were a HUGE part of MY thought process in high school - in reality I did not really connect with the family on any meaningful level. I was socially tormented (self inflicted wounds) in high school and dragged as many people I could into my drama but nobody really jumped in.

I also forgot to tell you that I got to see my bowl on Friday - you could quickly see that I dabbed instead of drizzled as some of the other ladies successfully did but it is mine and I love it. I hope to buy it back at the April dinner "Empty Bowl" fundraising event.

Started filling in my March calendar, paid my rent, sent an email to see if I still had press box invite for tomorrow's alma mater basketball game, STARTED thinking about if and/or how to get my taxes done, and thinking that today I need to start reading my March book club book. I missed February's meeting when I was in NC. When I looked at the March calendar, I guess I "missed the memo" about why we are doing the "Fall Back, Spring Ahead" in March rather than April - but I am not complaining.

I was sick about the OKS - TX Tech basketball game. I hope the sports talk show guy was not correct when he said OKS was playing himself out of March Madness.

Much less ambitious plan for today - french toast for breakfast, watch my talking head shows, take a walk and watch some of the Academy Awards. I have only seen Queen and Little Miss Sunshine so I do not have much frame of reference and I was not overly impressed with the ones I saw.

Have a good week.