Blog World - Day Five

It's Labor Day today and I've had a really nice long week-end off. Except for yesterday....you see Saturday we had a nice lunch with friends at a pleasant waterside restaurant and after that Richard wanted to go to the cell phone store - for something - I forget - but of course once we got there I asked why on earth he can't get reception on his i-phone AT OUR OWN HOUSE?! They agreed and said the new 3G phone got better reception - so I urged Richard to just get one. And he did - but when we got home it wouldn't charge. He gave it all night and it still wasn't charged fully in the morning, so he went back to the store and THEY WOULDN'T TOUCH IT WITH A 10 FT POLE! Oh no- now you've got a WARRANTY problem here - gotta take it to the Apple store- 2 hours away! So Sunday we drove up to the nearest Apple store - which was located at this gigantic mall and waited 2 hours for an appointment! Thank goodness there was a Cheesecake Factory nearby with drinks of the alcoholic nature and.....cheesecake! After a great lunch, we ambled back to the store (which, by the way, was MOBBED - at least 100 people all crammed in there).....as a matter of fact the whole mall was mobbed - don't these people know about the beach? That's where I had planned being - except for this i-phone emergency.........well, of course then you just have to take care of the mess and get it over with. So we did and then we went home and had a strong cup of English tea and plopped in our favorite chairs to unwind....Nothings ever easy anymore!

Now today we have the grandchildren coming for an impromptu visit in about half an hour and I want to get this blog done, because usually I'm...like...paralyzed after they leave. I'm the playing-with type of grandmother. I splurged to 2 foam light saber swords with a computer chip that makes lights and sounds. I got them at the dollar store! I figure the kids will wreck them in about 16 minutes......about a dollar's worth! Richard and I just started on the South Beach Diet - so there isn't a bloody thing to eat that isn't a vegetable - in the entire house...poor kids. I thought of going out and buying some cookies or something for them, but in my state, I'd probably eat them up in the car on the way home! So it's just lemonade and diet ice cream..........(i keep it for emergencies).


Then tomorrow it's back to the old grind...........and then we'll see if I can keep up with the blog - and the housework and work and ironing...blah, blah....and if anybody out there ever finds this blog and actually reads it.....I hope they'll realize that I'm just a person....trying to live int the 21st century.