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I Could Get Used to This

By Melissa Markham on May 30, 2008 6:54 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Yesterday was a hodgepodge of activity. I started out the day by watching Mary, Queen of the Scots. I have been enjoying watching a variety of movies about that time period in English history. The movie had lovely costumes and was well done. After that, the kids and I piddled around for awhile and they took care of their piano/typing practice and did their math. We went up to the Dollar Store and picked up goggles and pool toys.

Word of Advice...the goggles at the Dollar Tree are not worth the 1.00 that the Dollar Tree charges for them. I get lots of great stuff there, but the goggles were not great!

Then we headed to the pool for the afternoon. There's nothing better than getting into an 85 degree pool...until you step out into the 74 degree busy day! Something I thought really cool was the music they were playing at the pool. They were playing country music. People here are laid back, don't seem to be in a hurry, and are very friendly.

Still, we enjoyed our time at the pool and ran into our new friends from the previous day. We found out that it was going to storm on Friday. (BTW, I started this post early this morning, but things got in the way, so here it is 7:16 pm CST and I am finishing that post). Did I mention the pool is only a mile from our apartment? I soooo love that! I have to drive a mile to get to the hard surfaced road!

We had originally planned to go to Walmart for groceries on Friday morning, but since they were calling for rain and storms, I really didn't want to be lugging groceries in that, so we returned from the pool and I dashed over to Walmart. At home, we schedule trips to the store and piggy back them so we conserve gasoline and time. It felt so free...so...decadent to just decide on the spur of the moment to go get groceries. I picked up groceries and on the advice of a friend, I picked up a weather radio. I also picked up some better goggles, since the ones from the Dollar Tree fell apart during our time at the pool. And I picked up a couple of $5.00 movies.

I came home, put all the grociers and stuff away and was pleased to know that I would have to do that on Friday. And tickled that I could do it without moving mountains.

You see, here at home when we go anywhere, we usually spend five to ten minutes packing up to go. We have to get water bottles, the kids get things to keep them occupied in the car and we have to make sure we have our trash to take to the dump and our lists so we get everything done. Here, I said, I'm going. And I went...that is so cool!!!!!! Two days ago, Daniel needed a package taken to UPS. I found a drop box and was literally only gone five minutes from the apartment!

Anyway...the kids and I finished reading Hand the Cow Dog and went to sleep after all the purchases were put away.

Now you will have to read the next post to see what happens to best laid plans!