Slow-Mo Saturday

In reality, I think just about every day is 'Slow-Mo"  for me.  

I haven't written up any Toaster Oven Tuesday posts for this year yet.  I intended to do one on Mac & Cheese this week, but didn't take a single picture so didn't bother.  Notice I wasn't really very intent!

A friend was going to come on Tuesday and have dinner and spend the night, but her plans changed and she arrived a few hours earlier and only stayed for a couple hours.  We rarely have guests, so I had to make the house look at least a little presentable.  That kept me busy all morning, and I had to do some shopping, which I tend to put off all the more with Marty's unemployment.  It's not like we can't afford to still eat, but I go into survival mode, I was very poor for more years than I care to remember.  This friend and I have been friends-of-various-degree since 1974.  She's had her own difficulties in finding good employment in recent years, and barely scrapes by. 

We had a good visit even though shorter than planned, and after she left, I went ahead and prepared the dinner I'd planned and Nick, Marty & I enjoyed it and the leftovers all through yesterday.

Marty's been busy with telephone and in-person interviews.  In between, he needed to have an out-patient procedure done to remove a bladder stone.  He's so much more 'relieved' now.  We voiced thoughts about what would have happened if we were living 100 or more years ago...I think, as minor a problem as we see this today, it might have become a slow, agonizing death for him back then.  Dreadful thought.  He had to go through a pre-op visit for this procedure, and a chest x-ray caused some concern so he has to go in this next week for a CT scan.  Please pray this is nothing more than a faulty x-ray.  Marty's quite concerned (i.e. worried) and I'm trying not to be until we have all the facts.

Yesterday, he received the call from one of the interviewing companies, to offer him a position.  They just have to work out his salary, hopefully acceptable to them to keep us on or above, the same plane we've been on.   He'd taken cuts with the last two positions after his August 2013 lay off, so it would be nice to come back up a little.  It took nine months for him to regain employment last time, so if this position holds, it's a big improvement being only three weeks since he was let go.

Two friends this past week or so have respectively lost a parent.  One's dad was in his 90s, the others mom was 86.  One in CA but taking the remains to TX, the other in MN with final resting place in TN.  The one for TN is tomorrow so I pray that with the horrible weather conditions back there, that all goes as planned.  There seems to be so much loss at this age.  I don't suppose that'll change. 

Great Day

I had a really great day today. 

I was invited to go out to breakfast by my friend Panda as a thank you for caring for her kitty. We met up at her place at 8:30 a.m. and when we went to leave I couldn't find my purse.  I checked my car thinking I'd maybe left it in there.  Nope!  As I'd left home, I had my arms filled with parts to my Celtic Solstice that I wanted to show her and was carrying my coffee mug and keys and managed to miss grabbing my purse, which was right there by the door.

Panda drove and we went by my place to pick up my purse, she's such a sweet friend.  We then went to a breakfast place that we both like, but I'd only ever been there twice before.  They're well-known locally for the dozens of varieties of omelets.  We both had omelets and biscuits with gravy....yummmmy and we each took half home!  Yep, really big servings, and they had BIG cups of coffee.

We then went back to her place and as she moved into her home just last November, or was it end of October?, anyway, since her husband's passing in October, and moving into a house about half the size of her previous one, she still has a garage full of boxes, so we worked on sorting through about a half dozen or so which made her feel really good and best of all, she found her missing camera in one of the boxes.  

After that, we went inside and chatted, and discussed quilty stuff and some of her plans and just had a really fine time of friendly fellowship.  We will do this again.  And, in a couple weeks, I get to care for her kitty again, but only for a week this time, while she heads out of state to visit her son, daughter-in-law and grand-kids.

I'm sorry I have no pictures.  I had my camera, but didn't even think to get it out of my purse...there wasn't much to photo anyway...maybe a shot of a few empty U-Haul boxes might have been of interest.  Nah, probably not.

Oh, and an interesting tip that Panda shared with me so that I wouldn't forget my leftovers from breakfast, which I had put into her refrigerator, was to put my car keys in the refrigerator on my container.  Is that smart or what...no way could I forget them!