There and Back, #6

[SallyM]

thanks, neph, appreciate the tea advice and good wishes.

mk, yep, cvs is an east coast thing. I remember longs and thrifty when I lived in CA...we used to get ice cream cones at thrifty. those were the days, 2 scoops (cylindrical ones) for $.30 I think. lol. we do have taco bell (ewww), chevy's, and chilis. omg, haven't heard del taco in years.

I think the funniest thing I discovered when I moved east is that some products had different names depending on if they were west or east of the mississippi. remember the old, "bring out the best foods, and bring out the best" ads? when I moved east it was "bring out the hellman's and bring out the best." for some reason that one sticks out in my mind because the commercial was the exact same, but the name was different.

anyway, I had hoped for england for our 10th, either london/paris or england/english countryside (hadn't decided). then when exchange rates got so bad, we decided to put that off. debated between wine country or the islands. finally chose a really beautiful all inclusive resort down in mexico and were just about to settle on it when the bomb hit. yeah, that changed things.

so instead, my 10th will be spent w/o my h, but will concentrate on my kids, the blessings that came out of my marriage. they will have school that morning, then plan to take them someplace fun, very fall-like. I plan to be dark as night to H that day, I don't even want to hear his voice. need to work on S5 about how to answer the phone and let his brother/sister talk, then hang up. I've got a month (october 18) till I have to really deal with it, but I know in my heart I just can't hear from him that day, not as things are now. I wonder if he'll even notice the date.

mine does make decent money, but he is a spender, he spends, spends, spends. he has met every amount he has ever made. I'm more conservative. probably meeting in the middle would be an ideal. it was something we should have talked more about.

today was okay. I definitely look like a troll...a troll named rudolph. but at least my face doesn't hurt as much, thanks to the meds. D3 had dance today, omg, so sweet, I can't stand it its all just so cute. again, I am blessed that at least for now, I can do these things with her. S5 had homework for the first time, very cute, had to count a bunch of stuff in and around the house...the number of trees in the yard, number of bathtubs in the house, number of smoke detectors (liked that one). the thing that made me sad was the number of toothbrushes. yep, one missing. but hey, I'm proud of my little family, with or without H.

not much else accomplished today. played outside for a bit, but really, I have had no energy and feel like a slug. I also haven't worked out since friday and definitely feel slug-like. as long as this doesn't travel to my chest, I'm doing something tomorrow, I have to.