I don't particularly like the time change, I believe I "may" have mentioned that a time or two. Or a few dozen times! I just couldn't think of a good title today, and it works...
I spent a few hours running around Tulsa today, looking in various stores for bathroom stuff. And finding almost nothing, mostly. I went to Bed, Bath and Beyond - they have some Bed stuff, very little Bath stuff and not much variety in what they do have - and a whole lot of Beyond which seems to mostly consist of make-up! Looks like the same stuff that wallyworld carries, too. I looked at Burlington which used to have a lot of household and some clothes - and now has almost entirely clothes with 2 small aisles of household stuff. And it was messy, it looks like the employees don't bother to keep things neat or follow up after customers. I don't think I'll be going back there anytime soon. I looked at Target, which did have a few possibilities but not exactly what I wanted. I did buy a soft pretzel at Target's snack bar, but that was the only thing I did buy there. I hit a few other stores, too. I finally decided to just to go Tuesday Morning in my small town but didn't think I'd find anything there since I had been striking out everywhere else.
I should have gone to Tuesday Morning first. Because I found just about everything I wanted/needed for the guest bath. I didn't find a bathmat, they did have some but not in a good color to go with the towels because I'm not even going to attempt to match the shower curtain. I found a sort-of dark goldish color trash can, matching soap/lotion pump, matching small container that I'll figure out a use for and a burgundy plastic drinking glass. I noticed that I'd been calling the shower curtain ruby, but burgundy is a better word for the color. The gold I was finding today was mostly bright and I wanted a darker, almost antique gold color. I found a decorative towel and washcloth, I would like a hand towel in the same pattern but they didn't have one. I'm going to look at the Tuesday Morning close to where I work and see if they have one, if not I'm going to get another bath towel and get busy with needle and thread to make it a little smaller. The towels are a cream color with a gold ribbon decoration, it's a little brighter gold but it works. I am probably going to get a cream color bathmat, they did have some but not a lot. I had a small plastic and metal basket that I use to keep things like small soap, toothpaste, stuff that a guest might want. It doesn't really go anymore, Otter had a small woven basket that works better, she doesn't have any use for it so she gave it to me. It had a green ribbon wrapped around it, I took the green off and am going to use some burgundy ribbon I got at Hobby Lobby today.
Otter has had a rough few days. Monday was the root canal and her tooth is fairly sensitive still, then she woke up Friday with a very severe migraine. She was off Thursday and supposed to work Friday morning, but there was no way she could go in. She was taking the strong motrin the dentist gave her so she took some on Friday to see if it would help the headache - it didn't even touch it, I'd forgotten that she used motrin before and it never worked for her. I was going to pick her up and take her to work Friday morning, then pick her up when she got off and either take her home to her apartment or drop her off at the library and then she was going to come home with me to get the car for the weekend. Since none of those things happened, Bill drove to her apartment after work and I met him there. I took her some rice I made Thursday evening and Bill met me at the door of her apartment. She was in bed, she got up and let him in and went back to bed. She was feeling really bad, she wanted to take a night-time allergy pill to at least get a little sleep but it has Tylenol in it so I called the pharmacist to ask about it. He said that after Motrin, as long as you wait 2 or 3 hours then you can take Tylenol and that she should be fine - I read him the ingredients in the allergy pill and he ok'd it since it has other stuff in it as well. She was going to take the allergy med and hopefully get some sleep, so we left. I guess it's just as well that she did not go to Wizard World this weekend after all.
This morning, she texted me that she was going in to work and that she did feel better but her head still hurt some. I stopped and left her a surprise snack in her car, then when she texted me later she said that she really felt bad. She was scheduled to work until 4:00 and they were short-handed, so she knew she wouldn't be able to leave early. I told her I'd bring her some Gatorade, so I stopped at the convenience store near her store and got three bottles. I left them in the car for her, then I went inside to see her. She was checking out a customer so I waited until she was through. She did not feel feverish but he said she felt fairly awful and she was pale - which is saying a lot, she's got the typical Irish Redhead coloration. She thinks that she might have actually had a bug that was aggravated by a migraine, but I really think it was "just" a migraine. I headed on home at that point, she texted me about 2:30 that the next cashier had arrived and her boss told her to go on home. She texted me later on that she'd had some soup broth (with chopped onions added to it) and that she was feeling better because she'd had some rest. She is going to take an allergy pill tonight and should be able to get some sleep tonight. She works tomorrow but not as early, she gets off at 3:00 but then they have a mandatory employee meeting at 6:30. I told her to put her laundry in the car then she can come over here and get it done before she goes to the meeting. I don't know if I'm taking her to the meeting or not, but she will bring the car back tomorrow at some point. She's off Monday and Tuesday, so Bill will have the car and she will also have some downtime in case it is a bug. The dentist appointment is Monday, it was scheduled for 4:00 but the dentist changed it to 10:00 in the morning and I'm glad of that since her tooth is tender. She thinks it's just because the spot the dentist worked on is on the back of the tooth and it's kind of hard to keep from bumping it with the bottom teeth.
I'm hopefully going to get started on the tulip bed tomorrow. The dirt work, anyway. The ground is probably going to be cool enough to plant the bulbs very soon. Possibly extremely soon, we have a cold week ahead of us and may get a "wintery mix" next Saturday morning! So, I'm going to get the soap/oil/water mix on the bed tomorrow but I still have to get the weeds out of the way first and start loosening the dirt. I might treat it again in about a week or so, but I might just go ahead and plant the bulbs then. Either way, this is probably the last time I'll plant tulip bulbs there. We may extend the back fence and the tulip bed area will not get enough sunlight if we do. I may plant them somewhere else at a later time, though.
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