Weekend Shopping

The sales-tax-free weekend in Oklahoma is this weekend.  It started on Friday and ends at midnight tonight.  We don't have to buy a lot anymore, since we don't need school clothes.  But Bill needed jeans, shirts for work and socks.  Otter need jeans and she also got a pair of shoes.  I found a few t-shirts at Walmart.  We saved a whole $12.36!  (I'm being a little sarcastic here.)  Not a fortune, but it all helps.  Otter wanted to get her glasses adjusted so we went to the mall for that but didn't actually buy anything there.  We got most of the clothing items at WalMart and one of Bill's shirts at Sears.  But the mall was still fun.  We also went to a Goodwill, where I made another Fenton find:

These are stock photos, but I found one of them.  $1.50!  I'm not really into the bells that much, but Fenton at $1.50?  Yes, it will come home with me!  This one did.  I had just remarked to Otter that I didn't think I was going to find anything at the store today, and it was on the next shelf.  It doesn't have the sticker that the last picture shows, but it's the Daisy and Button pattern and it is in perfect condition.  It's a little more iridescent than the pictures show.  The clapper is intact, which is usually the first thing to be broken off and lost.

I did get my closet rearranging done yesterday, like I planned.  It wasn't difficult.  I mostly had to move a few boxes around and then shift the longer clothes to the center of the closet rod.  And then I had to hold my left foot over the sink while Bill poured peroxide over it, after I dropped a small wooden box on it!  It wasn't a long drop, more of a slide out of my hands than an actual drop.  But it landed on the top of my foot and caused a small cut.  No damage, it wasn't hard enough of an impact to worry about broken bones or anything, but I'm probably going to have a bruise!

We got Maggie Moo another bed yesterday.  She was so funny.  She was a little on the confused side, but then she generally is, when she couldn't find her bed.  We kept the pillow out of the old bed, but the bed itself was thrown out last week.  It developed a hole in the bottom of the bed when I washed it one time and it slowly grew larger each time the bed was washed or the dog rearranged herself or the pillow.  Since they are somewhere around $7.00, we figured we would just go get her another one.  Yesterday, we ran a couple of errands and then went to Otter's store since that's where the first bed came from.  I brought it inside, cut the tags off and put it in the place by the couch where the first bed had been.  The Magginator was outside at the time, when she came in and saw the bed - she squealed like an excited toddler!  Then she literally bounced into the new bed, curled up and went to sleep.  Silly baby!  She made a few new puppy friends on our walk this morning, so she has had a good day.  She's snoozing on her blankets at the moment.  She was napping under the futon when I left to get Otter and she's been rearranging the pillow in her bed today too.

I also got the soup made yesterday, but I put off making the pinto beans.  Possibly one evening this week.

Bill's assorted frozen spots are fine, they are still a little sensitive but not actually painful.  He slept on the couch Friday night, we figured out that he would be more likely to stay on his right side and not his left (the wart was on the left side of his nose) so we made him a bed on the couch.  I went to bed before he did, but sometime after he got into his nest, he realized that he was laying on his right side and that was the arm that had the frozen spots!  So, he switched to his back.  Which means that he didn't sleep too well.  Last night, he decided he'd better stay on the couch and we fixed his pillows up a little so he'd be propped up more which would help him sleep a little.  I'm not sure where he's sleeping tonight, but he may decide to stay on the couch again.  I'm just glad it wasn't actually a skin cancer on his nose after all.

Sun Tea is happily being made on the back deck!  I forgot to put it out yesterday, but I remembered this morning.  When I picked Otter up for our shopping trip, I noticed that her jar was out on her patio today, too.

I think it's time to go check on the load of jeans I have in the dryer now.  Then I think maybe I'll answer the call of the chocolate that I can hear calling me all the way from the freezer!

Just a Friday Off

I took the day off today.  Bill's not feeling too good and he is taking a sick leave day.  I took a vacation day.  He's been parked on his behind most of the day, with the exception of walking to the table for lunch but then he went back to his chair.  He's taking it easy, which is very rare!  But it's what he needs to do.

My plan was to have a relaxed day at home, but I never got to the grocery store this week and we were running out of lots of things.  So I went this morning.  It wasn't too bad, the store was just starting to get busy as I was checking out so I had good timing.  I did have a couple of other errands, one of them took me right past the post office so I stopped in to clear our box and I also checked Bill's UPS box since it was across the street from the grocery store.  I had a couple of things for Otter, so I went over to her apartment and we had a nice visit.  I also went to her store later on, after she had already started her work shift.  I used to have a set of pliers but they have run away somewhere.  I gave her 2 of them, but the rest of them have probably migrated to the pachinko work/junk/Bill's play room.  I bought a fairly large set this time and they are MINE this time.  I might mark the handles with a paint dot or something.

While I was in the grocery store, Otter called me to let me know that they are going to move to the 2-bedroom unit like they were talking about.  She went down to the apartment office and talked to the manager.  The unit right across the hall from their current apartment is a 2-bedroom and it is available.  The manager said that they can come in any time next week and sign the new lease, it will be another 1-year lease but the deposit from their current apartment will transfer with them.  She said that they can move a day or two before the first, she'll prorate the rent at the new one for them and that might be what they do.  Or, they can wait and move next Saturday, the first.  I think the plan is probably going to be moving on the first.  It will be easier in a lot of ways, for one thing nobody has to run up and down the stairs repeatedly and they don't have to worry about arranging trucks, etc.  However, it all still has to be moved and that means lots of lifting.  Bill's got, wal a dolly that we'll take with us. Otter will need some boxes but not as many as the first time.  She can pack dishes for example, then they can be unboxed and put up immediately which will then mean the box can be taken back to be refilled.  After they get moved, we'll take her the coffee table.  They will still need a couch or chairs for the living room, but they'll worry about that after they get everything else moved.  She'll get the rest of her craft and sewing stuff out of my house and to her apartment after the move as well.  The old apartment will still need to be cleaned after they are moved out.  They don't need to worry about cleaning the carpet at least.  She is actually taking the smaller of the 2 bedrooms, it has the larger closet.  The bedrooms are really not that much different in size but the closets are.

Maggie is spending her Friday afternoon under the futon.  She got her walk this morning and she was very interested in sniffing everything she could.  We took a slightly longer walk since I had the time.  She seemed to enjoy our route being varied.  I took the baby gate down from the door to the craft/guest/front/YARN room and let her have access.  She made a beeline to the futon, then she scooted underneath it and was probably asleep as soon as she got to the spot she wanted to be in.  She'll slither out a few hours from now, if it's like the last time I let her in there!