Monday afternoon. It has been quite busy these past few days. Most of it has been pleasant but there were a few pot holes hit and a few that we avoided. Building and buying a house as Catha said to me is a full time job. She is so right!
Friday, Dena and I went to the Livestock show not to see animals, but to shop. It is like shopping at the Nutcracker Market only it isn't as crowded and defiantly has a western theme to it. My shopping interest is usually jewelry, Yellow Box shoes, and maybe some clothes. This year, my interest tended more to home items. I'm really excited about what I found and anxious to see how it fits into our new home. I was texting and sending pictures to Dani left and right. I thought I had found a piece of hand painted porcelain for $100.00...score! Dena even thought it was a $100.00. Guess we both misread it, because it was a $1000.00. No need to send a picture of that to Dani, but I did find a smaller and less expensive piece by the same artist and they threw in the display stand. We ate out there, I mean that is a must. I got the pulled pork sundae. Awesome! It is pulled pork and mashed potatoes swirled together. Of course you have to have something fried and Dena got some fried Oreos. We shopped then schlepped back to the park and ride with all our purchased goods in hand. I should have been smart like Dena and purchase smaller items. Our reward for our quality shopping and massive traffic jam? Dinner at Grand Luxe. And as if we hadn't done enough shopping we headed over to the Rack. It was such a fun day!
Meanwhile Roy had all the fun of boring money and mortgage meetings with our loan officer on Friday afternoon. He brought the papers home, explained it all to me in tedious detail and then I signed and initialed most of Sunday evening. I took everything back to them this afternoon. I don't have the attention span to sit through things like that. I would have probably played Angry Birds or my new found obsession, Ant Smasher.
Saturday, Roy and I went out for breakfast and then hit the road for a day trip to Huntsville. He has class most Saturdays and since it is spring break, we decided we needed a little get away. We ate a late lunch at the Farmhouse, shopped, he took pictures and then we decided to take the back roads to Madisonville and of course pay homage to all things Buc-cess. There was a small blip on our pilgrimage. Roy wanted to take a picture of a prison chapel that was surrounded by fence and razor barbed wire. I'm thinking there has to be a reason there are no parking signs all up and down that road in front of the prison. Long story short, Roy was swarmed by three prison guards on foot and a guard in a car pulled in front of Sequisha so I couldn't drive away. Roy had to delete the pictures, they recorded his TDL and our license plate. They escorted him back to our car and gave me a dirty look. Here's the deal, you can't take pictures of prisons. I asked Roy didn't they teach this in law school? He said no and I plan to ask for a tuition refund. Roy is none the worse for wear, but my blood pressure spiked and I had the worst headache for the rest of the day. Johnny Cash songs were playing in my head and I thought about all the Lock Down shows I've watched while everything was going down. Ultimately, Buc-cees was not quite as much fun as it would have been before the photography incident.
Sunday was church, lunch with friends, and grocery shopping. Then of course all the initialing and signing one has to do these days for a home loan.
Today I met Cassi for lunch at "our place." She is such a joy to me. We have the best time and I always think that the people around us must think, oh mother/daughter lunch and to tell you the truth, I want them to think that. We celebrated their bathroom project/renovation being through and new home buying for us. Then she said those words that every person who is moving in the near future loves to hear, we have a big truck if you need some help with stuff. Now, we will hire movers but there are always those things that are best done under your own supervision. Before meeting Cassi I took back socks to Joseph A Banks that Roy didn't like and window shopped at Pottery Barn. Actually, I am feeling really close to buying a bed cover, shams and pillows.
It has been unreal to watch the videos coming from Japan and the massive devastation and catastrophe. We find ourselves praying for the survivors and all that they have ahead of them. There are news reports that the earth's rotation was affected by the earthquake and tsunami but I might have had a little something to do with that as well. While in Huntsville I went into a fabric store and not only went into said store, but made a purchase of some fabric. Just saying...
We are going to have a delicious dinner of Rice Epicurean home made or rather store made chicken pot pie. That is one of our favorites. When we move to Katy, maybe I will have to make a special order of it every once in a while. The chef there doesn't make it very often. Yep, most surely I will miss the play grocery store a little more than Nordstrom. Oops, that may be heriesy talk.
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