I went to my therapist today. She said I was stressed out. Umm… DUH?? Lately I’ve had a lot on my mind. It didn’t really take a therapist to tell me this, but I thought I would get some words of wisdom or at least something that was constructive, instead of the words, “Alexa, you are stressed out.” And here I am, paying all this money to hear something I already know. What the heck am I doing spending an hour of my time, trying to work things out and yet, not a think is happening. I’ll go hug a tree or something, and no doubt feel better. AND, not even have to pay for it. That is, if I was a total tree hugging type of person. If its nice out tomorrow, I’m going to give it a try.
A very nice date
I went on my date with Michael and I was quite unprepared for him to know exactly where I wanted to go, as he lives out of State and I didn’t know he was familiar with the city I live near. Heck, I’m not even really that familiar with it, to be honest. When we got to the restaurant I had wanted to go to because of the food they served, I discovered we needed reservations, or would have to wait. He gave the lady his name and we got a table right away.
I was curious as to how he knew directions, hours, the fact we needed reservations, and darn near everything about this city, if he hadn’t been familiar with it. At first he joked a bit and said things like, “psychic”, “magic” and what not. But then he admitted that he had got on the computer and looked it up in what he liked to call a city’s local yellow pages. I had never even knew a service like this existed.
Our date went really well. The food at the restaurant was delicious and our conversation was just the same as it had been when we last had gotten together. We’ll see what happens. When I got home, I did however, get on my computer and look at the link he had given me, so find out what it was all about what he had been talking of, and was impressed with it. If I need any information for local businesses or darn near anything one could find in the yellow pages, I can just go online. I hate looking up things in the phone books. My eyes aren’t as they used to be, and it is a pain in the butt. All I have to do is type in what I want and it comes up. This I love a lot! We’ll have to wait and see about Michael. To be continued… 😉
Debating
I’m debating on having my hair cut or not. What a time to think about that when I’m going out on the first real date I’ve had in ages! I’ll think about it later. It’s a braid day anyway.
Going out
I haven’t had a real date in I’m not sure how long. I’ve always said that I’ve not been ready to settle down and that was that. It actually means, that I just haven’t found, “The right man.” Over this weekend, I got a phone call from an old friend I hadn’t seen in a very long time. It was so good to hear from him. We picked up sort of right where we left off, the last time we spoke. It was like we had been talking on the phone or keeping in touch all these years. Very cool. He’s asked me to an early dinner, and I’m going to go. I’m not nervous at all. He has custody of one of his children, the other is grown. And with all my nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews, I’m pretty much into or at least like kids. Until they get mouthy, and it’s let known I don’t tolerate it. So, Michael doesn’t have a problem at all with me getting to know his kids, who I did know a little bit when they were younger. He also has a couple grand kids, once of which stays with him a majority of the time, and who he supports. (Long story). So this should all be good.
We’re going out for supper tonight at a place I’ve wanted to go to forever. I love it when I get to pick the restaurants, but he remembers I only will eat mainly seafood, rice and veggies. Okay…unless I pig out on junk food now and then, but of course never ever ever, fast food. Besides, Michael isn’t the kind to take even his kids or grand kids to fast food places. 😉 This place is a jeans and sweater type place, but with some class, so I’m all for it. We’ll see how this goes.
Car fix its.
I used to love to work on my own cars and trucks. Even in my teen years, I tinkered with the old vehicles at the farm and tried to get them running. Learning by watching, listening and by a whole lot of trial and error. I still can work on cars and even my old 84 Bronco truck, as long as it’s not got all the computerized stuff in it. If so…I’m screwed.And I happen to have a truck that indeed has the computerized “everything” in it, as I needed a newer vehicle to drive that was super dependable.
It’s hard to find a good honest mechanic who won’t take advantage of a woman. I don’t care what anyone says. Surfing the net I found a great link and these great people there will even do sorts of trouble shooting for your common auto repair and maintenance, if something is going wrong yet, you don’t know what to do about it, AND don’t want a repair person to tack on all sorts of other charges on things you don’t really need fixed, replaced or messed with. A great source of knowledge, and help. Especially for a woman.
Recently I had a bad experience with a auto repair shop that cost me a small fortune, which is why I decided to click around the net and see what I could find. I don’t mind this being a sponsored post at all, especially when I find a great deal of info and service. 🙂
The Seven Deadly sins.
A friend of mine found this for me, after I had asked her what the 7 deadly sins were, as I couldn’t remember them all. Heck I never have been able to remember them. So I guess this is her way of reminding me. LOL!
The dropping barometer…
I have found that during certain times, when the barometer drops, it messes with my whole body. Today I have a mega headache, and my ears are stuffy. Not to mention feeling a bit sick to my stomach. This has been going on for a long time. I wonder what the weather is to bring next? Considering the weather we’ve been having, as well as other states, it concerns me a great deal.
Moving Day
A friend of mine is going to move, so she went to her local movers to get some information about the dates, and the size of trucks she would need and all of the moving stuff, I have always hated to do over the years when I moved. I personally have always just recruited a bunch of big guys I know, with big pick up trucks, and had a beer and pizza party for all the helpers later, let them camp out and called it a move.
Elise of course, is different than I am. She is so organized it drives me nuts. I swear she even has her thumb tacks in little containers with a sticky tag on them and labeled, buy color code. And this move was going to be a big one, across State. No big burly guys with pick up trucks for her!! Nope, she went and got her first, local moving quotes, then decided to do some more planning. Such as if using the local mover was a good idea. It turns out, she did her planning much better than I thought…or ever would have thought, even knowing her so well. I usually got boxes at the local grocery stores, or the liquor stores because they have great boxes with the bottle separators in them, so I could pack up breakables and not have them clinking together. Then the other belongings I just put in boxes figureing, I have to unpack the stuff, and put it away anyway, so it didn’t matter what when in which box. Elise is not me. While she was getting moving estimates I sort of was folding her towels and sheets, pillowcases and such. But NOT just throwing them in boxes, as she hadn’t come home with the “proper” ones yet. She called and said she was going with the long distance movers, and that she would get back to me. Oh…she did mention not to touch her kitchen…LOL!
My friend came back to her place from getting her moving estimates, she was very please and showed me everything online. Good Lordy, they do everything for you. I don’t know if I’d like a bunch of people packing up my things, but we’ll see how Elise like this smooth move. She is getting excellent rates, I must admit.
A Grand Wedding!
I suppose everyone is blogging about the Royal Wedding. I know people who actually set their alarm clock to get up at 5:30 or earlier to watch it. I myself, got up at about 7:00 like normal, and missed it. Course there are lots of replays, but I have to say that due to the fact that I have been known to love hats, that is what I was looking at. LOL! Okay, I was watching most of the wedding on a replay, and had to love ole Katie’s on ABC,’s input on the whole thing. Her comments had me in stitches a lot of the time. The wedding though, was indeed classy but not over done, and Kate looked beautiful, and not gaudy, as I don’t think she ever could in anything she wore. I wish them both well.
Disaster
With all the recent tornadoes all over the South, I want to do something, especially for the people of Alabama. I feel all of these families who have lost their loved ones, homes and belongings. I have been trying to contact our local Red Cross here, with no luck what so ever. I had even thought about going down there to try and help any way that I could, and if it hadn’t been for my various jobs I have, I would. I’ve been getting clothes together here, and collecting some clothes from other, hence trying to get a hold of the Red Cross, as sad to say, I don’t trust the Good Will here. I’ll figure out something though. It’s so darn sad and devastating.