Necessary Mutilation

Weight: 227 lbs.

Man, I am pooped. And its all due to my compulsive need to attend everything I see in the newspaper, keep plans at all costs, and not wanting to miss a single opportunity that may prove fun. So, I drive Tom and I hard, and we are forced to have FUN, dammit!

Today began by honoring a commitment to take Tom’s new Compeer match/friend metal detecting. We picked him up and as arranged, drove to Sarah’s suburban house to detect the “park” off her back yard. Except that given my fragile female state, I stayed in the house and drank coffee with Sarah, instead.Tom and I bought and brought lunch meats etc. and first ate turkey and cheese sandwiches, with peanuts and cider. I “cheated” and had this on Italian bread, along with a small glass of cider. The guys then headed out, only to return an hour later having found a lot of trash, and a fork! No Rolexes or gold coins for us! bernard was cute though, as he was fearful of “gophers” after asking about whether there were any wild animals they needed to worry about, and being told by Sarah about the possibilty that they might encounter one of these furry creatures. He wasn’t sure what they were, and was concerned at first, they they might be vicious. Clearly, he is all city dweller!

After this “country” adventure, I then had Tom zoom me to the chinese auction I just had to check out, while he ran back across town to drop Bernard off, because Bernard had some ball games he had to go to instead. I was halfway through eating a piece of pizza and some free desserts and cider, when Tom returned to polish off the rest of this junk food, mercifully for me, and once again, not so good for him.

At the auction, we won 2 tix to the Buffalo Philharmonic, which I am pleased about, and a Pepperidge Farm cookie basket! Honestly, I only bid on it for the coffees that were also in it. I swear!

We were sad not to win the grand prizes of either a Tom Tom GPS or a Laptop, but that would have been just too lucky for the likes of us lately.

Anyway, I now have an indulgence headache, and am beating myself up for the colossal waste of time, money and energy that this maraton weekend “o fun, has been. I really need it to snow hard or something, so I can stay in and focus on much more important and necessary pursuits, like PUTTING AWAY all the crap we have bought or won, cleaning out the garage so at least one of us can us it this winter, and getting things like the laundry done. Well, at least the latter we have now started, so we will have some clean clothes to wear tomorrow!

Lastly, when we finally arrived home, we came in to a message from Barb, having to cancel our casino excursion tomorrow, as Rick’s mother passed away suddenly. I am sad for him and them, and sorry for their loss, although she was quite frail and elderly and her death may have been a merciful exit from what had become a very difficult existence.

In any case, this is a sobering end to a hedonistic weekend, but also perhaps a reminder to enjoy life while you can - which we actually haven’t needed many reminders for lately!