There is a ton of left-overs from the Indian food we had last night, TONS. I did, sadly, order way too much of it, and it looks like all of us will be good and sick of it by the time we finish it all off!! The beef biryani was so delicious, though, and so was the scallop curry. There's just one little piece of that left in the fridge.
Mike and Nick went out after dinner for a few beers and came back a little worse for the wear. There's a pair of high heel shoes in the front hall, a friend of Nick's, I presume. Mike surfaced a while ago long enough to eat some French toast and is now outside on the hammock looking relatively grim, lol. Happy Birthday Mike and Nana!!
We're not planning anything for the day other than a brief trip for fresh veg and a quick stop to my parents for the daily check in. Pumpkins are on sale now, bought three yesterday, big ones, for $3.99 each. If the chipmunks and squirrels don't make a feast of them on the front porch, we'll have three jack-o-lanterns for Halloween.
The Indian food sounds delicious, and you're not alone when it comes to ordering too much! I always love the leftovers...
Funny about the mystery shoes in the front hall. LOL!
KaeEll, we have some pet chipmunks in our yard, and they always cheer me up whenever I see them. I think there are two separate families, probably "cousins". One chipmunk lives in back (as far as I can tell), and likes to sun himself every morning on a flower pot, on our deck. I always watch him through the kitchen window. The other chipmunk lives in a splendid condo in front, and is probably contributing to our flooding problem, if I had to guess! He (or a grandpa) used to live under our front stoop, but was evicted when we had to shore it up, and decided to build our front patio. Well, within a few months of the patio's construction, he moved back in, and now scampers across the flagstones without any care, even when we're sitting out there! I'm sure that there is probably an extensive network of tunnels underneath.
No plans for the day yet, but it's absolutely gorgeous here again today. The perfect October morning!
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Here I go again with the chipmunk rant, lol. I used to LOVE the little fellas, even trained some to come sit on my feet and eat peanuts. Really, me in my flip flops with peanuts in shells perched on my toes, and they'd come to me, all furry and adorable and sweet as could be....until the summer of THE DEMON SPAWN that changed me forever, lol. I'll spare you the story. :)
Still no stirring at all from Nick's room. Good thing he has a sofa in there, because, of course, that's where the "shoes" slept.
Next weekend is our Thanksgiving. Sigh. More cooking for ten, more complaining to long-suffering hub that our house is too small for this, more of everything that I love about my family at this stage, and the LAST time we'll all be together for months. Nick is moving on the 14th to the west coast, and Mike leaves for NZ on November 8 until some time in April. Some days I wish that I could freeze time....
Kae, at least the owner of the high heels was in the bedroom. Once, after I left home and went back to college one weekend, I returned to the home I shared with a sorority sister and walked into to one completed naked dude on my couch. No blanket, no clothes...nothin'. I don't even want to think about what happened on that couch. *shudder*
It's rather chilly here today, and I've already had to pull out my warm fuzzy booties to keep my tootsies warm. I'm looking forward to being lazy, and I ran all over town yesterday. First to a pumpkin festival, then to the laundromat to wash the bed comforter that will not fit into my small washer, then to the carwash and vac, and then to the Walmart, where I picked up some necessities along with a new winter coat. I've been needing one, and this one was a nice, puffy black coat with fur around the hood. I figured I wouldn't find a nice warm coat for a lower price than this one, which was only $45, so I scooped it up.
Good bargain, Jojo! Now's the time to shop for winter woollies while the selection is good. I'm in denial that summer's gone. I'll put my flip flops away as soon as the snow flies.
I agree! Now, I'm looking for a couple pair of boots to help me brave the snow, before everyone gets them. As soon as the first snow hit, folks rush out for new coats and boots, and I'm trying to beat the crowd this year! And I still have my favorite pair of flip flops out too, LOL.
Unless I actually have to go OUT in the snow, it's flipflops or bare feet for me!
I'm proud of your shopping skills, jojo. You could be one of my daughters! My son may have the same skills that they do, but since he NEVER shops for himself, we don't know whether that's true or not... Good job, though, jojo! (claps) I LOVE finding a good bargain, and it always makes me feel far less guilty when I fall in love with something later on that requires me to pay full price.
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Thanks! I HATE clothes shopping, so when I find a good deal, I react quickly. I like to go into a store, spend as least time as possible in a dressing room, and get out there, LOL.
When I was younger, I enjoyed looking at all the pretty clothes (which fit me a lot better then too, by the way), but now it just makes me crazy to try to find something that I like which doesn't cost a fortune. The other difference for me is that I'm not out in the working world anymore, so my needs are different.
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Jojo sounds like you had a productive shopping trip. I so rarely buy things for myself these days I am a lot like you guys. I hate trying on clothes...But then I still have a little one following me everywhere so trying on clothes is even harder with a little one peeking under the door and looking at everyone. Glad you found the jacket that you like. I got a large winter coat when I first moved to the east coast about 3 years ago and am keeping it as long as I can. And last fall I bought a white peacoat. Everyone thinks I am nuts about the peacoat but I love it. And it isn't as heavy as the winter coat. I can put it on and still move.
Kae your Indian dinner sounds so good. I wish I had a good adventurous eater around here to go to this Indian place with. It is suppose to have a buffet type thing on the weekends. Sounds good to me.
I had a pretty uneventful weekend. We went through the garage yesterday. Got rid of a couple more boxes. I think that everytime we go in there we get more space. Which is good I suppose. I think I am going to put one of our book shelves out there and start buying diapers and formula and just putting them on the shelves/
Shelly and jojo -- I rarely bought anything for myself when my kids were little, unless I became completely desperate! LOL... With three so close together (KaeEll can relate), it seemed that we were ALWAYS buying new shoes and clothes for them. Oh, those winter jackets, and boots!! I would just pray that they lasted the entire season without having someone outgrow something. Our son couldn't hand down anything, but NC-D could, so A-D got a lot of used stuff!
Of course, there were also the pediatric bills, but the bottom line was that there just wasn't any TIME to go shopping for myself. I looked exactly like those bedraggled moms that I always told myself I would never in a million years look like, back when I was childless, working, and "glamorous"! HA. "What's the matter with those women", I would ask myself. "Can't they at least smear on a little lipstick, or fix their hair?"
No, they can't... They're lucky to get a bathroom break! Forget shopping.
Those little ones can put a whole lot of stuff right into very clear perspective, can't they?
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Oh yeah, can I ever relate to not shopping for myself! Thank heavens for Lands' End and Coldwater Creek catalogs because that's where most of my everyday stuff comes from.
Shelly, I remember one summer trying to find myself a bathing suit at The Bay (big department store chain here) and my little guys were crawling under the partitions of the change rooms to shriek after shriek of other women trying on bathing suits too and there was me, half naked trying to round them up - kind of deters you from doing that very often.
Oh Lord, KaeEll. Bathing suit shopping is challenging enough without having to leap half naked from the changing room every few minutes, to round up the three boys who are practicing their military crawl under the stalls. LOL!! Poor you...
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