'Today is going to be a great day; I can, and I will.'”
Thank you, blessed. I need to put that in big letters on my mirror.
Today, I have felt vaguely uneasy, and I don't really know why. My stomach was finally feeling much better, and I ate about half a hamburger tonight, and a few french fries, and * whew * spent quite a while in the bathroom afterwards.
I set out two maple trees in my front yard last year... hmmm... Surely they will not get large enough to cause problems until they become someone else's problem. sigh. A tree man TOLD me not to get maples, actually, but I just love the bright scarlet ones sooo much. My great-aunt had one when dh and I first married. She lived just down the block from us, and when it turned in the fall, I thought it was the most beautiful tree I had ever seen.
We had very old hickory trees in the same spot when we built this house, and there are some uneven cracks in my sidewalk, but I don't think the roots of the hickory trees damaged the foundation of the house. People do not usually use the front door anyway, so the sidewalk is not much of a concern.
Well -- looks like all our teams won today, right? It was CLOSE for Auburn, and I would have preferred to see Clemson win (against LSU), but all in all, I can't complain about the outcome of today's games.
Y'all -- do I owe my cousins a chance at next week's tickets before I put them on seat geek? The going price right now would be about twice what the face value is, and I don't want to charge my cousins more than face value. BUT... my cousins have already requested two of the highest price game we have, and I KNOW I could do a LOT better than face value on that one. That is the only one they have requested. I think I might go ahead and put them online, and if they ask before they are sold, I will let them buy them. I don't know. I might feel guilty if I don't at least give them a chance at them. These tickets are a lot of trouble. And I've got to deal with them probably 7-9 more years. SMH. I might send them a message and tell them to speak up if there is a week they are interested in, before I list them online.
Got the plumber paid... cash... and no receipt. I just thought about that. I do have the check noted in my register where I got the cash to pay him. I do not foresee a problem with this, but I do feel a little stupid. He would probably be insulted if I had asked for a receipt. And I did count the money in front of him. And I have text messages telling him I was coming to his house tonight to pay him. This is a former student, the young man who bought the land from my mother a year or so ago, and who has acted like he thought my mother hung the moon ever since.
Fun and Games -- Christmas Planning... EEEK! This seems sorta an oxymoron. I cannot think about Christmas for another month at least. I am hoping Christmas shopping will help me add to my cash back credit card, however. Right now, I have my category for 6% back set on online shopping, so it should add up pretty well. That includes my groceries from Wmart, I believe, and I will do a lot of Christmas shopping online. I just always wait until the first of November, after ds' birthday October 20. I still have dgd's birthday in November, but I know I have to get started before then. Her birthday is always Thanksgiving week.
It's after midnight and I need to take a shower. DGS went to bed an hour or so ago, and he will want to shower in my bathroom in the morning, so I don't need to be using up all his time.
DGD is coming back to spend Sunday night, and then when dgs gets out of football practice Monday morning, we will all go to the annual Labor Day gathering -- it is loosely a family reunion, but we are the only ones from dh's family that go anymore and I don't know most of the people we will see. There will be music (and ds and some friends will play), it will be hot, and the only real benefit of it all is the chicken stew they make and sell there. I told ds tonight, I'm kinda afraid to eat on-site, the way I've been feeling lately -- the bathroom situation leaves something to be desired -- but I will buy a gallon of stew to freeze in single portion ziploc bags and eat later.
Good night, all.
