Long Day

Yes, it has been a long day.  It's well after 10:00 p.m. and I'll plan to stay up longer to keep watching the Super Tuesday presidential primary results as they come in, so this will be a brief entry.  And by the way, I should mention here that this blog will end whenever I "graduate" from physical therapy and when my surgeon tells me I'm at the end of the formal recovery period.  But until then, I feel obligated to tell you a bit about each day.

Stan, as I mentioned yesterday, left at 4:30 this morning and finally got home at 9:15 this evening.  He didn't feel so good when he got home, he appears to have a cold, but he did eat three bowls of the chicken soup I'd made which will hopefully help a bit, but mostly he just needs a good long night's rest.

My day, therefore, was spent pursuing my own agenda.  The morning was spent with a good friend whom I hadn't seen for several months, so we had a lovely time catching up.  Nothing cheers you up like time spent with a friend!  After she left, I puttered around, had a bit more coffee and kept an eye on the weather.  I wanted to go vote and then pick up a yummy treat for my lunch, but it was raining.  On the other hand, it was time to do what I wanted to do, so off I went.  It took little time to vote and then I drove to a nearby grocery.  I really intended just to get something fun and different for lunch, but I kept seeing one thing after another that seemed like it would be useful to have in the pantry.  In the end, I spent...well, quite a bit.  And that meant I had a lot of groceries to carry in once I got home.  By the time I'd carried all that in, put it away, and had my lunch, I have to admit I was tired.  But hey, it was a good tired and I felt I deserved my afternoon nap.

Quite a while later, I woke up and got busy making the soup for Stan, read to the end of my latest book, and then went to sit out on the porch to enjoy the (by then) gorgeous weather.  The rest of my late afternoon and early evening were spent watching news channels.  Stan got home, we recapped our days, and now it's time to call it a day...except I'll watch TV a little more!