Just ate a Slim-Fast Chewy Granola Chocolate Chip meal bar. Just have one word for the taste left in my mouth - EW. Didn't satisfy me at all. In fact my stomach is MORE upset after eating it than it was before, when I was just hungry. Will not be purchasing that one by the box. Definitely glad I tried it first. Stupid Hy-Vee stopped carrying the ones I like in boxes, and it's too expensive to buy the singles. So, I'm trying new flavors. Have a feeling that I'll just end up buying the ones I like somewhere else. I know Walmart carries them. Well, I know they did a couple of months ago. Anyway, enough about food.
Learned an unpleasant lesson last night. Was tired of fighting the battle against the sandman while working, so I sent Jim to the store for No-Doz. What he came back with was not No-Doz. It was the generic equivalent of Vivarin. Unfortunately, the tablets weren't coated, and when I took one, it didn't go down the hatch right away. I guess it decided it enjoyed the tropical climate in my mouth, because it latched onto my tongue. I managed to get it loose, and tried to guzzle it down with some soda. Well, I guess that didn't convince it, because it got stuck in the back of my throat, and wouldn't go any further. I gagged, hacked, etc for a couple of minutes, and finally got it to go down. Tears were streaming down my face, you know how it is. For the rest of the night, I was a chronic swallower. You'd think I would have learned my lesson the first time, but NOOOO, I had to give a repeat performance four hours later, when I took another dose. I was better prepared the second time, and had the lid off of my water bottle. In fact, the bottle was halfway to my lips when I popped the pill in the second time. No matter, it still got stuck in my throat. Over 25 hours later, my throat still hurts from those damn little pills. Never again. And get this. To add insult to injury, later on I was reading the box, and realized that the pills I had taken contained nothing more than 200mg of caffeine. I could have achieved the same effect without the pain if I had just made a pot of coffee. Talk about aggravating. Why does this stuff happen to me?
Jim called and checked on the progress of our potential house today. They still haven't made a decision about who they'll rent it to, but I guess we're on the "good list" because we were so friendly. All I'm going to say is it's easy to be friendly when you're as worked up about something as I was about that house. It is just plain awesome. Sure, it's not new, and hasn't been for almost 100 years. And sure, it's not really a convenient distance from work. But if I had my choice between a little cookie cutter house in town and that old house with the homey feel, the old house wins hands down. The fact that it's only $300 a month is icing on the cake. The only downside that I see (other than the 45 min drive time) is that I may actually have to start cleaning regularly. It's way too much house for us, but I think we could use the room. And we'll grow into it! Robert can have his own room for when he visits. And, if he ends up living with us on a more permanent basis, that's even better! Stevie and Mr. Jingles can have their own rooms. The house is approximately 10 rooms on two floors, with a multi-room basement. That's not counting the closets. Oh, and the rent includes the use of two outbuildings - a hay barn, and a long, low building (chicken house?) that we'll use for storage, and maybe park my car in. Unfortunately, the beams are too low to park the truck in there. But, the storage shed/garage is about 30x150 ft with a cement floor. Plenty of space to store all of our extra stuff, and probably some other people's too. I know Mom has some things in a storage shed we rent in Columbus. It would be nice to have free storage space, and so much of it to boot.
Not sure what if anything is going on for Mother's Day. Sarah's supposed to get back to me. She says Mom's been invited to a square dance that night! I'll most likely be working day shift, so I probably won't even get to see them. Hopefully some time in the next week, Jim and I can take Mom shopping for her present. We decided to finance her garden, since she doesn't really have the money to do it herself. Not sure what exactly she's going to plant, but tomatoes, okra, and kohlrabi are almost guaranteed to be on the list.
Anyway, that's about all I have to say for now, and it's quite a bit more than usual. How much do you want to bet that Scooter checked twice to make sure she had the right blog? :)