-- Did some shopping yesterday. Really need some new work shoes and non-work tennis shoes. Could not find anything that I liked. Made a late-afternoon trip to Crestwood Mall. (sorry, recently its name changed to Crestwood COURT since its new owners took over). The mall is in really sad shape these days. Almost a ghost town inside, a far cry from when my mom and brother and I would journey up there from Festus when I was a teenager. I did find a new pair of khaki Dockers to replace my current pair of khaki Dockers, which are an unknown number of years old and falling apart at the seams.
-- I'm so proud of myself. I have actually purchased a wedding gift more than a week in advance of the wedding. Wish I could get off work the day before the wedding, not looking forward to the solo drive to Wichita.
-- I'm proud of myself for another reason. I accomplished a household repair all by myself! The toilet in my half-bath was leaking water all over the place so one new water supply line plus one new fill valve equals no more leaky toilet. YAY!
-- Rented "Lars And The Real Girl" last night. It's a quirky little movie that you, too, should rent. Trust me on this one.
-- I am now the owner of a really nice La-Z-Boy side chair/recliner and 2 end-tables that had been in my Papaw's front room. My front room needed some more furniture so my mom brought them back with her yesterday. She was in Malden Friday and Saturday beginning the long process of cleaning out the house and preparing it for sale. Yes, it will be hard to say goodbye to that house. If I had the money, I'd buy it.
-- My mom and dad logged some Lydia-time at the Missouri Botanical Garden on Wednesday and they got in some Chili-time while they were at my house today.
-- My friend J was due to have her baby today but her husband G reports tonight that baby L is reluctant to come out so J will be induced later this week.
-- Got a bad case of love, people, my heart is filled with misery - so sings B.B. King. That song blew my mind when I was shopping at Eddie Bauer one day. I immediately iTunes'd it onto my iPod when I got home that day. Some people play air guitar or air drums; being a one-time keyboard player, I play air-organ on that song.
-- Employment at my company does have its occasional perks. I and my co-workers will be enjoying this Tuesday night's Cardinals baseball game from one of the Busch Stadium suites, courtesy of our advertising division. In addition, I was able to score 2 FREE TICKETS to an upcoming performance of Jersey Boys at the (Fabulous) Fox Theater. Enjoy the show, Mom and Dad!
-- was supposed to ride bikes with last Sunday's pack of riders but it was raining and 49 degrees at the pack leader's house this afternoon so he cancelled our ride. Amen, brother.
-- It's now after 11:00 so I really should do my body a favor and get to bed soon. I leave you with the end panel from a recent re-run of a Calvin and Hobbes comic. It really hit me hard, in light of recent events in my life. The context: Calvin has just found out the baby raccoon he rescued has died. His words :
"I'm crying because out there he's gone but he's not gone inside of me"
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