What To Do?

I never watch that show "What Would You Do?"  Maybe it's because in those situations, I don't know what I would do, and even if I think I know what I would do, I can't be sure that I would do what I think I would do - you just don't know until you are actually in that situation.  But mostly I don't watch that show because I know it's made up situations made up for TV to make a show.  In other words, it's fake.

I don't like tricking people.  I don't like making people do stuff under the pretense of being real.  In a psychology course I took in college, part of an assignment was doing something in a public place that would cause a reaction.  I don't remember what I did, but I know I probably hated it.

Which brings me to a situation that I encountered in Walgreen's.  As I had my stuff and was headed to the check-out, I noticed a young woman sitting on the floor.  Her legs were splayed out in front of her and she was sitting on the floor and her head was down on the floor.  As I glanced at her, I saw she had a Walgreen's receipt with her stuff that her head was resting on.  There were several people in line, along with the Walgreen's check-out lady.  The young woman was just at the end of the counter.

Frankly, I didn't know what to do.  I didn't know whether to ask her if she was okay, or to ask the person ahead of me in line, or to ask the check-out lady.  Part of me wondered if this was some TV or psychology class stunt.  What should I do?

I did nothing.  I checked out and went to my car.  Nobody else did anything either.  I don't know what the young woman's story was, and I will never know if I should have been part of the answer.  It's probably the cynic in me, but it just didn't seem like a situation that warranted my attention.

The question will still remain with me, though - did I really do the right thing?

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The Good Stuff From Today:  2 miles and prizes with KB; Everley time; window blinds hung by Hughes; Sonic peppermint shake via Steve; Starbucks and Calypso burger delivered by Mathieu; nice blinds cutter lady at Home Depot

Christmas Decor

My house would be the one on your right - 

if I could get around to stringing even that many lights!

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The Good Stuff From Today:  getting curtain rod hung, thanks to Bill and Hughes; birthday dinner for Lynnette with most of the family; safe travel home for Maribeth, Mathieu, and Everley; Lion King tickets purchased; video of Everley crawling

New Unna-wares

Okay, so it was time.  Or maybe even past time.  For new underwear, that is.  My existing ones were beginning (or actually had begun a long time ago) to show signs of the stress and strain that my rather ample posterior had been putting it through.  In other words, my under-britches were getting holy, and I don't mean the religious kind.

The underwear that I prefer for that region is by Victoria's Secret (too much information already?).  And NO - not that kind.  Vicky sells old-style granny pants - they just have to go back in Vicky's basement and pull them out of the mothballs (because we grannies like that smell).  Anyhow, as you would expect, they aren't as cheap as Fruit of the Loom from Target where you can get three dozen for $3 (or something like that). But they last longer and can withstand the tremendous pressure that my dimply butt puts on them.

Anyhoo, I had decided that I would wait until I has lost a certain amount of weight before I treated myself to some new undies.  And I waited.  And waited and waited.  Finally, I just started throwing away those undies that were really in sorry shape (like when the holes are so big you begin to wonder if it's a leg opening).  When I was down to just a few (and I don't do laundry as often as I used to, so it was beginning to be an issue), I decided to heck with the reward - I needed a fresh supply now.

Well, Ms. Vick was having a sale, so I bought seven (yep, SEVEN - I can go a whole week before running the washing machine!) new underwears.  And - get this - after they came in, I went back and she was having another sale so I bought five more!!  Are you impressed?  I am!  My fanny is happy and secure once more without britches holiness!!

So what's the moral of this story?  Simply this - sometimes you don't need a reason to treat yourself - you just need to treat yourself.  And sometimes, you just need new underwear.

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The Good Stuff From Today:  Safe travel home for Marilyn (and her two extra bags and her caramel cake and her chess pie and her MSU cheeses); Steve bringing dinner home; quick Molly visit

Sunday

Today, as part of Marilyn's last day in Nashville, we had a busy day.  She started off by going to her former church when she lived here.  Once she got back home, she picked up dinner at the Cheesecake Factory, then we (me/her/Molly) proceeded to the Sprint store so she could update her broken old-timey flip phone to an updated new-from-Plates smartphone (thanks to Molly).  From there we went to the AT&T store, but left due to the long wait (moms will have to get updated later) and went directly to the pedicure place.  There we splurged on the deluxe pedi, complete with leg stone massage and foot paraffin wrap (yowza!).  Marilyn and I opted for sparkly red polish, in celebration of the season - Molly opted out of sparkles and instead went for a more subdued red.  At some point we decided to go all the way and got our nails done, too, again with the red sparkles (Molly went for clear).  Somehow I ended up with a bottle of red sparkly polish - not sure how that happened.

By this time we had worn Molly out, so we dropped her off and headed for a Wal-Mart trip (Marilyn needed containers to take home the caramel cake and chess pie that Steve had obtained on her behalf while he was in Mississippi).  We then had a bite at Sonic and went out to see Christmas lights - and promptly got sorta lost.  But thanks to her new phone and her quickly downloaded map app, we found our way back home, just in time for her to load up her stuff for her 6am flight home the next day, where I think she will need a rest from her weekend of racing, buttoning, prettying and shopping!!

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The Good Stuff From Today:  Factory lunch with some of the family; Lindley time; Everley pictures; phone business and mani/pedi with Marilyn and Molly; Christmas light tour with Marilyn

And We Relayed!!

This morning we walked/wogged/ran in the St. Jude's Marathon Relay.  By we, I mean Marilyn, Molly, Karen P, and Karen B.  We each ran a leg of varying length (3.1 miles - 6.5 miles).  It was a lot of fun - and a lot of waiting.  It was also the epitome of team - Marilyn saved us time at the front by jockeying her way into the first corrals.  The Karens and Molly saved me time by going really fast on their legs.  And I did my part with the last leg - just by finishing.  It was a great morning to be out (a bit chilly at the start but definitely warmer by noon when it was my turn) and for a great cause. All in all, a great Saturday!!

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The Good Stuff From Today:  Relay team; relay shuttle with/without KB; waiting station; seeing Molly approach relay handoff; team at the overpass and the finish; more JC Penney shopping and buttons with Marilyn and Molly; Huey's with KB, Molly, and Marilyn; cute Everley pics; car games with Molly and Marilyn