The Dackel Princess

Have you ever had one of those days where you just plain feel lazy? I mean, lazier than usual? Today was that day for me.

It all started when I opened my eyes in bed. My first instinct was to close them and pretend I wasn’t awake and go back to sleep. However, Greta had seen my eyes open and her tail began to thump with joy (and probably the need to go out and wee-wee after a long night in bed). Fritz seeing movement was dancing around like a disco dancer from the’80’s.

So I got up and put on my rain clogs and bathrobe and headed toward the kitchen, still wishing that I could crawl back into that nice warm bed with Hubby, who was blissfully asleep.

I turned on the coffee maker and got the puppies from their crates and out we went into the morning mist. All the dogs ran around and happily relieved themselves before coming back into the house for their early morning treat.

I sat down and put my head back on the chair and closed my eyes. I could feel myself slipping into that wonderful sleepy state when, BOOM! Arnie jumped onto my lap followed by his sister, Anneliese.

Greta, who was sitting with me in the chair also trying to go back to sleep, looked at me as if to say, “I told you to get rid of them, along with the others”.

Time passed and finally the coffee was done and I got myself a cup, with the hopes that I would wake up.

It just never happened.

I decided early on to toss some vegetables in the crock pot and make a beef stew for dinner because it was easy, cooked itself and would require me to do very little.

I postponed the laundry, and almost all of my other chores. It can all just wait. As Scarlett O’Hara said, “Tomorrow is another day” and my work will still be there.

Meanwhile I have watched the Patriots football game ( Pats won 34-17 ) and the Red Sox baseball game (Sox won 9-1), with plans to watch “Desperate Housewives” later tonight.

Yes, I never did officially wake up today, but that’s okay. Perhaps once in a while you just have to have a really laid back day.

Time for my pajamas!

I’m thinking that something is seriously wrong with me. I just haven’t been myself. I don’t want big breakfasts with pastry or heavy breads, I don’t feel like eating too many chips and the part that really has me worried is…

I don’t want to eat any chocolate! I just have no desire or taste for it!

Now for me, not wanting to eat chocolate is like a dog refusing a juicy bone. It just isn’t right!!! Usually I walk by the candy counter and I hear the dark chocolate calling out to me, “take me home”, but lately I have gone into many stores and I just can’t hear that sweet “candy music”.

I have tried to eat a piece of the deep, dark, sweet stuff, but my taste buds decline to enjoy the delight. It just sort of tastes like dried leaves. Dark Chocolate tasting like Dried Leaves!!! That can’t be right!!!

This could be a disaster of epic proportions! Me, unable to enjoy dark chocolate?

This is unprecedented and should have Hershey’s Chocolate Company worried very much!

It could cause a decline in the cocoa market.

Yes, a disaster of epic proportions!!!

Remember: It’s still De-Lurking Week!!!

Things I Did Today

1. I got my flu shot.
2. I got my computers all networked and working well.
3. I made a homemade spaghetti sauce.
4. Made Hubby his lunch, only to realize I had made him the lunch he hadn’t wanted. Oh well, at least he got fed!
5. Took a small rest because I had a gigantic headache.
6. Walked the dogs.
7. Fed the dogs.
8. Took a ride with Hubby and enjoyed the changing Autumn leaves.
9. Found the recipe for an “Herb Crusted Roast Beef” (found here) that I will make on Thursday night.
10. Started thinking about when I will go down to see my sister and her family. (A 4 hour drive)
11. Watched some mindless TV.
12. Picked up the mail.
13. Decided that I need to kick back and relax a little more.

Today Hubby and I went to do our grocery and personal needs shopping. It was a long morning, and an expensive morning, but for the first time since we left here for the reunion in September, the house is once again well stocked and the cupboards are filled with all that I need to make delicious meals. Also, the dogs no longer have to worry what they will eat, as we got all their food as well.

We worked so hard at all this shopping, that when we arrived at the fish counter and saw that Lobsters were on sale for $5.99 a pound, we splurged and got ourselves two of the little critters for our dinner tonight! I’ll make a baked potato, a mixed garden salad and the lobster. Oh, and Hubby grabbed a pumpkin pie from the bakery so we will have that for dessert.

On our way home we stopped off for a quickie lunch at a Chinese Buffet, and stopped to get the mail. That’s when I got a great surprise!

I now need reading glasses, which I don’t really mind, but when I am in the car and trying to see at a distance and also read a map, I have run into a big problem. My eyes are very light sensitive and I need sunglasses all of the time, but I also need the reading glasses. I found a glasses supplier who sells bifocal sunglasses! I ordered a pair last Wednesday, and today they arrived!!! Yay!!! They work like a charm, allowing me to read a map as well as see through the clear tops of the sunglasses.

It’s the little things in life that can really make your day!

Then The UPS man arrived with our new coffee maker. You see a few weeks ago during our run up and down the east coast, our coffee maker sort of died. As it was 8 months old and still under warranty we called the hot-line number and they told us they would send a new coffee maker in 4-6 weeks. Well that was about 5 days ago, and today it arrived!

Yes, it’s the little things that can really make your day!!!