I had a busy weekend planned. Friday was errand day. Vicki and I got an earlyish start and went to the Staples, Walmart, bank, mom’s, bookstore (for schoolbooks), two buildings on campus to check out some things, out to lunch, Sorgs, Janesville library, home to dump things, Woodman’s and finally a trip to the Dane County Humane Society.
By the time we got home I was in pain from all the walking and exhausted. I’m normally in a pretty steady level of pain so a bit more you wouldn’t think would bother me. This time though it was really messing with me. Sasha, Vicki’s new baby, decided to sit on my knee which was really hurting. She spent a bit of time just laying on there. Whether it was the warmth from her body or her purring when she hopped off my knee was no longer at an extreme level of pain.
All right I know that when I have a day as jam packed as my Friday the judicious thing to do is relax the next day and not do much. Nope, I was super busy yesterday. We went over to Fort Atkinson to visit a cemetery there. Both sides of the family are buried there. So I spent a few hours wishing I’d brought my computer and writing information I’d found. I will be going back.
While I’m sitting in the office doing research on the family, Ken, Vicki, Beth, Alicia, Mom, and Jake wandered around the cemetery looking at graves, writing information, and taking pictures. I was thrilled to find the gravestone of my great, great, great grandfather and mother’s graves. There were also two of their children listed on the gravestone who’d died as children. I have a lot of information to work through and some pictures to look at. A cousin of mine requested information on some of these same ancestors so I’ll be forwarding them to her as well.
After the cemetery we went back to Staples (need more printer cartridges) and got lunch. Then I hung out with mom showing her some of the things I’d found in doing research. I also printed out some information for her.
We talked to the Gin and Stephanie. Mom, Alicia, Beth, as well as my household got to chat with them. We think we have our vacation planned out.
Ken and Vicki have been having problems with their phones so we went to get different ones for them. After that we went to Mounds to get food for the cat and a few goodies.
We went to supper with Beth before taking her home. We tried to pick up some stuff from mom but they weren’t home. It was home to take more drugs – oh yeah I’d resorted to drugs for the pain by this point – and hit the recliner in the hopes the pain would go away.
Sunday, I swore I wasn’t doing anything. I was going to work on cleaning my desk and getting ready for school. So I got up and started on my desk. I got some stuff done. I filled out some paperwork and a package all ready to mail, shared breakfast with Vicki and went off to run errands. We went back to Mounds to get a few more things for Sasha, the grocery store to pick up some stuff we forgot. Then it was home to make lunch. After lunch was in the oven made deviled eggs. Vicki also mixed up her pumpkin spice cake. We also did prep for lunches this week. I should be able to grab and go for the week.
All of that leads to me probably hitting the recliner soon to read while listening to music. Not sure as I’m sitting here the genealogy and my messy desk are calling to me to work on it. I don’t think I could cram much more into my weekend.