Friday Flounderings

Yes, I know that's a very lame title but it's the best I could come up with at the present time, okay?

I'm pleased to report that at the moment life is very sedate and ordinary for me. Excitement is all well and good if it's the proper variety, and I'm thankful that I don't have any of the negative sort to spoil my peaceful week, but it also makes for dull blogging, I'm afraid.

Which is just a subtle hint that I ain't got nothin' interesting happenin' in my life but I'm gonna blog about it anyway. Brace yourself for the mediocreness, y'all.Our Autumn foliage is finally showing some good color, almost overnight it seems. We've had several frosts and one hard freeze in the last week and it's really brought out the brilliant scarlets, golds, oranges and ambers in the trees and shrubs. Lamar and I have tentative plans to go with friends to Hardy, Arkansas on Tuesday to look at the Fall leaves, but once again we may be rained out, so we may have to postpone our trip again. Hardy is in my beloved Ozark Mountains and their Autumn color is a couple of weeks further along than ours here in the Delta, so their trees and foliage should be at or near their peak color right now. If we get delayed too many more times we'll miss the best viewing.When Jessica was a toddler we lived in another apartment directly across the parking lot from our current apartment. I planted 3 maple trees that I took as tiny saplings from a neighbor's yard. Now I can look out my living room window and see 2 of the trees I planted. One of the trees was broken and blown over by a thunderstorm about 5 years ago, but the other 2 are now probably over 20 feet tall and their trunks are close to a foot across. They make a good shade (that I can no longer take advantage of!) and put on a gorgeous Fall color show every year. We have lots of scarlet maple leaves scattered around the parking lot and our yard, and the breeze is constantly teasing more leaves from the trees and skittering them around. Their leaves are exactly like the one pictured there to the right.Jessica, Jason and Emmy came up for supper last night and I'm happy to share that everyone is feeling better now. Not totally well, but much better. Emmy has her 2 bottom front teeth and has several more bumps on her gums where more are trying to come through. I didn't get to play with Emmy much or take any pictures because I was cooking, then eating, and by the time I finished eating Miss Emmy was getting verrrry sleepy. I played with her for just a bit, then she proceeded to plunk herself face down on my chest and fall asleep.

Is there anything in this world sweeter than cuddling a sleeping baby?

Fear not, all who are getting low on Emmy sugars and cuddles. I got plenty for me and to spare so get 'em while they're fresh! LOL! First come, first served! And GREENEYES, I've got some saved just for you, Sister Friend. ;o)Although I'm blogging, I'm also doing something constructive as I type this. I'm waiting. Oh, you didn't know that waiting was constructive? Me, neither, until I ordered a coffee maker online. Actually, I went to Bed Bath &* Beyond to buy a coffee maker and they didn't have the particular one I wanted in stock, so they ordered it online at the store and I had it shipped to my house. They gave me that newfangled tracking information so I could track my package online via *UPS*. Only problem is, they don't give you any particular time of day that your package will arrive. Only that it's due to arrive here today.

It's now almost 12:30 pm Central Standard Time. I still have to take a shower and get ready for a doctor's appointment in Jonesboro at 3:30 pm, which means my mother in law will be here to pick me up at 3 pm.

Now what do you think the odds are that my package will get here in the next hour and a half? Oh, no, I'm sure it will arrive either

A) when I get in the shower, or
B) after I leave for Jonesboro.

Now remember, this is Friday. Who wants to bet me that *UPS* won't leave the package at my door but will keep it over the weekend so I'll have to wait until Monday to get it? Yeah, I know I'm being pessimistic, but I also know how my luck generally runs.As I mentioned, I have a doctor's appointment this afternoon, the first one in over 2 years. I am so thankful that I have insurance again, but I'm dreading all the tests, procedures, prescriptions, referrals and whatever else I have ahead of me today and for the next several weeks and/or months. I know I'll have more than the 3 prescriptions that my insurance covers, so I actually printed out the Wal*mart $4 prescription list to take to the doctor's office with me. I think I'll probably need it. *Sigh........*I don't know about supper tonight. I know we'll have to wait for a while on my prescriptions, so my MIL and I may go get something to eat while we wait for my prescriptions to be filled, or we may grab something at the McDon*ald's in Wal*mart.

I need to do some laundry Saturday if I can get myself motivated. Knowing what's left in my closet is motivation enough, I think.

Saturday night we have a singing/fellowship at church and I'm making a big pot of homemade chili and a skillet of cornbread to take as my contribution to supper.

I'm not sure whether I'll be cooking Sunday Dinner this week or if we're going out for lunch. I'll have to consult with Lamar and my sisters. Lamar should be home in the wee hours of Sunday morning. He doesn't sleep much on the train so I don't know if he'll want to go anywhere or not. He may want to stay home and rest and watch football. We'll see......And with that I'm going to publish this and go wait some more on my package. I may even live wild and go ahead and take my shower. I know, I'm a real risk taker.

Y'all have a great Friday afternoon and a wonderful Autumn weekend. You have to, because I said so. ;o)