Are You Ready To Ramble Some More?

Let's recap my week, shall we? I know it's difficult for you to contain your excitement, but try, please.

Of course I went to church Sunday morning and Sunday night. As I mentioned in my last post, instead of me cooking, my Sunday Dinner was cooked for me for a change. My sisters Ducky and Cecil and Lamar and I went to our local mall and ate at Shorty*Small's, a sort of high end diner.

If you haven't been reading my blog long enough to pick up on some of my quirks, I have a real thing about my food running together and mixing or even touching on my plate. I often use several plates/bowls/etc. for my food so that I can keep everything separated.

I ordered a small steak with fried catfish strips on the side. It came with fries and a salad. What I didn't realize was that the fries were heaped with cheese sauce, bacon bits and chopped green onion.

Ick!

Now I realize that some people love that kind of thing, but no way would I ever eat that! Fortunately, Ducky got regular fries with her sandwich and she swapped her plain fries for my loaded fries, bless her heart.

Sisters really do come in handy at times.

The food was good other than the French fry crisis.Monday was Labor Day and Lamar and I spent the day with Jessica, Jason, Emmy and my sisters Susie and Cecil. We all met at a local steak house for dinner, or lunch to you city slickers. I got the food bar/buffet instead of a steak and it was plenty for me. Pretty good too.

From there we went to the mall and while the rest of the gang shopped and walked I did my usual: Got a cup of coffee at Star*bucks and a book and spent the entire time in Barnes&Noble, reading and drinking my coffee.

After we left the mall we spent the rest of the afternoon/evening at Jason's and Jessica's and she cooked supper for everyone. I was still full from lunch and didn't eat a thing, but everyone else said it was really good.Tuesday was my monthly shopping day. Jessica and Emmy picked me and Lamar up that morning around 9 am, but my favorite catfish place doesn't start serving until 11 am so we had some time to kill. We decided to take a little ride to Walcott just so we could watch Emmy's reaction to the curvy, hilly road.

She did not disappoint. The road between Jonesboro and Walcott is one of our favorite drives and is notorious for having the kind of hills that tickle your tummy. Emmy loved it, and I think we got as big a kick out of watching her reactions as she did from the ride.

By the time we got back into Jonesboro and stopped to get gas in the car it was time to go eat. The catfish was great, as usual, and Emmy ate like a lumberjack. She loves catfish and all the trimmings and she ain't prissy about it.

After lunch, on to Walmart to do my monthly shopping. I had to buy toilet tissue, soap, my regular prescriptions, food for us and cat food and litter, etc. You know, all that frivolous, luxurious stuff.

After shopping, back home to unload and put everything away, then Cecil and Sue dropped by to visit for a few hours before they headed back to their homes in Trumann.Wednesday I did some things here around the apartment, made TEXAS HASH and stir fried some garden green beans for supper then went to Wednesday night prayer meeting at my church in Trumann.

I also cooked some more of the fresh green beans and put them in the fridge. I'm planning on having them for Sunday Dinner this week, although right now I don't have the faintest idea what else I'm serving along with the green beans.Thursday was pretty much a carbon copy of Wednesday except that I didn't go to church. And I watched Emmy for Jessica for several hours while she ran some errands in Trumann. So I guess really it wasn't a carbon copy, huh?

But I did get some things done. I cleaned off my desk and did some sorting, tossing, cleaning and decluttering. Now I just need to get myself motivated and do a lot more in here and in the rest of the apartment.Which brings us to Friday. I finally went in to my drs. office and did the 3 hour fasting glucose test my dr. ordered. My blood sugar levels were above normal, with the highest being 178 if my memory serves me correctly. The lab technician said that will probably be enough for my insurance to accept my doctor's diagnosis of diabetes, especially with the other tests I've already had done. I go to my doctor for the followup for the test next Friday morning.

After I got done with my testing, Lamar, Jessica, Emmy and I went to a local Chinese restaurant and ate from their lunch buffet. By the time I got my food my sugar was crashing. I had the jitters and I felt a lot better after I got some food in me.

When we finished eating we went to Wal*mart so I could do a little more food shopping. Every time I shop I'm amazed at how much prices are rising. And I was disgusted when I picked up my favorite brand of ground coffee and realized they had left the price the same but reduced the amount of product and the size of the container. Although technically they didn't actually raise the price, by reducing the amount of product they effectively gave themselves a price increase.

I buy Folger's*Columbian ground coffee in the large plastic canister. It started out as a 3 lb. can and over the years they keep whittling down the amount in the container. Check it out next time you buy groceries. It's not just the Columbian variety, it's all their coffee selections.

Jessica brought me and Lamar home and unloaded my groceries along with Emmy. I watched Emmy Friday evening so Jessica and Jason could have an evening to themselves. I fed Emmy some of Wednesday night's leftover TEXAS HASH (Emmy LOVES Texas hash!) for her supper, gave her a bath in the kitchen sink and by 8:30 she was already asleep. She was about wiped out, and I am too.

Emmy's Mama and Daddy picked her up about 9:45 pm and Jessica said they had a really good time. They drove to Memphis to eat at Olive*Garden. Well, really it's Southaven, Mississippi, but it's a suburb of Memphis and other than the highway signs you don't even notice when you cross from Memphis, Tennessee into Southaven, Miss. I should mention that the remnants of Hurricane Gustave arrived here on Monday. The rains started on Monday night and it's been gloomy, rainy, windy, gusty and blustery all week. We were very blessed that we didn't get any of the very heavy rains here, only about 3 inches total over the whole week, and it came pretty steadily with no flooding.

It's been blessedly cool this week, almost Fall like. I really think the torrid heat of Summer is behind us now and I can't wait until Fall is truly here. I love the crisp mornings and evenings, and the softer warmth of Fall afternoons.Friday has been a full day. Diane is TARD tonight and my bed is calling me.

Lord willing, I'll be back Saturday evening with my Sunday Dinner post.

In the meantime, y'all have a blessed Saturday.