We have been in a deep freeze here in Western Pennsylvania for some four days or so, however that still doesn’t stop me from getting my green tea Frappuccino when it is a grey 25 degrees out. The temperature is 36, 2:11 Eastern and I am still cold but I did drink that Frappuccino and I could actually drink another. Today is the warmest it has been for almost a week. This morning at 8am I headed out to Walmart to avoid the crowd which lasted a whole ten minutes, once they started coming I lost track of what I had to get even though I had my list on me and not on the kitchen table. I am trying two new recipes this week, my family will be so happy, it does cost more when you add new dinner options to your grocery bill and that is why I avoid that and stick with the normal.
The lady checking me out was freezing. I mentioned that maybe she was getting sick because I was getting over the most horrendous sinus infection I have ever had and warned her that when you filled chilled to the bone as she was feeling that maybe she was getting sick. I didn’t mention that when bad things were happening in your life you will be chilled to the bone. She didn’t look sick and I think that I am the only one that ever goes through hell, that was why I looked so bad and tried to carry it up with makeup which I never wear just usually tinted moisturizer but today I chose to do the full face and felt like someone else. We joked about how it was -2 yesterday morning and how we weren’t cold then but freezing today, I took it as our bodies being in shock form the negative reading and just catching up now. I went to her aisle because I have gone to her register before and she is very good at her job and I wanted out of Walmart quickly. I watched my food move down the belt knowing I would be back in a few days, with a different cashier, spending another 150. I also thought about all the items I had forgotten. I was so prepared to get everything on my list only to pull it out half way and dodging certain isles because I had seen someone I knew and I wanted to avoid them so bad. The stress of grocery shopping.
The guy in front of me had the new chip card and every time the register would beep for him to take it out he got all confused and did something and the lady had to help him maybe twice to figure it out. I absolutely hate the new chip card but am thankful that most of the stores registers are reacting better to the chip then when I first got it. My only pleasure this morning is getting my frozen Frappuccino after I am done. That is my reward for all the stress of grocery shopping. I am pleased that last week during Ash Wednesday I gave up Facebook for 40 days instead of my little slice of heaven that only cost $5.04. I left my Facebook friends wondering what the heck happened to me because my page states CONTECT NOT AVAILABLE, which I secretly love, some of them will think I unfriended them which I probably should have.
As I retrieved my reward of the day, the lady at the window remembers me from yesterday and calls me sweetie which I am old enough to probably be her mother and which I am embarrassed because I am there almost daily, I accept both the frozen drink and sweet gesture and head on home. I wonder how many others will get a frozen drink when their bodies are shaking like me. I had other things to do before I headed home but choose to skip them, washing the car was one them, its getting hard to see out the windows and since my husband thinks that getting my broken wind shield wiping thing that we thought was frozen a month ago but never thawed out is not so important of a repair fixed so now I am resorting to opening the sunroof and pouring water on my windshield while turning on the wipers at the same time which is very tricking and I have mentioned to my husband how dangerous it is for me to do this. water comes back in the sunroof if you are moving, trust me, you must do it when you are at a red light or stopped. I avoided the car wash which I am sure would be a 30 minute wait and totally forgot the other stuff I needed to do.
As I walked in the door my 12 year old son who helps me every time with my packages states “At least I got to see Ryder have his fist cereal feeding because I missed the day he was born”. Wow! The Frappuccino must of really frozen my brain because from my memory he was there that day, six months ago, the most beautiful day of my life, the day my first grandson was born and now my 12 year old was telling he wasn’t there. “I think you were there to see him being born”. No, no he had a football thing going on and he and Daddy were late. I know that life plays tricks on your mind and that the busyness of life can really set you up for failure and these freezing temperatures slows everything down a bit but really did my husband and my youngest miss the birth of my first grandson. I had to have him go over that day for me because my memory was telling me that everyone was there. He was right he was late, my son, Ben and I had I left early in the day to meet my daughter and her boyfriend and they had to come later he did miss the birth of my first grandson but he did get to see him eat his first bowl of cereal so he was happy with that. He didn’t ask what I had bought or where his drinks were he just helped me with the bags.
My grandson had just stayed the weekend with us because of the cold spell. I didn’t want my daughter picking him up late at night so as she worked on one of the busiest sweetheart weekends of the year at Red Lobster we were blessed with his little beautiful spirit and she entrusted me to give him his first feeding, she was unsure and nervous to do it on her own, yeah I knew what to do I had three children!! I can give him his first cereal. I couldn’t remember giving any of mine any type of food. I wasn’t about to use Google or You Tube or “What to expect the first year”, I was going old school. I followed the directions and it was just like watered down white stuff, no other way to explain it. He sort of liked it sort of spit it and it sure did make a mess we all loved watching take his first bite thought so we got to do that all together.
Life gets to busy that maybe sometimes we forget to eat I know that I do. I have been sick for almost a week and starting to feel better, my Frappuccino did taste better today than it has over the last two weeks, I never really miss my trip to Starbucks I am trying to cut down a bit.
It is horrible how getting older takes all your memories away. My husband didn’t remember any of our children getting their first feeding so I don’t feel so bad. My life seems to be surrounded by food and frozen drinks for me which is fine. I wouldn’t know what do without them.
The forecast is calling for a mixture of rain, snow, sleet, and warm and cold temperatures all week which is totally perfect weather for frozen drinks.
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