Another Saturday

It’s 9:30 am as I’m writing this.  As usual for a Saturday (as I am a creature of habit…and routine), I’ve already been to Target and Harris Teeter to pick up the groceries and other household items.  If you really must know, my list for this week included:

Milk, Frosted Flakes, Mott’s Apple Juice, ham (for sandwiches), Miracle Whip, bread, a toothbrush, Chips Ahoy cookies, Fritos, Uncle Ben’s microwavable white rice, soap (Tone), Q-tips (to keep the ears clean) and a couple of ice packs.

Somehow, I discovered that I’m down to one ice pack to put in a cooler, and that’s designed for cans.  I used to have a couple of others, but I’m not sure where they disappeared to.  Since I’m off to Michigan in a couple weeks, I figured I’d pick up a couple replacements.

Speaking of Michigan, I’m starting to formulate a bit of a speech for Mom’s retirement dinner on June 4th.  For years, Mom has been telling her classes (and parents) stories of things Chad & I have done growing up.  Now it’s our turn to exact a little bit of payback (all in a fun way, of course).  However, if anyone has any good stories about Mom, feel free to either post them or email them to me.  I won’t promised they’ll be used, but it will be fun nonetheless.  For those of you who may have heard it, I’ve warned Mom that I will be telling the vacuum story.  For those of you who haven’t, I’ll try to post it after I get back from Michigan (don’t want to spoil the surprise for anyone who will be attending this little shindig).

On Thursday, I went to go play tennis with Curtis from TNG.  Yes, this is on top of the regular Tuesday basketball workout I’ve been getting.  Exercising once a week (even if it is a pretty vigorous hour and a half) just doesn’t quite allow me to keep my slender figure anymore.  Actually, I’m not sure it ever did, but up until I moved south, I was probably doing something like basketball, volleyball, tennis, and/or softball at least 2-3 times a week.  Anyway, those of you who live in Charlotte probably remember that it was pretty breezy on Thursday.  While warming up, we both got into the habit of aiming for outside the court, knowing that the wind would blow the ball back onto the court.  This was actually rather fun.  I also seemed to be able to keep more of my shots in this way than with no breeze.  So if anyone knows of any wind-tunnel leagues starting up, please let me know.  As far as the tennis goes, we didn’t actually get past the warm ups before the rain started, and HARD.  We’ll try to go again this coming week.

Not much else going on besides that.  I’m hoping to get a couple of more games in on my ’75 replay.  I was a little pissed off that no one was showing the Yankees-Mets game last night, so I’m hoping for a different result today.