Another Sunday Gone By

MFS and I went to get his new tires. There was a line when we walked in at 10:10 a.m. on a Sunday morning. They told us 4-5 hours to install. It ended up only being 2.5 hours. I feel better knowing that he has at least two new tires. He left to go back to school around 3:45 p.m.

I picked up my friend, L, and we went to Ditka's (da Bearssss) for lunch for her birthday. She was worried that it would be too expensive. I told her that before I started working, BDHA and I used to go to nice restaurants for lunch because the menus were usually cheaper and you still got to enjoy the ambiance. We both had soups and salads and I had iced tea and the total bill WITH tax was $20.88. Not bad at all! They served this citrus-flavored butter with the bread basket which was really good.

Afterwards, we went to "Build-A-Bear". We giggled like little girls. The young man who helped us treated us as seriously as he did the real little girls there. We had to kiss the cloth hearts we picked out before we put them into the animal. He stuffed them and asked us if they were firm enough and then closed up their backs. Then we went over to the bathing area and pretended to bathe them. Air blew out of the sprinkler heads to get any stuffing off the animals. We then picked out clothes (Steelers of course!) and went to make the birth certificate on the computers set up along one side of the wall. I really liked the chairs. They had tops like bar stools that sat on these massive springs. I could have spent an hour bouncing up and down. You had to put in your age (took forever to scroll down to the 50's for the year) and then you had to name your animal.

Name him?!? I wasn't prepared for that. At least twice, the little pixie on the screen would say "Are you still there?!?!?" in case I had given up and walked away. My reply (where only L could hear me) was "Yes, damn you!". I wasn't prepared and I was getting all hot and sweaty and nervous thinking "Oh my gosh, what will I name him?" L named hers right away. She named him "Miracle". I finally decided on P.O. Depending on my mood that will either stand for "Positive Outlook" or "P*ssed Off".

They had all kinds of different animals to choose from. BDHA said that they should have called it "Build-An-Animal" instead if they were offering more than bears. So picky. There were dinosaurs, cats, dogs, bunnies, zebras, elephants and of course bears. I'm sure there were more that I just can't remember. L and I got the same one, the Christmas moose, the boy one with lights on his antlers that light up. I got the football for mine and she got a teeny terrible towel for hers. She's going to give the towel to her 15-month old grandson. We had a lot of fun doing it. I told her that there were things that I've always wanted to do that I've decided I am going to start doing. This was one of them. I've posted a picture of the moose at the end of this post.

Starting tomorrow, I will no longer be posting every day. I tried to post every day in November since it was national blogging month. From now on, I'll only post if something new happens or if I receive results from a test, etc.



Hope you all have a great rest of the weekend. GO STEELERS!