Friday Five

TGIF!! Whoa, Milton, was a doozy. Maybe a bit less than it’s full potential, but still…enough with the disasters! We need to have good news for awhile! Now let’s shift into sharing five random things about our week. Here’s mine:

I’ve mostly stuck close to home this week and loved it. It’s not that I don’t want to see everyone and do things, but I think I needed the break I got a bunch of things done, but the prize goes to Wizard! He cleaned out the overgrown mess in our front planter — it took him a few hours– and now it looks so good with the new yard. He’s a rockstar to me this week!Today I’m trying to make homemade sourdough bread sticks. I followed the suggested timeline, but I think that was mistake as the starter was past it’s peak effectiveness when I used it according to the timeline. So the breadsticks may not rise enough and come soft and fluffy. But this is a practice run for the 20th when I’m making dinner for Special K’s birthday of Manicotti with homemade breadsticks, so I can fix any problems by then Wizard is pretty excited and hoping this batch is good enough for him to enjoy! Which he would definitely deserve after cleaning that planter our and I didn’t have to do it!I’ve been spending money this week, LOLOL! This is weird, maybe it’s a side effect of my thyroid meds? I’m joking, it’s more a side effect of I need stuff and put it off for so long, I have to buy it all now. So the first thing is a cordless stick vacuum. I ordered that on Monday and it’s not coming until sometime next week.  Then Amazon Prime Day got my attention I ordered a zip-up sweatshirt, a few long sleeved shirts for what passes as winter here and a small wallet. That was all necessity stuff and I didn’t actually spend much as the prices were cheap. But it felt like a lot after buying the vacuum.And yesterday…that’s the one that surprises me! I needed a better suitcase than the one the size of a clumsy unwieldy tank in the set we bought for Hawaii. Wizard is keeping the smaller suitcase and overnight bag from that set. So I’ve been searching for a few weeks for something for me. I ended up buying a London Fog 24 inch suitcase and the under the seat rolling overnight case. The cost was crazy to me!!! I’m in shock, but I also had 30% off, Kohls cash, a gift card and some extra cash I’d saved so it came out to something reasonable.  But still! I normally buy the cheapest thing I can. Wizard is happy that oversized suitcase bugged us both will be donated and out of our closet. Now can I pack less when I travel??? We will see when we go to Cambria in November with Oldest, Special K and Turbo!Today we are going back to UCI for a routine follow-up ultrasound for me. Wizard is insisting on driving me, which I don’t need but appreciate all the same. Saturday I think we’re staying home and I’ll clean. Sunday we are going to see Turbo play baseball then we’ll all get something to eat. Next week, I hope to get to see my grandbaby and maybe help her mom if I can. She’s a month old now (the baby, not her mom, LOL!

That’s my five, now I’d love to hear yours! Hope everyone has a safe and fun weekend!

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