Gloomy

Hey, A.

Now I feel bad for making you feel like apologizing....I didn't intend to make you feel bad. I'm sorry that I did.

Okay, I know that Veteran's Day is not supposed to be a joyful celebration, but dear God, we just had the most somber and depressing assembly to honor local vets. Our first selectman, who is also a vet, every year gets up without notes and waxes patriotic--usually a bit long-winded and disorganized since he seems not to prepare his remarks. Well today he told the story of a nurse who was asked by a dying soldier to sing him a lullaby as he died. I get that these things should not leave me wanting to frolic through the autumn leaves, but if I heard one more depressing story I was going to need to take the rest of the day off. Ugh. War stories.

M and J are coming over for chili Thursday night, so tomorrow I will spend the day cleaning and cooking after my upper body training session at the gym. Now that I'm going regularly and have stuck with cardiovascular workouts for two months, I want to learn all the different machines. I still have three sessions available; I thought I'd take advantage of one tomorrow.

Aside from that, all is well, I guess, other than feeling the aftereffects of the $400 tires. I had the money at the time, but now I feel broke. I guess it took a week or so to catch up with me that the money wasn't there for other things. I don't have much coming up that costs any money so it's okay for now. Just sucks when I just got paid and already I need my next paycheck.

Hope your week is off to a good start.

Talk to you soon. Love,
Barb