CHALLENGE

I wonder if any of you even care anymore about the weekly challenges.  Probably not LOL!!  but I shall continue to put them in.  This week is about getting strong.  She goes into kind of interesting detail about our muscles, from puberty onward and what half an hour of strength training with weights three times a week will do for you.  I think this is a challenge worthy of trying.

While we were in Maui, my sister Kathy's daughter stayed here for a month or so with her boyfriend.  They were attempting to find jobs and apartments.  Which they both did!  So, Kathy is down here right now staying at Emily's place but coming over here for the day while Em is at work.  

Yesterday we hit the thrift shops…I say so easily! Thank goodness for gpsses (Sp? and grammar?).  Fortunately Victoria is so easily navigated!  And I made her watch that youtube by Macklemore…Thrift Shop song…to get into the mood.  We had so much fun.  We would find something we would think Emily would need or want, Kathy would take a pic and message it to her and we would wait for her answer.

And I did some Xmas shopping…remember that this year all our gifts have to come from thrift stores.  Jeez we had fun!  I found some downright funky stuff…a lava lamp for Monte, a ferocious looking china pig that said 'I love money' on the front and 'Miser' on the back, a broken, but very pretty clock, a stained glass night light for the bathroom with a pig on it (in stained glass) and a Paul Peel picture of naked kids (hmmmmm…come to think of it all his pics are of naked kids).

  In the middle of the bigger sally anne I felt something running out of my nose and down my lip and upon swiping (I don't carry kleenex) I see I had sprung a massive ( or so it felt) nosebleed.  I haven't had one of those since forever.  And it was bad enough that it wasn't controllable with mere finger pinching.  So Kathy dashed up to a worker and explained and they got me a roll of waterproof industrial strength paper towel.  Awesome…did the job!

Kathy found an awesome, mint condition, light tan lazy boy chair!  It was perfect and exactly what Em needed and wanted and it was only 15 bucks!!!  We loaded it into her van.  But, just beside that perfect chair was a sweet little brocade type rocking/swivel chair.  So pretty and petite.  She wasn't sure though if Em had room for it.  When we got home Kathy had to leave.  I told Spod about the wee chair and he said 'Let's go get it!"  If Em doesn't want it we shall keep it. It is so cute.  So we hopped into the truck, went to the store, paid the fifteen bucks and brought it home.  A really good score I would say!

Today we will be hitting the Home Outfitters and Home Senses.  Reminds me of shopping for Monte.  One hundred bucks and his house was outfitted.  I haven't been shopping in a very long time and this is fun.

All for now.  TTYL