(Babysitting
my grandson, James)
Saturday
March 11 to Saturday March 18, 2017:
On Wednesday
morning (March 15th), after I got up, I had a quick shower, got
dressed, and went downstairs to make my usual cup of coffee. James was still asleep. He has a number of tasks to do today: take out the re-cycle bins to the laneway
after the bins there have been emptied, which will happen later today; then, he
has to shovel the snow from the walkway; and then do his homework or whatever
is left of it. I read my book again for
a while this morning, then did the dishes from last night, made breakfast for
James when he finally got up at 11:30 am, and then watched some TV shows on the
Discovery Channel with James. A while
later, we had a late lunch.
Brent is working his overtime shift tonight until
7:00 pm and then going out with his good friends John and Steph for dinner. They live in Whitby, Ontario, and it’s John’s
birthday today. Brent is planning on
staying over at their place tonight and going to work from there tomorrow
morning. We won’t see him again until
Thursday afternoon after his workday is done.
Meanwhile, James and I will have dinner on our own tonight – no big
deal. After dinner, we watched a previously
recorded Pay-Per-View TV event called “WWE FastLane”, featuring popular WWE
wrestlers, both male and female. I
enjoyed watching the females wrestling actually, not so much the males –
they’re way too macho for my tastes.
I stayed up late again (till 1:30 am) watching
“Forensic Files” while James watched his YouTube videos, at first downstairs
then in his room upstairs. So, we both
got to bed late tonight.
On Thursday
morning (March 16th), when I woke up after 11:00 am, it was a
really sunny day out today for a change – thank God! I thought the sun would never come out – at
least not this week. But, I was
wrong. I took some new pictures with my
Smart phone camera and they turned out much better than the ones I’d taken
earlier in the week when it was so dreary out.
Today, I spent some more time reading and now I am
about three-quarters of the way through my book. I had made myself a coffee as usual, and then
I thought of what we should have for breakfast.
There was a package of Pillsbury giant croissants in the fridge that
seemed to be beckoning to me to bake, so I did and then called James to come
downstairs for breakfast. After
breakfast, I had to go to the store to buy some milk and
toilet paper because I knew that Brent doesn’t stop anywhere on his way home from
work to buy anything.
I then spent some time sweeping the floors on the
main level and upstairs. And, I finally
finished cleaning that pesky slow-cooker pot that the ribs were cooked in two
days ago. I hate cleaning out the greasy
remnants of cooking fatty meat like ribs, but I did it. Now, Brent has nothing to complain about. James also did his part by taking out the
re-cycling stuff today. The bins on the
laneway weren’t picked up yesterday as expected, so James had to wait until
today to put the new re-cycling stuff outside on Brent’s driveway (the bins on
the laneway belong to Brent and need to be emptied by the collectors before we
can re-fill them).
In the afternoon, I mostly relaxed by playing
“Solitaire” and “World Geography” on my Smart phone upstairs on my bed. I also submitted a new order to Amazon from
my Smart phone and it should be mostly delivered to me at home by March 22nd
which is next Monday. But, part of the
order won’t be delivered until early May, when one of the DVDs I want is
available. I also checked out my Gmail
account and finally, my Facebook account.
I’ve been having trouble logging into Facebook on my Smart phone though
and I’m not sure why. It’s the same
situation with Shoppers Drug Mart on my Smart phone only this login situation
was supposed to have been fixed already.
Brent came home at 4:30 pm or little after that, and
we are all going to be spending the evening after dinner watching “Survivor”
and “Big Brother Canada”. These are TV
shows that Brent has already recorded on his PVR. I usually don’t mind what we watch together
as long as it’s not totally boring. At
least I got to watch “Forensic Files” for the last two nights, so I am not complaining
about anything we watch tonight. I take
my opportunities to watch what I want whenever I can. We missed him when he was away last
night. I don’t begrudge him his party
time though. John and Steph are really
good friends of his and it was John’s birthday party, after all! As it happened, they stayed in and ate dinner at
John and Steph’s home and did not go out for dinner.
As it happened later on, we did watch the two pre-recorded
shows “Survivor” and “Big Brother Canada”.
Then, we watched a second Maple Leaf game, this time versus the Tampa
Bay Lightning, and it was spectacular!
The Maple Leafs redeemed themselves from their disastrous defeat against
the Florida Panthers (a 7-2 loss) and they are back in contention for a
wildcard playoff spot. Tonight, we
ordered dinner in - it was a pizza dinner to beat all pizza dinners! “Tony’s Best” provided us with an extra-large
meat-lover’s pizza with extra cheese, a pound of wings with honey-garlic sauce,
a box of potato wedges which were mouth-watering, a pound of raw veggies, cheesy
garlic bread, and enough drinks for six people. It was truly yummy!
copyright 2017 - Anne Shier
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