Final Day...

This is going to be short because I have taken so long and I want Katie to have computer time to play her game. She really like it.

I ended up eating breakfast in the restaurant. It sounded good and I decided I didn't want to play in the water today - too much trouble. So it was lovely, but let me warn you if you are trying to cut calories BEWARE THE BREAKFAST BUFFET. All the bacon you can eat! Contentment.

In Nashville I was disenchanted. It used to be quaint shops of truly handmade goods. Today most of those shops and galleries that are REAL were closed. What was open were the ones that have been taken over with Yankee candles and commercially produced replicas... I must admit to buying something in one of those shops however. I have wanted a wine rack for the top of the china cabinet and looking for them in shops and online and there was one in one of those shops for only $20. The saddest thing is that it was in a shop that is in a house called "The Old Ferguson House" When I first went to the old Ferguson house 25 years ago it was really owned by Mrs. Ferguson and she was really there and it was so amazing and unique I wrote a descriptive essay about it! I am going to have to find that journal and share it with you. She had a sarcophagus upstairs and funny sayings painted on the walls and wouldn't sell anything I tried to buy! Sadness that she died and it's one of THOSE places now.

Mostly, looking around the shops made me realize I am not really that interested in that kind of stuff anymore. I do have decorative items in my home, and if I saw something I really liked I would have bought it (ie: wine rack). I'm just kind of disenchanted I guess with that whole accessory thing. I would really rather spend my money on a digital camera and useful items to start my business or home repairs or hell, even a fatoldlady, skirted swimsuit! And that maybe some of the hobbies I have thought of pursuing - like I've kept Emily's unfinished dollhouse, thinking I'd like to decorate it... but now I think not. I think I'll keep my crafts and still pursue the idea of making the train layout... but the dollhouse is probably going to go. I was in the miniatures store and the thought of buying the stuff made me think I'd rather not buy it. If I were ever to finish the dollhouse I would want to actually make all the furniture myself or it would not really be craftsmanship or of value, just artfully arranged money....so I am going to check with Emily and then probably get rid of the dollhouse. I will never have time to hand make furniture and things.

So I ended up coming back to Bloomington earlier than planned. I went to Bloomingfoods to buy vitamins for Michael and went to the IU Surplus warehouse to look for furniture. There is a couch I really liked for only $60, but I couldn't smell it to check for odor because I AM STILL SICK. Another bummer for my vacation. Then I came home and took a nap until about 5:00 when Michael came home.

So mini vacation is over. It didn't go exactly as planned, but I got plenty of time alone, meals I neither cooked nor cleaned, bought a new fatoldlady swimsuit, completed reading a book, watched trashy TV, exercised in the water and didn't talk to anybody that I didn't want to.

Back tomorrow to having to pretend to be nice and like people for the sake of money. Yay money. Michael just told me today the state no longer subsidizes the fees for the AP tests and he is taking three. So almost three hundred dollars to produce, but it's cheaper than paying for the credits in college and makes you get through faster.

So positive thoughts of rejuvenation and renewal for another round of the workaday life.