He Made It

Well look who's home. He got in around 9:30 last night and was glad to be off the road. I was glad to have him off the road too. 

And Maurice was just glad. She didn't even express any pissed-offedness but just greeted him and when he got in his chair, she joined him as if he'd never been gone at all. 
I haven't been snitty either, truthfully. Just my regular old wife self. There have been many hugs, as one can imagine. 

I asked him this afternoon if he wanted to go to town to buy a dishwasher. This is something we've been talking about for quite awhile. Ours still works but due to a fall that Mr. Moon took some years ago while he was cleaning up the kitchen, the racks have been rather funky and the wheels pop off and you can't put really tall things in because of the funky racks and the things hit the wand device that spins around and shoots out water, and there you go. I thought we'd probably bought our dishwasher about six years ago but it's been nine which is not a bad replacement age these days. And I'm sure this one will get passed on to someone. Or...as Glen suggested today, he could use it in the garage to clean parts with. 
Well. I guess he could. 
And so we went to town to the place where we end up buying all of our big appliances from a long-time Tallahassee family-owned business. We like dealing with them. The woman who always helps us is the daughter of the now-deceased original owners and she remembers everything. It's always sort of like a pleasant visit with an old friend with the exception of having the debit card run through the machine at the end of it. 
Of course they offer delivery and installation but that costs money and you know my husband- he can do it himself. So he'll be taking the truck in on Monday and picking it up, bringing it home, taking out the old one, and putting in the new one. God but that man is stubborn. He told me, "I'd rather buy fishing lures with that money."
"You can afford BOTH!" I said. He does not listen. 

And I ordered a new air fryer and toaster oven today. It's the same brand as my old one and similar (we are faithful consumers, obviously). Yes. I am getting it from Amazon and it will arrive tomorrow. I don't think there are any of this model available in Tallahassee so there you go. And as I've said before, since the distribution center is about ten miles down the road, the overnight delivery was a free option. 

Lord but we are impatient these days, aren't we? We want things when we want them and we want them NOW! 

Okay. Aprapos of none of this I have decided that it is definitely time for us humans to find a better way to connect things to electrical power than the plug-in-the-outlet situation that we've been using for what? A hundred years? 

I suppose in a way it's one of those if it ain't broke don't fix it sort of things but it's annoying and we often need more outlets than we have so we have to use extension cords and power strips and I don't know about you, but when I travel, I always take a power strip because there are never enough plugs for my phone and fan and the light. And why do hotels always put outlets behind a two thousand pound bed? 
When you're old and not quite as nimble, getting down to plug and unplug things can be a trial. A trial of my knees and hips, anyway. And dammit- it never fails that I first try to plug the plug into the outlet backwards so that the bigger prong doesn't go into the slot and then you have to fumble around, especially if the outlet is behind something, which it so often is, to figure out which damn way to insert the plug. 

All right. I am done with that complaint.

For now.

On our way home from buying the dishwasher, we stopped at Moon Plaza so Glen could check on the rodent situation. I went in with him so that I could see what the new thrift store is looking like and honestly, it is looking pretty good. I found at least three things right off that I want. 

Do you suppose that Mr. Moon would let me take out the decades old brown leather sofa in the Glen Den that I never wanted in the first place and put this in its stead? It's velvet by the way. 

And this? It OBVIOUSLY belongs in the library. My library. It, too, is velvet. Is it not gorgeous? 
Come to mama, baby. 

I have no idea how much either one of those things cost because there were no price tags on them. The store is not giving things away though, if the prices on things that are posted is any indication. But they have some quality things. 

And then there was this.

They are asking $159.00 for that beauty. 
Uh. 
No.

There was also a portrait of the pope. Or at least some pope. I don't keep up with these things. It cost about the same as Mother T. there. 

And the other thing I found that I wanted was actually things, I guess because it was a pair of shoes and there are two of them in a set. I did not take a picture but this is what they look like. 

They are Uggs and they are the shoes I need for winter. 
I tried them on (don't tell anyone and I did have on socks) and they are perfect. Comfy as can be, sturdy, and with a sole that would appear to grip so well you could walk up a wall without sliding down. They were not priced either. They're probably going to ask a lot since they did not look as if they'd ever been worn. 
Except by me. And just the right one.
If I didn't have such strong morals and ethics I would have snatched those motherfuckers right off their little shelf. 

Time to cook supper, tonight for two, not just one. 
I'll probably remember how that works. 

Love...Ms. Moon