I was up bright and early because I had parked my trike in the middle of the shop yesterday when it was too stormy to ride home, so I needed to remove it before everyone arrived for meditation. Adoring Husband drove me there and helped set out the flags, signs and chairs so we were all set with plenty of time to spare.
Due to holidays and specialist appointments, there were a few absent today, so eight of us were sitting in the meditation class and, as always, it was a good class.
It was my day off, but a customer who had left at 3pm yesterday without completing her purchases, had returned to do so and I felt obliged to serve her.
I left soon after because Aggie and Lady Lynn were due to pick me up at 10.20am so that we could then pick up The Brains Trust and all head out to Childers for some shoe shopping and some lunch.
I'm not certain if it was peer pressure but I prefer to think of it as supporting and encouraging each other to spend money on things that we really didn't need, and possibly didn't even want, but it felt good at the time so we did it.
I purchased a pair of shoes and two tops and everybody finished the day with something lovely to take home. I think we were honest with each other about how we looked as we tried on both clothes and shoes at two different shops.
We made friends with the shop owners and talked about The Happy Abode and how horrible February is every year for them too ... which was comforting.
We walked across the road and ordered our lunch at Kape` Central. This was my lunch ...
... because I'm a grown up and can order sweets for lunch if I want to!!
The coffee was absolutely delicious too!
From there, we checked out the gift section in the Post Office next door. They had some lovely things in there, some similar to what we have at The Happy Abode.
After our shopping spree, we drove to a little coffee shop further up town and the girls ordered coffee while I ordered a fresh juice of mango, ginger and mint. It soothed my upset tummy a little.
The Garden Guru had put in an order for horseradish peanuts, so the peanut van was our next stop and while we were a little concerned about the possibility of driving through a storm, we were lucky enough that it remained to our left for most of the drive home.
We had a glorious five hours together with lots of laughing and joking and spending and eating and drinking.
Adoring Husband was not at home when Aggie dropped me off. He had gone to get coffee and he had unsuccessfully attempted to phone me to ask if I'd be home soon. Luckily for me, he came home with a coffee for me anyway.
I took the washing off the line, put some more in the machine, ironed AH's jeans and shirts to take on his trip to Armidale, sewed a button on one of his shirts and then made a quick nosh up dinner of Jamaican Chicken.
As I began to write this blog post, I received a call from Vegan Chickie and we talked for almost 90 minutes - there was a lot to catch up on.
Here it is, almost 12.30am and I have to work tomorrow. I can hear my pillow calling my name and I believe I will set my alarm an hour later than usual!
Nite all.
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