No gym again…

So the plan was to hit the gym yesterday, but we all see that did not happen. So the new plan was to go this afternoon after church. No problem Big Monkey would be home to watch Little Monkey and I could go. Until someone called out for shift today and Big Monkey would have been held over whether he volunteered or not. No problem. Little Monkey’s Grandma was coming for the afternoon/evening. She could get play time and I could go to the gym. Then we get home from church today and there is a message on the answering machine from Little Monkey’s Grandma. She woke up with a migraine and is not feeling well. She will not be coming unless Little Monkey’s Aunt comes too. Little Monkey’s Aunt was not planning on coming so that option was out. Only problem now….can’t go to the gym because there is no childcare on Sundays. The bad part of this is that I’ve now taken three days off from the gym which will probably show up in my time/distance for tomorrow.

Looks like we’ll be just hanging out today. Later we’ll take a trip to see Big Monkey because Little Monkey has been asking for him. We might also stop at CVS if I can get my stuff together and see what they might like to pay us to take out of the store this week!

Garage Sales

Yesterday Little Monkey and I got up bright and early, just after Big Monkey left for work and got ourselves together. The plan was: 1. Go to Walmart to get Free Wild seed Card and Free Reusable Tote. 2. Stop at neighborhood near Walmart for a couple of garage sales. 3. Go to McDonald’s to pick up breakfast. 4. Go to another neighborhood that was having a neighborhood-wide garage sale day. 5. Go to the gym to walk on the treadmill for 50 minutes. 6. Go to CVS “Family Fun Day”. 7. Go home and attempt to be somewhat productive.

 1. We were able to take care of this one. We got to Walmart about 8:30am and it appeared that no one was giving anything away. I couldn’t imagine that they had already given out all the free items they had. So we looked around and picked up a couple more seed packets that we hope to plant soon. When we went to checkout, they finally had passed out the bags and were giving them out. Here’s the dumb part. Every cashier that I watched give them away free, simply handed it to the customer and then proceeded to bag up all their items in plastic bags. I’m sorry but I do believe someone missed the point! We also got out wildflower seed card on the way out the door.
2. We stopped in at three garage sales in the neighborhood close to Walmart. One was not so great, the other was also not so great but we did by a little chair for Little Monkey. It’s like a camping type chair and he really likes ours but I’m always afraid he will fall down. This one is the perfect size for him. Cost $2. The last garage sale did have some great things…but I knew that Big Monkey would be quite upset if I brought home yet another Little Tikes table and chairs or another toy organizer. Where would we put it all? So I left it all there.
3. McDonald’s drive through for breakfast. Little Monkey ended up eating half of a hash brown and I had an Egg McMuffin. SO very exciting.
4. Big neighborhood-wide garage sale. I’ve been to this neighborhood before and while not everyone participates, lots of people do. It is hard to drive around because people park just about anywhere they can so you have to be really careful. Last year one house had girl scouts and they were selling the rest of the girl scout cookies they had. No such luck this time around. We got a “fill a bag” with clothes for $1; eighteen items in total, many that look like they haven’t even been worn. At another garage sale, Little Monkey would not stop playing with the baby doll stroller (this is the most wanted toy in the toddler class at church). So even though it is ALL pink and has Winnie the Pooh on it (At least it’s not princesses or something) we got it; I’m sure I’ll hear about it from Big Monkey when he sees it. Cost $0.50. (Little Monkey has been driving my old Cabbage Patch kid around in it for a good portion of the afternoon.) And finally at one more sale (even though we stopped at MANY more) we got two wooden signs to hang in the house and a Blue’s Clues pillowcase (if I win the auction on Ebay this will be handy since the one on Ebay doesn’t have a pillowcase). Cost $2.
5. Gym…yeah…we didn’t make it here. They only have childcare on Saturdays from 9am-10:30am, so since it was 10:15am as we were getting close to the gym it was obvious we would not be going there. Now I must go tomorrow.
6. We went to CVS “Family Fun Day,” which wasn’t all that fun except that the fire trucks and police cars were there. Little Monkey and I both got properly sized for a bicycle helmet which the Fire Department was giving away free. We also got a goodie mostly junk bag from CVS and a balloon. Little Monkey was thrilled with the balloon. They also had free hot dogs, sodas and chocolate milk but we did not have any.
7. Define productive. I called HP about my non-working computer. We went through Little Monkey’s toys, organized them and replaced many dead batteries. (Sometimes I wonder why I bother with this because it will just be a mess in a day or less.) We also cleaned up a little bit and went on a walk.