I thought that might happen. Darn it! I had to waddle into the house from the car after dinner just now. Sigh.

How did we get to this state? It comes from people being way too nice to me.

This morning, I got up around 7 am (ick) and didn’t do much until one of my helpers came. He did some painting. And he did decently. At least he cleans up after himself without me having to nag him. My other helper isn’t here just now – it is his summer break after all, so maybe he will come help eventually. We shall see. But with at least this one helper, I think I can get a lot of the painting accomplished. That is a good thing! And it is coming in small chunks so it doesn’t feel like I am spending money like water.

I had to cut him loose around noon so I could go help JC out a bit. It was that time of month again, bill paying time, so I went and did that. Then I helped them all out with how to use their TV etc. And then JC and I headed to Auburn for lunch with TC. I let TC pick the venue and I was surprised that he chose Curly’s over the prison place. I might have to look online and see if there are more lunch/brunch places to experiment with. Maybe we can find an even better place that we all like. Curly’s is ok overall. But…I like sitting outside there and the patio was closed for a special event. And I wasn’t a huge fan of our server today. He forgot my water (after asking three times) and my ranch dressing (default Augustus dipping sauce for french fries). I don’t know. He just left me unimpressed. Oh well.

Next stop, Wegman’s. I didn’t have anything on my shopping list. And I was disappointed because there were no food tasting stations around. I guess they only happen on Saturdays now. Still, I like that Wegmans and had a pleasant time just wandering around. I was surprised to see how huge some of their lobsters were! I saw one that looked like it was almost three pounds!!

After dropping TC back at his house, I took JC back to his house before heading to my house and lying down because I was too full from lunch. Yes, I only ate half of my sandwich (not even half, actually) and most of the fries. Still, I ate too much and was feeling quite full. I hoped that I would at least have enough room to act hungry when I headed to dinner with SM and RP.

I wasn’t. Not remotely. Sigh. We went to Bella’s Steakhouse. The person who sat us, put us in a room that was almost empty, except for someone “singing” and someone who I think was his partner/wife. He was loud and did not have a great voice. So, we asked to move. And we did. Into another room. We could still, unfortunately, hear him warbling away, but it was much less painful in our new location.

What I was sort of looking for on the menu was a salad with cut up beef on top. I did not find that. But one of the specials was flank steak covered with cheese, onions and peppers as an open faced sandwich. And instead of fries, I got their twice cooked potato. It had been a long time since I have eaten one in a restaurant so I wanted to see how they made theirs. The meals came with a salad bar. Eeek! I made a teeny salad – maybe a third of a salad plate’s worth and ate that. And then I had maybe 3 bites of the steak sandwich and two bites of the Twice baked potato. And I was stuffed! Super stuffed! Talk about waddling. I ought to have asked for an uber to come and carry me to my car!

Dinner at Bella’s

Somehow I made it home and am now trying my best to let my food digest a good bit. That would be nice.

At some point, I will actually get up and do my Sunday chores: strip and make the bed, do a load of laundry and take a shower. Wish me luck!

Augustus for President: I talked about this a lot today. My captive audience, JC asked some good questions, to which I actually had answers. TC even agreed that I have always been a leader – he remembered me being such back in 1970s. I pointed out also that running an organization of many diverse parts is exactly what a theatre director does. Anyway, baby steps. Oh, and our server asked me about my badge (thank you again PvK for the lanyards!) and I might have gotten another vote. Does that put me at twelve? And I have upped the number of votes I need to get in the General election to 71 million. Tomorrow, EIN number and opening of a bank account. I think. I wonder if I can open a bank account over the phone…