The Walmart of Restaurants

Old Country Buffet is not only a feast for the body, it is a people watcher's dream.

Cheap entertainment, my friends...

If you ever wondered where the people of Walmart dine, you need not look further.

We sit and giggle through our entire meal.

It occurred to me that perhaps others are looking at us, too. Then I remembered that if they were, it's just 'cus they are jealous because we are so awesome!

LOL

Today it was the person who resembled Jabba the Hut. We could not tell if it was male or female. Seriously, but it could sure put it away...

My husband refers to these people as "Professionals".

Yep. We are definitely going to Hell...but the trip there will be a blast!!

Sometimes we see celebrity look-alikes.

Today it was a really skinny woman...I mean skin and bones skinny...we decided she was a dead ringer for Achmed the Terrorist. We loved it when she washed her hands in the water fountain on the beverage bar. Seriously, it was too far to go to the bathroom to do that?

Then we tried to decide who was going to take their shower in the water fountain next, just to get a reaction. Turns out, none of us did...but can you just imagine the looks on peoples faces if one of us did?!

What can I say? We find fun in simple things!

that's not rain, it's just extra humidity...

Rain, rain, go away!

Amazingly enough, in spite of the rain and gloomy weather--my moods have improved. The clouds lifted in my head. Thank God.

I didn't even go to the psychiatrist.

(Score one for me!)

One whole year of college is in the books, and I am enjoying the time off until August. Not that it really feels like time off with kids needing to be driven to and from school, and here and there--and everywhere! I truly believe I am even busier now than I was, but the pressure is off. Ahhhhhh.....the kids will be out of school pretty soon too...

(insert sigh here!)

Looking ahead, to next semester--I will have a harder class load than I have had yet.
I have to remember to say "no" when people want me to do extra stuff.
I am not even sure if I will be able to work this fall...

Perhaps I shouldn't fret over these things at the moment, because if I think about it too much the anxiety will rear it's ugly head and right now I am feeling pretty mellow overall.

Life is good!

On Chemical Attitude Adjustments...

It has been exactly a month since I posted last.

In that past month, the sun has been out maybe twice. Okay, that's an exaggeration.
(And if I told you once, I've told you a million times never to exaggerate!)

Yeah, I had to say it...

Anyhow--

Because it is spring and one one informed Mother Nature of that fact, I have been struggling with the moods.

I tend to struggle with the moods in the spring, anyway, but this spring has been doing a number on me.

Changes affect me as well--starting a new job, crunch time at the end of the semester for school.

I have been considering contacting the shrink's office to see about a chemical attitude adjustment.

The thing about medication: it may work to even out the moods, but it may erase the personality right along with it. It may even me out flat. I have been there before and that is more scary to me than waiting out the blues of the downside of the disorder.

On the bright side, I am not doing anything dangerous or compulsive, my financial situation is good, and my grades are hanging in there at A's and B's in spite of feeling like a big hand is pushing me down.

Most people don't understand it when I am struggling, either. My own husband almost takes it personally, and I know he doesn't mean to. He just doesn't know how it feels. Feeling alone does not help. :(

I ditched my Biology class tonight because I get anxious when the moods shift. There was no way I could have sat still in a classroom tonight. I will get my assignments in--it is a hybrid internet/classroom class. No worries there.

Hey, at least I am recognizing the mood shifts. That has to count for something, and must mean that I am not completely crazy. In fact, I dare say it's sorta healthy that I understand what is going on.

Go figure.

Please excuse me while I go lie on the picnic table and soak up some sun...