Friday, Pussy cat, pussy cat where have you been?

     I went to Wilkes-Barre to visit the Queen!

  
     My Sissie and I surprised Sluggy on her 60th birthday.  I could not say where I was going as if she knew I was going to visit my sister I would be coming to see her.  So her Hubby and I hatched the plot.  It was hard to not blow it as I was so excited.   So on Tuesday I drove to Spokane and had some dental work done then got on a plane to DC.  Sis and I drove up on Friday and met the family at a Steak house.  Of course everything had to be purple as that is Slug's favorite color.  We hit some bad weather and had to leave earlier than I wanted but it was so nice to see Sluggy.

Of course we had to thoroughly embarrass her and the staff brought out a saddle for her but alas her legs were too short to get up there.

It was so much fun , wish you all could have been there.





















                                                                             
Here are Sluggy and Sis in front on The famous really bad opera singer,Florence Foster Jenkins.  Don't they look great!

What would a trip be without a selfie of the three of us?  Look at those wrinkles.




     I had a great time with my sister, we shopped and I was able to get many Christmas gifts for next year at really good prices.  I love to save money.  Now I have to unpack and put everything away, face the bills for next month and get busy earning some money so I can go have fun again. 

     Hub's only spent $42.00 on groceries when I was gone so I have $58.00 for the rest of the week putting us on track for grocery budget.   I am able to add to my $5.00 bill savings, and  my pig bank.  I was not able to get as much exercise as I would have liked, but it was worth the slow down to see my sister and Slugs.  I will get back on track.  My diet coke consumption is much less than it used to be.  I am not buying any soda for the house nor drinking cans of soda.  I will go to Mc d's for a soda once a day now that I am home.  I was a little worse on the trip by drinking a couple a day. Sissie was quite impressed with my effort as she knows how much I was drinking.  This has really helped us stick to our grocery budget as I was constantly going to the store to buy soda and then buying things that we did not necessarily need.  You all know how I love a bargain.But sometimes you just don't need to buy the bargain and if you don't know it is there, you don't buy it.

     I have 10 days worth of mail to open and go through and need to go buy a few things at the grocery store.  I also need to get busy working on my de cluttering as I only have a week left to reach 500 items.  I guess I have to Marie Kondo my wardrobe and the linen closet and the kitchen again.  Does this spark joy?  Well maybe those old clogs don't but my trip sure did!

Have a great and productive day staying positive while you are in the negative.

Kim