Getting back to normal

 It almost feels normal again. I can almost see the holiday at the rear view mirror now. I woke up this morning as normal got up made the transfer safely and made me feel comfortable made me feel good. I got dressed went down and had coffee with the group which wasn't very much and seemed to be somewhat meager compared to what usually is going on on Thursday morning coffee group. It could just be the first of the year blase or something and everyone still might be confused with the day changes and such. Anyway, following the coffee group I cross the street and went for my haircut. This is where I think I'm just having to reevaluate my whole concept of price and affordability. It ends up that I paid 20 bucks plus a $3 tip for a haircut which I could have gotten on Tuesday had I had the Africans do it and when they said 20 bucks it totally freaked me out. But the time in between days I had time to think about how much a haircut goes I guess for these days and so when the girl at the haircut place I didn't even bark at paying the 20 bucks maybe it's because I was playing with my plastic and that didn't feel as painful as forking over 20 bucks for a fairly quick haircut. I wonder if my regular haircut Lady will ever get back and I can go back to pain 10 bucks for the whole shooting match. I spoke with Diane for a while this afternoon and she did some searching and found some fairly economical hair clippers that if I were to get those I could have my care person Melissa do the hair cutting which I think she could with one of the plastic hair things on the Clippers that makes everything the same size. I mean seriously I have such little hair to begin with I doubt it's $20 worth of work. Melissa seems up for it however and it would be nice to have her or whoever is doing my care be able to give me a quick Buzz once a month or something. 

I'm getting kind of excited now. At the market today I was able to get the vegetables I want to put in my roast I'm going to make on Saturday. Got some baby potatoes which I think will be just right plus the turnip as well as a bag of baby carrots. I have the onions already so I don't care on that level. Now it's just a matter of throwing it all together for my Saturday dinner I'm totally excited. I plan to save the drippings from the roast or whatever it's called when you take and cook your roast in the crock pot. The juices which are left over and use that to make a gravy. I had gravy and mashed potatoes the other night at the restaurant we went to when Marc Anthony was back from his trip and I forgot how much I love potatoes and gravy but a good gravy. The gravy they had at the Chinese place is a bit of a wash. But if I can get something very savory from the roast I think it would make a great gravy… a good gravy.