...aside from being confused once in a while what time it was (dst started today and we had to adjust the clocks...and we didn't coordinate who was gonna do which and so we didn't know which clock was telling the truth at one point hahaha!!!)...our day went well. t'was a typical lazy sunday. hub & i went to church, grabbed some breakfast at the diner on webster st. and went on a shopping rampage combing 
through antique stores and garage sales...this addiction has been going on for a while (talk about being "junkies" in the real sense of the word!)...i got hooked after my first three-drawer wicker stand from craigslist... hahaha...twenty-bucks! we don't usually buy anything randomly (no, we ain't that cheap, okay), but it gives us a different "high" going through the really good pieces that, shall i say, have silent stories tucked inside them, especially those quaint furniture and woodwork...yummm! we came home with one wicker hope chest (to match my three-drawer wicker set heehee), two books by ernest hemingway, a dollar each (yippy for me!)...a coffeetable book on wines, and an old green glass goblet vase that was screaming "bathroom!" at me...i almost bought the very charming owner's dog that was lounging beside a 750-800 dollar upright stove circa 1917 ("sorry, he's not for sale, but we have a cat you can take home for free")...ooops, no thanks...t'was a fun day...i'm so thankful for that.
...another thing to thank for today...while hub & i were at Tilly's diner, there was this old lady on the table next to us who ordered a lot of food! and i was like...huh? yikes! then i saw her sloppily shaking salt and pepper on her plate and eating bacon and sausage with her hands...feeling the egg and the hashbrown with her hand before poking them with the fork. then i realized she was blind...i just thought, wow, i can't eat like that. half of the fun is actually seeing the crispy 
bacon oozing with grease before you pop it into your mouth...and the crunchy browned hashbrown (that's why it's called hashBROWN, silly)...and the steam going up from your cup of coffee...i can't imagine eating without seeing!!! i closed my eyes and experimented. man, it's hard! but well, they say some other senses are heightened when one isn't working. maybe this old lady can taste it even better! nevertheless, i still won't trade my vision for added taste. i'm already born with msg on my tongue anywayz... so there, i just feel like thanking God for my eyes that see. there are so many things that are just impossible to appreciate without seeing. let's not take it for granted! like today, i woke up smiling because i saw that hub's eyelashes are curled up again (from pressing too much with the pillow, it's dunnit again haha)...he looked so gay, and funny...and how about reading, and driving, and blogging, and sketching and watching the sunset?
...well, thank you, God, for good vision (...and the bacon...and 
eggs...and hashbrowns...and sausages...and the biscuits and gravy) and yard sales and antique shops...
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