Two more days and Thanksgiving will be here. The older I get the faster time seems to go by. A lot of the time I forget just how old I am and think I'm ten years younger! I do not feel like I'm 57 in my head, but I know I look every one of my 57 years and believe me, my body FEELS every one of my 57 years! Aging can be frustrating. I get mad when I can't open a pill bottle (I have arthritis in my hands), and even when I can open the dang bottle, I can't read the dosage on it! Where's my reading glasses? Can't remember because my memory is bad. Vision is going downhill, fingers don't work like they used to, and my knees feel like they're going to give out every time I get up from a sitting position! How can the image of myself inside my head be so different from what's really going on with my old body?!! I just have to remind myself of what my sister says, "It (aging) sure beats the alternative"! I love my sister so much!
Now on the fashion scene...lol...my fashion scene...remember when I was all excited about that apron dress from anthropoligie that my friend Kim had posted a picture of on facebook? The one with the little scottie dogs on it?  I just had to find that dress and order it! It was such a steal at $32! Well, I got it in the mail last week and was shocked to find that it isn't a dress afterall, it's an APRON! One of those old fashioned aprons that mom and grandma used to cook in! OMG...are you kidding me?!! I didn't even think they made those things anymore! This just goes to show you how impulsive I am with my shopping. I didn't even know exactly what I was ordering online, I was sure it was a dress...and I had visions of myself in it with matching scottie dog earrings or a bracelet...Im crazy enough that if I found scottie dog shoes, I'd have bought them too! One of my crazy theme outfits!! Anyway, seeing that the only place I could wear this thing is in the kitchen over an oven, it's going back to anthropoligie! I don't cook, so where in the heck am I going to wear it?!! It is cute, but it just isn't going to get any use from me! Here it is....

and here's a picture of the pearl necklace Pat bought me for our anniversary....

It's a beautiful necklace. It has a heart shaped clasp with diamonds on it in the back. I usually do not like heart shaped jewelry, but I do like this necklace! Don't know if you noticed, but I had it on in the picture of me in the scottie dog apron too....I felt like June Cleaver with that apron on with the pearl necklace!
Now for my exciting news..Pat got a job! Thank You Lord! He interviewed on our anniversary and found out he got it on that same day.  He starts the 3rd of December. He won't be making as much as he did at anheuser busch, BUT....this job is in Shiloh, which is a lot closer to us then Anheuser busch was (in St Louis). It's a contracting job and has good benefits, we'll just have to pray that they keep renewing the contract. Now it's time to play "catch up" with our house payment and mortgage. We've fallen behind about four months on them. We've been using credit cards to pay for our food and gas and basics. I never ever dreamed we would be in this situation. But we were. It's taken away a sense of security I had. I took too much for granted.  When Pat opted for an early retirement with anheuser busch last oct. his plan was to retire while the settlement money was still on the table, use it to dig out way out of the massive debt we made, and put some back for when he really does retire. He figured he'd take off three months to chill out and then go back to work. Ha...that three months turned into six months, then nine, and before we knew it a year had passed by. And it wasn't like Pat wasn't looking for work, he put in for a lot of jobs and he interviewed for more then a few. He'd come home feeling good and confident about the interview and then we'd never hear back from the place. I know this made him feel bad. I on the other hand was angry more then sad. I was mad that these places didn't hire him. I decided that it had to have been age discrimnation because Pat is well educated (he has a masters degree) and he's very smart. So, in my mind I decided that it was either his age, or that he was over qualified. I guess we'll never know why the companies he interviewed with didn't hire him, but I am over my anger I was feeling toward them. It's their loss and the company Pat will be working for(s) gain! Now we both need to work on our spending habits. I may need extra therapy for this one! I just love my shopping! Even with him being out of work I got my Christmas shopping done...with the credit cards we paid off last Oct.! I have an excuse...remember, I'm manic depressive! Thats my excuse and I'm sticking with it!
Here's my dose of cute for today!

Just two more weeks from today and we'll have another dose of cute in our lives! Kate's having her baby girl on December 4th and I can't wait to meet her!