Blog Number 275

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

I have just returned from dropping my mother off at the airport.  She spent the last 6 days or so with us.  We had not seen her since Thanksgiving (now that I think about it, that is a long time).  We did not do anything particularly special while she was here other than go out to eat a few more times than normal.  We even had lunch today at IKEA.  I have been to IKEA maybe 5 or 6 times and have seen their cafeteria before but until today I had not eaten there.  They sell some of the food they serve as frozen food to go so I figured it must not be that bad.  Since they are a Swedish company, they of course had Swedish meatballs as one of their meal choices.  The daughter wanted meatballs.  The son wanted meatballs.  The wife ordered the medium meatball platter.  The mother did the same.  Now, I really like meatballs but I figured with everyone else getting meatballs I could probably get my fill by begging off of them.  I opted for the salmon with some sort of apple sauce on it along with some steamed vegetables.  It was quite good and only $5.99 (although mom was buying so what did I care!).  I ate it all and was able to snag about 6 meatballs off of other's plates.  As I sat there eating is all seemed rather surreal.  I mean, I have not eaten salmon that much and here I am eating it at a furniture store.

Today was our 11th anniversary.  We had talked about it for the last few weeks and we did go out to eat at Compari's on Wednesday (very good food, I will have to tell you about it sometime).  Anyway, this morning we woke up and neither of us remembered that today was the actual day of our wedding anniversary.  It was not until 7 AM when my reminder went off on my cell phone that we each remembered that today was the day.  I did not really set the alarm thinking that I would forget.  It is just that I have had my cell phone for like 18 months and had never used the calendar feature yet and this was the only thing coming up that was of any significance.  Anyway, we hugged and kissed and said Happy Anniversary and then went on with our day.

Well, it is time for popcorn and a Little House On The Prairie episode with the family.  Until next time...

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon