Today Hubby & I Had a Date!

We drove down to Flint to an RV Show. This is my new FUN! Ever since we decided we want to become full-timers I have been obsessed with all things RVing. I spend whatever leisure time I have perusing website and videos, and reading blogs written by full-timers and other RV enthusiasts. I am planning in mind what we will do with all of our belongings, and studying travel sites to find a list of places to go when the time comes.

When the time comes is the new catch phrase around here. I foresee it happening when Pete retires in about 4 years. However, if we can make it happen sooner, we will...but I write about all of that in my Vita In Via (Life on the Road) blog...

It was a beautiful May day today, except that it is only mid-March. Unseasonably warm weather. I will get my complaints out of the way early :). It was too warm - no secret that I love cold temps and snow, and that I feel totally gypped out of winter this year; we didn't get our first snow until the end of January, and it was already melting away the first part of March! And now it is May in March. And of course from the walking and climbing in and out of RVs by the time we left the show I needed my walker and pain drugs as my arthritis (spine, hips, right knee) was painfully stiffening me right up...and that's all the bad stuff for the day which isn't all that much, just the usual really :).

But the RV show was really lovely, and it was great to see "real life" models of the units I've seen online, They are quite different walking through than just watching!

After the RV show we went to Best Buy. This netbook that I bought 2 years ago has been performing like a trooper! Even though they weren't really made for heavy work, this has been my main computer for the entire time I've had it, on duty for all of my waking hours (whether I'm actually using it or not, it's running, usually playing music at the very least). But it's been developing some issues: the headphone jack works sporadically, and the mic jack makes my voice static-y - these things make Skype use impossible, and it is Skype that I use for my seasonal job. The lower left part of the keyboard has quit working. The display periodically goes all white, for no reason that I can find, and I have to reboot, which doesn't always fix it. One of my 3 USB ports doesn't work anymore. And a few more annoying issues. But when I'm taking calls on a busy day, one on top of the other, I don't have time to be rebooting or retyping. And I certainly can't afford to pay for all of the minutes I use on my cell phone plan!

So I wanted to see the different sized laptops. This has a 10.1" display and an 87% of full size keyboard. Now there are 11.6" keyboards out there, so I wanted to see them, see how heavy they are, feel the keyboard. There are also 13.3" keyboards. That's really the biggest that I want to go, but when I have the $ saved up for my computer replacement it will all come down to the best machine for the price, and the size of it won't be as important to me as the features in the end.

We saw a Good Will on the way to Best Buy, so we then stopped in there. I got some cooler clothes for Leelan (all he has here now are sweats and heavier winter clothing). There were a couple of other things that I could have purchased, but really didn't want to spend the money. And finally we got Halo Burgers for supper! They are so wonderful...and we hadn't have them in years, so it was fun to have one again! I really REALLY wanted a boston cooler but am afraid to try one since my surgery - can't have any carbonated beverages, and even though the mixing process gets rid of a lot of carbonation in the Vernors, I didn't want to be in pain all the way back up here if it didn't sit well in my belly. So I had an iced tea instead.

It was an exhausting day, and I don't know if/how I'll be able to move tomorrow, but it was so worth it to spend time with my Petey, doing things together that we love, no distractions...just he and I :).