Great rainy day

We only allow ourselves to eat out once a week.  This morning I woke up wanting biscuits and gravy in the worst way.  A cousin recommended The Big Biscuit in Blue Springs a while back, so I figured this would be the perfect day to eat there, what with the rain and all.  
The food was great and the waitresses were friendly.  

I had the Country Benedict.  Cliff had Jim's Platter and one of my sausages, because I was full.  Even then, I couldn't finish all my food, so I brought some home to the chickens.  

I still keep track of my calories on Sparkpeople, but I didn't want to have to guess how much gravy I had and how many calories were in the sausages.  I hunted through the options on Sparkpeople and found one I figured would have at least as much calories as my breakfast.  Notice that for lunch Cliff and I split a small Blizzard at Dairy Queen.  The reason we split one instead of getting two Mini-Blizzards is that it's cheaper that way.  OK, maybe we both get a bite or two more, also.  It's 4:30 now and I am still not hungry, so if I ate nothing for supper my calorie total would be great.  I'm not going to skip supper, though.

We had an appointment with a lawyer after breakfast.    

Then we went pickup shopping, just for fun.  Cliff has always preferred to drive a pickup, but once the kids were eight and ten years old it was impossible for our family to fit in a truck, so we switched to cars.  Our last two cars have been very economical to drive, and trucks don't get nearly as good gas mileage, but I say if he wants a truck, he should have one.  He is very specific in what he wants:  Although he's always been a Ford man, he says the newer Fords are ugly.  So now he wants a Chevy.  It has to be white and it has to have cloth seats; we are both sick of leather seats that make us sweat in summer and freeze us in winter.  He wants the extended cab, and he wants four-wheel-drive.  

Cliff shopping for pickups in the rain

We went to a dealer in Blue Springs where Cliff talked to a salesman in the rain about a 2004 pickup for $18,000.  WHAT????  For an old truck like that?

So then we went to Noland Road in Independence, where you can find almost any kind of car dealer you want.  We met a nice saleslady with an Austrian accent who showed us a beautiful 2011 model, and suddenly the 2004 model started sounding better.  The lady said if a pickup is four-wheel-drive, that drives the price up $5,000.
We are in no hurry, so we'll have fun looking.  
I have to tell you, though, that I really did fall in love with that 2011 truck.  But that's just me.