🙂 Tomorrow is Mother’s day.
We’re going over to Greensboro. Mary and Tom are having little Graham dedicated. I’m not a big fan of baby dedication, but I don’t have objections. And if I were a pastor I would participate with appropriate enthusiasm.
😦 Stores which say they have an item for sale, but don’t have it in stock. I am doing some renovations in my room. It had some aged carpeting, but carpets are bad for my asthma (create dust) and an old carpet is even worse. I have a tiny budget for the project and flooring is generally expensive, so I did my research and found some inexpensive but well-reviewed flooring. When I got to the store, it wasn’t in stock; so I tried a different store and they didn’t have it in stock. I can’t order it, because it is only available in-store. I’ve thought of a proverb for the stores: “Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.” (Proverbs 25:14)
🙂 Mrs L’s family gathering is finally taking place today, after three or four cancellations since Thanksgiving. 😦 Mrs L’s sister and husband won’t be there since he woke up with chest pains. Nothing serious, but they are staying home anyway.
The sun is shining! Perfect day for a family picnic.
Karen, they are big box stores, so if it isn’t in stock, it isn’t available. I am going to try a couple of other places. Another problem is the distance factor to get to these stores, which are mostly an hour or more away and gas is really expensive (it is around $1.30/litre, which is around $4.80/gallon), so to have to make a return trip is a bit of a hardship. We have noticed this more and more lately, even with the grocery stores – my mother will find a good sale on an item in the flyer but when she goes to the store on the day the sale starts, it isn’t in stock. She has gotten really good at getting rainchecks.
🙂 Going on a beach-front picnic today with friends from church.
🙂 Dogs look shiny and fluffy — and smell wonderful — after their spring/summer grooming (they get the full treatment twice a year, the other time being right before Christmas).
🙂 When I brought them home yesterday, Annie the cat spent at least a full minute sniffing Cowboy from nose to tail (she can’t reach the top of him, though; she can walk underneath him and never touch his tummy). Tess won’t abide by a cat sniffing her up.
🙂 Got my car serviced (it actually does run better; and they washed it) and the dogs got in for their overdue shots. Slowly catching up on things that were left hanging on the “to-do” list. Next is the house. Oy. Talk about chaos.
🙂 😦 Very busy at work, but some satisfying stories to do here and there. I even managed to scare up a weekend story, which is a requirement for everyone — usually you have something percolating for that, but this week was so crazy and fast, I wound up having to try to “find” something on Friday.
🙂 Louie Zamperini was named the grand marshal for the Jan. 1 Rose Parade. The movie on his life, Unbroken, comes out Dec. 25. His son told me now if USC (Louie’s alma mater) makes it to the Rose Bowl & wins, it’ll be a “perfect year” for his dad. 🙂
😦 We’re headed back up into the 90s next week by Tuesday-Wednesday. Seems like we always get these heat spikes in spring. Thankfully they are usually short-lived. This one’s supposed to last 3 days, I think.
Quite a day yesterday; After yet another night of not sleeping, I had to get up early to watch adorable flu-infested (or not as the case may be) adorable granddaughters so their mother could attend the first grade Mother’s Day brunch.
Since I was at that end of town with an hour left until work afterward, I zipped over to the big shopping area hoping to pick up a graduation gift for my daughter. Got it, but while hurrying through Target (picking up a birthday present for aforementioned daughter-in-law so she wouldn’t have to go out with sick kids), slipped on spilled water I never saw. Went down hard on a padded nether region which wasn’t so bad, but I scraped my ribs down a shelf and have quite an extraordinarily colored bruise.
Feeling my age, now. Target asked one question and when I said I was okay, they walked away. They’re young. I got up, paid for my items, then sat down on a checkout counter because I saw stars.
No one approached me. Not a big deal, but if I was the manager, someone would have walked me out to my car . . .
Swallowed ibuprofin, got gas, but the ache . . . stopped off at home to get ice packs and duct tape-ideas to strap them on at work . . .
While loading up car– also the rug cleaner because my daughter-in-law needed it desperately (see above) since I was headed that way again for a woodwinds rehearsal after work–a neighbor I hadn’t met yet stopped by to say hello.
Well, she’d heard I was an author . . . the clock was ticking, my back was screaming, but I needed to be polite and finally just limped into the house and got a copy of Bridging Two Hearts so I could leave.
Her parting words?
The same ones all the neighbors have said?
“You really ought to think about getting a puppy.”
I was so exhausted when I got home, aching, worried about the flu, not sleeping, etc, that I went to bed at 8:30.
🙂 Puppies! My neighbors have 2, Lab litter mates, about 15 weeks old now. Adorable.
😦 michelle, ouch, I’m hurting in sympathy. Strange, I remember running and falling down — on purpose — as a kid. So much fun back then! Now? Ugh and Ooof.
My nurse friend told me once that when you feel sick after a fall it usually means something’s broken. At the time (this was probably 10 years ago now) I’d taken a bad fall down my front steps and sprained an ankle but it really made me feel woozy.
As I remember, I was heading off for work, a heavy bag on my shoulder, wearing clogs, and trying to maneuver with 2 dogs on leash (I was dropping them at the groomer’s first). One of the dogs lunged down the steps and for some reason I took a leap in the air, thinking I’d just jump over a couple of the step.
Mid-air it dawned on me. This was stupid.
I would never land on my feet. Not with these shoes. Not with this heavy work bag that made me so lopsided.
And so I didn’t.
Tumble, tumble tumble, all the way down I went. The dogs stopped and stared at me (we were eye to eye by then). I seriously thought I was going to pass out.
Nurse friend came over and wrapped the ankle. Got X-rays, nothing broken, but I wound up on crutches for a few days (which I never was very adept at using).
Donna – Speaking of being eye-to-eye with your dogs…One night a couple years ago, in the middle of the night, I passed out on my way to the bathroom, kind of sinking down to a sitting/slumping position, I think. I came to with Heidi kissing my face. 🙂
I still remember, as I came to, for a few moments thinking I was sitting up in bed, then slowly realizing that I was sitting on the tile floor of the little entryway between my room & the way to the bathroom. It was a weird feeling, not knowing where I was or how I got there.
Karen, that would have been disconcerting. Glad you were OK. And sweet Heidi 🙂
🙂 Had a wonderful outdoor lunch with 4 friends celebrating one of their 81st birthdays. Spectacular setting, the house, which is being leased by one of our church families, backs up to the ocean. When you walk out the back door, there’s the patio (with an outdoor brick fireplace), a yard with grass, a white picket fence and U.S. flag on a tall pole at the end … followed by … a spectacular view of the Pacific Ocean, with lots of surfers & sail boats out today. Gorgeous. It was like a picture on a calendar. Breathtaking. And close enough that you also heard the sound of the surf pounding on the shore, such a peaceful, calming sound.
🙂 Even though my 81-year-old friend (who rides with me to church every week) requested several years ago “no gifts,” I couldn’t resist buying her a metal flower sculpture. A guy makes them and sells them from his front yard and every Sunday we’re stopped at the red light right near his house (and kitty-corner from our church). My friend has been mesmerized by these things for the past year, she’s really fascinated by what he makes.
So I drove over there today and bought a simple red rose on a long metal pole for her garden. I’ll give it to her tomorrow. She’ll like that, I think.
🙂 I finally have my living room & dining room back! On Tuesday, Emily & Chrissy moved the furniture back into the living room (which had been Emily’s temporary room for about a year). Today, as Chrissy is making a Mother’s Day brunch for us, Lee & Emily brought up the dining room table & chairs. Yay!
There are still a lot of details I need to work on, but the heavy work is finished. I feel happy about getting my home back in order. 🙂
🙂 Brunch is ready now. See y’all later!
🙂 Wishing a Very Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers here. God bless you all!
🙂 We had a nice trip to Greensboro.
🙂 Youngest Great Grandson was dedicated to the Lord.
🙂 Since oldest GD is children’s minister, she was in charge of the child dedication. But the pastor made the dedication.
🙂 We had a luncheon at the community building in Chuck’s development.
🙂 We learned that youngest GD is pregnant. Expecting Jan 3. It’s still a secret from everyone buy you and me. This is her first.
🙂 The truck ran well. It got 24 mpg.
Chas – My former pastor used to say that a baby dedication was really a dedication of the parents to raise their child in the nurture & admonition of the Lord.
Very strange, Michelle, to have such little attention, if a manager was aware of your fall. When I worked in a similar type store, we were very impressed upon to make sure there was never any liquid on the floor. There were several law suits from falls. I have even seen reports that such falls have been staged for that purpose. It is odd that they were not more attentive to any possible injury. I hope you are ok. 😦
🙂 Karen, so happy for you. I can only imagine how nice that feels for you.
🙂 Congratulations Chas, the family just keeps on growing. 🙂
🙂 We do infant baptisms in our denomination — always seemed to me that dedications were a substitute for that. ? (I was also only “dedicated” as a baby, in the Hollywood Baptist Church.)
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🙂 Tomorrow is Mother’s day.
We’re going over to Greensboro. Mary and Tom are having little Graham dedicated. I’m not a big fan of baby dedication, but I don’t have objections. And if I were a pastor I would participate with appropriate enthusiasm.
Happy Mother’s day to all the mothers.
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😦 Stores which say they have an item for sale, but don’t have it in stock. I am doing some renovations in my room. It had some aged carpeting, but carpets are bad for my asthma (create dust) and an old carpet is even worse. I have a tiny budget for the project and flooring is generally expensive, so I did my research and found some inexpensive but well-reviewed flooring. When I got to the store, it wasn’t in stock; so I tried a different store and they didn’t have it in stock. I can’t order it, because it is only available in-store. I’ve thought of a proverb for the stores: “Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.” (Proverbs 25:14)
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🙂 Mrs. The Real AJ has joined the blog
🙂 She had a good interview
🙂 God is good & great!
🙂 Mothers Day craft for S. School
🙂 Program went well on Wed.
🙂 Friends here and at church
🙂 Christian Library International
🙂 Christian books
🙂 Bibles
🙂 Jo’s van cranked each time
🙂 God’s mysterious awesome ways
🙂 More to smile than frown about
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😦 Sorry to hear that, Roscuro
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Roscuro – Would either store be willing to order it for you, & still give you the sale price?
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🙂 The leaves are finally coming out on the trees!
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😦 House sale fell through.
🙂 Mrs L’s family gathering is finally taking place today, after three or four cancellations since Thanksgiving. 😦 Mrs L’s sister and husband won’t be there since he woke up with chest pains. Nothing serious, but they are staying home anyway.
The sun is shining! Perfect day for a family picnic.
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There was supposed to be a 🙂 before that last sentence.
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Karen, they are big box stores, so if it isn’t in stock, it isn’t available. I am going to try a couple of other places. Another problem is the distance factor to get to these stores, which are mostly an hour or more away and gas is really expensive (it is around $1.30/litre, which is around $4.80/gallon), so to have to make a return trip is a bit of a hardship. We have noticed this more and more lately, even with the grocery stores – my mother will find a good sale on an item in the flyer but when she goes to the store on the day the sale starts, it isn’t in stock. She has gotten really good at getting rainchecks.
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😦 No flooring for Phos.
😦 No house sale for Peter.
🙂 Going on a beach-front picnic today with friends from church.
🙂 Dogs look shiny and fluffy — and smell wonderful — after their spring/summer grooming (they get the full treatment twice a year, the other time being right before Christmas).
🙂 When I brought them home yesterday, Annie the cat spent at least a full minute sniffing Cowboy from nose to tail (she can’t reach the top of him, though; she can walk underneath him and never touch his tummy). Tess won’t abide by a cat sniffing her up.
🙂 Got my car serviced (it actually does run better; and they washed it) and the dogs got in for their overdue shots. Slowly catching up on things that were left hanging on the “to-do” list. Next is the house. Oy. Talk about chaos.
🙂 😦 Very busy at work, but some satisfying stories to do here and there. I even managed to scare up a weekend story, which is a requirement for everyone — usually you have something percolating for that, but this week was so crazy and fast, I wound up having to try to “find” something on Friday.
🙂 Louie Zamperini was named the grand marshal for the Jan. 1 Rose Parade. The movie on his life, Unbroken, comes out Dec. 25. His son told me now if USC (Louie’s alma mater) makes it to the Rose Bowl & wins, it’ll be a “perfect year” for his dad. 🙂
😦 We’re headed back up into the 90s next week by Tuesday-Wednesday. Seems like we always get these heat spikes in spring. Thankfully they are usually short-lived. This one’s supposed to last 3 days, I think.
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Uh, USC in the Rose Bowl?
Hmmm. (Got to stay true to your school)
Lovely though, about Louie.
Quite a day yesterday; After yet another night of not sleeping, I had to get up early to watch adorable flu-infested (or not as the case may be) adorable granddaughters so their mother could attend the first grade Mother’s Day brunch.
Since I was at that end of town with an hour left until work afterward, I zipped over to the big shopping area hoping to pick up a graduation gift for my daughter. Got it, but while hurrying through Target (picking up a birthday present for aforementioned daughter-in-law so she wouldn’t have to go out with sick kids), slipped on spilled water I never saw. Went down hard on a padded nether region which wasn’t so bad, but I scraped my ribs down a shelf and have quite an extraordinarily colored bruise.
Feeling my age, now. Target asked one question and when I said I was okay, they walked away. They’re young. I got up, paid for my items, then sat down on a checkout counter because I saw stars.
No one approached me. Not a big deal, but if I was the manager, someone would have walked me out to my car . . .
Swallowed ibuprofin, got gas, but the ache . . . stopped off at home to get ice packs and duct tape-ideas to strap them on at work . . .
While loading up car– also the rug cleaner because my daughter-in-law needed it desperately (see above) since I was headed that way again for a woodwinds rehearsal after work–a neighbor I hadn’t met yet stopped by to say hello.
Well, she’d heard I was an author . . . the clock was ticking, my back was screaming, but I needed to be polite and finally just limped into the house and got a copy of Bridging Two Hearts so I could leave.
Her parting words?
The same ones all the neighbors have said?
“You really ought to think about getting a puppy.”
I was so exhausted when I got home, aching, worried about the flu, not sleeping, etc, that I went to bed at 8:30.
And slept, gloriously, for nine hours.
I may survive today! 🙂
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🙂 Puppies! My neighbors have 2, Lab litter mates, about 15 weeks old now. Adorable.
😦 michelle, ouch, I’m hurting in sympathy. Strange, I remember running and falling down — on purpose — as a kid. So much fun back then! Now? Ugh and Ooof.
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My nurse friend told me once that when you feel sick after a fall it usually means something’s broken. At the time (this was probably 10 years ago now) I’d taken a bad fall down my front steps and sprained an ankle but it really made me feel woozy.
As I remember, I was heading off for work, a heavy bag on my shoulder, wearing clogs, and trying to maneuver with 2 dogs on leash (I was dropping them at the groomer’s first). One of the dogs lunged down the steps and for some reason I took a leap in the air, thinking I’d just jump over a couple of the step.
Mid-air it dawned on me. This was stupid.
I would never land on my feet. Not with these shoes. Not with this heavy work bag that made me so lopsided.
And so I didn’t.
Tumble, tumble tumble, all the way down I went. The dogs stopped and stared at me (we were eye to eye by then). I seriously thought I was going to pass out.
Nurse friend came over and wrapped the ankle. Got X-rays, nothing broken, but I wound up on crutches for a few days (which I never was very adept at using).
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I am having empathy aches. 😦
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Donna – Speaking of being eye-to-eye with your dogs…One night a couple years ago, in the middle of the night, I passed out on my way to the bathroom, kind of sinking down to a sitting/slumping position, I think. I came to with Heidi kissing my face. 🙂
I still remember, as I came to, for a few moments thinking I was sitting up in bed, then slowly realizing that I was sitting on the tile floor of the little entryway between my room & the way to the bathroom. It was a weird feeling, not knowing where I was or how I got there.
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Karen, that would have been disconcerting. Glad you were OK. And sweet Heidi 🙂
🙂 Had a wonderful outdoor lunch with 4 friends celebrating one of their 81st birthdays. Spectacular setting, the house, which is being leased by one of our church families, backs up to the ocean. When you walk out the back door, there’s the patio (with an outdoor brick fireplace), a yard with grass, a white picket fence and U.S. flag on a tall pole at the end … followed by … a spectacular view of the Pacific Ocean, with lots of surfers & sail boats out today. Gorgeous. It was like a picture on a calendar. Breathtaking. And close enough that you also heard the sound of the surf pounding on the shore, such a peaceful, calming sound.
🙂 Even though my 81-year-old friend (who rides with me to church every week) requested several years ago “no gifts,” I couldn’t resist buying her a metal flower sculpture. A guy makes them and sells them from his front yard and every Sunday we’re stopped at the red light right near his house (and kitty-corner from our church). My friend has been mesmerized by these things for the past year, she’s really fascinated by what he makes.
So I drove over there today and bought a simple red rose on a long metal pole for her garden. I’ll give it to her tomorrow. She’ll like that, I think.
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Sounds sweet, Donna.
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🙂 I finally have my living room & dining room back! On Tuesday, Emily & Chrissy moved the furniture back into the living room (which had been Emily’s temporary room for about a year). Today, as Chrissy is making a Mother’s Day brunch for us, Lee & Emily brought up the dining room table & chairs. Yay!
There are still a lot of details I need to work on, but the heavy work is finished. I feel happy about getting my home back in order. 🙂
🙂 Brunch is ready now. See y’all later!
🙂 Wishing a Very Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers here. God bless you all!
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🙂 We had a nice trip to Greensboro.
🙂 Youngest Great Grandson was dedicated to the Lord.
🙂 Since oldest GD is children’s minister, she was in charge of the child dedication. But the pastor made the dedication.
🙂 We had a luncheon at the community building in Chuck’s development.
🙂 We learned that youngest GD is pregnant. Expecting Jan 3. It’s still a secret from everyone buy you and me. This is her first.
🙂 The truck ran well. It got 24 mpg.
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Chas – My former pastor used to say that a baby dedication was really a dedication of the parents to raise their child in the nurture & admonition of the Lord.
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Very strange, Michelle, to have such little attention, if a manager was aware of your fall. When I worked in a similar type store, we were very impressed upon to make sure there was never any liquid on the floor. There were several law suits from falls. I have even seen reports that such falls have been staged for that purpose. It is odd that they were not more attentive to any possible injury. I hope you are ok. 😦
🙂 Karen, so happy for you. I can only imagine how nice that feels for you.
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🙂 Congratulations Chas, the family just keeps on growing. 🙂
🙂 We do infant baptisms in our denomination — always seemed to me that dedications were a substitute for that. ? (I was also only “dedicated” as a baby, in the Hollywood Baptist Church.)
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Baptized later in the presbyterian church.
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