🙂 We’re packed and ready to go.
But it’s still too early. We’ll leave about 9:30 EDST.
We’re going over to Greensboro for Easter, as is our custom.
🙂 We’re having a big celebration dinner tonight. Celebrating Brian’s doctorate. He’s been working on it for years. He doesn’t get his degree until May. After that, people will say “Dr. Muller”. We’ll likely say Bryan.
But this is a chance to get all ten of us together.
🙂 We’ll have lunch/dinner at Mary’s tomorrow afternoon.
🙂 Then we come home. By this time, we’ll be ready.
I hope Mike, Aj, Mr. P and everyone else is well and blessed this Easter..
🙂 Shopping today in the big city of Calgary. First with husband in the morning and then with my sister in the afternoon – hopefully new fun shoes for work!
🙂 Fun visit with my good friend yesterday, we finally exchanged “Christmas” gifts, took a walk along one of the rocky beaches near sunset, ate fish & chips for dinner (she’s Catholic and was abstaining from meat) and took a long walk along the waterfront at night (couple unnerving moments with a homeless woman shouting & screaming the F word at us as we passed by and a pretty sketchy looking guy checking out my Jeep, looking inside the windows, just as we arrived back in the (by then) pretty abandoned parking lot.
🙂 Tess loves Kathy (Tess loves everyone, she’s really quite needy) and velcroe-d herself to her hip & lap lying next to her on the sofa most of the time we were chatting in the living room.
🙂 We also took a spin through what is the only brick-and-mortar book store left (Barnes & Noble), I picked up a book of Bible crossword puzzles and quizzes that I think Carol will like.
😦 City trash guys are in the middle of contract negotiations so our trash pickup has become rather spotty as they’re participating in a sick-out. The compost bins weren’t emptied last week and the recycle bins were left behind unmerited this week (although it sounded like they sent some extra trucks out this morning to grab what was missed yesterday — but by then I’d already hauled my half-filled bin back up into my driveway)
🙂 Sunday’s comin’
😦 Feeling punchy, I didn’t get to bed until 2 and I will have to track down Carol for a visit if I can today, I’m not sure if she’s in the hospital still or back in the convalescent facility — about to call to find out.
🙂 On my travels with Carol today I got re-aquainted with parts of downtown LA I hadn’t been to in a while — I used to go there a lot when I covered the LA school district (weekly meetings). I was up at City Hall maybe a year ago, but other than that I’m not there a lot anymore.
Where the old school district headquarters once was, my once-weekly haunt for several years, is now the new cathedral for the archdiocese (which I’d only seen from the freeway before). Spotted some other new buildings, too, but a lot of the familiar landmarks like the Music Center and Disney Concert Hall.
Funniest moment was when we were still trying to find our way to the convalescent home & were right in the middle of the worst freeway exchange ever created by mankind, with bumper to bumper (but kind of fast) traffic and listening to the GPS gal say something like: Keep to the right on the 110 and merge toward 3rd Street and the 101 north and south and the 5 south.
🙂 Had our Easter Dinner with Chrissy this evening, since Saturday is our usual night for all of us to have dinner together. Chrissy & I did the prep work during the day, while babysitting Forrest (until his dad picked him around 1:15), & then Lee stepped in, when he got home from work, to finish it all.
🙂 Lee enjoys cooking, & used to do it for a living.
😦 The main reason we had our Easter Dinner this evening is because Chrissy wants to be a part of the McK’s family get-together tomorrow afternoon. We are used to adjusting our plans to others’ schedules, so it wasn’t a big deal on that front, but it hurts my heart that she seems to more a part of their family than ours.
🙂 😦 Lee bought a roast for us (sans Chrissy) to have another nice meal tomorrow. (The 😦 is because I’ll have another big meal to clean up from tomorrow, & I was thinking I was getting that out of the way with our dinner tonight.)
🙂 I really shouldn’t complain, because Lee will do most of the cooking.
My husband would post this, if he was on this site:
🙂 Kentucky lost last night. IU is still the last undefeated team (not Kentucky, whose program he detests).
😦 But my husband isn’t feeling very good. I don’t know if he plans to go to church or Easter dinner at his parents’. If not, the girls and I can go (and the younger one is playing piano for the Easter service). Our church doesn’t make a big deal about Easter, but it will probably be the Easter hymns.
🙂 Heard a bit of music trailing up the hill from the port just after 6 a.m. today — I think it was probably the sunrise service they held this year (for the first time) on the fantail of the USS Iowa. Nice spot for it, as the ship sits in the Main Channel & harbor … which faces east — so the sun comes up over the water behind all the cranes and ships.
🙂 I was still in bed, of course.
🙂 I love sunrise services, but they aren’t the norm for me and not being an early riser by nature, I rarely go to one. Maybe that’s what makes them special when I do go (although a couple churches ago I was in the choir & always had to be there for our small outdoor sunrise service on Easter morning). When I was growing up, my mom used to like going to the Hollywood Bowl for the sunrise service there, it was kind of a big deal back in the day. We went at least 2-3 times. That’s also a beautiful setting as the sun comes up over the surrounding hills.
😦 Carol apparently was taken to the hospital late last night for abdominal pain (the facility left a voice mail late last night that I somehow missed), but when I called early this morning she was back at the convalescent home & was OK; sounded like she was brought back fairly quickly last night.
But I am worried that this worsened hernia situation could signal a lot of problems to come. I hope she doesn’t have to be in convalescent care from now on, but depending on the outlook of her condition (and no one will talk to me about that because I’m not family), that may be the case, I don’t know.
🙂 Picking up Norma at 9:30 for the 10 a.m. service (that should get us there early enough, it will be crowded and we already sometimes have trouble snagging seats for us and 1-2 others who sit with us in our favorite row) — then we have reservations to eat afterwards with several other people, some from church, others just joining us for the meal only.
🙂 Winning the first Baconopoly marathon game last night!
🙂 Husband always has a sunrise service, whether there is one to be found or not. Today he walked out to the coulee about 20 minutes from my sister’s and held his own sunrise service. Last year I joined him at the bottom (east) side of our yard for our small personal service.
Wandering Views 
🙂 We’re packed and ready to go.
But it’s still too early. We’ll leave about 9:30 EDST.
We’re going over to Greensboro for Easter, as is our custom.
🙂 We’re having a big celebration dinner tonight. Celebrating Brian’s doctorate. He’s been working on it for years. He doesn’t get his degree until May. After that, people will say “Dr. Muller”. We’ll likely say Bryan.
But this is a chance to get all ten of us together.
🙂 We’ll have lunch/dinner at Mary’s tomorrow afternoon.
🙂 Then we come home. By this time, we’ll be ready.
I hope Mike, Aj, Mr. P and everyone else is well and blessed this Easter..
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Have a great time with your family Chas.
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🙂 Wonderful Good Friday service
🙂
Miss Bosley is behaving
🙂
My illness this week seems gone
😦
Treatment Donna’s friend Carol received
😦
Friend’s rescue kittens are sick
🙂
Son got summer job
🙂
Husband got our taxes done
🙂
Nice refund due
😦
GA RFRA no go
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🙂 Time with family and friends
🙂 Good Friday
🙂 Homemade caramel popcorn
😦 Too much homemade caramel popcorn
🙂 Shopping today in the big city of Calgary. First with husband in the morning and then with my sister in the afternoon – hopefully new fun shoes for work!
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🙂 Fun visit with my good friend yesterday, we finally exchanged “Christmas” gifts, took a walk along one of the rocky beaches near sunset, ate fish & chips for dinner (she’s Catholic and was abstaining from meat) and took a long walk along the waterfront at night (couple unnerving moments with a homeless woman shouting & screaming the F word at us as we passed by and a pretty sketchy looking guy checking out my Jeep, looking inside the windows, just as we arrived back in the (by then) pretty abandoned parking lot.
🙂 Tess loves Kathy (Tess loves everyone, she’s really quite needy) and velcroe-d herself to her hip & lap lying next to her on the sofa most of the time we were chatting in the living room.
🙂 We also took a spin through what is the only brick-and-mortar book store left (Barnes & Noble), I picked up a book of Bible crossword puzzles and quizzes that I think Carol will like.
😦 City trash guys are in the middle of contract negotiations so our trash pickup has become rather spotty as they’re participating in a sick-out. The compost bins weren’t emptied last week and the recycle bins were left behind unmerited this week (although it sounded like they sent some extra trucks out this morning to grab what was missed yesterday — but by then I’d already hauled my half-filled bin back up into my driveway)
🙂 Sunday’s comin’
😦 Feeling punchy, I didn’t get to bed until 2 and I will have to track down Carol for a visit if I can today, I’m not sure if she’s in the hospital still or back in the convalescent facility — about to call to find out.
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🙂 On my travels with Carol today I got re-aquainted with parts of downtown LA I hadn’t been to in a while — I used to go there a lot when I covered the LA school district (weekly meetings). I was up at City Hall maybe a year ago, but other than that I’m not there a lot anymore.
Where the old school district headquarters once was, my once-weekly haunt for several years, is now the new cathedral for the archdiocese (which I’d only seen from the freeway before). Spotted some other new buildings, too, but a lot of the familiar landmarks like the Music Center and Disney Concert Hall.
Funniest moment was when we were still trying to find our way to the convalescent home & were right in the middle of the worst freeway exchange ever created by mankind, with bumper to bumper (but kind of fast) traffic and listening to the GPS gal say something like: Keep to the right on the 110 and merge toward 3rd Street and the 101 north and south and the 5 south.
What?
Carol and I just burst out laughing.
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🙂 Had our Easter Dinner with Chrissy this evening, since Saturday is our usual night for all of us to have dinner together. Chrissy & I did the prep work during the day, while babysitting Forrest (until his dad picked him around 1:15), & then Lee stepped in, when he got home from work, to finish it all.
🙂 Lee enjoys cooking, & used to do it for a living.
😦 The main reason we had our Easter Dinner this evening is because Chrissy wants to be a part of the McK’s family get-together tomorrow afternoon. We are used to adjusting our plans to others’ schedules, so it wasn’t a big deal on that front, but it hurts my heart that she seems to more a part of their family than ours.
🙂 😦 Lee bought a roast for us (sans Chrissy) to have another nice meal tomorrow. (The 😦 is because I’ll have another big meal to clean up from tomorrow, & I was thinking I was getting that out of the way with our dinner tonight.)
🙂 I really shouldn’t complain, because Lee will do most of the cooking.
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My husband would post this, if he was on this site:
🙂 Kentucky lost last night. IU is still the last undefeated team (not Kentucky, whose program he detests).
😦 But my husband isn’t feeling very good. I don’t know if he plans to go to church or Easter dinner at his parents’. If not, the girls and I can go (and the younger one is playing piano for the Easter service). Our church doesn’t make a big deal about Easter, but it will probably be the Easter hymns.
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🙂 Heard a bit of music trailing up the hill from the port just after 6 a.m. today — I think it was probably the sunrise service they held this year (for the first time) on the fantail of the USS Iowa. Nice spot for it, as the ship sits in the Main Channel & harbor … which faces east — so the sun comes up over the water behind all the cranes and ships.
🙂 I was still in bed, of course.
🙂 I love sunrise services, but they aren’t the norm for me and not being an early riser by nature, I rarely go to one. Maybe that’s what makes them special when I do go (although a couple churches ago I was in the choir & always had to be there for our small outdoor sunrise service on Easter morning). When I was growing up, my mom used to like going to the Hollywood Bowl for the sunrise service there, it was kind of a big deal back in the day. We went at least 2-3 times. That’s also a beautiful setting as the sun comes up over the surrounding hills.
😦 Carol apparently was taken to the hospital late last night for abdominal pain (the facility left a voice mail late last night that I somehow missed), but when I called early this morning she was back at the convalescent home & was OK; sounded like she was brought back fairly quickly last night.
But I am worried that this worsened hernia situation could signal a lot of problems to come. I hope she doesn’t have to be in convalescent care from now on, but depending on the outlook of her condition (and no one will talk to me about that because I’m not family), that may be the case, I don’t know.
🙂 Picking up Norma at 9:30 for the 10 a.m. service (that should get us there early enough, it will be crowded and we already sometimes have trouble snagging seats for us and 1-2 others who sit with us in our favorite row) — then we have reservations to eat afterwards with several other people, some from church, others just joining us for the meal only.
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🙂 Winning the first Baconopoly marathon game last night!
🙂 Husband always has a sunrise service, whether there is one to be found or not. Today he walked out to the coulee about 20 minutes from my sister’s and held his own sunrise service. Last year I joined him at the bottom (east) side of our yard for our small personal service.
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Baconopoly??
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