Wednesday and Thursday, Mar 10 & 11, 2010

Thursday, March 11, 2010 Exodus 23, Psalm 73, John 2
It was another of those nights...but it is my own fault. I started to watch the Fox news at 9:00 p.m. and there was a special program on that didn't look interesting to me. I decided to just go ahead and go to bed early. Then I woke up a little after 1 a.m. feeling wide awake.

Calvin got up when I did and had to have a little treat. I gave him a pouch of moist cat food. He ate most of it. I poured myself a cup of coffee from the thermal carafe. It was only luke warm but I didn't bother microwaving it, just drank it that way. Caffeine doesn't keep me awake unless I really overdo it and drink a lot of cups of coffee in the last few hours before I go to bed.

Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 14, 2010. That is this weekend. I hadn't heard anything about it until a couple of days ago and it caught me off guard, thinking "so soon?”

We have really had warm weather the last few days. It has been getting up to nearly 80 degrees every day. I guess that really isn't so unusual for here but we have had such an unusual winter with much colder weather than most years.

I went back to bed at 2:00 a.m. and slept two more hours before Calvin kept meowing at my bedroom door until I got up again.

The boss was gone all day. She had a District Professionals meeting. Then she was going to go on to Austin since tomorrow is her regular day off. It was fairly quiet at work and I was able to catch up on a lot of filing and get the bulletins finished with the wedding invitations inserted in them. I also wrote some checks to be signed Sunday when the authorized signers are there.

I came home for lunch today and we had crispy tacos.
This evening after I got off work we went to the Polish-American Club for their fund-raiser meal of kielbasa sausage, sauerkraut, creamed potatoes, green beans, applesauce, bread and coffee. It was quite a meal for $7.50 each. They put three good-sized pieces of the sausage on each plate and the sandwich bags of bread they passed out each had a slice of white and a slice of wheat bread. The applesauce was on a table with sliced onions and jalapeno peppers. I was quite full and didn’t go back and get any applesauce. Taped music was playing and just as we finished and were leaving, they were starting karaoke. A little girl who looked to be around 5 or 6 years old was going to sing. They were planning to have more music for the next few hours. We wanted to get home before dark so we left.

We did stop at a yard sale that was still going on down the street. I didn’t see anything I wanted, but Sis bought a can of spackling compound. This evening she covered the outside of an empty almond can with spackle and buttons in the spackle all around to decorate. It looks very pretty. She left it sit to dry overnight.

We got home in time to watch Jeopardy, but as usual I fell asleep in the recliner while watching it. I did rouse in time to see who won. Then we watched part of the evening news before turning it off.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Exodus 22, Psalm 72, John 1

I called a this morning to order 20 Easter lilies for the church. They agreed to deliver them on Friday morning, April 2 (Good Friday). It will cost $188.75.

I also called a plumber and arranged for him to come out and make a number of plumbing repairs at the church. He came out before noon and worked for a couple of hours and got them all repaired. He only charged $140.25.

I called Kathy at the district office and told her that Gene will be our administrative board chairperson for 2010 and Sylvia will be the lay leader.

I printed out the bulletins for next Sunday and ran off copies. I still need to put the wedding invitation inserts inside for Zachary's wedding on March 19th.

Sis worked until 12:30 p.m. at the temp office. Then she went to the bakery outlet and picked up bread for the food pantry for next week. She brought 100 loaves and other bread items and we put them in the refrigerators and freezers downstairs in the kitchen.

She had stopped at a fast food place and picked up lunch for us: chicken strips, mashed potatoes and gravy, and Dr. Pepper.

This evening we had leftover macaroni con queso for supper, with banana bread for dessert.