Saturday night

I helped clean the church this morning. I vacuumed both offices and the filing room.

Then I took the dog to the vet and got her annual shots, had her nails trimmed, and a flea treatment. It all cost $94.50.

Sis cooked a turkey for tomorrow's dinner after church.

For supper tonight we had beef tips with rice, pea salad, and mixed fruit.

Thursday and Friday

Friday night: I cancelled my beauty shop appointment. It was just raining too much. it let up later in the afternoon and Sis and I went to the Third Friday Supper at a nearby church. I had lasagna, green beans, salad and garlic bread with pumpkin pie for dessert..and coffee. Sis chose fried fish, green beans, cole slaw, garlic bread and banana pudding and coffee. It was a really good meal and only $13 for both of us. That church puts on this dinner on the third Friday of each month, as a fund raiser.

It rained a little more tonight after we got home.

Friday morning while at work:
It has been raining extremely heavy most of the morning and flood advisories are out. The roof is leaking at church and I've got buckets catching what I can and mopping around them on the floor every so often. I get off at noon, so if it keeps raining it will be more to clean up by tomorrow.

Okay, so it's Friday morning when I'm writing this and now I'm trying to remember what all happened yesterday.

Sis and I went to Wendy's for lunch yesterday. I had a double stack hamburger and a small chocolate Frosty. For supper we had leftovers. I ate the rest of my Chinese dinner from the other day. They give such large servings. I got three meals out of that one.

Calvin is being a nuisance this morning. He has already had his breakfast but I guess he just wants attention. He jumps on chairs at the windows and pulls the window blinds back and forth - or jumps on the back of the swivel rocking chair and tries to turn it over. Sometimes he succeeds.

It started raining during the night and is raining very heavily right now. The forecast is for it to continue throughout the day. I don't enjoy driving in rain and hope it slows down somewhat by the time I leave for work.

We have a leak in the roof at work and so there will be water on the landing despite the buckets we keep under it. Too bad we don't have the $62,000 it will cost to replace the roof on that aging church building.

Since our custodian is off work, recuperating from major surgery, guess who will end up having to mop up water. I am the only working there today, so that should give a clue.

Calvin must have gotten tired. He's lying quietly on the back of the rocker right now. Precious had to go outside but put it off when she saw it was raining. She kept coming back and wanting to go out, so finally I went outside on the patio with her and made her go out into the yard. Then when she got done and came back in, I dried her off with a towel.

Wednesday night

The food pantry at church was open today and I've never seen such a crowd. I guess the word really spread around that turkeys were being given out. The pantry doesn't open until 1 p.m., but people started lining up outside the door at 11 a.m. and by 1:00, the line was clear back through the parking lot by the building almost back to the street. More kept coming and at 3 p.m. when they closed, there were still a few people outside in line. They took them all inside and shut the door to any new ones. It was 3:30 p.m. by the time they got them all out of there. They had 100 turkeys and 40 packages of turkey breasts. They ran out of turkeys and almost out of the turkey breasts. They had plenty of fruit and shelf-stable milk, but ran out of rice, vegetables and bread. There were a few packages of dry beans left. But no one left without getting some turkey and other food.

Sis worked with the volunteers and by the time she got out of there and came home, her back was really bothering her.

Tuesday night

Sis was going to bring some lunch to me at work today and when she started out, she discovered she had a totally flat tire. She called me and then was going to call AAA, but the neighbor saw what had happened and he came over and said he would be glad to change it for her. So he did and then she went to Firestone and bought a new tire. The old one was totally shot. So I drove home and had some leftover pizza and Snapple tea for lunch.

We had our finance meeting at work and it lasted a little longer than usual so I was a little late getting home from work.

This evening we went to a Chinese/Mexican restaurant for supper. I had the almond chicken with rice, Sis had chicken huang (or something like that), and we shared an order of 6 crab rangoons. They have such large servings that we asked for carryout boxes and brought enough home for two more meals each.

Sis’s cat, Digger still won’t eat, but she does drink a little water.

Mon, Nov 16, 2009

It was a hectic day at work. Lots of reports to work on and I ended up finishing up the treasurer's report at home tonight.

The pastor and Nancy and I went to lunch at a Chinese restaurant. I just got a side order of six crab rangoon and iced tea.

When I got home, Sis was cleaning out the refrigerator out in the garage..a long overdue job that we had been putting off.

We had carne guisada and cole slaw for supper.

Sis's oldest cat, Digger hasn't been feeling good today. She didn't eat anything all day. She is 18 years old. Sis took her to the vet last week and he ran tests, but I think it is mostly her age.

I was so tired tonight I could hardly stand it so I went to bed a little after 7 p.m. Then I got up at 8 and watched most of Antiques Road Show before going back to bed. A little before 3, Precious woke me up wanting to go outside, so I stayed up a litttle while longer to check email and write this, but I'm about ready to go back to bed for a little while.

Sunday evening

It is only 6 p.m. but seems so late. Since the time changed and it gets dark so early, it is a bit disorienting. Makes it feel like much later at night.

After church today we were going to go to Luby's for lunch. But we couldn't get onto Military Drive. It was blocked off by police cars every where we tried. I'm not sure what was going on. It's odd to have a busy highway like that closed for construction on a Sunday.

We ended up coming back and having lunch at Pizza Hut. That turned out "different" too. We ordered a medium supreme pizza, salad bar, and diet Pepsi's. We got our salads and beverages. Finally the waitress came back and asked again what kind of pizza we had ordered. She said they would have to make another for us, as evidently the delivery man had taken ours on his route. So we ended up getting a freshly made pizza at a $4 discount and they gave us our salads and drinks free to make up for the inconvenience. We got the pizza to go and brought it home.

It got up to 78 degrees this afternoon but has started to cool down now and rain and a cold front are expected after midnight.

Saturday night

Sis was at the craft show from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. today. I was there with her a lot of the time, but I also went to the grocery store, Wal-Mart and Office Depot. I picked up my prescription at Wal-Mart and got a wireless computer mouse, printer ink cartridge and 2010 desk blotter calendar at Office Depot,as well as groceries at the grocery store.