A Miserable Day

Today was another miserable day. My cold was really bad. I slept off and on throughout the day and took Coricidin HBP. I haven't been out of the house since Thursday afternoon when I took our friend home from the Thanksgiving dinner. We got a thank-you card from her today for inviting her.

We've been eating leftovers from Thanksgiving dinner for two days now and we are both getting a little tired of them by now. I think tomorrow we will want to try something a little different.

The day after Thanksgiving

We had a good Thanksgtiving.

I picked up our friend at 10 a.m. and took her home later in the afternoon.

We had turkey and stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, vegetable relish tray, cranberry salad, homemade bread and pumpkin and pecan pie. We will probably be having “reruns” for a few days.

The weather was good. After a cool start of 40 degrees, it got up to 67.

But somehow I caught a cold – my first in a long time – and during the night and this morning I have been feeling miserable. I’ve been taking Coricidin HBP, the only thing I’m supposed to take with my high blood pressure, and it helps, but I have to repeat the dose every four hours.

I’m really glad I don’t have to work today. I’ll call and cancel my weekly beauty shop appointment. Not only do I not feel like going, but I don’t want to spread my germs around everyone there.

Thanksgiving Day

If anyone is following this blog (which I doubt, since I never get any comments), you may wonder why I haven't posted for a few days. To tell the truth, I've just been lazy.

And, nothing much different has happened anyway. I worked Monday and Tuesday and until noon yesterday.

We have been cooking up a storm for Thanksgiving. We have a guest coming for dinner. I have a snall turkey in the oven. I made the cranberry salad yesterday and baked a pecan pie. Sis baked a pumpkin pie. She is fixing sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and Basque Sheepherder's Bread. We'll fix Stovetop stuffing. She prepared a relish tray of vegetables and little sweet pickles.We will have iced tea.

Sunday evening

At church this morning we had a fellowship coffee between 9:30 and 10:00 a.m. Many of us brought rolls and sweets to go with the coffee.

Then church started at 10:10 a.m. Two young children were baptized during the service.

After the service there was cake and punch for the reception, but I didn't stay for that. I went to Sis's church where they were having a Thanksgiving dinner after church.

All in all I ate way too much today.

Sis talked to Fred tonight. Holly is planning to get married on Dec 27th.

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.