Recap of the week's end

Thurssday steps: 9275 Friday steps: 5965
Saturday steps: 4000 Week's total: 55414

Hi there -
I'm back in the saddle - and it wasn't easy. Got home from evening services to find that our phone line was gone, gone, gone. Hubby even asked if I had paid the bill - well, duh! yes! So he spent about an hour walking around the house and tightening up wires to the various rooms and we are all connected again - except in the bedroom. And, that suits me just fine. The wiring is old and probably needs to be replaced anyway - the house is 25 years old and we've had phone service for probably 23 or 24 of that.

The nice thing is, that this is the best dial-up connection that I have had in about 3 weeks. Yay!

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The workshop is finished - now I just have to get into my office to complete paperwork, make final arrangements for the police ride-alongs and such. I will be training the new receptionist this week - she was hired just before the workshop and attended it all last week. I think she will do just fine and doubt she will need me to be over her shoulder the entire week.

The following week I will be back in my office - on my schedule. Bye, bye extra pay - hello Fridays off. I am looking forward to that again - this house is ready to walk away with itself. My first Friday off will likely be spent sleeping in until 7 (oh, my!) and then cleaning, cleaning, cleaning, and washing clothes, too.

I'll be taking all of Thanksgiving week off and am looking forward to that. With the holiday and my Friday off, I will only need to take two days of annual leave to do so. Should be able to do the same thing for Christmas.

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Monday is the day for my friends' surgeries. This is the man who needs the kidney transplant and who will be receiving his sister-in-law's kidney. Her husband gave him a kidney about 15 years ago. What a miracle worker our God is - to not only have arranged for a brother to have the exact match needed, but to have provided him a wife who is also an exact match. (they did not even know each other at the time of the first transplant)

Should you have a moment or two around 7 a.m. Seattle time Monday morning, would you pause and say a prayer for Jim and Cherri? They are in His hands and He answers prayer. Thank you.

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The poetry class was great. I thoroughly enjoyed it and would have taken it whether or not there was a credit attached to it - I'm not planning to attend college any time soon, so that lone credit will bounce around in the system for awhile.

The teacher was fun to be around - and, as it happens, I was around her a lot. She is not used to the Kenai area, especially in the dark and in the rain when driving our roads can be the pits. She wasn't sure she could make it to her hotel, so I led her over to it from the college.

Then on Saturday morning I drove to the hotel to check and see if she needed a guide back to the campus. She told me you are the best thing to happen to me all day. Awww.

Turns out they put her in a room right next to the parking lot - on a Friday night - and EVERY rowdy who could, WAS there outside her window. The window wouldn't stay open (or closed) properly so she had to jury-rig it - the rowdies were out there until after 1 - and at 6 or so some cretin decided to warm up his diesel truck right outside of her window, despite very warm temperatures. Oh - and the "non smoking" room smelled strongly of every brand known.

Needless to say, she was tired, grumpy and I got to hear a lot of it. ;-)) She had arranged for a different room for that night and I hauled her luggage up to it for her while she finished getting ready to go.

And, then - I attempted to use my auto start for my car and set off the alarm - and got locked out of the security system. It takes 20 minutes for it to reset and we were 15 minutes away from the start of the class. So, she drove me over to the campus and then to and from lunch and back to the hotel for my car afterwards. It was hilarious - really - and we felt like sisters afterwards, or at least with the beginnings of a friendship.

Funny thing about that darned auto start - I tried to use it again this morning and set it off again. Grrrrrr!

So - I am going to get off here and get ready for bed. Hope your week is a good one.

Posted by Purplemoose at October 26, 2003 10:27 PM