It snowed

Yes, it snowed last night and all day today.  A lot.  Not as much as we were used to in Spokane, but a lot for here; a lot for me.  We have a couple of inches or so in the back yard.  So, I'm really over winter now.

We did get up and go to church this morning, only the church was cancelled!  However, we met the priest for the church (Father David) and had a really good meeting with him.  We attended the first half of the service for the Church of Christ that shares it's space with Emmaus ECC.  Then Father David took us over to the Sacred Space room and talked with us about ECC.  I really like him, but I'm still wobbling.  I will give myself more time to think about this.

Nothing much went on today because it was football playoffs weekend, again.  Mark watched football; I cooked spaghetti sauce.  I read the paper (all eight pages) while enjoying some cups of tea.  And that was pretty much it for the day.  Lazy, lazy.

Tomorrow is a holiday (MLK Day), so we are planning on doing a big bunch of nothing.  Plus, we are supposed to have more snow.  I may try to get some shelves put together in my office, and Mark says he is going to put together my stereo.  We'll have to wait and see how the day develops.

And that's it for tonight.

Another lesson learned

It was gray and raining when Mark and I headed out with the dogs late this morning to do some errand running and take the puppies for a run in the field.  By the time we were done it was really sunny and the sun was reflecting so hard off the pavement that you couldn't see.  The Lesson: never leave the house without sunglasses.

It also snowed this afternoon.  The first snow of the season.  The flakes were really big, and it came down pretty hard for a while.  The ground was covered with about half an inch of snow.

I managed to get more paper work done this afternoon.  I didn't get anything unpacked or put away, though.  Perhaps tomorrow.  I'm kind of at that point now that I am just going to deal with stuff as I feel like it.  I want to get things put away and organized, but I'm not going to stress out about whether or not it gets done.  We can cook, take showers, get dressed, sleep, watch TV, work on computers, watch movies, and play with the dogs.  That's good enough.  Everything else is just icing on the cake.  Hmmmmm....wait a minute -- that might be a problem.  I like icing.

Tonight was Miss America watching night.  We have been doing this for 25 years now.  We started watching beauty contests by watching a local contest in Lubbock.  It's mean to admit, but we got hooked watching the local contests for all the flubs.  And then it just grew into watching all beauty contests.

Now it's time to watch a really old X-Files on BBC America!  The truth is out there.....

A good Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th has always been a good day for me, and today was a good day.  Our friend, Susan, came over and took me shopping at Trader Joe's and World Market.  Then we went and had pho for lunch.  It was really tasty.  And tonight was a retirement party at Ramblin' Jack's for a guy from Mark's office.  It was good, too.  This morning, though, E.T. had to go back to the car doctor.  He's going to get a new distributor and, hopefully, this will fix his little starting problem.  All in all, a good day.  Yea!

Dental visit

That was today's highlight -- going to the dentist.  Her name is Tammy Nguyen and I really like her.  The first thing that happened was getting my head x-rayed!  So many times in my life people have told me I needed to have that done, and now I have.  It was almost like being on some theme park ride.  It was pretty cool.  The cleaning part was terrific.  I love getting my teeth cleaned, and Katy, the tech, totally understood where I was coming from, so she did it just right.  The GPS wouldn't register the address when I was leaving the house, so I got a little lost trying to get there.  However, I had Google Mapped the address, so I had sort of an idea of where I was going.  It was kind of a mad dash to get to the appointment.  They called at 1:40 to see if I wanted to come at 2:30 instead of 3:30.  I said sure, brushed my teeth, put the dogs up, and then jumped in E.T.  Well, guess what -- E.T. finally decided to do his not starting thing.  Fortunately, the truck was here.  I called Mark and told him to call the car guy, who now is coming out tomorrow morning to see if he can figure out what's wrong with E.T.  And now I'm going to go curl up in bed and read for a while.  I really haven't had a chance to do that in a while, so it will be nice.

Good night.

The boxes are gone! The boxes are gone!

Yea!  The movers came today and took away all the boxes.  We have now reclaimed the entry hall and the living room.  I also managed to get the master bathroom sorted out and put away, so there is room to move around.  Another yea.  And last night I got the CD case put together and the CDs put unpacked.  More yea.  Things are slowly finding their ways to places.  There is still a lot to put away (somewhere) and then comes the cleaning up and getting into a new routine.  I'm looking forward to all of those things happening.

Very little went on today

I went to WW in the morning and then made a quick stop at Macy's for face stuff.  Came home, ate some soup, and then started in on computer stuff.  There are so many things that have to have address changes.  I'm not sure I've gotten them all done, yet, either.  I can only do what I'm reminded of or alerted to, so I just keep hoping that I'm keeping up.

The movers are coming tomorrow to pick up the boxes.  Yea!  Then starts Phase II -- really finding places to put stuff.  At least I will be able to have more space for sorting and categorizing.  It's falling into place.

And that's it for tonight.

Great surprise visit tonight

We had a wonderful surprise visit from a friend and her daughter this evening.  We thought the family was still in Italy for the holidays  Susan and Mark went to school together in Fairbanks many decades ago (getting old is fun now that we're speaking in decades and not 1/2 and 3/4 years like elementary school).  And now we live only a mile or so from each other.  I'm really excited about having friends this close.  Life is starting to pull together here.  I like it.