Daily Archives: November 22, 2003

I Can’t Resist Adding This!

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GO BLUE!!!!!!

You know it’s the weekend of THE BIG GAME when…

-the only thing they talk about on the news is THE BIG GAME even though other important things happened that day.
-you hide the tassel from your diploma that has been hanging on your rearview mirror because you hippie college on the Left Coast has the same colors as Michigan and you’d prefer that your windshield not be smashed.
-your church choir’s anthem is based around the hymn “Come Christians Join to Sing” which has the same tune as the OSU fight song. (I’m wishing we could sing the Doxology to the tune of “Hail to the Victors”.)
-the basses in your choir explain to you that if Michigan wins, you will be tarred and feathered.
-there are more OSU flags up in town than American flags.
-the streets are bare at noon on a Saturday that is 5 weeks before Christmas.

Answer: Moving, Call Papers, and Panthers Oh My!

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Question: Why hasn’t Jen updated much this week?

Moving
We move to Minnesota in 3 weeks. We accepted a call (which will be announced here when all the papers are officially signed). We don’t have too much stuff so we really don’t have all that much to pack but… it’s still been stressful. My in-laws were paranoid about Jon and I doing the move and the driving ourselves, especially since I have no license yet. (I take the test on Tuesday at 10:15. I’ll post news if I pass.) As a result, my brother is going to fly out and help us.

If you have any advice on moving, leave me a comment here or at Domesticated.

Call Papers
The church we wanted voted 61-2 in favor of calling us. We should hopefully have the call papers in the next couple days. *crosses fingers and toes* I have a journal set up for my pastor’s wife adventures. If you want the location, e-mail me and I’ll tell you if I know you.

The other church would only let us keep 2 of our cats and that’s fine for them — it’s their parsonage and therefore their decision. I’ve refrained from screaming at the various people from my current church whose response to the situation has been “WELL IT SERVES YOU RIGHT FOR GETTING TWO MORE CATS!!! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?” Everything worked out, we can keep our girls, and those people have no leg to stand on.

Panthers
Edda had a parasite which was causing her bowels to be a little on the loose side. After spending 3 hours cleaning carpets before putting her under suite arrest and layering the floor of her suite with garbage bags, we took her to the vet and they dewormed her (basically some meds to kill any possible worms) and put her on some antibiotics. Our vet was not the sharpest crayon in the box and gave us a syringe of meds that was bigger than Edda, telling us to just depress it a little each time. Uh yeah… that’s really going to make medicating my cat easier, I ended up calling the vet after trying it and telling them to just give me the pills so I could split and dissolve them. (They ended up disolving the meds and giving me a small syringe and dropper… which is how it should have been done the FIRST time.) She’s doing much better though she hates her meds (which is just tough because she has a week left on them).