My day yesterday…

0830: Get up and make fruit tray. Ask Freya how many paws she is allowed on the table before telling her to get off.Â? Have lovely breakfast of leftover fruit and peanut butter to stop hiccups. Explain to Edda that black cats don’t eat peanut butter. Get dressed.
0915: Arrive at Church #1 with Jon. Watch kids put on Christmas program. (It was cute.)
1000: Brunch! Socialize with daughter of parishioners who has a 6 week old baby. Find my fruit tray decimated when I finally get up to the food. I guess it was popular? Socialize with people and eat some ham (OK… quite a bit actually but I wasn’t getting dinner until 6:30), fruit, and half a cinnamon roll.
1230: Get home and shower. Convince Jon to eat some lunch. Do hair and make-up and dress for performances in town. Realize that blouse isn’t going to work. Toss on wine-colored Old Navy stretchy shirt instead.
1400: Nursing home service. I drop Jon off and go to Pamida to find something to wear over my shirt. Find weird sweater thing. Get lipstick too and apply it in bathroom at nursing home.
1500: Arrive at church in town. Find that lipstick job is crappy. Re-apply and check with conductor to see if I should just take it off. Wait for things to start.
1600: First performance of “Carols Round the Table”. All goes well until I jump the gun on my reading. Oops! Pregnant silence while we figure out where we are. (Oh yes… the candle also refused to light.)
1700: Help serve food. Apologize to conductor who laughs off my mistake. Help clean up after people leave.
1820: FINALLY get to eat. Have bowl of chicken soup and a roll with some punch. Someone gives the choir people some “cherries in the snow”. Quite good.
1900: Second performance. All goes well with the music and my reading. Plum pudding refuses to stay lit, causing the pastor to joke that “we’re out of fuel”.
2000: Conductor tells me to sit down and eat with Jon (who came to see me sing). Help clean up while Jon socializes.
2100: Head home. Arrive home and jump in the shower to unshellac my hair and get the make-up off.
2200: Check email and have IM conversation with best friend from childhood even though I want to go to bed.
2230: Tune into COPS and curl up on the futon where I try to convince Edda that Mommy needs her panther. Fall asleep while cats are playing tag.