Well.. it’s -11F here, so I think all my pressing errands can wait! (Not to mention the fact that Jon would get getting yelled at on Sunday for leaving his poor wife alone to trudge through the snow in subzero temperatures for her basic needs. Well… until they realized that I do it because I’m too stubborn and independent to call people.)

My thundering feline herd woke me up at 6:45 this morning, so I decided to get up and start my day. I did devotions (ohmigosh! Jen is actually *doing devotions* first thing in the morning! Someone call CNN!!!), prayed for some of the people in the church, and went back to bed to chill for awhile. A little ebony creature curled up on top of me and started purring, so I started getting warm and sleepy. Add on the two massive feline stallions who were curled up on Jon’s side of the bed (because of course, Jon is gone and they have my full attention — the way it should be!) and the gremlin snuggled up next to me purring (and she has a motor that is about 10 times as big as she is). Yeah… Jen went back to sleep and was awakened by the phone at 9:30. The caller apologized and said that she thought it was Jon’s office hours. I politely reminded her that Jon is away rolling with his homies at a CE retreat. The phone rang about 4 more times after that, making me think I should probably get out of bed.

I have two feline stallions begging for my affections. One wants his belly rubbed, the other wants the base of his tail scratched, and neither will let me work on the other at the same time. Finian is my kitty (I frequently remind him that he is the most important man in my life — Jon understands) and Cullen has realized that his daddy is not going to give him attention for a little while, so he’s going after me. *sighs* It’s so nice to be wooed by two different men…

Off I go to clean cat boxes, shower, unpack some more of the boxes cluttering my study, and deal with my lemurpusses!

Jon is off doing his continuing ed, so I’m basically baching it for a few days. 🙂

Today, I realized as my gremlin started circling me (with a mean and hungry look even though her food bowl was full) that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to go get some cat food. Well… Jon is gone and has the car, so I could either attempt to tesseract myself to the store or walk the 7 blocks. I chose to walk. Well… along the way, several old men stopped to ask if I needed a ride (one of whose cars I actually approached — I’m feeling like an idiot because you NEVER are supposed to do that) and my glasses fell out of my pocket. As a result, I’m bat blind right now, but I have the funds to replace them and an appointment for Wednesday. (They were going to be replaced anyway once we got insurance.)

At the store, one of the stockers started talking to me and found out that I had walked to the store. His response: “You walked all the way from the parsonage?!?!?!?!” (I had to ask how he knew who I was. Turns out, he is the father of one of my confirmands and someone who I see every week at one of the churches. Uff da!) I got a lecture on how I should call people from the churches while Jon is gone so that I’m not stuck out in the cold getting pneumonia. (If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard that, I could probably pay off the charges on my credit card from the antibiotics they prescribe for it.) He offered to deliver the cat food so that I wouldn’t have to carry it home (all 7 lbs of it) and I politely thanked him but declined his offer. After paying for the food, I walked to do some errands downtown and then headed home (where I found that my glasses had disappeared — stupid Jen!)

Tonight, I made dinner for one of our treasurers who read me the riot act when she found out that I had walked to the store. (Apparently, I could have called her at work and she would have come to get me. Oops.) It’s nice to know that I’m loved. I taught her about Excel and we also got some time to sit and talk. It was nice to get to talk to her and get to know her because she is one of the people who has really tried to make us feel welcome here. It’s also nice that my utter geekiness is a ministry tool!

I miss my fox…

Happy birthday to my favoritest New Hampshire resident… Nikkiana! Go leave her a comment and show her some loooooooove.

Put lasagna in fridge after you make it to avoid finding it sitting on the stove the next morning and having to throw it out to avoid food poisoning.

Guess I’ll have to go out in the -42F weather today after all…

I’m #1 this week. 🙂

At this moment, what is your favorite…
1. …song?
“La Serinissima” by Loreena McKennitt

2. …food?
sushi!!!!!!!!!!

3. …tv show?
“Joan of Arcadia”

4. …scent?
my cucumber-melon shower gel

5. …quote?
“Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and go well with ketchup.”

Life is kind of strange right now. I just set up my new laptop (which was bought with Christmas and birthday money from the last year) and my settings aren’t transferred over yet. My laptop refuses to recognize my desktop (which is making the transfer of my Outlook Express a royal pain) and my techie and I spent an hour playing with things before they worked yesterday. Right now, I’m putting my MP3 collection on CD’s. I’m on disc 6 of the “Doxa!” series and the next one will probably be my oldies ones.

Church was lovely this morning. Doing the Confirmation material has put me more on speaking terms with the Almighty and I actually wanted to get up at dark-thirty on a morning when the temperature was a balmy -35F with wind chill to go worship. (The cold was worth about 7 expletives.) The service at Church #1 was short because of the annual meeting; but I sang my heart out (and probably was the reason some people got one of the hymns — it’s Danish, which means that the tune is bizarre). At Church #2, they let me sing with Holy Commotion (the worship team) and I had a blast. I’ve been missing church choir and I relished the opportunity to sing and worship with a group like them. I also got compliments from parents on my Confirmation lesson last week, which was an ego boosting for me.

We take Sable (our happening ’84 Volvo) in for fuel pump replacements tomorrow. (I am so tempted to fry our Newark mechanic on the MechanX Files on Car Talk’s website because he misinstalled the rear fuel pump and didn’t use Volvo parts. If he’d used Volvo parts, they would be under warranty right now. Grrrrr.) We also have a copy machine tech coming by because we fried a fuse in it while copying annual reports. On Wednesday, I have two Confirmation classes and there are various other things going on. I’ll be blogging but perhaps not as vocally as usual.

Oh yes… I do have opinions on the Democratic primaries that are happening. (Unless there is a shot that Dubya won’t get re-nominated, I’m ignoring the Republican ones. The Republicans are also on the state sh*tlist around here as well because they’ve cut a lot of really essential services and have done things to irritate the farmers.) I’m torn between Dean and Clark. Dean’s claim of religion irritates me (it’s scary that someone could butcher the Christian faith worse than Dubya’s random allusions to verses and hymns with no context) but I don’t know if Clark will get the nomination. I also like Kerry, so I’m kind of split three ways. Once Iowa is over (since it’s being talked up here), I might blog about my thoughts on each of the candidates.