Australia-bound tourist ends up in Montana
This is one of those times where one just has to laugh.
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Yesterday
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.
My Week at a Glance
(HT: Dreama!)
Monday!
-recover from Sunday
-work on presents
-taebo off the plum pudding (which was icky) and “cherries in the snow”
Tuesday!
-coffee (where I’ll work on presents)
-mail presents for Sean and Jeanette to Washington
-taebo off Christmas gifts from parishioners (everyone gives us candy of some kind and it’s ALL good)
-go see kids in Christmas show at elementary school
Wednesday!
-therapy
-taebo off Christmas gifts from parishioners
-possibly Bible study where I’ll work on presents
Thursday!
–work on presents (if not done)
-figure out music for Christmas Eve w/ Jon
-taebo off Christmas gifts from parishioners
Friday!
-laundry for trip to Seattle
-taebo off Christmas gifts from parishioners
-finish gifts (if not done)
Saturday!
-wrap presents for trip to Seattle
-acquire rest of ingredients for Irish Coffee Pie
-taebo off Christmas gifts from parishioners
Sunday!
-worship at the prison
-make Irish Coffee Pie
-service at 3 at church #3
-service at 5 at church #2
-dinner with super-wonderful parishioners who are adopting us (and feeding us lutefisk)
Monday!
-service at 10 at church #2
-taebo off Christmas gifts from parishioners
-pack for trip to Seattle
-print out cat care instructions for the furry ones
-get the heck out of Dodge on the first Amtrak train west!
Oh yeah… we should also put up and decorate a tree at some point?
Braindead Saturday
As we got the car back yesterday (complete with a nice new fuel pump), I was able to go to choir practice today.Â? It went well — apparently I have a couple of the pieces memorized.
Afterwards, I hit up Subway for lunch, Pamida for some Christmas stuff, Town Pump for gas, Albertson’s for fruit and some Irish Coffee Pie ingredients, the local quilt shop for fleece, the local coffeeshop for a gift certificate, a parishioner’s house for something Victorian looking for tomorrow night, Pamida AGAIN for barrettes (my bangs aren’t long enough to stay pulled back), and Albertsons AGAIN for spray gel.
Herbal Essences is evil.Â? They took away their normal spray gel and replaced it with regular stuff.Â? Their spray gel was the best thing on the planet!!!Â? Evil company!!!!
Tomorrow is the Christmas program at church and then Carols Round the Table in town.Â? It should be crazy busy but that’s the nature of this time of year.
Quite Irritated
I found out that the engine I ordered for the Volvo is the wrong one. Craaaaaap!
Oh, did I mention that the fuel pump on the Pontiac is also out and it happened on I-15 outside of Conrad? In other words, both of our two cars are non-functional?
If it wasn’t for the tow truck guy getting us home (25 miles into the country), I think I’d be ripping my hair out right now.
Oh yeah… AAA rocks.
Just Call Me The Human Pretzel
OK… so the CT scan was this morning and they did 4 series of pictures of my ankle and foot, bending me in ways that no 26 year old woman should be able to bend for long periods of time to get the right angle and keep my left foot out of the picture.? It wasn’t so much pain from my injured ankle/foot as much as it was having to lie on my side with my leg out straight flexing my foot, lying with my left leg tucked under my right knee which had to be bent upward,…? At least they gave me a couple interesting issues of National Geographic to read whilst they worked and then had to wait for the tubes to cool down.
The whole thing took almost two hours which meant that I got to the WELCA Christmas party an hour and a half late.? Thankfully, they still had food so I got a lovely lunch of chicken hotdish, cranberry jello, and some kind of Schwan’s ice cream for dessert.? (It was pink spumoni — I think they called it “Pink Divinity”.)? Oh yes… the red punch too.? Let’s just say I was jonesing for a ginger altoid fix when I got home — you’d think I would have learned that I can’t eat big meals anymore.? Thank goodness for the ginger creations!
I’m probably not going to know what’s up with the CT scan for a couple days.? The radiologist is in Kalispell and he has to read the CT scan and send the report to my lovely Italian doctor.? (For those who don’t know, I live in the middle of nowhere and because of this, there isn’t a radiologist nearby, so they send the images to Kalispell where there’s a radiologist.? You’d think they’d send it to Great Falls which is closer but I guess all the radiologists in Great Falls are too swamped with the stuff from the megalithic hospital.)? I’m hoping we know what’s up by… Wednesday?