Yesterday was a long day!  I did get a lot accomplished, and considering that I have to be done with everything by this afternoon, I think I just might make it.   So there were the normal classes yesterday.  Deb came to Mom’s house with the girls at lunch time (I was on my own for the day), so we chatted and played with the girls (they’re SO cute!).  I ran to Mom’s office after class and ended up driving her to Springfield to meet Dad for dinner.  Then I raced the storm clouds home (I won!).  I ate a quick supper, then headed for the church for the meeting with the music minister candidate.  I think it went well…I’ll be very surprised if they don’t offer him the job, but we’ll see.  He seemed very nice and capable.  Then home to work on my projects some more before bed. 

And I think I’ll just take this opportunity to express how great my husband is.  This whole week, with all my craziness, he hasn’t complained or grumbled at all.  Last night, he let me snuggle with him to help me relax, even though it kept us up longer than it would’ve otherwise.  And he’s just very encouraging about the whole thing.  I’m so glad that God saved him for me!

Okay, so today I have to finish my presentations.  I also have to run and get gifts for Erik’s birthday party (that’s Karen’s Erik) and a wedding, both of which are on Saturday.  I probably won’t be on at all tomorrow because the conference starts tonight at 6:00 with dinner, then reconvenes at 8:30 tomorrow morning and runs all day.  I’ll try to jump on a few times today to make up for it though!

Well, I did it.  I have a draft of my paper done.  I worked around 8 hours on it yesterday, and finished the draft around 6:30 (when I stopped to make dinner).  After supper, I ran to WalMart for some personal necessities and milk.  I also stopped at Bed Bath & Beyond to buy a wedding gift for some friends who are getting married on Saturday; unfortunately, it is a smaller store and they didn’t carry the towels my friends wanted.  So up to Sawmill I will have to go!

I didn’t work on my paper when I got home.  I figured that I needed to walk away from it for a while and then come back to it fresh.  So Eric and I played on computers in the loft.  He put together a website for our small group so I didn’t have to do a  newsletter this week.  It turned out really well…and I was so glad not to have to worry about it! But it was fun seeing what he was doing and getting people’s initial responses from the site. 

Today is a normal class day, but I have to keep working on this paper and the workshop I have to do as well.  I also have to be at the church tonight to meet our candidate for the music minister position. I’m not sure what to expect, but I’m trying not to get my hopes up, in case he doesn’t work out either.  We’ll see, though. 

Not a terribly exciting day yesterday.  I had classes and the normal routine.  I spent some time grading in my office before coming home.  Eric was mowing when I got home, so I took the opportunity to play a computer game for a few minutes (it’s always good, I’ve found, to have a firm time frame for stopping the game!).  I worked on my presentation stuff for awhile, then made supper. We had white chicken chili and cornbread…YUMMY!  Then I went back to my stuff for the rest of the night.  Eric worked on his website…he’s getting all sorts of fun things to work.  And he’s so cute when he’s all excited about something new he’s gotten working.  Anyway, by 9:40, I was in bed and he joined me shortly after that.  What a lovely way to end the day!

Today I HAVE to get serious work done on my projects.  There is just no question about that.  Thus, my 7 am posting.  But I do need to run some errands, too, so I will probably use those as my break sometime in the day. We’ll see…

What a weekend!  I was hoping for a lot of time to hole myself up in my (home) office and work on the paper & workshop that I have to present on Friday at our Literature conference at CU.  That didn’t really happen. I did get some work done (not much), but I have lots left to do. 

Friday evening, before 5:00, we found out that the father of a friend from small group was in a car accident, and they were going out to see him.  There was damage to his neck, but they didn’t know how serious.  This family also lost their 19 year old daughter/sister in January in a car accident, so this was a particularly hard hit.  On top of that, they were supposed to host small group on Sunday night, so that meant we had to do a mad scramble to switch the place
and snack assignments and let everyone know that we’d be meeting at our house. 

On Friday night, we also found out that we were going to have to make a trip out to the farm on Saturday, which we were not really planning to make until that moment.  And all of this was before I even got home.  So instead of working, we went out for supper and wandered the mall on Friday night.  I needed to relax and get out of the house.

So Saturday morning, I worked on my stuff for a bit.  Eric listened to Weird Al songs on YouTube and then worked outside for a bit.  Then we left for the farm about 1:30.   Eric dropped me off at a Home & Garden Party that his Grandma was hosting and then went on home.  I got a ride home with his mom and other grandma who were also there.  We joined the family for supper at the farm before heading back.  It was nice to chat and play with Ryan’s new kitten (it’s called an Ocicat – pronounced Aw-si-cat – and it looks like a spotted wild cat; they’re supposed to be the most “dog-like” of cats).  We got home about 10.

Sunday was church, then supper, then a bit of relaxing.  Then I made a quick grocery trip for snacks for small group and cleaned the house a bit (vacuumed and such).  I spent a couple of minutes planning/making reservations for a small vacation we’re going to take next weekend before going back to my work on the conference stuff.  At 6:00, I stopped to start getting things ready for small group which we then hosted.  Karen & Erik were last to leave and then we went to bed.

I’m waiting for there to be enough light outside to go for my walk, so I thought I’d write a quick update while I’m sitting at the computer.

I was productive yesterday, but my brain is beginning to get tired!  So I stop and take breaks to do mindless things every so often…which is good, I guess.   But then I end up getting started again as soon as I can.

I spent the morning finishing a revision of the Christmas script I’ve been working on.  I think it’s much better, but boy was it hard to get where I was trying to go.  Then I cleaned the kitchen, sent some emails and did the week’s small group newsletter (which I almost forgot about!).  My friend Vicki came over with lunch from Bob Evans and we had a lovely chat for a couple of hours.  I’ve missed getting to hang out with her sometimes.  When she left, though, I was pretty brain dead, so I watched a couple of movies at once (K-9 and Narnia) on the movie channels and surfed the web for a bit.  I didn’t watch all of either movie…just enough to get started again. 

Eric got home about 3:30, and he started playing with computer stuff.  I started working on my next project (a paper I have to write) and slowly made progress on that until I stopped to make dinner about 6:15.  We ate about 7:00 and then I cleaned up the kitchen before sitting down with a book  that I have to read so I can write something on it by the end of the month.  By then it was almost  8:30 so I went upstairs and got ready for bed ( I even shaved my legs so I didn’t have to this morning!), then climbed into bed and read some more until I couldn’t keep my eyes open.  Eric came to bed just after I laid down and we were out just after 10:00.  How lovely!

Wow!  Yesterday was a bit crazy!  And of course, just when my day slows down enough to Xanga, everyone else is getting done with Xanga for the day…oh well!

I stayed in my office until almost 4:00 to get a couple of things done.  Then I drove home.  Last week, I had a flat tire which Eric fixed for me over the weekend, so I’m pretty aware of my tires while I drive now.  I’m so glad he can do that sort of thing when needed…it’s so helpful that I don’t have to worry about it all!

Anyway, I got home, chatted with Eric for a bit, then called a lady from church to ask a question.  Eric wasn’t very hungry yet, so I decided to bake the chicken I had in the fridge so it would be cooked for whenever I wanted it (like maybe tonight!).  Then I did other stuff until I decided on what to make for supper last night.  I played on my computer a little bit, swept & Swiffered the kitchen floor, and tried to clean up a bit.  Then I made a pizza for supper and we had that and vegged on the couch for a while.  Eric was playing with a new computer download so he went back upstairs and I started ironing (I washed these clothes two weeks ago…and really needed them out of my living room! ).  I put in Just Like Heaven which is a movie (Reese Witherspoon) that Karen let me borrow and that was a good choice to have on while ironing.  I finished all the clothes and Eric actually watched the movie some over the railing in the loft and came downstairs to watch the last 20 minutes of it or so!

Then I loaded the dishwasher and ran it before going upstairs to get ready for bed.  So it was a productive day, but geez, my to-do list is just still too long.  Don’t you hate that!?!

I’m between classes so I thought I’d take a minute for a quick update. 

I didn’t get as much done as I’d wanted to yesterday, but I did get a couple of things worked on.  I still have lots of things on my to-do list, but it always gets done, right?

And I’m showing videos in all of my classes today, so my students will like that anyway. Gotta go teach now!

I didn’t even have time to think about Xanga yesterday.  It was a very busy day, and then, all of a sudden, it was 3:00 and I hadn’t even touched Xanga…hope you didn’t miss me too much!

The weekend was good overall.  It was nice to have Eric back for sure!  Friday night, we wandered around Meijer and bought a few things.  Saturday, we worked around the house before heading to Cedarville to have dinner with Chris & Deb so that Eric could help Chris rebuild his computer.  We got there about 4:00 and left about 10:15.  Of course we watched the Buckeyes, though we had to leave before the game was over.  But they were winning pretty handily, so I wasn’t terribly worried.   Sunday was church, a meeting that lasted until 1:30, lunch at 2:00, then more work for a couple of hours (including laundry) and then small group.  We were pretty tired after that, so we just came home and went to bed.

Yesterday was one of those clutzy days that I sometimes have.  I clipped my shin with my car door in the morning (it hurt almost the whole way to CU and I have a lovely knot today!), I pinched a finger, banged my elbow, and rolled my ankle getting out of the car when I got home.  Geez…you’d think a 29-year old could move better than that!

I had another meeting last night, so after dinner, I went back to church.  The meeting started at 7:00 and was very productive, but it lasted until 9:30. And today I have to spend some time re-writing the script we were working through.  In fact, today looks like it’s going to be very full (thus my early morning Xanga!).  So we’ll see how much I can get done!