Monday Monday

I had a pretty darn good day today! My big brother came over first thing this morning and we loaded up 4 LARGE bags of Aunt Helen's clothes/stuff to take to Salvation Army. We got there at 9 minutes to 10:00 and they don't start taking donations until 10:00! So, just as we were getting the 3rd and 4th bags out of the truck, the head of the SA came driving in. He not only opened the doors for us, but he also carried one of the bags! That was sure nice of him because it was a really heavy bag and I wasn't sure I was going to be able to carry it! After that, I came home and started sorting through a lot of her other stuff like pictures, newspaper articles, cards she'd saved, painting books, knitting books, etc. I threw away some of the stuff and the rest of it I've sorted into piles including one for Bob to look at, one to send to cousins, and a pile that I'd like to keep. Tomorrow morning Bob is coming over and we're going through a bunch of her financial papers and will decide what gets kept and what gets shredded. Hopefully we can get most of it done tomorrow. Then what little furniture there is will go to the Indian Hills auction. There isn't much left! We have several of her paintings and if Bob doesn't want them, they'll probably go up in our attic with the rest of her paintings.

Around 11:30 I turned on the NASCAR race and watched it. I was going to go exercise, but I couldn't leave the race. It didn't get over until about 2:30, so I went to Lady Fit then. After exercising, I went to the chiropractor, to get groceries, and then came home to "play". Dave called and said he wanted to go to Bill Adam's visitation in Fairfield tonight. So we went over there after Dave got home. We stood in line for about 1 1/4 hours and didn't get inside the church! At 7:00 they started the prayer service, so they let everyone inside for that. Several of Bill's nephews and a niece talked, as well as some of his friends. At the end of the service, Jane (Bill's wife) got up to the podium and told everyone that tomorrow would have been their 36th wedding anniversary, so she had asked Chris Davis to sing a song that had been sung at their wedding 36 years ago - "The Twelfth of Never". Lots of tears were shed! After the service, the family started receiving guests again. The visitation started at 4:00 this afternoon and probably didn't get over until about 10 tonight. There were lots of people there.

I've got a busy day tomorrow too - not only is Bob coming over to work, I've also got a mini massage and then I'm going to make cards tomorrow night - 10 cards for $10. Should be fun. I wonder how Dancing With The Stars was tonight and who will get booted tomorrow night?

Sunday Thoughts

"Sing Hosanna" - this was the song we sang today for Palm Sunday. It was a very moving song that talked about Christ's entry into the city and how glad the people were to see Him. On Thursday, our mood will turn very somber, however, when we sing "Remember Me". The preacher today talked about Christ's entry into the city and read the story from Luke. I don't know that I've ever heard that version of Palm Sunday. I'm sure I have, but there were so many things that I felt I was hearing for the first time. Hmmm...

After church, we went to Second Street Cafe for lunch and then we went to Dave's new plant over by Moravia. Dave had to go over there anyway and since I hadn't seen it yet, Dave thought this would be a good day for my visit. After my tour, while Dave was tied up with the dirt moving guys, I got on his computer and just did my thing! Unfortunately an afternoon was pretty much shot over there. Dave thought we'd only be there about 45 minutes and as it turned out it was more like 3 and a half hours! But, when we were finally finished, we went to our favorite ice cream store in Albia for hot fudge sundaes!! So the day wasn't a complete waste!

Tonight I finished lesson 4 of my class while Dave rolled the lawn. He's left the tractor so that I can roll it some more tomorrow, if I want. He just leaves such wonderful hints!! Bob and I are taking Aunt Helen's clothes to the Salvation Army tomorrow and then tomorrow night, it's Dancing With the Stars!! More later...

Productive Saturday

I've really had a productive day today. I worked on my web design class. I'm almost finished with this week's two assignments! I've finished the 3rd lesson and I'm about ready for the quiz in the 4th lesson. I have an even greater appreciation for web designers now. There's a lot goes into each page.... If you want to see the kind of thing I'm learning, go to any web page, even this one - right click and then click on "view source." That's what I'm learning to do. I'm not planning to go into this full-time though. I just want to design a simple page for our car club. I'll probably have to wait until I can get Sue's help/advice. I can't even think what all I want on it!

I also was able to get entirely through all of Aunt Helen's clothes and bedding. I've got it catalogued, complete with pictures, if it's going to the Salvation Army. If it's no good, it's getting tossed. I've got 4 huge bags for Salvation Army so far! And that's just clothes, bedding, towels, etc. I haven't started through the small chests with her painting stuff, or her cassette tapes, or her photographs. But, in my mind, the hard part is done! Now if I can just get Bob to go with me to deliver them to Salvation Army. I'm going to need his truck and his muscle, because Dave's starting to get busy!

Tomorrow is church and then I think we're going to Moravia to see Dave's workplace. I haven't seen it yet and I know he wants me to. Then he said we're coming home to pick up branches out of the yard if it doesn't rain too much tonight. By Wednesday, we're supposed to have 70 degree weather. Boy, will that be nice. More later...

Friday Happenings

The fourth Friday is the day I go to stamp club with a bunch of ladies who used to meet at Precious Memories. We made some beautiful cards today. This is a picture of the ones I made today. Unfortunately, it's not a very good picture. The cards on the top row (the multicolored ones) are simply beautiful. These were done on a sparkly paper and the sparkles show through in real life. The others are cards made using stickers...just showing that you can make beautiful cards without stamping.

Speaking of beautiful cards, I've made some really cool ones this week. I didn't have birthday cards for men's birthdays, so I made a bunch of them. Sorry this is sideway. For some reason I can't delete it and I can't turn it. So you'll just have to cock your head to see them. Obviously the orange one is a woman's card, but the rest are men's cards. I really like them.

The rest of my day was spent organizing my craft room, doing laundry, shopping for groceries and exercising! I'm tired tonight!! But, I'm watching the UNI-MSU game. I'm afraid that UNI is going to get beat, but boy have they played a good game. Michigan State has a running team and I think it looks like UNI is getting tired. There's still 4 minutes left and they're only down 2...I hope they can pull it out. They've led for the majority of the game.

Dave is going to work tomorrow and probably part of Sunday unless it rains too much tomorrow night. The rest of the week looks amazing. They're predicting 70 degrees by midweek! That will be wonderful!! More later...

Thursday Thoughts

Finally, the sun was shining on Iowa!! It didn't get very warm today, but the sun was out anyway. I got lots of cards made today, went to exercise, got weighed and measured, and now am severely depressed! No, not really, it's not like I'm blind or anything - I see myself in a mirror and I know what size clothes I'm wearing, so I knew I had a problem! We'll see what this exercising can do.

I'm tired of Facebook tonight. It just seems like it's barely creeping and I want to play some games. So I guess I'll just go to bed and not worry about it.

Wednesday Trivia

There's nothing much to write about tonight. Today was a gray, gloomy, soggy day. It rained off and on all day and is still doing it this evening. A friend just wrote on Facebook that there were tons of earthworms on her driveway...I think that must mean that spring is truly here. Won't the robins be glad!!

I went to choir practice tonight and I'm feeling a little inadequate. Everyone around me have such beautiful voices. I sometimes feel that I'm just making a joyful noise to the Lord...not a good one! I guess I'll ask our pianist (I sit really close to her in practice).

I did learn a bit of trivia tonight at choir practice. The word trivia literally means 3 roads (Latin) and in early times, when three roads met they put signs up with interesting facts on them. Hmmm....interesting.

Tuesday Ramblings

I'm sitting here watching the ISU women play basketball. Unfortunately we got behind 10-0 in the first few minutes and haven't been able to catch up yet. Everything that Green Bay throws up goes into the basket. It's amazing! I'll bet they're shooting close to 70% for the half! (In reality it was only 52.2%!!) Hopefully they won't come out so hot in the second half and ISU will come out hotter.

Dave just got home from his church meeting, so now I'm listening to him tell what all happened at it. It's all about tuck-pointing, so he's excited, but it's boring to me. It's a good thing it's halftime on the game. Dave's dad called during the first few minutes of the game, so I missed those minutes!!

My eyes have hurt so bad today. I think I was on the computer too long yesterday, so I decided I wasn't going to be on here quite so much today. As it turns out, it hasn't been a problem...Mafia Wars and Zoo World have been too slow today, so I don't even want to be on them! Farm Town was even messed up today.