The work week begins!

I could have had an easier morning. One of the trailers full of boxes that arrived at our door this morning was mislabeled. I decided to throw boxes from one belt to another over a set of rollers for about 90 minutes to alleviate that problem. The rest of the day was pretty relaxing though. A bit of paperwork, two great conversations about our work and our life with a couple of smart businessmen, and then a nice heaping dose of fun with the HH. I figure, the more of the People of Praise I can spread around the better and that certainly happened today.

This evening Val and Ken joined us householders for a Mudbugs game. The Bossier/Shreveport Mudbugs are a semi-pro hockey team whose home rink is in Bossier, just across the river from Shreveport. It was a very fun game; we saw three fights, 4 regulation time goals, and polished the whole thing off with a victroy via shootout. And we got more Mardi Gras beads!!

To tie up the evening, we retired to the women's house for some Death by Chocolate. David narrowly escaped death, I think I've been mortally wounded and Brian is barely conscious. It was wonderful. Now, having laughed at death in the face, I'm prepared to face some slumber.

Oh, and we have a minivan. For keeps.

My day off

Mondays are days of wonderful productivity for me and today may be the crown jewel of them all. Here's the timeline:
6:10 - prayer
6:30 - MP
7:35 - drive Cathy to work
8:00 - Dentist appointment
9:30 - drop off prescription order
9:40 - drop off The Marine and Insomnia at Hollywood video
9:50 - make oral surgery consultation appointment
10:01 - exchange one broken wireless router for one new one
11:15 - pick up prescription
12:30 - lunch with Ken Kuehne, Nathan and Gretchen
1:45 - pick up Toyota minivan at Broadmoor garage with Gretchen
2:00 - meet Gretchen at WiDMO on the way back to Toyota dealership
2:45 - drive back to Yale street
3:00 - help figure out how to make thousands of dollars move to the right places
4:10 - go with Ken and Nathan back to Broadmoor to pick up the Civic and the Maxima
4:25 - arrive at WiDMO to get check from David that needs to be deposited before 5
4:44 - deposit check
5:10 - go to take Cathy home from work
5:55 - go to Seitzes for dinner
6:45 - help with dishes
7:15 - help set up for the Allendale meeting
9:00 - pay credit card bill and start finances
9:30 - meet with Nathan, Tom and David to talk about the book of Judges
10:20 - finances

What a day!

The day before the weekend

Friday is a good day in Allendale. We always manage to pack a lot into it. Today we made some serious gains on the housing/building front. The Lakeshore warehouse has moved closer to completion as has 1434. Brian spent the day tidying up the electrical messiness of '34 and it is now ready for the official inspection. Also, we had Pioneer Heating and Cooling out to install HVAC at '34 which they did in short order (1 day just does not seem like enough time but they did it).

We were hoping that all the Civic needed was new park plugs. After a couple days of not securing the proper tools we finally borrowed a set from John Thomas and replaced the old ones. Unfortunately, it still won't start. So we now have two cars in the shop, the Maxima as well as the Civic, and boy are we glad that we got AAA coverage! Free towing is a nice feature and we have needed it this past week.

And, best of all, the post-work week relaxation began! I made some chicken pot pie for dinner which turned out pretty well. Without even taking time to finish the dishes we all went down to Val's for evening prayer. This was a first and it worked pretty well. Brian played some old J-T favorites and we sang and prayed together. Mickey and Larry wanted to show Brian and I their weight set so we went to their room to check it out. Brian got back there first and started doing some bench presses. Eventually they put every weight they had on the bar and Brian was able to do one good rep. Then I tried. I'll try again some time.

We all trooped back to 1442 to finish dishes. We've got 4 people on dishes Friday night to speed things up so we can have more time to hang out. Gretchen and Joan went to the store and picked up ice cream (Tin Roof!), some toppings and libations. David was earlobe deep in a jigsaw puzzle all night, Dominoes were played, I perused the last Popular Science and shouted out fun facts over the famous "Howl Along" mix. Tom, Brian and I wrapped up the evening with a movie and then hit the hay, eagerly anticipating pancakes from Ruthanne at our meeting tomorrow.