Day 2 of Revival

 

Thursday

I got up on time. I followed my usual morning list. I made up supplements for the week. I went cleaning, then stopped to open the swap shop by request. I went back for 2 hours. When I came home, I ate fiber gel, watered the plants, etc. I ate breakfast and watched The Highwire. I paused it to go clean again.

I went to the garden to pick onion stems and check the gopher traps. Nope. I stopped by Self-Help to tell Richard about the mower. He said he'd pick it up after work. I went home to wash and chop the onion greens. I put them in a container. I put shredded cheese in a container, and took both to the chapel. I put them in the fellowship hall with other toppings. Presently we gathered to say a blessing and line up to get tacos. I just made a salad with the meat and toppings. We – the praise team and ladies of the church – chatted together as we ate.

Then the chaplain called the praise team into the sanctuary for prayer. I went home to change into better clothes. Then Chris took me back. We sat for the Day 2 service. It was much better than Day 1. We sang praise songs and hymns. Most of the time the right words were on the overhead. Then the praise team pastor spoke at length. Finally, people were invited to come up to the altar to pray and be prayed for (or with). Then the chaplain ended the service with a prayer.

We chatted with each other and I spoke at length with Lisi who is from Brazil. We have a lot in common. When the chaplain started turning off the lights, conversations broke up and we headed to the doors. We agreed we would see them tomorrow for breakfast. Then we went home. I changed clothes and finished The Highwire. Then I worked on my blog. Suddenly I realized that I forgot to lock the swap shop. But I was already in my nightgown and figured the police had locked it anyway. Sigh.

Revival not off to a great start

 

Wednesday

I got up on time. It was cool out, so I delayed watering. I prepared for coffee morning. I meditated and tapped. I watered the plants and raked gopher mounds. I cleaned the kitchen and bathrooms. I laid out in the sun. I used my steam sauna, then took a shower.

After getting dressed, I went to the post office for mail. Then I proceeded to Rod's house to check the yard work. I spent 30 minutes picking up dog droppings and shreds of a cup that got mowed over.

I went home and ate yogurt. I signed up at Housing for inspection on Monday. I checked with Self-help, but Richard wasn't there. I went to the garden. I set both traps, then came home. I messaged John about cleaning. I made and ate egg salad, then went to 403 to clean. I worked on windows and blinds. John came later. He did all the fans and high stuff in an hour. It would have taken me longer.

I went home, jotted notes for my blog and recorded cleaning times. I ate some kimchi fried rice.

I changed into better clothes. We drove to the chapel for Revival. Chaplain introduced us to the praise team, who were not all from the same place. I guess he pieced it together. Then we sat for the service. I'm not sure what I expected, maybe Billy Graham and some hymns? The first hour was praise music, but the words on the screen rarely agreed with what he was singing. And there was no beginning or end to each song. I could not tell how many songs. Some singing here and there, random playing while he sang to himself or God.

But then a man played the piano and kind of made up the words. And another man preached. That I understood. Then we had time for people to come forward and be prayed for. There was a prayer list on the whiteboard.

Afterward, we chatted with the people behind us. Chris talked shop with some of the guys. And we went home. It was too late for TV. I went through the last tapping presentations. Chris cleared e-mail and went to bed. I stayed up to work on my blog.

*Still can't post a pic.  I blame yesterday's update* 

Setting traps in the garden

 

Tuesday

I got up early, hearing Chris get ready for work. After he left, I got up and finished a Sudoku puzzle. I went through my morning list. I made sure both gopher traps were set. I didn't have a trap for the one in the backyard so I buried some out of date tuna in one of the tunnels. It was awfully cool outside.

I ate yogurt, then went cleaning at Rod's house. I finished up the inside and picked up some dog poop outside. I stopped at the garden to water. I saw gopher mounds! I went home to eat fiber gel and to read in the sun. Then I went to the post office for mail and to open the swap shop. I proceeded to 403 to start cleaning there. I did the kitchen except for the fridge and started on windows and blinds.

I went home at 5. I ate fiber gel and read online for awhile. Chris came home and we both ate leftovers. We talked about the situation with Michelle taking Saronna's kids for 5 days during her brain surgery.

I went to Casey's house to get my slide, but he was asleep (I later found out). I went to the chapel to wipe the vinyl couches and it was obvious that someone had just done it by the smell. But there was detritus on the floor, so I handled that. Then I went home to get gopher traps and money. Because our sprinklers were on, I was only able to grab one trap. I called Casey and he said he was at the club. So I grabbed some cash and went to the garden. I dealt with the gopher mounds and watched my sprinkler come on. But it didn't oscillate for some reason. So I pushed it a notch every few minutes. One of my squash plants had all its leaves eaten off. Again. I set up the trap. Casey came over with my slide. I gave him the money. We chatted till it got dark. Then we both went home.

I rolled up the windows in my car and set up the ozone machine inside. I rolled the mower out to the driveway. I ate blueberries with chia seed. I watched one tapping presentation, then worked on my blog. I made tea and we watched TV. Chris went to bed. I stayed up to listen to stuff.

*For some reason I can't post a pic* 

My slide gets professional help

 

Monday

I woke up at 5 to use the bathroom. I think I woke Chris up and he went as well. But I went back to bed, while he went to prepare chicken – but it wasn't thawed enough. I got up before 8. I went through my morning list. I set the gopher traps.

Just before 10, I went to Rod's house. I cleaned baseboards and ozoned one of the bedrooms. Then I went to the garden and then home. Michelle called to say they had dropped my slide off at a music store. The store needed an hour to unclog the slide and was going to charge $60. Sigh. Ok.

Chris had cooked all the chicken. I put on my suit under my clothes. We went to the pavilion by the pool. We waited for other people to show up. A few did. Some even brought food. Chris had to go to the commissary for forks. I talked with Janet and Karen. I rocked Janet's baby. So cute!

It was after 2 when Chris took me home. I ate a grapefruit, then went back to Rod's house to clean more baseboards and to mop. I also worked in the bathroom that Isadora supposedly cleaned.

I got home a little before 5. I stairstepped through the last tapping presentation from yesterday. Everyone signed into the game. Chris kept them occupied until I finished. Then I made breakfast for supper and we played the game. We were attacked by bad guys and we fought them off. End of story.

Afterward, Chris and I went for a walk in our neighborhood. I went through the two latest tapping presentations, only stopping for the tapping parts. I looked at my Facebook messages, then worked on my blog. We watched TV, then retired to our computers. I went through the tapping meditations and went to bed.

Second game night - better than the first

 

Sunday

I got up before 8. I went through the morning list except for practicing. I watered the yard in addition to the plants. I made more spice mix and more breakfast mix. I ate fiber gel, then read outside. I came in to make and eat breakfast.

Saronna texted me that the rugs were working and she could use a third one. So I picked one out and had Chris drop it off at their house. Just as he left, Michelle came in. She had a sign up sheet for people to say what day they could bring a meal to the Clark kids. She wanted me to take it to the chapel.

We chatted and then she left. Soon Chris was back. I finished breakfast and got ready for church. I took the sign-up sheets and the cheese squares.

I drove to the chapel. I left the cheese snack and the sign up sheets on the back table. I told several ladies about them. I assembled my trombone and put the hymns on my music stand. The service began with the chaplain playing three songs on his guitar. I did not know any of them. They were not hymns.

I chatted with the chaplain after church. I went home and tried to catch up on e-mail. Chris made mashed potatoes. Michele and John came over. Rod called and we set a date for an escape night. Then the four of us walked to Gary's house with the mashed potatoes.

I wasn't expecting so many people. Gary put the food out in the kitchen. People walked around the countertops with plates and got food. I ate at a table in the diningroom with Michele and John and Mindy and her husband. Gary had a smoothie machine and what was in it was really good.

Later the four of us walked back to our house. John helped me level up my character for the game tomorrow. Then they left. I went to the garden to water, then to Rod's house to move the ozone machine and put the little stuff I found in a bag for someone to pick up and deliver to him.

Then I went to Michelle's house with my outer slide and some brisket that I got from Gary. Casey fashioned some piano wire into a hook and got some of the paper towel out, but the rest was stuck. Michelle and I sat on the back patio and watched Casey start the grill and cook chicken and hotdogs. They offered me some, but I was too full.

Then Casey put up the Indiana Jones game. Indy was still stuck in the large room with the moving platform. He died over and over again as I tried to make the jump. But eventually I made it. But the next jumps were just as bad. Casey was able to help and finally Indy got back up to where he started. Then I took over and made a great deal of progress.

But it got late, so I exited the game. Michelle made a strong drink of garlic cloves, ginger root and cayenne. She shared a bit with me and chugged the rest. Her face was priceless! Then she went to bed. Casey stayed up to talk. Then I went home, worked on my blog, and went to bed.

Clue

 

Saturday

I got up on time, went through the morning list. I tried to clean my trombone slide, and the paper towel got stuck in the tube. I checked e-mail. Chris gave me a coconut oil massage. Later I took a shower and used the new hair oil that Shelley sold me. I went to Rod's house to try some new cleaning products on tough spots. Then I turned on the ozone machine and went to the garden. I picked some peppers, and watered the far tomato plant.

I went home to make breakfast. Chris steamed a beet I picked last week. I ate while reading online messages. I tried to search ways to get a paper towel out of a trombone slide. Not many results.

I went to the chapel for Sewing Class. No one showed up except Wendy who came to help. We chatted for a long time. Then she went home and I went to Rod's house to reset the ozone machine.

I stopped by Self-Help. Butch was talking to Richard. He had extra fruit from the farmers market. He gave me plums and a cantaloupe. When I got home, I ate the cantaloupe. Chris made Cornish hen for supper and I ate that, too. I continued my search. I talked to Michelle. I texted Saronna that I could drop off some runners to help with noise in the house.

I went to the chapel and set up for Project Night. I vacuumed in the sanctuary and under the cushions on the couches in back. I put the vacuum away and went to the fellowship hall to find Casey playing a video game and Cedric on a computer. Casey pulled up Tetris and I played. But Michelle called and wanted him to come home. So they packed up and went home. I packed up from sewing class. As I was leaving the building, the chaplain was coming in to get flyers for Revival. We chatting for quite some time. Then we both left.

I went home. Chris was folding laundry. I saw a Facebook message from Saronna accepting my offer of runners. So I drove over there and left them on the porch. When I got home, I folded the rest of the laundry. We put it away and dressed the bed with clean sheets. Then we sat in the livingroom to watch the movie “Clue”. It was entertaining. I worked on my blog and listened to a tapping presentation on sleep. But my stomach was still working on the cantaloupe and I had a hard time getting to sleep.

Cleaning with John

 

Friday

I got up on time, feeling like I could use more sleep. But no RLS. I went through the morning list. I watered the plants and set the traps. I went to Rod's house to clean at 10. John joined me at 10:30. He did a lot in an hour, a lot of things that I can't reach without a stepladder.

I was home by noon. I prepared and ate breakfast. I made a shopping list. We went to the post office. Chris sat in the car while I went to pay Shelly. Lara was just leaving and the three of us talked. Chris and I went to the commissary and brought groceries home. I wanted to go to Melanie's for their Labor Day sale, but there was nothing I needed and I had other things to do.

I went to my garden and found that birds have been eating my cherry tomatoes again. I pulled off the black netting and re-did the configuration to make it harder for them to get into. Then I went to Rod's house to meet Isadora.

She cleaned bathrooms while I did windows and baseboards. Then I took her home and was home myself by 5:30. Chris got ready for gaming and left for ACS. I ate supper and checked e-mail.

I sewed a fabric cube and took a pic. I went through two tapping presentations, skipping the talking part and concentrating on the tapping part. THEN, I remembered to post the cube to Facebook for Sewing Class and to work on my blog.

I got ready for Game Night. I went by the chapel to put the cushions on the couches and made it nice for the Catholic service tomorrow. Then I proceeded to Michelle's house. I gave her some garlic and cayenne capsules. Casey had the game up. It was easy to pick the ammo and medicines I need to buy with the treasure found. Then I played the game till I got to a point where I could not make the required jump. Casey tried as well. I resolved to look it up.

Before I left, she gave me a container of kimchi fried rice. I took it home and put it in the fridge. I looked up the impossible jump and it certainly seems like the walkthrough has better jumping capability than my game. I went to bed.