I woke up early with my ears ringing. My finger hurt where the nail kept catching on the blankets. I stayed in bed not knowing what time it was. Then as the daylight brightened, I remembered that my house would be empty this morning because John took Chris to the dentist. I got up, redressed, packed my little suitcase, and got in the car to drive home. The car registered 32 degrees in the garage, but by the time I got home, it went down to 17.
I put a bandaid on my finger and read some e-mail, then got ready for Bible Study. I could not find the large print Bible. It was not in its bag. So I went without it. When I got to the chapel, Ginger was taking ornaments off the tree. So I took ornaments off of the smaller trees in the back and put them in baggies to keep the colors separated for next year. Anca showed up to help. When Karen arrived, we sat down with our Bibles to study the book of Mark. When the study was over, I got out a ladder and took down the higher ornaments. We also took down the wreaths and garland. We did everything but dismantle the tree. Ginger said the men would do that part later.
I went home. It was after 10. I looked up the felt sandwich pattern. There were patterns for everything you might want to put in a sandwich as well. I downloaded the patterns and put them on a thumb drive to plug into the old desktop to print out. After printing, I used basting spray to glue the pieces to cardboard. Then I got out all my felt. I sat at the computer cutting out the cardboard pieces.
Chris and John came home from the dentist. Chris was still under the effect of Novocaine. He pulled out some frozen ground beef and started making ramen. I started making breakfast. We talked about his extraction. Then I ate breakfast while watching The Highwire. When I was done eating, I did more cutting while still watching. I put 7 eggs in the steamer.
At 2, I went to the post office to mail two ink cartridges and put some stuff in the swap shop. Then I waited in my car for Christine. She pulled up behind me. She gave me her uniform and the new patches. She needed it for tomorrow so I got started right away taking the old patches off. She messaged me the correct positioning of the new patches. I pinned one on and tried to get it under my sewing machine needle, but there wasn't enough room in the shoulder to do it. So I had to do it by hand, tediously.
When I was done, I messaged her and she messaged me about picking it up. I realized that she worked in the ACS building, so I took a book to return and went over. I gave her the uniform and she gave me a card. Then I stopped at Emily's office to check that my volunteer hours went through. She showed me a bunch of craft stuff that came out of the cabinets in the ACS room, which is now being remodeled. There was a bunch of quilting items: fabric, rulers, rotary cutters. Then colored pens, pencils, paint brushes, etc. I didn't have time to go through it all.
One of the items was a CD player and I knew Housing was looking for a CD player. So I took that to Housing and scheduled an inspection for 79B. When I got home, I put the eggs in an ice bath.
I cut out two loaf-shaped pieces of white fabric, plus the brown strips that go around. I sewed the brown strips end to end. Then I found some brown yarn and threaded it through a needle. I did a blanket stitch around the first half of the top and then the bottom. I stuffed it and stitched the rest of the top and the rest of the bottom. Then I set it up to take a pic for Facebook. I wrote a class announcement and added the pic.
I drank the pre-meal (formerly fiber) drink. I put leftover beef in the toaster oven to heat. I made a salad with carrots, cucumbers, sprouts and tomatoes. After eating the salad, I ate the beef, adding chia seeds to it. Chris stack the dishwasher and ran it. I worked on my blog and made tea. We watched one episode of Atlantis. Then Chris got ready for bed. I wanted to turn off the router but the younger Damours were still using it. So I gave them till 11. I read e-mail till a little after, then turned it off and got ready for bed.
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