Shopping

I went to Santa Rosa today and picked up a lady I've met who lives there. She navigated me around that city so I could learn where stores are and what's available over there. Our shopping choices in Napa are somewhat limited. She took me to two malls and I actually found a nice suit on sale at Penny's. It was a somewhat tiring day.

Tonight I am very allergic to something. My nose is running nonstop and my sinuses are full. I've been sneezing repeatedly too. I can't imagine what's in the air to cause it but my nose is getting sore. I'm going to bed in hopes it quits.

I've had to update my email addresses because for some reason they all didn't transfer over to our new server. It is advoth@att.net in case you don't know.

New Score

Al and I played Scrabble tonight and I got the highest score ever playing with a person--not on computer where I can get hints. It was 377 pts. I'm ready to challenge Wendy again.

Something new

Al's sister and husband have just gotten guardianship of his 14-yr-old grandaughter. Today we had lunch with her and the social worker at their house. She'll be attending Rio Lindo Academy not too far from here. Al's sister and hubby left tonight for a Panama cruise. When they are gone in the future we'll eventually be second in command to parent the girl. We've been there and done that.

Connected with speed

After 3 hours of arduous work, we are now connected to AT&T Yahoo high speed internet. Al and I got everything plugged in correctly and the installation process started. After about an hour of it running I discovered it was doing the same thing repeatedly and there was an error message. So, I called for technical support and a very nice lady spent 1 hour on the phone with me to get the problem solved and connected. Now I keep getting messages about setting up instant messenger, etc. that I certainly don't want to deal with tonight.

Our new email address is advoth@att.net from now on. I have to download something else to have all my email address and favorites on Juno transferred to yahoo. That will happen hopefully in the morning. I feel like I've really worked tonight and we missed our evening walk. I'm tired!

Volunteering

Today I put together about 35 new employee folders with about 20 items in each. It was boring and not set up to be done efficiently. Besides that it had to be close to 90 degrees today and I was in a back room where it was stuffy. Hopefully I'll get a little variety in my job and after I'm there awhile I'll make suggestions on how today's job could be done more efficiently. I'm going to try to stick to Wed. afternoons. The office closes at 4:30 but someone is usually there till 5.

It's Stuck

We've all had the experience of a song being stuck in our heads and I'm no exception. It was the theme song at Camp AuSable at least 1 1/2 years ago and we sang it every evening at the camp fire program. I've never heard it before or since but I did get a copy because I liked it. I found it in my file and will now share it with you. Wish I could include the music.

CHOOSE YOU TODAY
By Buddy Hotaling

Choose you today, who will it be
Who gets your love and your first loyalty?
There's only One who can set your heart free,
Give your life over to Jesus.

Sometimes it's easy to sit on the fence
Wondering why life just doesn't make sense,
Hoping and praying that we never fall
But fence sitting's no life at all.

God's Spirit is calling with His gentle voice
Pleading each day that we make the right choice.
It's Jesus that takes away all of our sin
Falling's okay if you're falling for Him.

Choose you today, who will it be
Who gets your love and your first loyalty.
There's only One who can set your heart free
Turn your life over to Jesus.

Choose you today, who will it be
Who gets your love and your first loyalty.
There's only One who can set your heart free.
I am giving my life to Jesus
I am giving my life to Jesus.

I'm In

This morning I got my hospital ID tag and instructions for my job in Human Resources. My first job is putting together folders for employee orientation and filling notebooks also for employees. It looks a little boring but at some point I will also be filing papers so hopefully there will be a little variety. Thankfully, I can pick my own days/hours to work. I like flexibility.

One of the ladies in that dept. is a watercolorist and I've seen her paintings in hospital offices. She's pretty good so I'm hoping to get better acquainted with her and who knows--maybe paint together too. I think she's also taught classes.

I took a photo from the scenic turnout coming up Howell Mtn. which is how we get from the valley up to our house. It's always a head-turner.

I brought a supply of gourds with us from MI and have been working on them in between other things. I'd like to get some birdhouses made and ready for next spring. Some are good for vases and bowls.