Upon returning from the kitchen on a soda run, I saw and heard the A/C running, for some reason. The fact that it's 79 degrees in the house didn't occur to me....oh, of course it did. As I reached up to set the temp higher, I instead withdrew because yesterday morning it took both hands and one foot to try to open my kitchen door! It was swollen so badly from the humidity built up in the house, and I realize running the air conditioner will help to resolve the problem. I see some frolicking going on in the basin already this morning, too. No modesty, those manatees!
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I figured something out----every now and again I see this flat-bottomed boat with two guys just sort of drifting around slowly in the basin area, with one guy steering while the other peers at something in front of him. They got close enough today for me to see they are apparently measuring depth, and the instrument in front of the one fella must record the readings. And I thought they were just fiddling around out there! An 8th Commandment issue on my part!
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The most MARVELOUS thing happened to me after the meeting yesterday. I decided to stop at Publix (the one we refer to as Robbie's Publix, and used to call it Laurie's and Andy's Publix, since the Douglas kids all worked there!) to buy some soda and toilet bowl cleaner. Some seem to think it's the same thing! Anyway, more stuff made it into my cart so the nice bagger man insisted on taking it to my car for me. Originally I'd said I could take it but he wrestled it from my hands, so off we went. As he loaded my car he asked me how big a Packer fan I am. Not to miss a beat, I replied, "They don't come much bigger than me!" gesturing at my physique. He asked if I had tickets for the game and I knew he meant the Packer/Jaguar Game in December. I told him I was trying to get some from my neighbor but it was up in the air yet. He reached into his wallet and handed me his business card, which has a Jaguar logo on it. "Ed" works in the office of the Jags and promised to help me get tickets for the December 14th game!!!! He said to call him at home after 5:30 pm and he'd get in touch with sales to see what he could do. WOW! It's not what you know, it's who you know!!!!
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Immediately I phoned Lynn at work to report our upcoming blessing and she's going to put in for her vacation at this time. I asked what her price limit was for tickets, in case we get Club Seats, and she said it didn't matter, she wants to see this game!!!! Imagine---going to a Packer game in December and not freezing tight to those metal benches!!!!!
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Ed and I played a bit of ping pong back and forth with phone calls, as it seems the front office had switched their phones already, even though they were in the office last night. He called me back bright and early this a.m. and said he was sorry, but all the "cheap seats" were scattered ones, not grouped together. I told him Club Seats were a go, and he excitedly told me he'd found some just released and would secure them for us! Once accomplished I gave my credit card info to him and it was a done deal!
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Ed called back once more and told me I'd better sit down, he had some news for me. I was sitting already so told him to go ahead with the "bad" news, assuming the worst, of course. Ed reported that "unfortunately" the only seats he could get for us were on the Packer side of the field, 8 rows up from the bench, in an excellent section. Oh, that rascal really had me going there for a minute.....can't wait to tell Lynn and Justin about our seats. I am going to call Mike Sholes at church to see if he'd like to go, too, as I have one unclaimed seat yet.
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Ed and I talked a while longer after his big news, discussing Robbie and his church activities, etc. He knew Robbie had just been to church conference and such. Oh, another thing----I had told Ed that we'd formerly had season tickets for the Jags but don't any longer. He said he knew that because when he called the front office and he gave my name, the person asked, "Is that Kim?" They knew me there, but he doesn't know who he was talking to who recognized my last name!!!! And Ed is my new best friend!!!!
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I'd explained about not going to the games now because of the time crunch between worship and kick-off time, saying we couldn't get there, park, and walk to the stadium before half time....sort of an exaggeration but not too far off. He said I could buy parking in the garage and walk only two blocks or 5 minutes to the stadium. It's something to consider but I really really like watching from home, too, and hate it when they are blacked out due to low ticket sales. This won't be a problem for us, though, on December 14th, because we'll be there, all do to my letting Ed help me with my three grocery bags and soda cases!!!!
