That is the title of the bulletin insert at Victory, which I was able to help with this morning when I arrived. The pre-k kids were still in the back of the church having their snack so we have to wait in the church office, doing our thing. One of the fellows who is a known curmudgeon with the nicest wife was doing some folding, and not being careful about it. His pastor is quite particular about things like this so I was attempting to fix the unevenly folded papers. “Oh, you mean the page that no one reads?” he asked, caustically. The secretary was sitting right behind him and said, “Hey! I put a lot of work into that…” At that moment, I noticed one of the hymns included for Sunday’s worship as being sung at Timmy’s funeral, the one I chose, “Oh, For a Faith That Will Not Shrink”. I started to sing, attempting to defuse the situation between H. and the secretary.
Shortly, after my brief musical interlude, Pastor came through and asked me if I was serenading H. I told Pastor I was trying to soothe his troubled spirit, as H. had also gone off about Facebook being nothing but gossip. Having never visited the site nor used it, he declared it must have been invented by a woman because it’s nothing but gossip. I said, “Mark Zuckerburg is a man….” and very kindly asked him how much time he spends on the site. “Never!” “And yet, you know sooooo much about it!” as I sang some more for H.! He is an older man who, when you report the sky is blue, he would say it was red. You know the type. Sing for him!
The Bible study was fantastic today, a much smaller group than usual, as some ladies had gone downtown for the Southern Women’s Show. We are discussing Jesus’ giving the Keys and how many churches now are not using them. Lucy, one of the older ladies, who was celebrating her birthday today, was expressing her joy over her children making sure their kids are raised in Lutheran churches, in the faith. She gets teared up easily, like someone else we know, and was probably more so today. Lucy said she never talks about her faith to her family in the Philippines and sort of wishes she had. She said she would not be traveling back there to talk to them so I suggested she write them a letter. Lucy said, “I could do that!” Grumpy H. said he showed her how to type e-mail and I said, “Hey, Lucy, contact them via Facebook!” which made everyone except H. laugh. Sing some more…..
Some days the soda just tastes so good, and today is one of those. It goes down so well and I fear that by tomorrow a trip to Walgreen’s will be in order. They are offering a sale on Diet Coke, as is Publix. I need my personal shopper, Ellen, to run to the store for me and deliver it to my door. Talk about spoiled!
*Eating Cheetos and typing at the same time results in a messy keyboard, leaving sticky keys and yellow stuff between them. All cleaned up now as though nothing happened here. Yet, my fingertips remain discolored.
*Cold weather has come to the First Coast, with the high being only 65 today, but bright and sunny. I figured it would be good to wear layers this a.m. when getting dressed so I took out a shell in teal and a bright splash of color button-front jacket. As I sat in the church office, serenading the troubled soul of H., Pastor came through and remarked, “What a nice bright outfit today, Miss Kim!” I told him I wanted to look joyful and be warm. Of course, H. disagreed that it was chilly today although he had long pants on when normally it’s shorts. I left it alone….
*My friend, Rita, was planning to go with the other ladies for the Show downtown but had been sick, going to the ER via ambulance after playing Trivia with us on Tuesday night. She had told us that night about having a racing heart at her cardiac rehab visit that day, but had settled down by Trivia time. By the time she got home and was getting ready for bed, it started up again and did not subside, hence, the ambulance ride.
She was waiting today to hear from her cardiologist so we did not go to lunch or anything after Bible study. She has a young son at home that needs driving to school, at a magnet school near downtown. I wondered what would happen if she had to stay in the hospital---who would tend her son? He is a middle schooler so can feed and dress himself but not drive to school. Rita’s husband works most of the time in Canada but her in-laws are in the area and might be able to help out as needed. She’s had many health problems for her young years (only in her 40’s), starting with cancer when she was in high school. I hope she hears something from him soon and gets an answer/solution for this condition.
My bathroom vanity is a big, colorful mess right now. Earlier in the week, I figured out how to take my towel bar apart and dumped my necklaces and bracelets into the sink filled with sudsy water. The jewelry had gotten quite dusty hanging there on the rod and simply using the dusting wand did not suffice. They needed washing! I swept them into the water and swished them around a little, then let them soak. Later, I went back to let out the sudsy water and replaced it with clear water, soaking some more. Finally, I opened the drain and let the water go, in hopes that the jewelry would dry before I tried to hang them back up again.
What I did NOT consider was them becoming quite tangled with each other. Oh, fuss and bother! I put a towel under the bar and slid the necklaces back on, keeping some off to give away ‘to those less fortunate than me’ (I dislike that expression!!!). Many are so similar in color and style that I don’t need to have duplicates, and some even have their price tags still attached. The ones going to others’ homes will be put into baggies for sharing at church on Sunday but want to make sure they are totally dry before I bag them up.
Voila! A great find for someone like me is a product found in the refrigerator section at the grocery store. Manwich! It comes in a plastic tub, about a pound’s worth of sloppy joe’s in a resealable container. Perfect as a stand-alone meal, BUT it is also an amazing thing to have on hand for cooking. In fact, I used a container of Manwich when I made my fabulous chili last week. It has green pepper and onion already in it, probably not as much as I would normally use, but enough to give it sufficient flavor. Another plan I have for this product would be to make spaghetti, give it a try anyway, to see how it works. It can be mixed in with pasta and made into a casserole in a hurry. Or Shepherd’s Pie….What a great idea it was for Manwich to do this! And I got them for $2.50 each at Publix. No dirty dishes from browning meat, just mix and go!
Before they were washed....
