Boring Weekend

Today I'm thankful because:

1. Z has the day off. He got to sleep in this morning in remembrance of Christopher Columbus.

2. Last night Z took my car to the gas station so I wouldn't have to do it on my way to work this morning. (OK, I asked him to do it, but I'm still thankful I didn't have to pump gas this morning.)

3. I took another step and am making plans to meet with the woman who could possibly be my boss at Z's office.

4. Last Thursday, my mother's cousin and his wife had their first baby, and she is beautiful! Hopefully they will be at our family reunion over Thanksgiving so I can meet her.

5. The grocery store last night had delicious-looking Gala apples, and I brought one with me to work for an afternoon snack.


This weekend was slow and almost boring, but in a good way.

Friday we had to go to the gym since we'd skipped on Thursday. Afterwards we looked at paint colors at Home Depot. We are sort of having a hard time agreeing on paint colors, so that was not necessarily fun.

Saturday, Z was up watching football before I was even awake. Alabama wasn't even playing this week, but it never stops at our house. After h-o-u-r-s of watching football, that afternoon we drove over to the house to think about landscaping. When we drove up, though, we saw that the pesky pine trees had covered the backyard with pine straw. What a nuisance – that will kill the sod if it just sits there, so we found a rake that someone had left buried in muscadine vines at the back of the yard. We took turns raking the pine straw off the sod, but of course, when it was my turn, I must have pulled or twisted something because my back is killing me now, in one little area. While we were there we made friends with a neighbor's cat and thought about flower gardens, etc. That night was more football…

Sunday we went to church, had chicken for lunch, and watched Encino Man. Z went outside after a while to clean out the inside of our cars: vacuuming, dusting, etc. I read/napped in the recliner while he did that. That evening we decided to try out the new IHOP for dinner. The food was good, but the service truly sucked and we couldn't get out fast enough. Waiters were sitting around talking about how they were quitting the next day… It was not a good environment. After that we went to the grocery store and stocked up.

See? Kind of boring. But not bad.

I just got an e-mail from the preacher, and he will be visiting tonight – yipes! I'm a little nervous! He's a very nice guy, but I'm slightly anxious about what they'll say to me. In their eyes, I might as well not have belonged to any church, and that is troubling to me. They're going to tell me I have to be baptized again, and that bothers me a little too. So I'm a little nervous and apprehensive. I guess we'll just see what happens.