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Jeff and I bought a couch yesterday.  The couch in the media room is actually a loveseat which has seen better days, so we are going to arrange things so that 5 people can comfortably sit downstairs to watch the tube.  The couch should be delivered today.  Shopping at IKEA yesterday was nothing short of grisly, and I had to be stroppy to the server when he gave me the wrong paperwork for the delivery.  I wasn’t very stroppy, but I asked him if he’d recently considered another job.

I need to finish writing out some recipes for a church fundraiser.

Jeff will be renting a truck to get the rest of the furniture and boxes from Granny’s apartment.

The dryer quit.  It being CNY it’s not likely that anything much will happen around the replacement until mid next week, but at least the land peer knows about it.  I wish I had more clean clothes, but I should be able to get through the week if I iron some stuff.

I made very nice chocolate chip cookies yesterday, also bacon and eggs, also a roast beast with veg.  Now I have to make the kitchen look like none of these activities happened.

I am heading off to church in a couple of hours.

My eyes are still itchy but I slept really well last night, and that always makes life an easier place.

Time to go downstairs and swap over laundry (I’d forgotten a load, bleaugh, but at least it wasn’t clothing) so we can have nice clean rugs in the kitchen.

Keith and Paul were over last night for an NCIS fest.  Gibbs yelling at Fornell about his car = win.

But really, no one cares about it so I’ll go on to the other stuff.  I was supposed to take the mando to Tom’s but I cocooned downstairs with Jeff and blasted through some stuff on the PVR.  Tonight I am not convinced that going to choir is going to help my current state of sniffiness.  Feb 20 is the next housefilk at Tom and Peggy’s *yay*.  Jeff brought home a thumb drive full of pics of Granny so I can do the order of service.  And somewhere in there… Valentines.

It’s amazing how gaming can completely eat your brain.  I was awake because I had to wake up to sneeze.  You can’t sneeze when you’re asleep, which I kinda assumed because I’ve never seen or heard anybody sneeze in their sleep.

I am not quite breathing through my mouth yet but I am pretty stuffed up, which I am attributing to allergies.

I’ve been asked to blog for a local news site.  More on that later (if I ever get a password).

Well, if I’m going to get to work I’d better get a move on.

It’s short, but it is as heart felt as I could make it without becoming treacly or mawkish.  I’ll post it after the service.

Next up….. the order of service itself.  The minister who will be saying a few words is anxious to get it, and I don’t blame him!!!

I have a very long to do list and very little energy.

On the good side:

Back MUCH better with lots of walking now that I’m back at work, plus I doubled up on the glucosamine and chondroitin.  The effect is so fast… less than two days and the amount of joint pain I’m experiencing dropped.  Also doubled up on acidophilus, and that has been great too.

People are still noticing that I’m back at work and being very happy to see me.  Like, Genuinely Happy to see me.

All the appropriate software for work is now up and running (ie I have no excuse not to really buckle down).

I was supposed to go swimming last night.  I went soaking instead, and it felt really good.

Also watched the Simpsons parody of 24, which was incredibly good… sometimes you forget it’s a cartoon.  Wherever they were, the writers for that show are back.

Margot jumped up on the bed demanding to be petted.  I love it when she does that and she doesn’t do it very often.

Gizmo is putting on weight, super feisty about being kept out of people food, and he LOVES the cat sized armchair I bought him.  (I should say I bought it for any cat who would sit in it, but am particularly pleased that the Gizzer went for it.)

Things proceed apace for the memorial service for Granny, which is now next week.

Minus side:

Very much work and no compere until the middle of March at the earliest.  It’s not like I’m by myself, but there is a very large eightball, and I am behind it.  Although everybody said I’d hate Lotus Notes 8 I’m not really having problems with it except that it’s a trifle slow.

My folks are very slammed on both sides by the emotional air pockets of grief and the witlessness of bankers, lawyers, etc.  Fortunately everybody in the family is being loving and supportive and there is ABSOLUTELY no nonsense about who gets what.  It’s all very steady and rational and that’s some comfort.

Jeff’s inheritance and mine is 21 banker boxes in size plus any furniture we can haul away plus any of her crafts.  Rejigging of vehicles for memorial service may happen; it all has to be out in two weeks.  I’m feeling a trifle squoze.

I forgot to take a library book back.

Woot!

More collapse type stuff.

I suspect the next little part of my life is going to be very busy.  I don’t object to the change and I asked for it, but it’s a transition, and transitions can be hard.

I took Jeff to the Himalayan Peak last night.  The tandoori chicken was superb, as always.

I ran ‘The War Room” for a little less than an hour.  We sang songs from WWII, Korea and Vietnam.  No space wars though.  Pity.

And I’m back.

Find passport BEFORE you book hotel.

It is with trembling hands that I type this.  I finally found my passport, but ye gads, sir, I was pretty torqued there for a while.

I am starting to think about the eulogy, and it’s a standard thing to do, to push the emotional aspect of a difficult time into a task.

What I should be doing is packing for Conflikt.

Jeff took me to the Keg last night and I had the biggest filet mignon I’ve ever seen.

Yay landpeers!

More on that later. Now I’m off to a Sacred Harp meeting.  More on that later.

Now that I’m starting work on Monday, I’m starting to feel a little ‘slammed’.  And this afternoon is going to be emotional.