I'M ON TRACK

Greetings, all. I'm making my second post in one week, which means that I'm on track with my blogging goal.

My computer is fixed and I didn't have to save all my files and reformat my hard drive and reload all my programs and updates. I wasn't looking forward to that. It would have been a week worth of work and would have put me much further behind.

I am still catching up with my work from my holiday at the beginning of August. That was a great, wonderful trip. I saw family and friends. It began with a family reunion. I love family reunions because you get to see loved ones you haven't had time to see. BUT, there are so many people at a family reunion, so many activities going on, and so many photos/videos to take that you don't get to really spend much time with any ONE and get caught up on what is going on in their lives. One artistic cousin brought his fiance, and I am so happy for him, but I didn't get a chance to meet her and find out what is going on with their lives. I have to admit that my main focus (always) was on my daughters and my granddaughter. OK, and my parents and sisters. But Jeff, I hope you and your beloved will be at the next reunion I'll be at so we can spend some time together. It wasn't until after we had all departed that I realized I hadn't sat down with you.

It's hard being in Arizona when the rest of the family is mostly in Washington. My brother Reid lives here also, but unless he needs help I don't really see him. His sons were at the reunion with their fiances, and I spent a little time getting acquainted with them. It was nice to see my nephews. They are both expecting babies. One is expecting twins.

As I mentioned, my workload has piled up on me. Today, I hope to cut it down to the present, put away the past. Getting caught up includes writing this blog post. A large part of the pile is business reading that I must get caught up on. An equal portion is getting notes logged into my computer. I can find things faster on my hard drive than I can in a filing cabinet. But if it is something that I can find on the Internet, that's where I'll leave it.

This was an interesting week. Monday, being a holiday, David was home working on his projects. I was working. We went out to see a movie, and saw "Dinner For Schmucks." We don't recommend it. It was funny at the beginning, funny at the end, dull in-between, and no "hilarious." We were disappointed. In addition to that they put the movie in a tiny theater, but the screen was just as big as their larger theaters and no room to get away from it. They fairly filled up the room. I like to sit on the aisle because I usually have to go to the restroom during the movie. I didn't get to sit on the aisle. I didn't dare drink anything, no matter how thirsty I got. And when I saw that David was bored with the movie I asked him if he wanted to leave. He said, "no," but I know it was because he didn't want to disturb the others in our row and behind us. Maybe we should have been "texting" so we could get thrown out. ;-0

Since we had gone to the movie we missed our first date with our granddaughter. I'm sorry, sweetie. My next two Mondays are also busy. Maybe we can talk tomorrow???

Tuesday I had my usual FaithMasters activity. Wednesday evening I was ushering at the Phoenix Theatre. The play is "Noises Off." It is a play within a play. I have it on video with Carol Burnett, et al. It is funny! Some people, who probably don't understand that it is a play within a play, left early missing the whole concept of what was going on. The play has gone into extended time, so I will be ushering again next Saturday.

Thursday I had my choice between an Arizona Constitution meeting and a concert with Brian Weaver, Laura Landon, and key singer, Justin Lavin. I went to the concert. It didn't really have a concert feel to it thus I couldn't get into the spirit of it. But, Thursday afternoon I decided to go see the movie "What If?". I was late leaving home, ended up taking the longest way to the theater, and had a car accident happen behind me that I witnessed. I didn't go to the movie. I gave my report to the policeman and went home.

Because I want to support Christian made movies, I left work on Friday determined to get to the theater and see it. I was 25 minutes late. The window clerk wasn't sure if he would sell me a ticket for the 1:00 show, but I assured him that was the show I wanted to see. It was a surprisingly good movie. The script is Jerry Jenkins.

Beyond work, that was my week. I'll talk to you later.