It's unreal but this week today was our "coolest" day in the 60's with the rest of the week going to be in the 70's. The weather guy said our lows at night are going to be 20 degrees high than our normal highs this time of year.
I usually don't have a social life but last week I had something going on every night including Friday and Saturday. Monday I popped over to a friend's house after supper for a visit that was really good. But I stopped at Fed Ex to pick up my new laptop on my way to her house.
Tuesday night I spent over two hours on the phone with Hewlett Packard (HP) tech services getting my laptop set up, my printer going and making sure both were wireless. Both techs were really good. The first tech didn't think he could get my laptop wireless because I couldn't remember the password to my very old router, so he got me hard wired to the router. Then he transferred me to a printer tech - who happened to have worked for Linksys (sp) and after getting my permission and his manager's - he was able to get me hooked up wireless.
And before all that on my way home from work I stopped at Walgreen's to pick up some photos I had ordered - which I was very excited to get. I get home and open the envelope and stare at many pictures of small children holding magnifying glasses up to their eyes thinking, "I don't know these children. These are not my pictures - wonderful." I called the number on the label on the photo envelope thinking it was Walgreen's but when the person answered and just say, "hello" I thought that was weird because Walgreen's answers their phone more professionally than that. I realized I had called the lady whose pictures I had - so I quickly introduced myself and explained why I called her by accident. We both have Mc names. I called Walgreen's to tell them what happened and said I might not be able to stop by until Thurs to return the wrong photos and pick up my photos so they might need to REDO (important word to remember for later) the other ladie's photos in case she wants to come in before Thurs for her pictures.
Wednesday the bug guy stopped by to do his spring spray inside and outside the house. It cracked me up when he said he really liked what I had done to the enclosed front porch. As luck would have it, I had some time to run by Walgreen's to drop off the wrong photos and pick up my photos before going to my meeting - cool. I get to Walgreen's and start to explain what happened and the girl waiting on me interupts me and says "Are your pictures a redo?" The word "redo" was written on the label of my photo box. I told her no and started to explain what happened again - from the beginning. She interupted me saying she understood about me getting the wrong photos but were mine a "redo". I told her no and started again to tell her what happened - from the beginning (there was a reason why I was doing this). She interupted me again saying she understood what happened about the other pictures and then my hand came up in front of me like a stop sign and I told her to "just let me finish explaining what happened". The reason I wanted to get through everything was to tell her about calling the other customer and then calling Walgreen's saying that Walgreen's may have to REDO the other customer's photos. The girl waiting on me just looked at me and then asked, "so is something wrong with your pictures?" I told her "no, I've not seen my pictures before." She then opened my photos for me to look at. As I was driving away I prayed that God help that girl to get her wires connected.
Wed night we didn't have small group because it was the first Wed of the month and this month was the month all the men met - so the ladies of our small group met at one of our lady's house to eat, fellowship, talk and play a game. I can't remember the name of the game but we all had to guess the answer to the question - which was a number - and it was really fun. One question was like how many Hershey kisses can you get out of a pound of chocolate? One of the girls in our small group is a Kindergarten teacher and I learned all about what they go through to get Associates to help with the "challenging" kids in the class. I said that we didn't have kids like that when I was in school - if a kid acted up he/she went to the Principal's office. A teacher really has to document ALOT that a child has issues to get an Associate but I'm like - they need one teacher that their specialty is teaching these kids (kind of like my cousin) so the challenging kids aren't scattered throughout all the classrooms to cause problems.
I had emailed my pastor how he had done in the Preacher and Sneaker basketball game that was played during halftime of the whatever our semi-pro basketball team in town is called. He told me about the highlight play of the game - which just happened to be his. He did a behind the head pass to our old assistant pastor for a 3 pointer. I replied back that I was going to start calling him Jason Williams (who was awesome at blind aka looking the other way, behind the back passes while being in midair). Then Pastor Josh replied with a picture of Jason Williams to which I replied that they actually kind of looked alike. To which he replied that he thought they did too - but he needed to get a tattoo like Jason had. To which I replied, "I know a guy". To which there was no reply :)
Thursday my manager (and the department manager) along with Christi's manager met with us to go over all the different ways they can determine our quality and productivity. They also told us that we need to do 15 live quotes at 97%+ to be released from different parts of training. Remember 97% for later. After work I had to stop somewhere on my way home.
Friday I got a graded quote back that was 96% and I almost wanted to scream "96%!!!!" like Marlon Brando yells "Stella" in "Streetcar Named Desire" or whatever that movie is. As of end of last week Christi had 14 out of her 15 and I had 12. After work some of us headed out to socialize because one of my team member's last day will be March 23rd and our trainer got a promotion. It was fun to get to know some of the department peeps better but I had to leave after a little over an hour to get home to let Butler out.
Saturday night I went to my first WET meeting - it's a group for widows and I can't remember what WET stands for. They were having guest speakers about buying and leasing cars - which I was very interested since my lease will be up in September. As luck would have it - one of the speakers was a sales rep from Toyota that I knew, and she had called me that morning telling me that since I was within six months of the end of my lease - Toyota would let me turn my car in early. So I had questions for her after the meeting.
Yesterday I told Pastor Josh that since yesterday was so busy - we might as well have had our baptismal service yesterday too instead of next Sunday. We had church, then a membership meeting, then I had a planning committee meeting at 6:00pm. Josh said he had a marriage counseling meeting in the afternoon after the membership meeting and before the planning committee meeting. The planning meeting was for our WELLebration which will be April 21st. We were put on hold working on The Well (aka blue building) by the City of DSM due to permit and zoning issues for a long time. Right before Josh went to South Africa we received permission we could continue remodeling, so as of this past week the HVAC is in. On the 21st we are going to open the building to show our membership what has gone on, have a cookout, and have a sacrificial giving drive to bring in more funds for this project. After the HVAC, plumbing and electrical is done - our building account will be in the hole. Needless-to-say we had a fun time last night planning this event.
And then today I woke up and drove to work in the dark - blick. :)
