Please Pray

Pray for my friend Nancy. She was in a serious car accident yesterday and is in the hospital with every rib on her left side broken, a broken right wrist, a cracked vertebrae in her neck, pelvis broken in 3 places, and some internal bleeding.

Fall Allergy Season

Why I'm glad I moved from sw Ohio:

Here is the full list of top 10 fall allergy capitals:
McAllen, Texas
Wichita, Kan.
Louisville, Ky.
Oklahoma City
Jackson, Miss.
Dayton, Ohio
Augusta, Ga.
Tulsa, Okla.
Knoxville, Tenn.
Little Rock, Ark.

Wii Mii

Last night I tried the bubble game again on Wii. I’ve made it all the way down the river to the finish line only once. Last night my bubble popped on one of the points. I never noticed this before but my Mom and Dad were standing there waving to me as I was supposed to go past. It is funny to see their Miis!

I’m having fun with the hula hoop. Last night I caught all the flying ones!

Psalm 106:15

For the last year or so Tuesday mroning of month end week has been very, very busy because we have not been running checks on Monday. We ran checks on Monday for the first four years I was here so at last week's work team meeting I brought this up. Everyone agreed to do what was necessary on Friday to run checks on Monday.

Today I had conference call at 9:00 and a meeting at 1:00 at another building. In addition I had major issues with the check printer and major issues with my cash tie out macro. So instead of just spreading the work, I ended up with a very distressful day. Work that is typically done by noon got finished after 4:00!

I'm mentally exhausted tonight, but I got what I asked for. I printed checks on Monday.

Recently I made a Mii of each of my immediate family members so that when I Wii I have familiar faces/people around me, on my team, etc.

Imagine my surprise this morning when I did Basic Step for the first time right between my mother on the left and Mark on the right! May I just say my mom was putting it on!!! And my brother doesn’t look half bad with a goatee.

I had perfect balance this morning on the body test this morning with my eyes closed! I actually did better than when I keep my eyes open!

This morning I hula hooped for the first time. Ummm, I need more time to get the hang of catching the hoops as they kept bouncing off my head.

I Met a Celebrity

This morning at church I met the co-founder of Liberty University. I was sitting in the lobby reading a book during Sunday School when a man walked in and asked if coffee was available. He asked if I was part of the church when Pastor Boger was there that he came to Vacation Bible School and got saved at church with Pastor Boger. Then he heard that Pastor Wood was at church. He had started another church with Pastor David Wood (a different Pastor Wood). Then came the clincher. He was visiting his mother at her nursing home when his wallet was stolen. He needed some money for gas. Yes, I was a bit concerned as my purse was on the floor. He started to go downstairs for coffee when he came back and told me that he founded Liberty University with Jerry Falwell. He pulled out a couple chains from his shirt and said he had this jewelry but his wallet was stolen with all his credit cards.

He cornered another man on his way downstair asking for money. Apparently he told his story to several others before coming back upstairs. He told one man that his wallet had just been stolen at Rainbow Grill, but the man told him that Rainbow Grill isn't open on Sunday so there's no way his wallet was stolen. The guy was rather loud.

He finally walked out but was catching people walking in telling them his wallet was stolen. Then he got in his car and sat for awhile.

Finally a man from my church got his vehicle tag number and called the police. They came within about five minutes and the office started talking to the guy. He turned to the guy from my church and said, "He's ok." The man from church walked in frustrated saying that the guy was either high or on drugs. The officer kept talking to the guy and looking at ID. Apparently he had a wallet to show the officer his ID.

Another officer drove up and took over at the driver's side while the first office went over to the passenger side. In a minute or so he got a young boy out of the car and took him to the police car.

At that point I was very torn between continuing to watch and going into church as it was about to start. I opted for church so I don't know the outcome.

My guess is that the guy was high so the officers took the child away for his safety. Who knows what happened to either the child or the guy?

I've had enough of 911 calls for a long, long time!

Neighborhood Pancake Breakfast

Usually each summer I've hosted a cookout for the 10 condo owners on my street, but this year it just didn't happen. I decided to do a pumpkin pancake breakfast as fall arrived, and when I found out the couple down the street would be moving in early November knew I had to get it scheduled.

Yesterday I worked really hard to get everything set which means house cleaned, pickup a table at Renae's, move some chairs around to make movement easier, set up two tables and all the chairs in the sunroom, get the food table set, and put out all the ingredients that didn't have to be refrigerated.

This morning was the Fall Pumpkin Pancake Breakfast. 10 people from 8 condos came for a 9:00 breakfast. One couple brought juice and one lady brought fruit. Renae came at 8:15 to help me. I had the pancake batter mixed and was mixing eggs. She brought sausage and made the bacon and sausage in the oven. She also took care of coffee and got the food out on the table. Linda was a huge help as well. Renae helped the old people get their food at one table and Linda helped them get seated in the sunroom. I just kept making pancakes. I made plain, chocolate chip, pumpkin, and pumpkin with chocolate chip pancakes. The eggs were scrambled plain and scrambled with ham, onion, and green pepper. Somehow the cheese never got on top of those.

We sat around the table for about an hour and then quite a few left. Linda and Ruth were wonderful to help until everything was cleaned up.

I enjoy doing pancake breakfasts and everything is set for my annual Hudsonville pancake breakfast following the Hudsonville Holiday parade.