2006 November « My Auds and Ends

I do believe in blogs

I do believe in blogs. I DO believe in blogs. I do I do I do I do I DO believe in blogs.

*Closes eyes very tightly. Squinches up face. Imagines clean, blank blogging area where thoughts can flow. Like milk and honey, they can flow flow flow.*

Like I said before, I will not apologize. I’m not going to promise to update regularly or anything rash (and utterly ridiculous) like that. I can’t. Blogs are supposed to be a fun thing. And believe me — ain’t too much of anything less fun than coming home after 8 hours at a computer screen, with only 4 hours left till you have to go back to sleep, than to sit down in front of a computer screen. Again. And try to think happy thoughts to write about.

Well, I do have some happy thoughts tonight.

First off, I have experienced an immeasurable lightening of spirit ever since Betty and the other Babes came over to help me clean/de-dog-hair/air-out my apartment. We packed the remainder of Steve’s stuff in boxes, vacuumed all rugs and furniture, cleaned windows, threw stuff out, reorganized, redecorated … It was amazing! I never would have been able to do it all alone! Seriously … no matter how well you know how to clean as a blind person, there’s just gonna be some stuff you over look, you know? There just is. And, then this guy, Scodd (only because Betty can’t remember his real name, Todd, and ends up calling him Scodd instead) was apprised that my garbage disposal wasn’t working right. He came forthwith, with his mother en tow (which I thought was really beyond cool because she’s not out and about too much these days). She folded laundry and offered to do mending if I had any. Scodd meanwhile fixed said garbage disposal, fixed windows, fixed the smoke alarm (which was hanging by a cord from when some unnamed someone yanked it out of the ceiling), fixed some stuff going on with my furnace, and offered to fix my vacuum cleaner (which had just croaked halfway through vacuum-o-rama 2006). Hasn’t called me on that yet, though. We’ll see.

Work is going well: Nothing much new to report on that front except for the tons of time I am spending with someone we’ll refer to as B from here on. B is someone you’ll recognize from this earlier post … and I still get a kick out of knowing I blogged about the way we met without understanding the significance of said meeting.

Little did I know that those awkward few minutes sweating over whether or not I should page Chuck would be the first few of many minutes spent with B. We enjoy each other’s company immensely and we talk a lot on the phone. That’s about it (sorry, no blazing romance to report) but if that’s going to happen, now is not the time. We both realize that. But, as I told him yesterday, that realization is kind of boring, so I’m not going to let it ruin what we have now, which is just fun. No jumping ahead irresponsibly, but, at the same time, no “I’m sorry. I can’t play Scrabble with you alone in my house because you’re a guy … and guys date girls … and we’re not dating or anything” … which can get ridiculous.

And I can get ridiculous both ways. So pray for both of us, OK? Thanks.

Thanksgiving was fun. My fam (minus Kristin who went to Basically-Canada-Land Northern Ninnesota) came to my house along with my aunt Judy and cousin Jeremy. … Oh, and their unannounced little dog, Bambie, who pooped on my bed. We had all the regular Thanksgiving fare (turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cinnamon butternut squash, green bean casserole, corn, rolls, pickles, olives, salad, and cranberry juice with ginger ale). After dinner came a general snoozing/watching TV interval brought on by having eaten so much (plus the appetizers earlier of chips with taco dip, cheese and crackers, and cookies). Yeah … we were just a little full.

Then came Steve and Laurie, meaning the Scrabble tournament was on. Out came the two Braille Scrabble boards. Dad, Steve, Mike and Jeremy were at one table, while we girls (Mom, Laurie, Anna and I) took the other. Mom and Steve won their respective games, so they had a play-off and Steve won.

Oh yeah … Along with their Braille Scrabble, their killer home-made bread, and their even killing-er home-made mint fudge brownies with nuts, Steve and Laurie brought the newly-developed wedding pictures, which you can see HERE (password = heesen2006). You can see all 535 of them there. I’ve asked Laurie if she’ll do a general descriptive run-down for those of us who can’t see them, and she’s agreed, so that’s coming! She’ll have to keep on me to get that done though, because I tend to just … not do things sometimes.

And then Laurie spilled her water directly into my lap. That was precious.

Things are going well with Baby Church (now more resembling Toddler Church — only potty-trained and eating only solid spiritual food). I was made the first non-charter member October 15th at Jim and Betty’s home and officially welcomed into fellowship during the morning service the following week. I was at Jim and Betty’s for a meeting with the elders during which I gave my salvation testimony and all of us asked questions of each other affirming that this church and I were a good fit and that I agreed with the constitution and bylaws. And I do believe we are a very good fit indeed! So after putting my “yea” in the book next to my name, Betty and the elders’ wives decided all this called for a little pageantry. They got up right there and did a little song and dance! It was so hilarious! It started all right, like a real song with words like, “Congratulations. We want to welcome you as a member” or something that they all sang and swayed to in unison. But, that lasted five seconds and they were just singing whatever came into their heads at the top of their lungs — stuff like “We hope you like it here, because we like you, too” … “We like your flute and your dog, and we want you to staaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAY!”

Well, I’m sure I can think of something else to write eventually, but for now, I’ll just leave it here. You’ve got the essentials, yes? I do love you all! Talk later. Bye bye!

November 27, 2006 Posted by Sas | family, life, update | | 6 Comments