Tuesday December 8, 2009

 

 

Continuation of

 A Week in My Life

Tuesday, December 8

 

My routine today was similar to yesterday…

I was awake at 5:00 a.m.  5:00 – 6:00 is my favorite time of day – when the house is quiet. I choose the Bible verse for my blog during this time, and talk to the Lord about my praises and concerns for the day. Some days I ask Him for strength, and other times I beg for wisdom.

Cerwin woke up at 6:00 as he usually does, and made coffee. I love to hear the final “gurgling” of the coffee pot that tells us the coffee is ready. Today, like most work days, we watched news and talked about our day until 7:00.

 

 

This is what I saw at 7:50 a.m. – when stopping at our mailbox on the way to Curves.  The sun was beautiful on our decorative grass.

 

 

It looks like someone at the farm was enjoying the snow.

 

 

I arrived at Curves at 8:00.  You may remember, that it was when I had to take Cerwin to CPRS for physical therapy in June (following his shoulder surgery) that I began going to Curves. It is next door and seemed like a good thing to do while I waited for his one-hour session. Then I discovered my insurance pays for it because I am over sixty-five! It’s a great way to start a day and keep me motivated in the morning.

 

 

Things I saw on the way home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day – because I am hungry after exercising.  I usually have a fruit smoothie made up of equal parts (I use half a cup) frozen fruit, milk, and vanilla yogurt. The other part of my breakfast is a piece of toast with peanut butter.

 

 

I took the smoothie to my basement office and dealt with emails, then added some addresses to my database.  Chaplain Mike and Cathy Touhy (Racine, Wisconsin) recently wrote their first newsletter, so I must add their addresses to my database before I can mail it. 

After adding a page of addresses, I prepared Chaplain Dan and Raydean Stuckey’s (East St. Louis, Illinois) newsletter for mailing, and took it to the post office.

 

 

At 2:30 I started doing the layout for Chaplain Hank and Gloria Rader’s (Knoxville, Tennessee) newsletter, and finished it at 5:00. After completion, newsletters go back to the staff person, and to three people for proofreading and copyediting – so it will be a few days before I will be mailing this one.

 

 

I removed this meal from the freezer about noon, and put it in the oven this evening after closing the office. It’s one of the meals I bought from Carla last night. Cerwin was hunting on a nearby farm (didn’t see anything), and came home about 5:45 – just as the oven buzzer began ringing, indicating that the meal was ready. I also cooked the peas that came with it.  It was delicious.

So ends another good day in my life.  Now I’m relaxing, blogging, and watching Biggest Loser.