One quick thing

Because I am hoping getting it out of my head will help me keep moving today.

My mom's weekly call is usually Wednesday night. So she called last night.

My dad's obituary - the one I wrote about earlier, the one a former student of his wrote - came out in the professional journal.

She read it to me. It was pretty much the same one he'd sent me but I didn't stop her. I could hear she was fighting tears as she read it (this is a big deal as my mom is very stoic, more than I am).

It was just hard. Wednesday was a hard day all around.

At least today I only have one class, and my piano teacher is at a conference, so I don't have lesson this week but man, I am tired.

(At least Board Meeting wasn't terrible, despite it being the last board meeting for which we have our current minister. It sounds like we are moving forward and feeling our way into the future. There was a decision to replace some carpeting made, and if we were imminently shutting down - church buildings are not something that can be sold easily - I don't think that decision would have been made)

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I also found out last night (at Elders' meeting, because I have no time these days to watch news) that a couple shops in downtown Denison burned yesterday. (Old buildings, all of 'em connected, apparently the fire started in a nail salon, and they are full of power-drawing electrical things and also solvents that are flammable). I don't *think* any of my favorite businesses there were affected, though I think one of the "neighbors" that suffered damage was an antique shop I've been in.

It's sad, but at least no one was hurt - everyone got out okay, and I guess one of the buildings that collapsed was actually vacant at the time.

But I think yeah, maybe Saturday, I go down and show a little monetary love to Kaboodles and Home a la Mode and Book Rack (if Book Rack still exists; it's been quite a while since I've been in there).

Heck - I could take the paperback mystery novels I was wanting to dispose of to Book Rack and see if they'll give me store credit for them....and turn it into a cookbook or something.

I also think I'll spend my JoAnn's gift certificate. And I want to see if I can get my hands on issue *189* (or later) of Simply Knitting - 188 was the most recent one they had (I think it was, it was the one with the soft-toy booklet) and I happen to have two issues of it now. (If you want my spare - it's a summer issue, but at least it came with a booklet of soft-toy patterns*) drop me an e-mail, it would be cheap to send out and I already have a packet of manila envelopes it could go in.

(*Usually summer issues are the least-inspiring to me. Because I'd rather knit with wool than with cotton, and because I don't care as much for the t-shit/swimsuit cover-up/etc. designs. Sometimes there's a nice shawl in summer issues though).

And get lunch out somewhere. Even though it's More Sodium, I might go back to Red Lobster (I know, I know, but....our restaurant choices are limited) because the last time I was in there it was dim and quiet and the server was attentive without being fawning and it just soothed me a little bit to tell some guy "I would like..." when I was ready to order and have him bring it and then when I was done, he takes the dishes away and brings me my check. (And yes, I tip fairly generously, especially when the service is, like I said, attentive but not fawning). Or maybe I figure out somewhere else; I ate at the barbecue place last time I was there but sometimes they are a bit more hectic and some days I just want quiet (And to order off a menu, while I am sitting down, instead of off a board, while I am standing up.)