It's Monday!!!

I had a good weekend and got quite a bit accomplished.

On Friday evening, Karla and I went to a catfish place in Moore called Catfish Cove. It was the first time we had ever been there, but we had heard some good things about it from people at church, so we decided to give it a try. It was a buffet and there was plenty of food……plus, it was reasonably priced. If you left there hungry, it was your own fault.

I had a damage assessment class at EOC Saturday morning from 9 am – 1 pm, so I got up a little early to get some computer work done before I had to leave. It’s a good thing I got up early because when I opened the garage door to get something out of my truck…there it was…..yet ANOTHER flat tire on my truck. To my surprise, it was one of my new tires (that I got about a month ago). I figured if anything was going to go flat, it would be one of my front tires since they are so old and worn out. I did have a spare, but it had no air in it. No worries…

Since my driveway is on so much of an incline, I had to back my truck into the street in order to get my tire off. I took the tire off (after fighting with my jack) and put the flat tire and my spare tire in the back seat of Gayla’s car and drove her car to Hibdon’s to get the tire repaired. I just left my truck in the street, jacked up. The plan was to have them put air in my spare and leave the other one to get repaired. Guess what? My spare had a nail in it, so they had to make a quick repair on it so I could get on my way.

I drove back home, put the spare on my truck, headed to 7-11 for a drink and donut…..and then drove north side to my class. I was two minutes late, but fortunately, some of my REACT team members saved me a seat. They suggested we have laptops with us so we could follow along with the class. My laptop is two years old and only has 512 mg of memory. Most laptops today have 2 gb or more. Because I had such low memory on my laptop, I could not download the site that I needed to for the class…so, I just looked off the laptop of one of my fellow REACT members. It was a good class and I learned quite a bit. We finished at around 12:45 pm, so several of us headed to Braums to eat lunch.

After lunch, I drove to Wayne’s house so we could work on my truck. My driver’s side door was not closing properly, so we had to replace the top hinge on it. That was pretty easy. Then, I had to change the low-beam bulb out of my driver’s side headlight. Then, we had the task of trying to find out where my power steering fluid was leaking. We pinpointed the area and Wayne told me it would probably be expensive to repair. One thing I have learned about my 2000 Chevy S-10. Anything that goes wrong with it now IS usually expensive. I can’t remember the last time I got out of a garage without paying over $200.00 for a repair. This was one problem that Wayne could not fix, so I knew my truck was going to have to go in the shop.

Since there was nothing left for us to do to my truck, we went into Wayne’s house and watched the OU football game. Some of his relatives were there also, so we all watched the game together. Close to halftime, I headed back over to Hibdons to pick up my tire. When I got there, it took about 30 minutes for them to put it back on my truck. Then, I headed home to unload my truck. The third quarter of the game was just starting, so I headed back to Wayne’s house to finish watching the game. Afterwards, I went by KFC for some chicken and spent the rest of the evening on the computer, watching COPS and then watching the OSU football game.

I was up early Sunday morning, but had decided to work on the rest of the powerpoint at church. So, I loaded up my laptop and headed towards the church. It was a good day at church and we had a good group of students in Sunday School. I will have to admit that I have no idea what the preacher was preaching because my mind was pre-occupied. We have the two free concerts coming up at church this Friday and Saturday, so I had lots of things rushing through my mind. I was making plans in my head, while I should have been writing them down.

I enjoyed our Sunday lunch and then proceeded to take a very short nap in my chair in the living room. I left the house at 2:30 pm and headed back to the church. Myself and a group of students were going to pass out flyers to the houses in the neighborhood……..advertising the concerts that were coming up. We had 10 students show up, so we spent 45 minutes passing out flyers…until we ran out of them. I told the students we would be back at church by 4:30 pm because we were having our church-wide Thanksgiving meal at 5:00 pm and we were going to need the help of the students to serve and clean up. We had a record crowd at the dinner and there was plenty of food. Afterwards, it was back home to relax and watch some more football.

Today has kind of been boring. Everyone is back at work, so I had no radios to cover. I worked on locates and sending out emails. After work, I am meeting Karla at the mechanic’s garage in Tuttle to drop my truck off and have it repaired. I hate being without my truck, but I have no choice. It has to be done. I have to get the power steering problem repaired. Since I am leaving my truck at the garage, I will be taking Karla to work in the morning and driving her car to work. I am hoping my truck will be repaired by the time I get off work tomorrow.

I am in day 15 of no-shave November and my hair is really starting to bother me. Just 15 more days and I can shave it off again…….I can’t wait!

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