Life has Slowed Down

I can safely say that in the last several days, my life has been uneventful. It has been slow….no storms to spot, no accidents to assist with and no meetings to attend. The last meeting I attended was our REACT Board meeting and that was last Thursday. Since then, life has slowed down. I started having issues with my laptop on Friday (I thought it was my power cord), so I took my power cord by CDR to exchange it for another one (still under warranty). I used it all Friday evening for a long time, but when I got up Saturday morning to log on, it would not work. I worked from 7 am until noon on Saturday and then went back by CDR with my power cord and laptop. After checking a few things out, it was determined the problem was my laptop….so, I left it there for them to repair. Fortunately, I have been able to use Gayla’s laptop to get stuff done. I did nothing all Saturday afternoon except ride my bike and chill.

Last Sunday was Mother’s Day. Karla had to work that day, so Stephen and Gayla visited their aunt and uncle (who have no kids) and spent the day with them. I drove up to north side OKC after church and had lunch with my sister, her family and mom and dad. My mom and dad aren’t into materialistic stuff…all they want to do is spend time with their children and grandchildren. They don’t care about gifts or cards…..just family time.

Late that afternoon, I went by CVS and tried to drop off a Route 44 Dr. Pepper for Karla. She still had some of her drink left that the kids dropped off earlier, so I just took the Dr. Pepper home and saved it for her. When she arrived home from work, there were some storms developing south west of us, so three of us from my REACT team headed to OCCC to watch the storm come in. Nothing ever materialized, so we stood around and talked for about an hour.

Yesterday was another slow, boring, day….nothing exciting happened. After work, I went home and listened to the fire calls on my laptop, but nothing happened around south OKC….all the calls were mainly north. I also took my work radio home and monitored it…..it was slow as well. By 7 pm, I had already eaten dinner and spent some time on FB. I was bored. Today will be a carbon copy of yesterday. I have no plans tonight, so it will be another boring evening (unless I get called out to assist with a grass fire or something). Tomorrow will be the exciting day. The weather forecasters are giving us an excellent chance of severe weather. High winds, large hail, heavy rain and possible outbreak of tornadoes. It should not start until late in the afternoon, but I will be ready. I am sure our REACT team will be activated to go storm spotting….we will see.

This week, we have really been concentrating on Gayla. She graduates from high school on Saturday and we are all excited for her. I never realized how much there was to do for a graduation. I also never realized the cost of it all.

In other news…for the past three months or so, I have been really wanting to get away from running the sound or doing the powerpoint at church. I had been making slides for our announcements, but since they now read the announcements to the congregation on Sunday mornings, I feel it is a waste of time to make up powerpoint slides for them. I am really tired of sitting upstairs and being behind the scenes. I really don’t mind being behind the scenes, but I really feel I need to be sitting downstairs with the youth group and being a support for them during the worship services. Plus, I need to be fed. You can’t really get fed upstairs when you are running the sound…way too many distractions. I am experiencing some really bad burn-out. I need to be able to enjoy a worship service, but it is not happening. Several of us have been trying to find some help upstairs, but to no avail. I don’t want to leave the church in a bad position, but I need some time off. It is getting where I don’t enjoy going and that’s not good!

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