Great job on your course, Twins'. I had not understood that it was away from home until you were already gone.
Happy for you in church meeting successes and finishes, Dee.
My cellphone is dead. Makes me sad. Maybe I am a bad phone owner, I don't know. Somehow, there is no record of its former existence, although it is right here - it just doesn't remember itself. I use a cellphone very little but do send photos to my computer to save when I have a plan, or when I just love them. So I am going to believe that I can live without the photos that are lost and try not to be remembering each one, etc. The oldest were of my dmother in the hospital, and I know if she were here she would hate those photos, anyway.
I have a new phone. At the Ver izon store I learned that things are different now. Except for tax, you don't pay up front (dd19, who was with me, rolled her eyes because of course she had had to save up for her purchase 5 months ago). Maybe it was this, or maybe the promise of the "if-it's-on-the-phone-it's-saved-on-the-cloud" feature, but I upgraded. So I am the slightly reluctant owner of a pix el 2, and dd19 has seen to it that I have been fingerprinted and voicematched . Getting the clear case means I can have changeable art on the outside - just need to figure that out.
However, they didn't activate it properly, so even though it has some pics from today on it, and some of my contacts newly listed, and discusses its day with me, it isn't really there. I have to go back to the store again. Sigh. The same thing happened to dd's young man and to someone else in his family, both at the same store. Unfortunately, I didn't hear their stories until I got home with an un-activated phone.
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I got a copy of the proposed budget after the service today, along with everyone else who attended. I mean... ..It's not like I was on any need to know basis, or anything. It is.. ... an increase. And the meeting is next Sunday. I SO want to say not my circus. Hmmm... ..
Ds has stayed with me for an hour and a half this evening, going over this remarkable piece of paper, with an expression sort of like both these smilies on his face at once. He's helping me formulate brief but to-the-point things to say at the meeting. (I had no idea of this, but my little boy has become, like, a budgeteer or something - one of the hats he wears as a deputy firechief.) And he knows how to state all the pertinent questions in fewest words, the order in which to put them, plus he thought of some year-over-year percentage comparisons that should be mentioned. But, basically he gave me a pep talk.
In other news, shopping with dd19 was fun. Found a sale on the cutest red tennis shoes for ToddlerC - she loves them.