Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Day 124, "Every picture has a story"
How about that for sisterly/brotherly love?  As a family we would often go to the park or go on  a picnic.  I am guessing this was in the summer of 1982 which would have put Cynthia at almost 2 and Travis at almost 11.

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It is Tuesday, September 21st in 1993.  I am looking at a busy few days ahead!  Today it will be up at 3:30 to deliver 200 newspapers and then off to teach by 7:00 AM.  I will have a soccer practice for my boys team after school and then race to Trinity for a game as I am coaching Cynthia's team.  In the evening I need to make several phone calls to people.  Tomorrow it will be the paper again (every day of the week!) and then after school my boys team has a game against Ramsey at home.  In the evening I will gather with my men's group which will go from 7:30-9:30.  I will do the same morning thing on Thursday and Friday but will only have practice with my boys team at school.  Maybe it will rain and I can call it off!  I will try to make Friday a bit short as St. Paul Academy has a game where Travis and Aaron will play and I can't miss that.  It is away so we will have to leave early.  Friday at 9:00 PM, before I nod off to sleep, I force myself to not think about the coming weekend as I know it will be so so busy!
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The day is TODAY, February 19, 2019 (I may add about 26 years later) .  I am thinking I have a BUSY  few days ahead!!!  The first thing I have is a tennis match today at 1:30 and that will be over at about 3:00.  Then tomorrow I have another tennis match and it is away so we leave at 10:45 and should be back by 1:30 or so.  Then on Thursday we have our annual burger/brat villa party which Terry and I put on.  Terry has an appt in the early afternoon so I will drive her there and while she is busy I will make a Costco run for buns for the meat.  Then when we get home I will start working with the meat and around 4:00 I will wheel the grill over to the pool.  Oh, I forgot, I need to drive over to Carmen and Betty's in the morning and pick up their table.  The party should be over around 7 or so.  So there it is, a busy me in 2019 and "for sure" to compare it to a busy me from 1993---oh my gosh, I think I must be getting a little long in tooth!  TIME has a way of making changes in life!!!

I had a frustrating time yesterday.  I dropped Terry off for an appt and then headed to Target as we needed a new robot vacuum.  Target had one on sale and then in addition there was a $20 target gift card if you bought it.  I found the one Terry wanted and luckily they had ONE left.  When we arrived home I unpacked it I should have known right away but I was not thinking.  Several things told me that this machine was NOT a new one.  AND I was right.  It was 100% dead.  There were NO rain checks on the sale item so I needed to call around to see if another Target had a NEW one.  The first Target I called let "guest services" ring 35 times and still no answer.  The second Target I called did not answer after 30 rings so I hung up.  The 3rd Target did answer and said they would transfer me to guest services.  I remained on the line for about 4/5 minutes and then hung up and called again.  Finally I did get a person and they said there was one left and they would hold it for me.  SO it was drive the 8 miles there and pick it up.  As I opened the packing up I could see that it was NEW.  Terry will try it this morning but it looks good to go.  

I played tennis twice yesterday and that was too much.  The humidity was high and the temp was around 90.  Trust me, I am not complaining BUT twice in a day, no.  I usually do not do that but a friend called to ask me to fill in for someone who cancelled so it is hard to say no to those kind of things.  I also got to talk to Rich's wife a bit.  Rich is the team person who is playing well but has early onset of dementia.   His wife uses his tennis times as a time she can get a lot of work finished when she can concentrate without interruption.  I had not seen her this season but she did drive through the parking lot so I said hi.  I did not ask BUT I think this is Rich's last season of tennis.  He is such a good guy it is a difficult thing to see.

Enough for today.  I am down to the last sip of FP and it is a bit bitter but all the better to give one energy, right?

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