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Just got back from grocery shopping for components of Thanksgiving essentials, fascinatingly most of them the essentials I don't particularly care for: pumpkin pie and sweet potatoes and celery for the veggie tray. :-p The sparkling cider, however, I care very much for. Got one bottle of plain apple and two of apple-cranberry, and one of those gets set aside if GooGoo is a girl. (I have plain already in the cupboard that I've been hoarding if he's a boy.)

Bella has apparently safely arrived, although Brittany is still a bit loopy from her meds and we may therefore not get pictures until tomorrow. Boo.

TAKE A HINT, WILL YOU, GOOGOO?

Anyway... tomorrow will be a busy day. I can't believe Anna has already been here a week and will be leaving so soon. Weirdness. But most everything has been done that needed to be, and tomorrow will take care of the rest of those tasks.

Unless, of course, GooGoo decides to be nice and come tonight?

What we will be doing tomorrow:

1. Pumpkin pies.
2. Green bean casserole.
3. Dusting.
4. Vacuuming.
5. Washing floors.
6. Bringing second table downstairs.

Ouchy back. I am sitting on the couch and feeling very very sleepy. Had a nice lunch of baked potatoes with lovely trimmings like salsa and green onions and such. And two s'mores.

Today the weather has been unable to decide if it wants to be sunny or pouring rain.

Some cigarette-smoking military men were over in the Elks parking lot shooting off blanks in formal rows and then scurrying around picking up the debris like kids with a pinata. We laughed.

Anna gave the tub a thorough scrubbing and cleansing this morning and then vacuumed/washed the floor in there while I polished up mirrors and bathroom sinks and counters. I love having mirrored closet doors, but maintaining them is rather tiresome at times.

Ya know... it's really unacceptable to my mind that I e-mailed the Indian child sponsorship people ALMOST A FULL MONTH AGO to request they stop the automatic payments... and then about 3 days ago I finally get an e-mail from one of the 3 people involved who simply tells me he is passing the e-mail on to some other lady I've never heard of before. Nice.

And I got on my account this morning and sure enough they took another payment out. Out of my account that has no money in it.

I did not mince words this morning when I polite and crisply e-mailed the guy to express my non-happiness with this situation. Dan says I should go to the bank first thing in the morning and deposit $30 to cover what they are trying to take out, which I guess is a good idea because otherwise I'll be paying an overdraft fee (although I might already have to pay that anyway, depending).

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Today I think we are going to take care of potted things outside that need discarding and put the empty pots away, because it's looking rather junky out there. Also sweep down cobwebs out front and in the house and then I should ask Anna what I was originally planning to do today because I have totally forgotten by this time.

I'm really getting hungry. I better go eat before I start feeling sick.

Achy breaky Jael has laundry load number 2 of 3 going. I don't understand how it is that suddenly we're doing 2.5-3 loads a week. Our child isn't even here yet. It USED to be just two loads.

I vacuumed upstairs as well. That was interestingly painful.

"In the parable of the lost sheep, Christ teaches that salvation does not come through our seeking after God but through God's seeking after us. 'There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way.' Rom. 3.11, 12. We do not repent in order that God may love us, but He reveals to us His love in order that we may repent."

Me: I'm so tired of having to pee.
Dan: Try some other letter of the alphabet, then. How about R?

We just got back from shopping in the rain. It was kind of cold. But at least we now have a fridge full of fresh food. Dan has requested cornbread tonight to go with the black beans I have in the crockpot. That sounds yummy to me. I should probably get that started here shortly.

So sleepy, though. I can't wait to go to bed.

I'm planning to make soup for lunch.

Somehow, though, instead of making the soup, I'm sitting here on the couch typing a post because I feel like cosying up in the cushiness and just going to sleep, really. I think there is no such thing as too much sleep now.

GooGoo is wiggly.

Someday I'll write a post that has a point.

Well, Warren's stuff is boxed up, addressed, and ready to go. I wrapped Anna's Christmas present and am currently trying to keep Spot entertained up here while Dan is downstairs making a video of himself making flat bread. Also eating cranberries to fend off the nausea that seems to be disappearing now, for which I am glad. Need to take my books downstairs and find places for them on the shelves, too.

Not feeling so great today. I think I'll lay low and continue sending brainwaves to GooGoo.

I am really, really hungry. I feel like making blueberry muffins, only with blackberries, but am not sure I want to wait that long to eat. I suppose I could manage if I'd get going on it now.

I slept pretty well last night but seriously, seriously achy to the thoid power. Not sure if it's from the walking yesterday or what. I seriously want this baby to come NOW. I'm losing patience.