Quick Takes, Volume 56

7 Quick Takes are hosted by Jen at Conversion Diary.  These are some quick looks at my life.

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   My mom is 88 years old.  I try to go up and see her once a month in Quincy where she lives in senior apartments.  She still drives her car and volunteers at a school as a mentor.  She is pretty much the same gal she always was, but she is getting on in years. She is frail. I try to get up and see her once a month.  My point of all this is to say that with the winter we have had, I haven't been up there since Christmas.  I am hoping to go up this weekend. I am leaving the husband and the attack cats around here though so don't try anything.
2. It finally got up to 54 degrees last Saturday and I took the 3 mile walk around my suburban neighborhood looking for signs of spring.  I did hear some robins and the magnolia trees may have the tiny beginnings of buds that will bloom in spring, but I didn't see one dandelion flower or any spring blooms.  I am sure they are just around the corner.
3. 
   
   On Monday, after a week of no heat in the library where I work, they tromped over the roof and fixed it.  (I had a space heater behind the counter, but still that was one cold library.)  The school is only in it's third year and this is the umpteenth time that the heating or air conditioning has gone bad.  Air is worse because there are no windows that open and this is the SOUTH so it gets hot early. And on top of all that coldness last week it happened again, a boy came in demanding to know where I kept the erotic books.  Seriously?  Like I would tell him. (This is a public middle school and I get all kinds of questions.) 
4. 
   
   My decorating projects are going south fast.  I can't get straight answers on some questions I have about the flooring.  I had decided to go with golden maple which has to be special ordered so there is no way they could do it on my spring break in March.  The guy who called and left a message today wanted me to call him so that he could answer my questions about my insulation--INSULATION????  This is a floor.  And the window treatments, sigh, haven't finished that yet. And the thing I planned next?  Well, at the rate I'm going I should drop the whole thing. And cleaning, oy, the cleaning isn't going very fast either.  You may have recognized that my entry this week was from Christmastide.
5. 
   
   Vacation plans are going no where.  I am falling for those newfies up in Minnesota that Dandelionmom has, but I would have to be pure 100% crazy to get a dog that big.  I probably will spend the summer calling people about my insulation. And I didn't even know I had a problem with that. But I was planning to go down to Oklahoma and sing Billie Boy in a small town called Colony.
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   If you can be boring, or post on Saturday--join me tomorrow for boring posts for Saturday.
7. On Wednesday I had a crazy day.  I worked which was normal.  After work I ran to spiritual direction.  I had a really good visit with my director.  I learned something surprising about myself. (You know me, I will talk about it later when I have had time to process.)  And she pointed me to the book I should read to give my talk at church in April on charismatic prayer. But in the middle of the session my hubby called with a dead car several miles from home.  So I left and picked him up.  Then I went to my Bible study group later and had to leave early to take him back to pick up the car.  It turned out to be just a dead battery and he had it replaced.  This was great news, but it really added to the stress of a day when I had planned to do things to draw me closer to God.  I ended up on the internet unable to sleep in the middle of the night Wednesday which leads me into my post tomorrow.