Sunday, September 12, 2004

I’ve been busy and I’m not done yet.

Yesterday, I helped with a function at my church for the parents of our teens. We had some guest speakers in to share with them how to communicate better and have a better understanding of their teenagers’ spiritual development. It was great and I even took away some good stuff that I can use as a youth worker.

After that I went over to my parents’ house for my mother’s Open House. That was a great time, they had an amazing number of women come by to check out this tea thing. I spent most of my time in the kitchen, helping with the food and washing cups to keep up with the people. Mom and her partner sold a lot of stuff and are ready for a full season of workshops.

I got home from all of that at about 6pm and then faced the work I had brought home. I managed to eat a quick dinner and then did some work for about an hour. My eyes started to cross and my fingers wouldn’t cooperate on the keyboard, so I quit earlier than I had planned and just went to bed, exhausted.

I had asked for the weekend off of worship team duties, so I was able to hang out a home a little later and I did a little more work before I headed out for the 9:30am service at church. After church, we had a family baby shower for my cousin so we headed out for that. It was a lot of fun, but made for another long day (the Redskins game was featured prominently at the gathering because we all bleed burgundy and gold - Hail to the Redskins!) and I got home a little before 6pm. So I’m faced with trying to finish the work I brought home in the midst of an equal tiredness that I had last night or just finishing it at the office tomorrow with fresher eyes and hands. I’m going to at least try to get some of it done tonight. I just don’t know how much it’ll be.

Oh, and I managed to catch a little of the 9/11 remembrance stuff early this morning on cable. It’s amazing how much I’ve forgotten about that day that seeing the video brought back, including the tears and resolve. Most interesting was a clip of a woman on the street in NYC, covered in dust and teary-eyed. She looked into the camera and said something about how the animals who attacked us made a huge mistake and don’t understand the American people very well. She continued on that we will not allow something like this to stand and that we wouldn’t just sit and take it - not an exact quote, but words to that effect. How right she was.