Monday, October 1st, 2007

Can you believe it is already OCTOBER?!!! Time is really flying by, it seems. The weather is a little more fallish here today. It's 83 degrees and it is really, really windy! The wind is making it feel cooler. We're going to go to the beach later on this afternoon to see the waves. Because of all this wind we've had the last two days the waves are supposed to be really big...10 and 12 footers! Hopefully we'll see some surfers who are dumb enough to get out there in them. :)
We had a really good Sunday. Sunday morning we all went to church. Bill & Debbie came with us. I think they enjoyed it. We absolutely love our church. We've made so many friends there and we just enjoy it so much. The music is awesome. We have a band that plays mostly contemporary christian music. Yesterday we were rockin' just about the whole time. I'm in the choir and we clap and sway back and forth to the songs. Kind of like a black gospel choir! Ha! It's fun but a lot different than the music services back home. It always seems to work out that we sing the most radical, rockin' songs when we have visitors there with us!
That afternoon after we ate lunch Nathan and I went to play golf. It was so fun!! Well, the second 9 were fun. The first 9 were pitiful on my part. I hit a few shots that didn't even go 5 feet in front of me!!! -and even swung several times and ...nothing...ball still sitting on the ground in front of me. SO EMBARRASSING!!! Luckily Nathan was patient with me and didn't seem embarrassed. Once we started the 10th hole, I figured out what I was doing wrong each time and then I was able to hit good shots almost every time after that. Most of them went straight. I was so proud that they were finally going the way I was aiming (or pretty much) and weren't flying off to the right. I just have to work on my pitching wedge(I hate that club! >:-( ) and putting now. We kept score on the second 9 holes and Nathan only beat me by like 8 or 9 shots. (doesn't sound very good but I was thrilled about it! ha!)
Took both the girls to school this morning. Fortunately they didn't put up a fight wanting to stay home with Meme. After that I spent the rest of my morning running errands before picking up Emma at 12. I really had my patience tested at Wal-Mart today. I took my car in to have the oil changed and they said it would be 45 minutes. So I went to the pharmacy to drop of my prescriptions and they were new ones that my dermatologist wrote for me this morning and she told me that they probably were not covered by my insurance and would be pretty expensive. So I asked the lady if she could tell me how much they would be first and she said not without filling them and running them on your insurance. (??) So I said well, if you fill them and then I decide that I don't want them if they're too expensive, is that okay? She said no, we don't want to fill them until you're sure you're going to pay for them! (????hmmm...) SO, I had to sit down there and call my insurance company and I found out that all 3 prescriptions together is only going to cost me $27! (Such a blessing!!) So I took the Rx's back to have them filled and they said it would be two hours before they would be ready. I decided right then that I wasn't going to stress or get bent out of shape about it...it was no big deal. By this time my car should have been close to being ready so I headed for the Tire and Lube "EXPRESS" (yeah, right!). I didn't see my car and It hadn't been the full 45 minutes yet so I sat down in that nice little waiting room :) and waited. After it had been over an hour since I dropped it off, I got up and went to the counter, still not seeing my car out the window. Before I could ask if my car was done, the girl says "Are you the lady with the 07 Camry?" I said yes. She said, "Well, we caint do your "all" change 'cause we aint got a filter for it." I wanted to say, I've been in the store and sitting here for over an hour and you couldn't call me on the intercom or SOMETHING?!! But, I didn't. Only by the grace of God, I just smiled and said Okay and took my keys from her. Now, I'm thinking that not being able to get my Rx's might have been a blessing because it will get me out of the house alone AGAIN today when I have to go get them later!!! :)
It has been awesome having the in-laws here and getting to go and do things alone that I would normally have to drag the kids to. I think the girls are thankful too! They hate going to Wal-Mart, shopping, or anywhere other than the park. Nathan's birthday is on Wednesday and when his mom asked what he wanted he said "For you to keep the kids-that would be the best gift ever." ha!
Emma is down for a nap now so I think I'm going to go take one myself. :)