Family, Friends and a Digital Camera: July 2009

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Friday, July 31, 2009

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Hot Weather Alert! July 28, 2009

So it rained for, like, FOREVER - and now it's so humid I get a workout just walking thru it from the house to the car!

Service was divine today - went out in the afternoon with LadybugEM - and had a very nice time. Kerry (from the RB) txt'd me and asked me if I could come in 4 to close because she wasn't feeling so well - I said sure, why not?!?

Went in, met a super cute and sweet girl - her first time in the RB and she was loving EVERYTHING - she works at Melrose Wakefield Hospital. I think I have a couple of pictures to post, I gotta check but I'm so overwhelmed already regarding getting things together for the convention....such is life

Monday, July 27, 2009

July 27, 2009 - YAY

Let me explain.....

Ok, last night after we came back from a Mom Day at MOS - I had to do some stuff around the house before collapsing into bed from complete exhaustion. One thing was vacuum my room - uhg I totally hate dust and junk on the floor (even tho I wear slippers everywhere). So I thought I'd look up the place we had reserved for the convention (Thurs-Sun) this weekend....and as I was looking at the pictures I realized (with complete HORROR) that it was the same place that had bedbugs 2 years ago!

Now, maybe I didn't blog about that here - because I really didn't know I had them until well after the convention of 2007 and after my 2 weeks in Pioneer School. But the lasting emotional and mental stress is clear as the day I realized (after much research, sleepless nights and about 72 bites on my body) that we, indeed, had bedbugs.

Anyway, back to the "YAY" title of my post. So last night I emailed the Secretary of our congregation and told him that I need to see the most recent hotel list because I had to change my rooms immediately (this was at 10:30pm) then I started calling around to hotels I thought were on the list, and asking if they had a block of rooms reserved for our convention....it was a bust last night- but I received an email response at 5:47am from him and he was already on it.

I was still stressing out totally - and started looking online for just surrounding hotels (on hotels.com) to see what was the going rate - if we couldn't find rooms on the hotel list.

I did find one - that was reasonable and had availability - but I told myself (over and over again btw) to wait on Jehovah - wait for the list and call them first.

So the secretary called and actually read off a list of 7 hotels that were left - and I started calling them. With each negative response, I asked Jehovah for strength to deal with not finding a room on the list.

the very last place - The Red Roof Inn - So. Deerfield - told me that they were booked up with our rate of $64 but asked me to hold on. When Rita came back on the phone she informed me that the Manager said she's give me a room for the nights we wanted!!! but I had to tell her that I needed 2 rooms.....I heard her say "can we give them 2 rooms?" - and YES they could!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are all set and, as usual, all good gifts are attributed to Jehovah and following his direction!

Saturday, July 25, 2009

July 25, 2009 - Service Pictures with my honey

This was on the step of a house we were bringing the invitation to the convention to - no one was home but I wondered what did they have to remember....