I’m getting tired 9/11

 

It’s a sad day to commemorate – 24 years ago that terrorists killed so many people on September 11. Many young adults hadn’t even been born yet, so it didn’t impact them personally, but it changed the world forever.

On a happier note, we have peace and joy in our lives in spite of world conditions.

I woke up this morning about 2am again. There is just too much on my mind. Tom got up about an hour later. We were so wide awake, we decided we might as well be productive, so we turned on the lights and got busy. We went back to sleep for about an hour around 5. Not a great way to start a very busy day.

I have 4 major things I need to get done before Sunday – I have to learn 2 difficult hymns, get the dangerously unbalanced women moved into her new place, get the new hymn booklets printed and ready, and finished the dress I’m making for a friend.  First priority is practicing and the hymn booklets.

I had 10 mostly complete sets of the booklet. They were all missing certain pages or had places where hymns were on the wrong back of other hymns. I spent quite a while trying to get those fixed and finally decided I needed a new set that didn’t have problems.

So I went to the church website and pulled up each new hymn, clicked print, then did a screen shot of that hymn, then pasted it into a word document, making them half-sheet size.  I also did my morning routine of computer stuff and practicing.

Tom’s computer has been freezing up the last few days. I’ve done various things to fix it, but yesterday, it wouldn’t go past the blank blue screen, so I made an appointment with the Geek Squad at Best Buy. When I told them the problem and they looked at the outside of the computer, without even opening it, the guy asked how old it was. I think it’s more than 14 years old and he said we needed to buy a new computer. He said it probably doesn’t have windows 11 yet and can’t support windows 12, so better to replace. All support for that old of a computer is ending doon. I laughed because I know how much Tom hates technology changes and wouldn’t want a new computer.

I decided to give him my laptop, so I left without buying one. From there I went to the post office. A woman who wants pillowcases wants me to send them to her, so I went to get a price so she can send me the $$.

Then I went to Fed Ex office to make copies. I decided to print copies of the new hymn booklet that I created. I had to get help making the machine copy correctly, then had 4 copies finished when I realized I could be folding the pages while it is copying and that’s when I realized printing the paged back to back wouldn’t make them collate correctly for a booklet! I stopped the printing and got a man to help me again to see if the machine was smart enough to take the copies and make them into a booklet as it printed. It wouldn’t. So he took me to his manager who talked about how to do it. He said if I bring all the booklet pages on a flash drive, they can lay it out booklet style. Then he forgave me the whole cot of the printing I had done! It was close to a whole ream of paper and he credited it all back to me! I was so grateful!

When I got home, I worked at the computer for hours, printing out the pages in the right order for a booklet. It was exhausting to stand by the printer and get them printed out.

In the meantime, Tom had done yardwork, then went to help Susan get moved. He was determined to get her completely moved, then erase our numbers from her phone. However she was determined to NOT move out until the deadline on Monday. She wants to stay until the absolute last day allowed.

He took several loads of her stuff and arranged them into her room. There are boxes in every corner of her room and she isn’t finished.  The rest of the evening she sent very long texts to Tom and me telling us how sick and handicapped she is and that she just can’t get that much done in one day. It was extremely frustrating and stressful to me.

Christian had helped Tom move boxes and furniture, so when they finished, he came over here with Tom to spend the evening. After they got here, I worked on setting up the covers for the booklets. I have cut up the black plastic folders. Each folder made 4 covers. Then I printed the labels and put them on the front covers.

I think we finished doing that, it was 8:30 and I was ready for bed. We watched Church History and headed to bed about 9:30 when Christian left. What a day.