Today was an early day! I had to get up at 7am to get ready for a Docent meeting at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, for which I am one. I the Zoo as a Docent two years ago, going through training for 3 months. Every Saturday from 9 til 4, and I will tell you it was a little hard to stay awake during the lectures, it's been a long time since I have been in school. Today, since I had to be at the Zoo by 9 so I can walk to the meeting site and be settled by the start of 930, I required a Pepsi, which I had in gallons. We had gotten two different messages about where the meeting was being held and I started walking toward our normal meeting space at Safari Cabin. I hadn't gotten very far when I stopped to see where this other woman was walking and then we both stopped and watched the deer casually stroll down the road. Then James to the rescue! He had a large golf cart and asked me if I was going to the Docent's meeting and I answered in the affirmative, so he offered me a ride to the other meeting site at the top of the hill. I was so glad I didn't have to walk up the cold and icy road to get to Moose Lodge! We picked up Docents on the way.
I have devised a method for staying awake at meetings, I crochet. Today I was working on a bright yellow cowl scarf and my neighboring Docent asked me if I made them for sale and I said yes. I described what mine look like, how they are are right up against the neck loosely and tall, so they can also be worn over your head like a hood while still covering your neck. She asked how much they were and I told her $35, which I thought was quite reasonable but she reacted like I said they were $100! If there was a sale to be made, I didn't get it, but oh well, I did stay awake during the meeting and during the lecture by an animal intern. We learned a little about the giraffes and their training for hoof care and how to tell the different giraffes apart by looking at their chest spots. She had pictures of a couple and told us who they were and how to recognize them. It was quite interesting.
We broke up sooner than I expected, at 1115 instead of 1145am and I proceeded out to my car in Guest parking. Then I drove back to hubby's work and waited 2 hours while he finished working. I crocheted a little and played on FaceBook. Wrote my cousin a letter. She is feeling a little down as her ex is getting remarried today and though she was the one to want the divorce, she was feeling a little inadequate, that everyone there would think his new wife was better. I told her to stop thinking that and get out of the house! Do something that you will enjoy and know that you made the right decision for you! Both her sons went to the wedding. Her ex planned that for his honeymoon they would be gone to Florida for a month. A month? Yes, a whole month. That is more than he did for my cousin. When they were married they never traveled for vacation, he never wanted to go anyplace. Oh well, she is much better shed of him.
I was so tired by the time we go done with hubby's work, he dropped me off at home then ran his errand and picked up some lunch at Popeye's. After we ate, we both laid down for a nap and slept for 3 hours! I wasn't quite done when we woke up and slept for another 2 hours! Needless to say, we were late feeding the beasties their dinners.
This weekend is a last ditch, have fun and do whatever we want, but still pack up and put away the Christmas stuff tomorrow. After this weekend, I will plan on how to proceed to get my exercise and get the dogs some exercise. And start my food diary. And plan on something productive every day, like doing some small bit of creative housekeeping.
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