I spent the morning doing tax returns and then I updated our budget, so now it is pretty late and I need to make dinner soon. (Well, actually most of it is already made since we're having chicken salad sandwiches and I made the chicken salad this morning.) Anyway, I will try to keep this fairly brief. (You all know how bad I am at keeping things brief!)
Last Saturday (the 1st) I got my hair cut and the color done. The stylist used the same color she always does, but for some reason it looks a lot darker! I like it, but it's kind of weird how dark it is. I can't remember what else I did on Saturday except I worked on a bunch of tax returns. I'm pretty sure I also practiced ukulele and cleaned the kitchen floor, because I usually do that on Saturdays. Oh yes! I just remembered...we also bought a new lawn mower and Seth got to use it right away. Lucky boy! :)
We mostly did the usual on Sunday...we had online Sunday School classes and then Sacrament meeting in person. After church, Frank went to help an elderly gentleman in our ward with his computer because it was having problems. He got things figured out and fixed pretty quickly. That evening I had an online meeting / training with the stake YW presidency. They mostly wanted to get to know us. It was a good meeting.
I kept busy Monday and Tuesday working at VITA. I took Wednesday off, but I worked on more tax returns last night and again this morning. On Monday evening we were playing a game for family night when our phones went crazy beccause there was a tornado warning for our area and we should "take cover now!". We turned on the weather channel and they had Frederick, Maryland live, saying that rotation was right over the downtown area. It was dark outside but not windy. We went down to the basement for a little while but we kept checking the radar and it looked like we were going to be fine. We did get a lot of rain--it rained really hard! But it never got windy. I think the worst of the storm went north of Frederick because we haven't heard of or seen any damage around Frederick this week either.
On Tuesday evening Seth had an in-person YM activity...they played gaga ball. He said it was a lot of fun. For YW we had a virtual activity. When I picked up Seth from school that afternoon, I spent about an hour driving around delivering supplies to some of the girls' houses. For our activity, we made Star Wars-themed Mother's Day cards in honor of "May the 4th" and Mother's Day (of course). The cards were really cute and we had a good time talking while we made them. A couple of girls came who don't usually come, so that was great! I had already sent Mother's Day card to both our moms, so instead I made a Star Wars themed Father's Day card for Seth to give to Frank. I'll share a photo of it after Father's Day.
On Wednesday afternoon I had an appointment to renew my driver's license. Going the the MVA (Maryland Vehicle Administration) is never a fun experience and this one ran true to form. In spite of the fact that I had an appointment, they were running way behind and so I waited outside in a long line for nearly an hour (my neck actually got sunburned!) and then waited inside for nearly another hour until it was finally my turn. Getting my license renewed only took about 15 minutes. I had to do it in person this time (instead of by mail) because I was due to get a new photo taken and to have an eye test. I also needed to get a "Real ID" license so I had to present a ton of documents for that. My appointment was at 1:00 and I finally got home around 3:00. That pretty much took up most of my afternoon. Then I talked to Amy on the phone for a couple of hours, which took the rest of the afternoon (but was much more pleasant than going to the MVA). That evening we had an online visit with the Elders serving in our ward. Both of them are fairly new to our area (only been here about 3 weeks) so they are trying to get to know members of the ward. We enjoyed talking to them and getting to know them...they seem to be pretty sharp. One of them is brand new (getting trained) and the other one is one of Izak's former companions, Elder Wayment. He only has 2 months left before he goes home. They asked if they could teach us one of the discussions next time we meet so that the new Elder can get in some practice. So we will be doing that in a few weeks. Elder Wayment asked me on Sunday if I had a relative who had served in this mission...he saw my maiden name on FB and wondered if I might be related to Izak. He was really excited to find out that Izak is my nephew!
Yesterday I had a YW presidency meeting in the afternoon. Last night we went out to eat (I forgot to get meat out of the freezer for dinner) and we decided to try a new place that has just opened up in Frederick called Mission BBQ. I think it may have locations all across the country, so maybe you already know all about it. We liked it. The food was really good and the decor honors all the people serving in the military. I think it is owned by a veteran. I think that is a cool idea.
I have been playing phone tag with the nurse from the cardiologist's office for 2 weeks. I never hear my cell phone ring when she calls, and she never answers her phone when I call her back. This week she decided to leave me a message on my voicemail with the test results (I guess she finally gave up on talking to me in person.) She said my echo showed some mild to moderate "mitro valve regurgitation" which means one of my valves doesn't close tightly which leads to some backflow. That wasn't surprising because I've had a leaky valve at least since I was 20 (which was the first time I ever had an echo done) and possibly it's been there my whole life, so that was nothing new. The doctor wants me to get another echo in a year though. Then she said "your holter test did show...sorry, I'm pulling up your chart..." and then the message cut off!! So I still don't know what the holter results are excpet that something showed up. Probably some a fib, I'm guessing. I once again called her back and left another message to let her know I didn't get the entire message. Hopefully she will call back soon.
Seth did better at keeping up with his schoolwork this week (the previous 2 weeks he ended up finishing homework on Saturday morning). He started taking his new medication but we are not sure it is working very well. He says he feels like it's harder to focus and I have noticed him acting less focused too. That seems weird, because it is the same medication he was taking before--it's just supposed to stay in his system longer (which also doesn't seem to be happening). I will have to follow up with the doctor on that. Frank is keeping very busy with work, although he hasn't had any overnights the last few weeks. He has more of those coming up, though. He is working really hard on a new database and he is making progress. Hopefully he will be done with that soon. He is still doing well with exercising and eating well. He has lost some weight and he definitely looks thinner to me.
I'm probably forgetting something, but I can't think of anything else to report about this week.
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