Middle America's Worldview

I am already dreading work tomorrow. I know the vise will be back on the neck in the morning. I will not bore you with work. I will move on.

Yesterday I was excited. I received my DVD movie in the mail. I bought The Seven Samurai from EBay on 10.26.04 and received it Saturday. It was shipped in from Hong Kong. I was able to acquire it for 8 bucks! I won the EBay bid for .01 and the shipping was 7.99. It was an unbelievable price. The DVD was a 2 DVD set, brand new in the package. Yes, it has the English subtitles. I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, but I look forward to the opportunity when I do.

Kelli woke up feeling a little better than the day before. She has already met most of her sleep than she has ever had. Rather than the pain Saturday, she was just drained.
Her parents wanted to take us all out for lunch with her brother. It was for her brother’s birthday. She rested most of the morning. However, while she was online she checked into Home Depot. Can we say free credit? On a whim she saw if we could acquire any credit. Amazingly, we qualified for it. So we thought we would see if they had some storage appliances for outside and inside the garage. A little before the dedicated time to meet her parents at the restaurant we strolled into Home Depot to check it out. The store has been in Fort Smith for a little time, but we never been in it. We mainly shop at Lowes when we need anything for the house and yard. The prices weren’t as bad as we thought. Actually we spotted what we were wanting before we hit the store doors. Thanks to the outside display we identified the vinyl Rubbermaid tool house begging to come home with us. We went in and strolled around and noticed a couple more items of interest. During lunch with the parents and her brother, we mentioned our findings to her parents. They also were going to Home Depot after lunch. Her brother split for a hot date as soon as his food was ate. The rest of us met at Home Depot. I inquired her Dad would haul our items in his truck if I purchased them. He didn’t care to take them to our house. However, the kid (looked younger than me) asked exactly what kind of truck we had to haul the shed. I told him Dodge Ram, pointing out the red one in the lot. He looked at me and said he wouldn’t do it and asked if we had a trailer. Crap. I thought. How big is this box?
It was decided to go ahead and purchase it and Kelli’s Dad would come by in the morning with the trailer to haul it home. So the deal was done and I was on my way with another credit card payment. Ahh America the beautiful.

We also bought a couple of storage cabinets for our much needed garage. My daughter helped me put those together Saturday afternoon. Kelli pushed too hard being up and running so was knocked down 2 notches below where she started that morning. It was sad to have her want to clean and organize but couldn’t. Believe me, she would if she could, organization is her thing. I partied with the kids that evening and they fell out before 9 p.m. Since they had another sleepover in the living room, I watched the ‘Daniel, by Ed Hindson’, a walkthrough the book of Daniel by the prophecy scholar Dr. Ed Hindson. Telling everyone right now, if you never checked out his books or tapes, you really need to. I hold John Hagee pretty high on my ladder of good teachers in prophecy. Ed Hindson now is there, if not a little above. If you knew my collection of Hagee material, you would know that is saying a lot. Fortunately for me I have a friend in church loaning me copies of his Ed Hindson tapes.
Tired yet again, I went to bed. I looked at the clock in our bedroom, wondering the time and seen it was 9:30 p.m. What a wuss.

Kelli was up at 2:30 sick and with a splitting headache. She now had a rash from the meds and other issues. As she became as comfortable as possible, I was now awake. I went back to my daughter’s room and finished watching the Daniel tape. I went back to bed on to keep looking at the clock from 5 a.m. on to 6 when I finally got up.

Kelli’s dad came a little before 8 a.m. I had drinks and breakfast ready for the kids, who were up watching cartoons. I left to grab our new projects at Home Depot. Since we arrived a little early, we ran over to Walgreens to pick up Kelli’s new prescription. (We had called the on-call doctor to get a new script since the one she was on was causing the rash, ECT around 6:40 a.m.) Of course the pharmacies (open 24 hours) didn’t have it ready (now just before 8 a.m.). Seems their voicemail box doesn’t light up when a call-in was made, as it use to. Getting the script, we ran over to Home Depot where they gathered the shed and some rock I had bought as well for our flower beds in the front. Yes, give me money/credit I just spend it. Well when they brought the box out, I can see why they looked funny yesterday. This bad boy was huge. It was probably a good 10 by 8 foot, approximately 3 feet deep. Needless to say the trailer was full. We brought it home and just couldn’t get ready to get started. Sigh, where’s my coffee.

Well, I didn’t make it to Church as desired. It took all day putting up the outside sheds. We also moved our garage ‘junk’ into the sheds. This made quite a lot of room in the garage, as we hoped. I haven’t put all the cabinets together yet and didn’t even touch the rocks. But I felt we cut into it today. Not just a dent, but a good cut. For an old boy in front of the computer at work everyday, that was a lot of manual labor done. I am already sore and will probably really feel it tomorrow. I must say my daughter really helped out on these projects and I was especially proud of her. She is 7 but I seen these other kids around here, and I was proud of her this weekend.

Now its 8:30 p.m. and the kids are in bed. Kelli also is in bed, but probably awake. I have the option of another good night sleep by going to bed now or watching my Seven Samurai in the living room. Hmm, if I go to bed now, my work day will get her that much faster.