12-17-22 Satisfying Saturday
I was up a decent time doing chores and received a message from Rae-Anne that Arby’s was on fire and she was on her way there. I don’t think I have ever gotten dressed so fast after replying OMG. I was about to pull on my boots when she explained that she meant it was crazy busy, not actually on fire. My heart and mind were racing! Brat! I did like the lip moisturizer in my advent though so I forgive her.
I realized suddenly that I was moving on from the loss of George the 3rd, began thinking about replacing him and mulling what I would name the new fish as I cleaned the bowl and accessories and readied the water. I decided on Sir Matthew as I have never met a Matt I didn’t love and miss my friend, Matt Steffich, who we lost too soon.
I laughed when I went outside and saw how much Missy has used the Pretty Litter boxes as her scratching post now that winter is here. I am glad she isn’t using the furniture.
The first stop of the day was to pick up Diane and go for lunch at Mr. Mike’s before going to bottle wine. I was so proud of myself for finding and remembering to bring a $10 gift card I had and then I forgot until we were leaving that it was game day and on the back of my tickets was a 15% discount, day of game only. We had a great visit and a good laugh over that, making a plan to go again on a game day and use the coupons this time. We had so much fun bottling my Raspberry Peach Sangria and visiting with Elva. I am glad I made the switch to Kootenay Winecrafters and we were even treated to delicious snacks. We were glad that Elvas daughter came along to help finish it as we had just eaten so much.
We dropped my gift off for Natalia and Maria and then headed back to Diane’s for a visit. Wade, Nikki, Hunter and Keaton stopped to deliver Diane’s vehicle which had been worked on and we had a bevie together. The boys are so cute and polite. As I was leaving I noticed again that Sean had not quite gotten the lights all the way up. I had an idea and came home to get my little dog decoration and went back on my way to the hockey game to finish the display.
Roger had a group of coworkers, friends and family in a corporate box at the hockey game and I was grateful to be included as Tracey had a headache and wasn’t feeling up to going. I took all the unused tickets from our group, two seniors, two adult and a child and went to find people in line to buy to give them to. It felt so good to say Merry Christmas and hand them out. I stopped for 50/50 tickets on my way tot he box and the old Rotarian gentleman who took my money did make me laugh. The woman ahead of me handed him a 10 and then I did the same. He said you are easy to please and I said yes, but would be even happier if I won. He replied, Well, you are a girl child so not usually easy to please (or some such wording, I was stuck on the girl child part) He did laugh and say he probably shouldn’t have said that and I did say it was dangerous words. Honestly, I wasn’t offended, just very amused. The game was fun from the box, we won and I cheered and danced during the Arby’s minute. It was funny though that Ash and I were both relieved they didn’t score as we both work the next two days and if they’d scored people could show their tickets in the next 48 hours and get free curly fries. I am grateful to Applied Industrial Technologies for the opportunity to watch from above.
I drove Gene home from work after the game and then came home and settled in for the evening. I am taking mom shopping tomorrow and then work at 4 so off to bed I shall go soon.
triumphgal 