November 6th, Sunday -
Nothing specifically mentioned here, but I do remember helping a girl in our primary as she was nearly having a meltdown. She claimed her brother was bothering her (they are both mentally-handicapped, so his cries of "Move, NAME," kind of escaped my ears for a bit). I took her out into the hall to do sort of a reset, and I was only 4% away from giving her to her mom because I certainly didn't want to just "fix" the situation because I was its Savior when all she was really crying for was her mom and her sister. That's fine - we do what's best for the child. Then when she was still acting pretty distressed, I walked her around the church and we talked about what we saw to get her mind off of it. When we finally reached Relief Society and I pointed out her mom from the back, I asked her if she'd like me to get her or if she wanted to go finish Primary. And she said she wanted to finish Primary before she talked to her mom! She we got to walk back and while she was still a handful, I think we avoided a situation.
November 7th, Monday -
I had bought a straw bale for my duck pen (there's another story about this that I'll mention later) so I was a big farm girl and distributed it in the coop and the grounds. I hope that will keep them warm. It attracted sparrows at first like nobody's business though. Then I got the wild hankering to clear up the Asian Elms that were surrounding the pen on the back of the garden shed, so I went at them with shears and saws and I found a dead black bird!
Hold up - a dead black.. bird.
I found Zoe. Our previous duck who had mysteriously disappeared while we had no good protection for these poor ducks (novices) and Wash was found scratched up. (The reason we got Rinse.) I had found Zoe's body. So that was lovely.
That night, I allotted time for my family to watch a movie that had been recommended by a friend to me called Belle. It's all about a girl who has an alternate ego in another vitual world, but it's the music that drew my friend to it, and admittedly I have been binge-listening to one of the songs ever since we viewed it. (Gales of Song) The show was unique in its delivery, and it made Atlantean cry! He said he wanted to buy it.
November 8th Tuesday -
Despite the idea I had of trying out public transport to go do a snack run, it was rainy, and I was lazy, so we just drive to the nearest Natural Grocers where I was finally able to get Merrow and I some healthy (what I like to call "snooty") snacks. Then we spent a little more money picking up cheaper alternative ingredients that I had tried to find at Smith's.
We had a date night later where we dropped Merrow off and then came home to watch The Secrets of Dumbledore.
November 9th Wednesday -
So, to go back a little in time that I didn't cover cuz I'm still trying to get in the habit of journaling, On October 27th, I went to go see Dracula He Loved in Vein at Desert Star Theatre for my Daddy-Daughter Date night when I get to go out to be alone and have some time to myself. It was as hokey as you would have thought. To save on money, I didn't buy any dinner, and I tried to leave early because apparently the second half was just a grouping of dorky monster mash songs, but when I went out after intermission to go start my car, it straight up wouldn't start! I called Atlantean desperately and asked him to come get me. So I slunk back inside to go watch the rest of the show while I waited for him to arrive and instead of me getting out ahead of everyone, we had to wait for everyone else to leave so Atlantean could pull his car out in front of me, since I was parked on the side of the road. (yay! -_-)
So we got to work. I swore I had a set of jumper cable in my car, because that's where I always keep them. (Where the heck else would they go??) So I was digging around, but here's the issue:
The jumper cables would be in a bag in the back of my car, i.e. the trunk.
The battery has died so none of the electrics works so the trunk doesn't open because I can't unlock it! (Also both our key's remotes have been out of battery for a while)
There is a straw bale in the back of the car, taking up the entire width of the car, so we are pushing it as hard we can against the door and digging out below it in hopes of finding a familiar canvas feeling of the jumper cable bag.
The battery has died, so the only light I can use is my phone, which may become an essential life line, but since it is the end of the day, its battery is very limited.
To top it all off, the back of my car is a mess, so we're dumping stuff into Atlantean's car and Merrow is obviously with him, and wants to be involved and has limited patience, but she was certainly not going to be party to electric wires and speedy traffic, so we had to leave her bawling all alone in Atlantean's car while we worked.
Suffice to say, for about forty-five minutes, we worked with a semi-charged battery and cables that uncle Aos Si had given us and miraculously Atlantean got it to work even when it was starting to look a little hopeless. Turns out I left my headlights on.
Or so we THOUGHT because Wednesday, I tried to start the car to go transfer some plasma-donation money to our account at the bank, and it had a hard time starting again! So I made the executive decision to still go to the bank in hopes it would come back alive when it came time to leave. Well, I had the brilliant idea on the drive over that there was a well-beloved and well-trusted Tunex right next to the bank, so I dropped the car off there, walked to the bank where I was rejected (because it was Atlantean's donation and they needed HIS ID.) and then walked to a park nearby. Atlantean came home early to pick us up because he wasn't having a great day anyway. And then Tunex charged us $300 for a new battery, which we saw to be actually quite a good deal. That was Wednesday.
November 10th Thursday -
I got to ship my comics! Lately, to save money, I've been parceling out activities for specific days so I go crazy less often and this day was scheduled to go ship my Tale of the Blacktongue to two people I wanted to have it. A girl whose character is in it and she was having trouble accessing what I'd posted online, and a girl who (I think) admires me in Carrie, ID. :) That was exciting for me :) (I just got a message yesterday from the first one saying she'd received it). Then I moved Daddy-Daughter date time to this night instead, so I hiked on over to the library in names of maybe taking a Zentangle class they were offering. I sat there and got my NaNoWriMo done (I'm doing it this year- a little Gothic short story that's been rolling around in the back of my brain. I'm at 7,392 words out of 12,000 so far - so doing pretty good! and it's been an enjoyable experience.)
November 11th Friday -
Gall, I don't remember much about what happened this day. We had something happen in the morning, but Aos Si didn't come to D&D again so it was just Werewolf and Flying Pig (who have chosen a name for their unborn baby boy!) and we played another game of DC Rebirth. Last week, I had to betray them all but not tell them and make sure that we failed the scenario so we get our new scenario cards which was HARD, but it got easier.... It was fun, looking back. At the time it was stressful.
November 12th Saturday -
Had Activity Days in the morning that I only had one activity for the day, and it went by really fast. I thought maybe the other leaders were judging me and thinking this wasn't going so well, so I tried to show off my ducks and my boxing equipment to keep them entertained. I feel sort of foolish about the whole thing, but I do want kids to feel like my house is a cool place. One of the boys was left behind because his parents were a couple minutes late, so we had him help us rake our tree's leaves (which fell in MASS EXODUS in one night!) and he was having so much fun in the enormous leaf pile that he asked his parents if he could stay longer. We told him we had other things to get to, but it was super cool to have him want to stay. <3
Later that night, a birthday party I had been working on with one of Brownie's friends was coming together. I went and picked up doughnuts from her favorite doughnut place. Then we had a meal of chicken salad, fruit salad and Caesar salad and way too many sweets. We tattooed ourselves with horrible leftover temporary Halloween tattoos, and even got the crazy ADHD one to convince us all to get tramp stamps. I now have a miniature blood-sucking Dracula on my rear end. We finally got to watching the show, the Pirates of the Caribbean 3 that I thought was the main event, but more people kept showing up and wanting to talk to Brownie, and I thought that was good but I also kinda just wanted to watch the show... I was a little disheartened at the end of the evening because all anyone wanted to talk about was gossip, sex and raunchy "funny" topics. I felt like the most mature of the group, and I didn't really like it.
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