a good sunday
and it was. i got up this morning, came downstairs and listened to my favourite conference talks. they're so comfortable now--old friends, full of wisdom. i played majohng while i listened.
i usually give tania a ride to church. she takes the bus to the gas station on the corner where i pick her up at 12:30 (or close to it...), but today she came right to the house. she said she usually is there quite a bit before me but now that vicTOR is gone, there is no one to talk to, so she walked to the house. i had my hair it two low ponytails, but wasn't liking it. i was changing it to two low side buns and i was running late. tania said "why are jou doing dat to your hair? it was preetty." i ignored her. but later just before we left i saw that the side buns weren't the way i wanted them, and i didn't have time to fix them, so i just took them out. back to the side retro ponies and tania was happy. we picked up barb on her corner and got to church right smack dab on time. we started singing right after i planted my bum next to christine. our row has grown. now it's me, karey, elicia, christine, selina and tania. i remember back to the days when it was just karey and i, and barb and whatever boy she was hanging out with sat behind me to the left. the branch is so different now. we're some of the oldest oldtimers around.
anyways sunday school was good. i like the way gab and the hardy boy tag team teach. they prepare their lessons really well and it makes a difference. today it was about practical service. they started out with the "bring those people in from the plains" speech by Brigham Young, but they modernized it. rs was about the divine nature of service. funny how that happens.
i actually succeeded getting tania out of there very soon after church ended and i feel that this was quite an accomplishment because she's a real gabber. but today she was feeling sick, so i think that had something to do with it. her chattypatty defences were low. (every time i say chatty patty i automatically think of patty harftord.) so i invited tania over for dinner. i think i'm finally in the cooking at home mode again. i've been cooking lately. so i made us a mango peach smoothie first. i had experimented and made it the night before with fatima. all it was was canned peaches with their juice, frozen mango chunks, a little skim milk and a dash of lime. well tania sees me making it and says "jou need sugar?" "nope." i answered pleasantly, knowing what she's thinking in that meddling little mind of hers. "are jou sure it doesn't need sugar?" "yep." as soon as i gave her some she was like "i knew it. it needs sugar! where is your sugar?" i pointed her in the direction of the baking cupboard. i was relishing mine. still she would periodically say "i don't know how you can eat it without sugar." "i like it the way it is." i explained contentedly. it wasn't even very sour or tart. but she told me she likes things really sweet like the toffee i gave her earlier. each to his own my sistah. i was making the rice and tania asked what kind of rice. japanese, i told her. she had to look at the bag to see what brand. she amuses me somewhat. i defrosted my last two teriyaki chicken breasts from costoco, chopped and fried them with some onion and garlic and that was our simple meal. i'm using up my stores of food. the japanese rice is left over from the sarah, aiya-spya visit way back in november or something. the costco chicken has been in the freezer at least six months. maybe more.
we had orange herbal tea with echinacia in it (for tania) in my little green teapot. tania was amused that i had to light the little tea light under my teapot to keep it warm. she didn't think it would make a difference but i held to a different belief.
later karey and tania were helping me de-tangle my wool which is the most tangle prone of any wool i've ever had. we wanted some of elicia's napolean dynamite icecream (that's what karey said by accident when asking elicia for some) tania also wanted a warm cookie (she pronounces the oo in cookie like the oo in boo), so she made us some. i called to the girls downstairs "do jou girls want some icecream and coooookies?" she is fun to copy and easygoing about it. we had some good laughs and played a rousing game of missionary impossible. it reminded me of when we used to play it with leif when he was in that missionary impossible stage. actually that could have been the last time we played.
leif. hmm. i wonder if i'll ever stop being foolish. i look back and see a lot of foolisheness on my part. foolishness has been one of my catalysts towards learning i guess.
so it's been a good sunday. tania has grown on me. i like and enjoy her.
i usually give tania a ride to church. she takes the bus to the gas station on the corner where i pick her up at 12:30 (or close to it...), but today she came right to the house. she said she usually is there quite a bit before me but now that vicTOR is gone, there is no one to talk to, so she walked to the house. i had my hair it two low ponytails, but wasn't liking it. i was changing it to two low side buns and i was running late. tania said "why are jou doing dat to your hair? it was preetty." i ignored her. but later just before we left i saw that the side buns weren't the way i wanted them, and i didn't have time to fix them, so i just took them out. back to the side retro ponies and tania was happy. we picked up barb on her corner and got to church right smack dab on time. we started singing right after i planted my bum next to christine. our row has grown. now it's me, karey, elicia, christine, selina and tania. i remember back to the days when it was just karey and i, and barb and whatever boy she was hanging out with sat behind me to the left. the branch is so different now. we're some of the oldest oldtimers around.
anyways sunday school was good. i like the way gab and the hardy boy tag team teach. they prepare their lessons really well and it makes a difference. today it was about practical service. they started out with the "bring those people in from the plains" speech by Brigham Young, but they modernized it. rs was about the divine nature of service. funny how that happens.
i actually succeeded getting tania out of there very soon after church ended and i feel that this was quite an accomplishment because she's a real gabber. but today she was feeling sick, so i think that had something to do with it. her chattypatty defences were low. (every time i say chatty patty i automatically think of patty harftord.) so i invited tania over for dinner. i think i'm finally in the cooking at home mode again. i've been cooking lately. so i made us a mango peach smoothie first. i had experimented and made it the night before with fatima. all it was was canned peaches with their juice, frozen mango chunks, a little skim milk and a dash of lime. well tania sees me making it and says "jou need sugar?" "nope." i answered pleasantly, knowing what she's thinking in that meddling little mind of hers. "are jou sure it doesn't need sugar?" "yep." as soon as i gave her some she was like "i knew it. it needs sugar! where is your sugar?" i pointed her in the direction of the baking cupboard. i was relishing mine. still she would periodically say "i don't know how you can eat it without sugar." "i like it the way it is." i explained contentedly. it wasn't even very sour or tart. but she told me she likes things really sweet like the toffee i gave her earlier. each to his own my sistah. i was making the rice and tania asked what kind of rice. japanese, i told her. she had to look at the bag to see what brand. she amuses me somewhat. i defrosted my last two teriyaki chicken breasts from costoco, chopped and fried them with some onion and garlic and that was our simple meal. i'm using up my stores of food. the japanese rice is left over from the sarah, aiya-spya visit way back in november or something. the costco chicken has been in the freezer at least six months. maybe more.
we had orange herbal tea with echinacia in it (for tania) in my little green teapot. tania was amused that i had to light the little tea light under my teapot to keep it warm. she didn't think it would make a difference but i held to a different belief.
later karey and tania were helping me de-tangle my wool which is the most tangle prone of any wool i've ever had. we wanted some of elicia's napolean dynamite icecream (that's what karey said by accident when asking elicia for some) tania also wanted a warm cookie (she pronounces the oo in cookie like the oo in boo), so she made us some. i called to the girls downstairs "do jou girls want some icecream and coooookies?" she is fun to copy and easygoing about it. we had some good laughs and played a rousing game of missionary impossible. it reminded me of when we used to play it with leif when he was in that missionary impossible stage. actually that could have been the last time we played.
leif. hmm. i wonder if i'll ever stop being foolish. i look back and see a lot of foolisheness on my part. foolishness has been one of my catalysts towards learning i guess.
so it's been a good sunday. tania has grown on me. i like and enjoy her.
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