My throat hurts

I'm sick. That's why I didn't write anything last night. Plus it was such a long day. Even with starting at 10:45 instead of 7:00, I still felt exhausted. So I had meetings from 10:45 till 1:00. I grabbed some soup before sacrament meeting. Sacrament meeting was "interesting," mostly because the Bishop decided to give the morality sermon (even though that's still scheduled for next week). I was busy doing odds and ends all through Sunday School. Elder's Quorum was alright—we had to move into the gym because we have so many people. Which is fine by me. Shane gave the lesson and joked about how I was really good at volleyball (our team lost to theirs yesterday, while I was playing ultimate). Then he put me on the spot and had me bear my testimony about preparation and callings. It wasn't exactly the most inspiring testimony ever. By this time I was starting to feel a little sick, as well. Mostly, my throat was hurting. After church I stayed around to do some interviews, then sing in choir. Then we had a little bratwurst and sauerkraut party. Only, no one came. Again. The only persons from our ward who showed were Candace and Earl. Patrick and Erin came at about 6:30. Patrick, by the way, doesn't seem to be handling the break up with Shanta very well. He's stopped going to the 230th ward altogether. At 7:00, Ryan Webb and I went home teaching. First we saw Angela and Leah. We spent a good hour there. Then we saw the Dorsey sisters, and were there until about 8:45. Then there was ward prayer, and Mike, Mark, and I were spotlighted. Then came the evening mingling at our place. It was a small but fun crowd. Pretty much all of the usual people. Monica, Candance, Danika, Heather, Tina, Maria, Kim, Darcy, and Earl. Played a few games. Maria and I kicked Mike's and Kim's butts at fusbol. We played a little Uno and Cranium. Then came the blocking-in incident with Danika's car across the street. Our neighbors don't like anyone else to park there, so they blocked her in to prove a point. We had to knock on their door and ask them to move their cars (and of course they griped loudly about this) at 11:45 at night. After that Monica played some Tetris with us. I beat her, and then she beat everyone else in the room. By then, though, I was pretty exhausted, and definitely sick. So I retired for the evening while they played until who knows when.

This morning I woke up at 7:00 and my throat was killing me—something about the way things drip at night that just makes things so much worse on the throat. I got up and went to Albertsons for some OJ and cough drops. Then I came back, called up Derek J at the office and had him zip up the documentation so I could download it and work on it from home. I didn't get much accomplished before I fell asleep again, this time until 1:00. Then I started doing a little more work, but also tried to catch up on household projects such as paperwork on my desk and transferring all my home videos to my computer and setting up stuff on my desk for my laptop and redecorating my room. The room looks great, now, by the way. And is really organized. Somewhere in all of that I took another nap. I skipped FHE, and I spent the late evening watching a little TV with Mark before retiring at midnight.

Posted September 22, 2003 (11:40 PM) | Comments (1)