waiting for sara

i'm waiting for sara, hannah and jonas to arrive tonight, so i thought i'd post something new. i will try to do some lists of eight. i don't have eight favorite restaraunts but you all know i like applebees a lot. my favorite chinese place is not china city, but wong's in fargo north dakota. and my favorite mexican place is ranch el rey's in rapid city south dakota. they had something called a reyrito that was extremely good. remember the italian place? i loved their pepper steak sandwiches. there was a steak place in price where dennis and i used to go called the matador, but it's gone now. isn't is sad that most of the places i like to eat are not there anymore?

as for tv shows, i don't have eight favorites of those either. i like house, the big bang theory, and the newshour. i also like three or four radio shows: car talk; wait wait, don't tell me; prairie home companion; and science friday with ira flato.

eight things i did today: read the scriptures, exercised, washed a load of whites, practised with jenny and ron for sunday, went to the post office and bank, shopped, cooked supper and made red cabbage.

i don't like to talk about the things i wish for or look forward to. i'm not sure why. it could be the things i look forward to the most are so far in the future there's no need to dwell on them and so obvious that i don't even need to mention them. i do look forward to seeing you all at thanksgiving (except you leslie, but i look forward to at least talking to you on thanksgiving) and i wish i had a clean house, better eyesight, and that dennis didn't have to work so hard.

well, i finally got to sunday evening. we have had an eventful and fun filled weekend. leslie and miranda both came home, plus it was stake conference: the culmination of many weeks of choir practise for our stake choir. i conducted and jenny accompanied the choir. we sang 'the king of love my shepherd is' last night at the adult session. after we finished jenny said she never wanted to see that music again. i guess the organ part was kind of hard, but i wasn't thinking about that when i chose it. it couldn't have been any more difficult than the perilously high soprano part. i twisted leslie's arm to come and sing with us to round out our somewhat sparse soprano section. we would appear to have had plenty of sopranoes, but very few of them sang very loud or very high, so i certainly appreciated her willingness to help me out, and i could hear a big difference with her sweet voice added. she even sat through practise and a two hour meeting that felt like four hours last night. then, this morning we sang 'the morning breaks the shadows flee' and 'my shepherd will supply my need' and they both turned out so well. i have a love/hate feeling about conducting stake choirs. i love the actual practise and production of the music, but getting people to come, arranging practise and figuring out all the logistics is not my cup of tea. i'm glad to have it over with so dennis and i can relax on sunday nights. dennis is always a good sport and comes and sings in whichever men's section needs him the most. this year he sang tenor.
we also did some quilting this weekend on miranda's quilt. it's fun, but a little stressful since we want to be able to do it much better than we're able to at this time. this quilt will have it's own homey charm and i hope miranda enjoys it for years to come.
now everyone has left and dennis and i are back to quietness. waving goodbye to leslie and she drove away left us a little sad and lonely, but before we know it it will be thanksgiving and the house will be full again. we'll see you all (mostly) then.