Hello Monday ~ August 26, 2024

Good Monday morning to you!  Oh, another eventful weekend was had here.  How was yours?  Here is a recap of goings on.....

Friday, I worked in the morning from home with my 2nd part time job and worked in the office that afternoon with my 1st part time job.  It is rare I have to go in on a Friday, but we had a big event Saturday.  More on that in a minue...

Friday evening, I came home and prepared my favorite frozen pizza.  This is Milton's veggie pizza on a cauliflower crust from Costco.  It is my favorite of the cauliflower crust pizzas.  I added turkey pepperoni and some additional mozzerella cheese and it taste delcious.  

It was even better when shared with Jenn! She came over Friday night and we enjoyed pizza, chocolate chip cookies and wine.  The cookie box picture is sideways, but that is appropriate for my life and weekend!  

We talked about everything from relationships, recipes, furniture, kids, worship music, and beginning to plan another blog trip!

Saturday morning, I left my house at 5:30 and helped set up for a 5K.  This is our annual fundraiser for the non-profit where I work.  It was beautiful to watch the colors of the sky unfold as the sun appeared.  The weather could not have been more perfect for a Saturday in August.  It was our best weather yet!  This is my 4th year to work this event.  We even had breezes throughout the morning & were so thankful.

We had over 1000 people registered for the race!

Brook came to see me for a ittle bit.

After cleaning up the race and going home to eat lunch, Brook and I headed out to get a car wash and go to the grocery store.  Right after this car wash, I also vacuumed the car.  When I was walking to the passenger side, I tripped over the curb and that is when I face planted on the concrete.

I fell on my knee and then my face.  My knee was scratched up and my glasses broke.  I hobbled over to Brook in the passenger seat and she saw I was bleeding.  My head was just throbbing.  I took her seat and she drove to urgent care.  They advised I did need stitches, but they don't do them, especially for a woman on her face.

That is when I ended up in the emergency room.  I had 4 shots at my eyebrow for them to give me several stitches.  I also have a decent scratch on my nose and forehead.  I think it was my glasses that caused the gash, which is right at my eyebrow.

After all of this, sweet Brook treated me to frozen yogurt.  She held my hand as the doctor did the stitches.  It was now late afternoon before we got back home and I rested on the couch.  I was so tired after such an early morning.  Brook went out and I was lazy and just pushed off everything on my to-do list.  I have learned to pivot with most plans these days.  I hold them very loosely, which has been a good lesson for me.

She did a great job at camoflouging my scars for Sunday morning and we went to church.  We went to Panera afterwards because we didn't want leftovers and it had been a while since the 2 of us went out to eat together.  We ran into 3 different people I know, so that was fun.  I am feeling much better now and will get stitches out later this week.  I just had my share of Tylenol and ibuprofren this weekend! Here is my favorite salad from Panera, the Strawberry Chicken Salad with fruits & pecans.  It is so good!

I will do a little work this morning and hopefully get a few more things done this week on my to-do list.  

Stay cool this last week of August!