Sweet solitude.
I am basking in the silence of my office. Mondays are usually a day sorely lacking in such. David is out, which does cut the noise level down a great deal, but Ricardo is in, and adds his own sort of noise. We've had a few moments of panic already, though both largely unnecessary. He's readying to play a memorial mass right now, then will play 12:10 Mass, then will hopefully go to lunch and leave me with a final hour of silence. I'll be able to get everything done today, including what he's added to my list, and will leave feeling more than accomplished. That is, of course, if it all goes according to plan. Most of life doesn't.
This next week will likely be filled with moments of panic, crises, and so forth. This upcoming weekend is incredibly busy around here. Only two weddings, one Friday and one Saturday, but still full. One set of ordinations is on Saturday morning, and the other is Sunday afternoon. Sunday also is the last big choral Sunday of the season, with all three choirs joining together at the 11:00 AM Mass. After that is our yearly potluck, one that is more hastily planned than any since I've been here. It'll go through well, and everyone will enjoy spending time together before departing for a summer, but I know it will be hectic. The professional choir will only get to be down there for about an hour before their call time for the ordinations, and many members of the ladies choir and the volunteer choir will not be there at all. It will be nice either way, and we will have a good time. It'll just be a little more hectic than usual.
I am on the clock for Sunday, as I am legitimately working from the time I get there until the time I leave. I also have to be in Monday to turn in payroll. I do get time off because of this, though, on Tuesday and Wednesday. So next week will be a little easier than others. The following week holds a national holiday, so I'll have another short week. And then night shifts end, and I'll work a somewhat "normal" schedule for three months. Such bliss.
We got the living room mostly taken care of on Sunday. I'd like to run the robot vacuum for a little while in there. We can't get it finished until we get the new guest bedroom finished, as some of the furniture from the living room will get swapped into the guest bedroom. Since I will be home tonight and Wednesday night, I hope to get every bit of laundry out of the basement. I'm sick of seeing a pile of linens in the basement, and it's taking up storage room besides. There's quite a few things we also need to get out of our bedroom and out of the nerd room and downstairs for storage. We also need to reorganize the basement in general and get rid of some of the stuff that's been sitting down there for almost a year and a half now. Now that we're working on taking out another loan that will hopefully cover waterproofing the basement, it's more pressing that we get things clean and organised downstairs.
Our wedding photo DVD came in on Saturday, and I've been having fun looking at the pictures that "didn't make the cut", so to speak, onto the slideshow that our photographer posted back in December. There's a few I need to order through her, since many of the 5x7s don't print well from Snapfish, and barely any of the 8x10s do, either. Now that we have these additional photos, we can finally (FINALLY) order the sponsors' gifts. Note to anyone planning to get married at any point in their life that doesn't invove running to the courthouse: you'll still be paying for wedding stuff long after the actual wedding is over. Blargh! Now all we need is the DVD proper, and we'll be good to go. That should be arriving any day now. I'm hoping it comes today, Wednesday, or Friday, though with my luck it'll be Tuesday, when I'm at work. Booerns.
We officially started with our friend Jon's guild on Gilneas on Sunday, and it was rather fun. We're looking to do Ragefire Chasm together on Sunday next. Lowell and I are two of the highest-level people in the guild, as we spent much more time this weekend playing than we realised. I don't know about Lowell, but I know I'm in competition with him, level-wise. I don't know why I'm bothering, as he always is better at WoW than me, but that's just how I am, I guess. Lowell is playing a Blood Elf Paladin (surprise surprise), and I'm a Tauren Druid. I am working on my cat form and already have my bear form. I'm a bear! :D We're going to play a bit more tonight, I believe, and then ease off for the remainder of the week. Most members of our guild are four or five levels below us, so we don't want to be too far ahead for next Sunday.
I think I've enjoyed my solitude for long enough. Time to get back to work.
This next week will likely be filled with moments of panic, crises, and so forth. This upcoming weekend is incredibly busy around here. Only two weddings, one Friday and one Saturday, but still full. One set of ordinations is on Saturday morning, and the other is Sunday afternoon. Sunday also is the last big choral Sunday of the season, with all three choirs joining together at the 11:00 AM Mass. After that is our yearly potluck, one that is more hastily planned than any since I've been here. It'll go through well, and everyone will enjoy spending time together before departing for a summer, but I know it will be hectic. The professional choir will only get to be down there for about an hour before their call time for the ordinations, and many members of the ladies choir and the volunteer choir will not be there at all. It will be nice either way, and we will have a good time. It'll just be a little more hectic than usual.
I am on the clock for Sunday, as I am legitimately working from the time I get there until the time I leave. I also have to be in Monday to turn in payroll. I do get time off because of this, though, on Tuesday and Wednesday. So next week will be a little easier than others. The following week holds a national holiday, so I'll have another short week. And then night shifts end, and I'll work a somewhat "normal" schedule for three months. Such bliss.
We got the living room mostly taken care of on Sunday. I'd like to run the robot vacuum for a little while in there. We can't get it finished until we get the new guest bedroom finished, as some of the furniture from the living room will get swapped into the guest bedroom. Since I will be home tonight and Wednesday night, I hope to get every bit of laundry out of the basement. I'm sick of seeing a pile of linens in the basement, and it's taking up storage room besides. There's quite a few things we also need to get out of our bedroom and out of the nerd room and downstairs for storage. We also need to reorganize the basement in general and get rid of some of the stuff that's been sitting down there for almost a year and a half now. Now that we're working on taking out another loan that will hopefully cover waterproofing the basement, it's more pressing that we get things clean and organised downstairs.
Our wedding photo DVD came in on Saturday, and I've been having fun looking at the pictures that "didn't make the cut", so to speak, onto the slideshow that our photographer posted back in December. There's a few I need to order through her, since many of the 5x7s don't print well from Snapfish, and barely any of the 8x10s do, either. Now that we have these additional photos, we can finally (FINALLY) order the sponsors' gifts. Note to anyone planning to get married at any point in their life that doesn't invove running to the courthouse: you'll still be paying for wedding stuff long after the actual wedding is over. Blargh! Now all we need is the DVD proper, and we'll be good to go. That should be arriving any day now. I'm hoping it comes today, Wednesday, or Friday, though with my luck it'll be Tuesday, when I'm at work. Booerns.
We officially started with our friend Jon's guild on Gilneas on Sunday, and it was rather fun. We're looking to do Ragefire Chasm together on Sunday next. Lowell and I are two of the highest-level people in the guild, as we spent much more time this weekend playing than we realised. I don't know about Lowell, but I know I'm in competition with him, level-wise. I don't know why I'm bothering, as he always is better at WoW than me, but that's just how I am, I guess. Lowell is playing a Blood Elf Paladin (surprise surprise), and I'm a Tauren Druid. I am working on my cat form and already have my bear form. I'm a bear! :D We're going to play a bit more tonight, I believe, and then ease off for the remainder of the week. Most members of our guild are four or five levels below us, so we don't want to be too far ahead for next Sunday.
I think I've enjoyed my solitude for long enough. Time to get back to work.