19th Wedding Anniversary

Yesterday was our 19th ann. It is crazy but it really does seem like we haven't been married that long. Zac is nearly 16 so, yes, we really our now middle-aged. Yuck!

We slept really late bec. David was off. We got up and David and Zac went to Curves to finish weed-eating. Zac's first job--grass cutter for the local Curves. Then they went to my mom's to weed eat there. (That is a whole "nuther" story.) Before Zac got all dirty, he stopped by Little Cesear's to get an application. They told him that they were hiring. Of all things, a sign holder. Well, when they got home I said, "no" to that one. $5 an hire is not worth gettting hit my an 18 wheeler on the side of 78 hi-way.

"Everything is Chinese"
After they got showers, we went to Chinese for lunch. She is really from Korea but to us country folks, everything foreign is "chinese". Suwah will tell you that it isn't real "chinese" but an American version. Her sister-in-law (was also my nieghbor) made me some "real" Korean food and it was delish. Suwah was our neighbor before we moved (which is still my mom's neighbor) so Zac asked her for a job. Unfortunately, she said business was slow bec. of the economy but if it picked up, she might need him. Hey, her husband did our bath remodel, maybe he needs a worker??


"Retiring Secretary"
After lunch we went to the ele. school to give the secretary a retirement present. We HATE that she is retiring bec. she always took care of our kids at school. Sample phone call from Mrs. East: "Dave, Autumn has left her field trip money at home. I am going to run her home to get it." Where else can you get that? The new secretary made a joke that she has a binder of instructions and there is a section marked "personal" and it has instuctions from Mrs. East to take care of our kids. But, that is the kind of school it is. Everyone knows everyone here.


"DATE NIGHT"
After we unpacked the groceries, we dropped Gray's friend off at his house next door and we headed to our "date". We went to Petrucelli's on 280 (our fave Italian "Eye-tal-yun"). The hostess asked us if we wanted to sit inside or outside. I told her it was our ann. so quiet would be nice. She said that she had a room by ourselves. Well, I thought, "That might be too quiet". So, we sit in our usual area. We sit there about long enough for the waiter to get our order (we already knew what we wanted). Then, we just looked at each other. We decided we did not want to sit in that area. Don't get me wrong bec. we love kids but just not last night. There was this baby next to us that kept running off and then they would go pick him and he would cry and cry. David jokingly told the hostess that we didn't have ours tonight and we didn't want someones else's either. We moved to another part of the resturant in a very romantic table (by the big EXIT sign). Really, it was very nice bec. it was only adults in the room.

After we talked for a long time, we left and went to Barnes and Noble so that I could spend a gift card that I found in my billfold. Forgot all about it. I looked for an hour and could only find a $6 book to buy. It is a pocket ref. titled. "A to Z: where everything is in the Bible." Autumn has gotton into reading the Bible and I was telling her how I find it interesting to read about things I wanted to know about instead of starting at the beginning like a chap. book. I think she will find this ref. usual. To finish my evening, I got a "White Choc. Mocha" coffee". DELICIOUS!! We got home about 10.


"NEW KITTY"
The other excitement of the day was gettting a wild cat. A stray had come up to my mother's house the other day and I feed it bec. it looked hungry. Of course, it stayed. My mother does not like cats and wanted it taken off. I told her if it didn't leave on it's on, I would bring it to my house. Now, you have to know that I have 3 big dogs that do not like cats but I figure the thing stands a better chance at my house that dropped off in some woods. As soon as it gets here, it runs into the woods!! David, Zac, and Autumn are crawling through briers and brambles to get this cat while i am standing there swatting knats holding a bowl of milk. Later, Autumn gets the cat and we get some kitty food from Walmart. She gets feed on the front porch (not before Autumn ties a bow on it's neck). And, it runs away to the biggest tree. Last night coming home, we saw a fox (coyote) something bigger than a dog running across the woods and I am hoping it didn't get the kitty. Our neighbor has had two kitten killed by a coyote from the woods. Autumn called us several times during our ann. dinner crying about that cat. I told her that it was wild and it had lived in the woods by itself. it knew how to take care of itself. We did a good thing by feeding it but if it wanted to still be wild, we couldn't change that. I haven't looked for it this morning but I am sure that the search will take up most of Autumn's day. So, we may now have Blackie, Dixie, Chewie, and Lola (or Lucy or Fancy or ...) Autumn keeps naming it over and over.


"NOSE SURGERY TODAY"
Lastly, for today... my dr. appt. to see about my "mole". ugly, gross, witchy-looking thing on my nose. David kept saying last night, "I hope everything goes well tomorrow." I finally said that I am not going to worry about, there is nothing I can do. It is what it is and we will find out later. Then we started joking about the giant scar on David's face from his skin cancer a couple of years ago. He was sitting in the dr. chair and the dr. says, "Mr. Thompson, it is a little bigger than we thought. We will have to remove more." She asked it like a question. And David's thought was.. "What choice do I have?" You just would have to see the huge scar from his left eye all the way back into his hair line. For the longest he told people he got into a bar fight and got hit with a broken beer bottle. I think he is expecting me to come home with half a nose today. "Oh, Mrs. Thompson, it is bigger than we thought. We will have to remove a little more of your nose."