Today was wrapping, stuffing, meeting day.  I spent the morning stuffing stockings and wrapping presents for the Children's Christmas party at the Lodge this weekend.  No big deal, other than the bags we used as stockings left red stuff all over me.  My hands were stained when I headed out from the Lodge, no biggie, I thought.

I headed to the store, bought Pepto, Maalox, and Ginger Ale to soothe my poor stomach, got back into the car and glanced in the mirror.

On my face were red fingerprints, one on my nose, a couple on each cheek, my eye lid, my forehead.  I looked down, my baby blue shirt was now covered in red hand prints.

Yeah, it seems that the red became part of everything I touched.  And not only did I go into public like that, but of course I ran into 3 people I hadn't seen in years.

I can never run into them when I'm dressed up and not stained in red dye, can I?  Always when I look like I've been hittng the bottle for three weeks straight.  At least my hair looked decent.  Instead of being it my normal rushed, wild, hairs-sticking-out, pony tail, it was done, not too frizzy and as normal looking as my hair gets.

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My first business meeting as Chaplain went well, our new Senior Regent (head honcho for those of you not in the Moose) did a wonderful job, and it was a fairly quick meeting.  I did run out of time to get my cards down before hand with my parts written on it, but I will have them for next time. I can read from them instead of the book, which makes it look much better and go more smoothly.

I got home around 9:30 and Tony was here, with grades from his classes, Two As, one B+ so far for this semester, and one we're waiting on.  Very good news in that.  I'm so damn proud of him, that I'm sitting here with a big ass grin on my face.  

It's late, now, time to close and get this up.  
 

FTP issues are making me late, here, sorry guys.
 Suzy Smith