Getting up

Even though I like going to church, it really is hard to get up when you have been sleeping soundly and the alarm goes off on some oldies station. I hate oldies, so it made me want to turn the radio off real quick, but then I just kinda sat on the edge of the bed and stared into nothing for a little while. I know that was not the most productive use of my time, but it sure was satisfying to not have to do anything for a little while. I polished my shoes yesterday, and let me say, that is not a small task by any stretch of the imagination. It takes a long time to spread all the polish over the shoe with Q-tips and paper towels and then polish it with the inside of a sock that mysteriously ended up in my load of laundry. I figure that I will not find the owner of it anytime soon, so why not put it to good use until that time when I am able to locate the original owner of the sock. The good thing is, we are only required to polish the toe and heel of the shoes. For some people with really small feet, that is not too much, but for the small canoes I have attached to the end of my legs, that is a whole lot of real estate that has to look perfect. In fact, I bet I polish the equivalent of an entire one of some of the girls shoes. They can have their shoes on and be able to put my shoe on and lace it up. They have tiny little areas that are required to be shiny, I have approximately half a cow that has to be polished, buffed, and perfect to meet the standards that are put in place to keep us looking good.

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Drill meet

All day I was at the drill meet today. I have quite the little tan line; or rather burn line, across my forehead and in a nice v on my chest. I got to see my mom today! She was close by and just couldn’t resist coming up to see little old’ Noah. We got Chinese food, which she promptly threw all over the floor in the van. And by threw, I don’t mean just a little that spilled over onto the floor, I mean the whole meal was lying on the mat in the car. We saw a wedding going on in the park, which was quite nice. As we were preparing to leave, the bride and groom went behind us on a bicycle built for two. It was perhaps a budget wedding. The big hints that led us to this conclusion is that: 1) It was in a public park with metal folding chairs, 2) They rode away not in a limo, but on a bicycle, and 3) They stopped at the end of the remote parking area and put the bicycle into the back of the pickup truck. It looked pleasant though, and whatever you can do to save a little money here and there goes a long way in the long run. The color guard this morning went off without a hitch. I performed perfectly as did the other three people in the color guard. I would like to say that the rifles got comments saying how well we were together. I just nodded and smiled as I thought to myself, “Well, what else did you expect?!?!”

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