Saturday

Coffee at the Coffee Club – grocery shopping for lunch at CM and IT’s with Jessica – Kiddo at church – Home – Tress laundry and me making salad for lunch – lunch with Jessica – picked Kiddo from church – home – Chiangs’ kids at home – bathed the dog – snoozed on couch – went to church for prayer meet – got home – snoooooozed…

Sunday

I didn’t sleep in on Sunday – after letting the dog out just before 5, I watched the Villa game and got frustrated. Here was a golden opportunity to at least close the gap on Chelski and it slipped away badly. Martin O’Neil’s men did well however. I have been admiring John Collins the Villa centre back in recent games and he proved reliable again.

After the game I tried to go back to sleep but decided to go some gardening instead. The beautiful thing about this time of the year is how light it is from even just after 6am. I took the hose out, watered the back and front gardens, tidied around a little bit and took the dog out for a walk.

I came back and it was still only just after 7am. It’s amazing how much time one has when you’re up early. I made coffee and breakfast, did some quiet time and eventually made our way to church by about 9.45am.
Church was unbelievably scrappy. Announcements and miscellaneous items cropped up from all over and by the time the preacher got started it was almost 20 minutes behind. That didn’t pull him (Larry Sebastian) up though. He went the full gallop anyway – and more! When it was about 12.45pm (45 minutes over) I simply left the hall while Larry was going on about playing some tunes on the keyboard. Kiddo had a gig to teach music at 1.30pm and we just had to go. I always have difficulties with preachers who are undisciplined with time. They should have more respect for everyone’s time. At the very least, break it up the sermon into one or more parts and provide people with the option to leave after say the main part(s). When I walked away, I saw a few others doing the same and it just isn’t right for a speaker to be so presumptuous and ill-disciplined.

We dropped kiddo off at the gig, went to do some quick grocery shopping, picked her up and then decided it has been such a long day we needed coffee. We went to the Coffee Club at the Forest Hill Chase, which is our local. Kiddo then went and looked at some laptops and a model we have been eyeing was on special, with some $300 taken off (the Dell Studio 15) so we got that one.

We came home and I set up the laptop together with kiddo while Tress went about doing research for our planned trip to Adelaide in January. Kiddo then had a church friend pick her up to get to a dinner – the worship team dinner which I had concerns about (the cost). Tress and I went to a couple’s home for our dinner. This couple has a Golden Retriever so we brought our dog along for some socialising. The couple’s mum (hers) cooked Hokkien noodles. Food was great, company was just as good and Scruffi got to disturb the GR, so it was a good night out. Tress and I came back to Bruce Willis’ “Hostage” and we watched that while waiting for Kiddo to get back. She got back about 10.45pm, I have been dosing off on the couch before that and by 11pm after a brief catch up in kiddo’s room for a quick chat about how the dinner went, we ended the weekend.