Racking up a Few Miles for the New Tires. 23 December 2016

I am not sure how I managed not to post yesterday, but when I opened the browser tab, there was my writing from yesterday!  So today will show as two posts, but the Elijah day happened on the 22nd.

Last night I did not sleep well, so it was really nice not to have to get up to an alarm this morning.  During the night when I could not sleep I was able to attach some titles to pictures and documents in Family Tree Memories on one of my tablet devices. That was nice, but during the day I did the same on the laptop, which was a little easier typing.

Yesterday when I was getting the tire papers out to the car I noticed [blessedly] that I am supposed to drive on them 25 miles, and then go back to get the connectors tightened. I had not figured out how to build up those 25 miles, as the trip back to the shop is only about 6 1/2 miles. I was sitting in my car trying to decide what to do when I got a call from my youngest daughter, so I was glad I had not yet started driving.  We talked for quite a while--I went back to the apartment.

The property managers had posted a notice that at noon there would be a Jingle Mingle--whatever that was--in the neighboring apartments.  I did go there with one of the Japanese sisters, and we had a little bit of cheese and sausage and crackers.  I passed on the cookies, and the apple juice.  Only a few other people came while we were there, so we were able to leave after just a short time.

The Japanese sister mentioned she was going to take the light rail to a store to get her food to take to tomorrow's dinner--so I offered to take her, since that would use some miles, so that worked out well.  I told her I was going to the temple in the afternoon [as my Sweetheart would be in the St. Louis Temple at the same time], so she decided to go also.  There were some other missionaries we knew in the session, so that was pleasant.

I am waiting now for my Sweetheart to call, and then I will probably call it a night. Tomorrow will be somewhat busy with preparations for the branch dinner, which should turn out nicely.