Frustrating day today, but we got something done anyway in Another Open Diary refugee

John didn't want to wake up this morning so we were running late for church and I had a bright idea... I've been wanting to go up to the UCC church ever since we moved and I thought I remembered that their service was at 10.30 so we'd have just enough time to get there, or to only be a little late... we had to stop by the Episcopal church first - a month ago when I was feeling good I misguidedly signed up to do coffee hour next weekend. My reasoning was that I'd bake something special to celebrate my birthday and share it with the church... then I found out that John's working on Friday, and my health's taken a nosedive as any remaining effects of the prednisone have worn off and there's no way I can stand in the kitchen for hours on end baking. And my effective walking distance is down to half a mile again (I've gone for a walk every day even though I've been hurting, and yesterday I dragged the walker out of the cupboard for my walk) so I can't even get to the church, or anywhere else, by myself... Anyway, I ducked into the parish hall and crossed my name off the list with a little note of apology that I wouldn't be in town next week. I feel guilty about it because there wasn't anyone else signed up, but I can't do a coffee hour by myself anyway! Right now I can barely manage to get a cup of coffee! I just hope somebody else was willing to put their name down today... I won't be dumb enough to sign up for anything more than a week in advance again. I hate being a flake but I never know how I'm going to be more than a day in advance, and I hate letting people down...

After that we drove up to Jensen Beach and I tried to wrestle the location of the church out of John's phone while we were driving... I HATE using that thing to navigate, I just don't know how to work it! I was getting so frustrated by it that John took it off me and told me to chill out, then I tried again. Upshot of it all was guess what? Their service was at ten o'clock, not 10.30! Church was more than half over by the time we got there and there wasn't any point even going in... argh! So I didn't get to church today at all. John said that at least now we know where the church is... maybe we'll give it a try next weekend and then go and do something for my birthday afterwards. It's right in the middle of the (built-up) intercoastal dunes so it's super hilly and you get beautiful views of the water in between the houses. Then he had the bright idea that we could go to BJs since we were kind of in the area, so I went and bought some baking ingredients for whenever I feel well enough to use them... and then we stopped at Sonic for a shake. John had a coconut creme shake that tasted amazingly like a liquidised coconut creme pie and I had a pina colada slushy, which seemed to have an entire can of crushed pineapple in it. Not what I expected, but YUM! Then we came home and John ordered a pizza for a late lunch and we watched a movie while I washed his work clothes ready for tomorrow. So at least the day wasn't an entire waste!