It's 4am but I'm wide awake... since we moved, I've been waking up when the sun comes up and shines into the back porch beside the uncovered bedroom glass door, napping in the afternoon, 'can't-keep-my-eyes-open-one-minute-longer' flaking out by 9.30pm, and then waking up again in the wee small hours. Daylight savings starts in a week so I should be able to sleep a little longer in the morning, but for now I'm semi-nocturnal AND forcibly an early-morning person.
Tonight Scouty danced on me long enough to make sure that I was thoroughly awake at 3.30am, so I got up to look on Craig's List. I've never used it before, but it's where we found this duplex! John's going to be starting a new project at work this week and he's not going to have time to take me any place for the next month, so I have got to get some wheels of my own ASAP. I wish I'd thought of this last week so we could have gone looking this weekend but this project came up pretty suddenly. I think they asked him in Friday, and I'm still all schemozzled with moving. Anyway, I found three adult tricycles and a nice ladies bike to show to John, and we'll see what he says...
Went to the new church yesterday. It was okay... the chapel was very crowded and rather hot and stuffy for me, so I'm not sure I really want to go to church there every week. The Episcopalian service wasn't that different to what I'm used to now, but I'm really not sure that I'd want to go to the bother of becoming an Episcopalian. I was baptised on my 21st birthday (the date was my specific choice), I shouldn't need to be confirmed or reapproved now that I'm over 40! We've done the church membership three times (with varying degrees of rigmarole) and right now I'm not really interested in doing it all over again... especially since it seems like the Episcopalians have a LOT of rigmarole involved. This church has two traditional services and a contemporary one in the middle, which hardly anyone goes to (according to their bulletin anyway). We went to the 10am traditional service, next week we might try the 9am contemporary. It would be a LOT less crowded anyway because last week's attendance was 30 vs over 100. I wonder what a contemporary Episcopalian service even looks like - I thought they were a very traditional denomination, firmly attached to the 'traditional' trappings.
The landlord's sending a handyman to look at the oven this morning. Hopefully he can fix it easily... I keep wanting to bake and I can't! I had a brainwave last night though - I bought some chicken breasts on the bone and I was going to cut them off and pan-fry them, but I remembered that I still have the beat-up old electric skillet I got from my SIL after we got married. It runs super hot and I made stovetop 'roast' chicken inside 45 minutes. Yum! Glad I never gave the pot away after I got the slow cooker. Crockpots are okay in their place (for taking large amounts of hot stuff to a potluck or buffet which was why I bought it in the first place) but mine seems to suck all the flavour out of stuff if I cook in it from scratch, so I much prefer to use the oven.
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