Holiday Musings

Well, this past Sunday was pretty amazing…we had TORNADO warnings for SF. I had my usual game down at the Y, and on the way back up the sky opened for a torrential downpour (actually it was sideways) and my whole body was completely soaked…I ran through puddles, and there was a waterfall on the steps of the apts. on the way to my house, full on 8′ wide of water coming down the rise of each stair. Plus the intersection of Jackson and Baker was filled with 6″ of water.

So I left for church at 11, and when I got there the sidewalk was flooded so we had to go in the sanctuary from the front, and it was pagent day so it was completely filled. About halfway through the ceremony, the power goes out. Thank goodness the building was built before electricity, the fire kept going, the candles and sunlight lit the room (granted it was over cast and very cozy). The pagent went on with everyone singing to the piano rather than the organ.

Outside you could hear sirens, and I know that there were a lot of people upset at home. The service went on, and was lovely, and we even still had coffee hour with no power, it really showed me a lot and I very much appreciated that everything went directly as planned. I’ve signed up for the 10pm greeter on Christmas Eve.

In other news, the kids did the gingerbread houses last night, and today I had to pitch them because of the ants, I was actually suprised that they made it through the night, when I awoke this AM, no ants to be found, however at 7pm when I got home from coaching they were covered!

Yuk.

Anyway, I’m feeling pretty Christmasy and I need to finish a card tonight to sent to everone on my list.