April 2006 – Julie's Journal

C.S. Lewis

I went to an adult ed class this morning on the Chronicles of Narnia. Dad and I watched Ted’s movie Friday night and enjoyed it very much. I have never read the book “The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe”, but saw the play in Lakeland with 3 grandsons and one granddaughter, and am very familiar with the book. This was the second week of a 2 part lecture on it and I couldn’t imagine what our fabulous Bible Study teacher could talk about for two weeks in regard to this book.

It was great…. I mean, really great. I just wonder who in our family has read the The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and the other 6 books about Narnia? I’m all inspired, now, and want to read all of them. You all would really have enjoyed the class.

The other 6 books are: Prince Capian, The Horse and His Boy, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, The Magician’s Nephew, and The Last Battle.

Louanne will continue the lectures and we will read all of the above, then discuss. Dates aren’t set, yet, but if anybody wants to come, let me know.

Saturday April 29

Today started as a pleasent day and got better. Julie was off to play tennis and I left to meet Jeb and watch Kelly play soccer. Kelly was a very determined player but her team was undergirled. They did, however, shut out the other team’s goalie by not letting her touch a single ball. We left for our house and to meet Mom and Ted for a lunch of hamburgers and hot dogs with ice cream for dessert. Ted and Jeb then proceeded to complete a list of “to do’s” I made. They cut the lawns, trimed the three sisters, the nandinas, the box woods, the hedge on the side of the house, the azelias and cleared the dirt and leaves under the deck steps. Since Jeb cut the grass I didn’t have to give up my coupon from Ted. Kelly beat me in a putting contest and received the first metal trophey she had ever received. She was able to run the “around the house” course in 20 seconds and then Jeb and Ted tied at 19 seconds. I didn’t try it. After we all agreed an a job well done we proceeded inside the house and had a drink. My thanks to Jeb, Ted, Mom and Kelly for a very nice day. Dad

D. J.

Pamela Sue S. is our neighbor who has a condo above ours in Mulberry. I called her last night to tell her that we would not be coming down because Dan will have another catherization on his heart next Tuesday. She immediately said that she would pray for him. I have many Jewish friends, but I don’t think any of them have ever said they would pray for me. I appreciated that.

Then she told me that Dennis’ son, D. J. who is 26 years old has gotten his girlfirend pregnant and he wants Dennis to pay for a wedding. Well, Dennis, said that is the bride’s family responsibility, but knowing Dennis, he will probably end up paying for the wedding. Dennis is the person in charge of the upkeep of our condos and he is a really great guy.

D. J. has never had a real job, but now that he is going to have a wife and a baby, he decided he should try to get a real job. Dennis told Pamela Sue yesterday morning that D. J. had a job interview yesterday morning and he was so thankful that he had actually gotten an interview. Pamela Sue told Dennis that he should put some money in the poor box at the Catholic Church (keep in mind that Pamela Sue is Jewish) and Dennis asked if she would do it for him. She said “well, you should really light a candle, too.” So, Dennis pulled out a $20 bill for the poor box and two $1 bills to light candles for both of his sons. Now, Pamela Sue was going to the YMCA to work out and doesn’t like to have anybody elses money she is responsible for, so she went straight to St. Josephs Church, downtown Lakeland. She looked all over for a poor box, but could not find one. She saw a little old (about 90) man who was stooped and she went to him and asked him if he could tell her where the poor box was. Turns out he was a visiting retired priest. He said he didn’t believe there was a poor box. So, PS said she would just give the money to him and that he could pray for D. J. that he would get a job. The priest said he would make sure the money got to the poor, but that he would pray for him right away. This was at 11:00 a.m.

Later on that day, Dennis told Pamela Sue that D. J. had actually gotten the job at noon.

Nicole and Beth

Nicole and her Pyshic Hearts Band played in New York City last weekend and Elizabeth (Beth) came to the performance. They got to visit about 30 minutes and both of them enjoyed seeing each other. Beth sent me this photo. I’m so glad they got together. Way to go, girls!

Spanish

I don’t believe it myself, but I went for my first Spanish lesson this morning from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. at Saint Joseph’s Hospital (you cannot write St. Joseph’s because St. is the abbreviation for street). This was advertised as “Beginner Spanish”. There were 9 people in the class and every one has experience with Spanish except for you know who. They actually started with Lesson #12, verbs, page 31! I don’t really think I’ll ever catch on to any of it, but I’ll go when I can and hope they start a really beginner’s class sometime. Nice instructor, though, and an interesting class.

I worked 2 shifts after that. I worked Admissions this morning and Flowers/Cards/E-Mails this afternoon. I liked both departments. In fact, I like the whole thing. In the Flowers, etc. session, we deliver those to the patient’s rooms. That’s nice and cheerful.