Monday, December 11, 2007

Today was a day of another first. Bruce is now singing in the Quail Run RV choir. He says he has never sung in a choir before today. When he got back from practice this evening I asked him if he had fun. He replies, "Yes but only because I get to stand beside Darryl". Darryl and Bruce would very likely have fun together even if they were walking through a fire. Bruce spent quite a bit of the morning conversing with different people at the nursing home about his mother. She continues to not eat and she continues to lose weight. She is now at 90 pounds so they've moved her back to the dining room where she is fed by a nurse instead of being expected to feed herself. The staff at the nursing home is doing whatever they can to get her to eat. The nursing home insurance has finally agreed that they will pay the majority of her bill so Bruce was happy to get that settled. Our day in the office was fun. We brainstormed about the New Year's Eve party. We've had a hard time getting residents to purchase tickets in advance. We need advance purchase because the only money we have for events is money we collect for admission. We decided to put a note on the park tv channel saying that seats were limited so they need to get their ticket right away. It worked. Several people came in and said they didn't want to miss the party. We sold all kinds of tickets. We also decided that we were going to make every workamper responsible for selling at least 10 tickets - kind of like we had to do for kid events. I don't think I've written about the smell in our office. Well, it seems that someone didn't do something right and raw sewage was leaking and spreading through the floor. The poor maintenance guys worked all day Saturday and part of today but all the soiled boards have been removed and we can breath now without getting sick. Always fun. After work this afternoon we drove into town to make a bank deposit and buy paper goods for a party. Now we are going to make goodie bags for our workampers. We've got an all hands meeting in the morning and we are going to distribute the bags. They will resemble the bags we got in church on Christmas Eve when we were children.