Another Busy Day

It was another busy day, only this time mostly on the computer. I had gotten an email yesterday from Good Sam offering to refinance our RV.  Their 3.99 percent interest sure sounds a lot better to me then the 9.5 percent we are presently paying. Their major criteria on their website seemed to be Credit Scores of over 700; a loan that's been in place for more than a year; and a few other minor things.

There was a phone number on the website, but after being on hold for almost 20 minutes, the lady I talked to said that the application must be filled out on-line. So I spent the next hour or so gathering up the necessary materials and filling out the form. Then I got an email back that said they would be in touch with me in a couple of days...


Next I received an email from the Mennonite Church office asking about which nights I would need a hotel room in Kansas City for the Executive Board meeting in April. Since I hadn't yet made my flight reservations, I needed to do that before I could respond. And while I was at it, I needed to make flight reservations back to Phoenix from Portland, Oregon for the Mennonite Church Biennial Assembly in July.

I was feeling pretty good about getting all my flights organized until I talked with my Son-in-law Todd. I hadn't double-checked the dates and made reservations for our flight back to Portland a day late... Of course, by the time I had figured it out, the travel agency in Kansas was closed! I left Debi an email, hopefully since it was less than 24 hours, she'll be able to change the reservations so that we can come back to Oregon on Saturday instead of Sunday.

We badly needed breakfast stuff - eggs, milk, bread and orange juice. We went over to Red Robin for guacamole hamburgers then on to Safeway to stock up.

Do You Realize It's Already JULY?!!

I was checking my bank statement last night and was surprised by the balance. Then I realized it was a new month and our social security had already been deposited! It's pretty bad when the city was celebrating the fourth of July yesterday and it hadn't dawned on me that we'd moved into another month... I am sure it's because I've been so busy, not because there is any mental deterioration on my part.

It was another busy day today, starting again with a delegate session at 8 AM and ending up with us back at the hotel by 11 PM. With Iris, I gave the report on the Spanish Language Intiative to the delegates this morning. It was going well until I looked down and could see myself in the TV monitor right in front of the podium (they were showing events on the stage over two large TV screens on the front walls). It momentarily startled me, but I think I recovered okay -- I just made sure that I didn't look down again!

Our flight back to Spokane doesn't leave until 7 PM tomorrow night (we won't get back to the ranch until way after midnight!), so we should have a quiet day tomorrow. We've been talking about going to the zoo, but we'll wait to see how ambitious we might be tomorrow.