After work Friday I was supposed to go to meet a friend. Since every other meeting was pretty structured, I was not aware of whether or not he could fly by the seat of his pants. Little did I know this would soon be found out.
Willy Wonka and I were supposed to meet up at Starbucks. Unfortunately, when I got home, put all my stuff away and got ready to go to Starbucks I opened the door and it was freezing. I normally don't mind and I put it on extra layers, but for some reason that just did not come to mind at the moment. I let him know that we should meet somewhere closer to my house and he had no problem with this sudden change of plans. He met me at the new designated location and then we decided to go to a nearby restaurant. A few minutes after we got in the restaurant an older couple walks in. The man looked familiar, but I could not place him.
“Hi Kimi”
Uh oh! “Hello sir”
And then explained that I know him from somewhere but I wasn't sure where even though I looked at his jacket and it had Numotion embroidered on it. Why do I know that name I was thinking... I then asked him and he refresh my memory. He did so by reminding me of the fantastic adventures we've had. Him repairing My Hotrod at Starbucks, over the phone, at my house and at NuMotion. I then began explaining how awesome he is to his girlfriend and then I remembered that. Willy Wonka was sitting as a table by himself. I look over there and he's talking with somebody else about the awesome wood carving on his walking stick. I finally get back home and crawled into bed realizing that tomorrow would be my birthday.
Springing out of bed that morning and realizing that it was my birthday, I remembered that there was a wrestling tournament going on that I wanted to go to. I wasn't sure if anyone from work would be available to take me so I put on my intentions on Facebook... Can I please have a ride to the wrestling tournament? Right after I got done posting that, I thought of the man I met the night before and the discussions we had. I decided to ask him and he said he would take me as long as we could do x y and z with his children (okay so is only x but that doesn't sound right so it says x y and z). Additional things came to mind that I needed to get done that day and I let him know what was going on to see if I should get them done before we went to the tournament or when it was over. After describing his availability I decided that we could do them after because the tournament was scheduled to get over around 5.
We met up and went in the tournament and I was able to see most of West students wrestle as well as see a coach and a few students that I don't see everyday.
Unfortunately we had to leave before the absolute land but I was supposed to see the places most of our students earned.
On the way home I asked if I could stop by the store and was reminded that we could because it would be snowy the next day. So we made it to the store and I got the few “necessities” to include a folder to organize a students papers. I have it in my head that I had put her papers in an empty folder that I already had on my wheelchair and when I got home to pull them out of the mm2 folder they will not there! I was completely panic! For what seemed like many grueling hours I was going through every single thing I had. About the time I was going to give up and looks like she employee that was not able to keep track of anything, I remembered at the end of the day how I dropped the paper off the bedroom just in case I got sick or something happened and I was not able to make it work. I also located other folders for potential students and I felt like I had won the golden ticket!
Even after the totally exciting and neurologically stimulating day, I woke up feeling down and out on Sunday. I thought “For sure I can make it to Church,” when I remembered the reason for stopping by the store. I glanced outside and there was no way I can make it to Church - although it was not that deep of snow even small amounts of snow ruin paths for my Hot Rod.
Thoughts of the rest of my day's plans raced through mt my mind. “Go to Church Kimi, at least TRY to go to Church. I rolled out the door and headed to Church with um …with the path being clear, I arrived at Church and was welcomed with great hugs and a warm beverage. The sermon (2 Sandal 11:1-27) was filled with such wonderful reminders and Pastor Brian's hilarious sense of humor and way of delivering concepts from ancient days into something more understandable today warmed up my heart! I am so excited spend time with my family tonight and have a wonderful week! Join me!
I didn't really reflect my emotions, or maybe I did but I suppose now you can see why I may seem everywhere.
