Was it in the movie Apollo 13, when they circled the dark
side of the moon, and they signed off just before they lost communications, and
Earth wouldn’t hear from them until they had come back out from behind the moon.
Does anyone else remember that? Or was it from a different movie? Anyway, I am
not going to look it up on-line! You are just going to have to bear with me. Because
this may be my last communication until I get back in the States. I know I will
have internet in Kenya, but I don’t know how much I will actually get on-line. Enough
to e-mail the family waiting anxiously back home to hear from me, while I leave
all of my fans hanging. I know, I’ve broken your hearts. So sorry.
But get over it. Here is my list of goals for this time
around and what I have accomplished.
Throughout April – Continue asking for donated supplies to
take to Kenya.
DONE, the suitcase is full!
By April 1
– Finish Chapter 30 on my novel.
DONE
By April 2
- Contact my local radio station about doing a spot for my book and the
Women on the Wings of Faith talk I am giving the end of the month.
DONE
By April 5
– Get typhoid meds, malaria meds, and antibiotics for the trip.
DONE, finished my typhoid meds
yesterday, the rest are ready to go.
By April 5
– Call airlines to give them our passport information.
DONE
April 6
- Attend Book Festival in St. Peter, Minnesota.
DONE
By April 10
- Purchase Travel Insurance.
DONE
By April 11
– Email two people questions asking about adoption for my book.
Not done, and not happening L
By April 12
– Revise WSMA gmail accounts.
DONE
By April 13
- Finish Doni’s Form Builder questions for WSMA.
DONE, for now.
By April 14
– Have final power point for my talk on my book at WOWOF on April 24.
DONE
By April 14
- Have cleaned out the spare bedroom so Val can move her stuff home.
DONE
By April 15
- Finish Chapter 31 on my novel.
Not done and no guarantees.
April 18 – 20 -
Attend the WSMA convention in Neenah.
DONE
April 22, 9:30 am – Live on the air interview on my local
radio station, to promote my trip, my book and my speaking engagement on the
24th.
DONE. It went off without a hitch, or that’s the feeling I
got. Unlike the TV interview, I wasn’t able to tape this which is perhaps just
as well.
April 24, 6:30 pm - WOWOF presentation.
DONE. Again, it seemed to go well. Afterwards, somebody
handed me a CD of the presentation, but it was just audio and no video. That’s
still ok.
By April 30
- Have worked up to running a full mile to see if I can do it.
If the pain in my ankle doesn’t let up this whole dream
may be over. When I get back from Africa I really need to see a doctor about
this.
By May 1
- Have moved my daughter Val’s stuff home.
Doesn’t need to be done. Val is taking all her stuff to her
boyfriend’s, so none of this is my problem. YEAH!
May 3 -
Take my Kinship kid to the Colton Dixon concert in Milwaukee.
Not done because it is not May 3 yet, but I did print out
our tickets and made our hotel reservations for Friday night.
May 5 – 19 -
Gone to Africa.
By May 26 -
Have gotten the garden ready to plant.
By May 31 -
Have run 3 miles to know if I will ever be able to run a 5K.
By June 1 -
Have planted the garden.
June 8
- Attend the concert in Minnesota with my friend Phyllis.
By June 10 -
Have made plans for our vacation in September (Wow, that sounds like a long
ways away).
July 4 -
If I haven’t run a 5K yet anywhere else, I will run in the one here in town on
the Fourth of July.
And that is all, my friends, until we meet on-line again….
At my presentation Wednesday night (because I can't close without one last picture).
Have a fabulous time!
ReplyDeleteHow exciting! I hope you have a wonderful experience in Kenya. Experiences are our raw material, after all. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks to everyone for their support and well-wishes! I cannot wait to be there!
ReplyDeleteNo fears about people being upset with you "taking time off" (especially when we all know you're going to be doing twice as much or more than not), Chris. Just stay safe and enjoy yourself when you can.
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