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November 8, 2003
An up day
Yester day was a very good day and it looks like the trend is continuing today.
Save the exception of the cold, I've had a good morning playing with Kevin, watching TV, and looking though some of the photos that I shot yesterday for 26 Things. The highlight of the day so far was when I realized that yesterday was the last time that I will work every single weekday (until I change jobs, and not counting camps and other special activities). Starting on the 16th, I'll have Mondays off, and this coming week, I have off for Veteran’s Day.
As for yesterdays joy, the minor one is that TiVo was up more than 7%, yeah!
I left my job at the Pentagon and headed to church for a staff meeting, which I felt was fairly productive as meetings go. These have gotten to be a bit more interesting and enjoyable over the last few weeks. Dennis ended the meeting just after 6, knowing that I had another meeting to head off to.
I arrived at the Mackie household a little after six for the youth leaders meeting. We always have a lot of fun at these sessions, and this was no different. Each meeting, we eat dinner, socialize, and then meet for a short time.
While not all the youth workers were there, it was great that most of them were able to make it. Everyone seems really excited about being involved with the youth and making sure that the ministry grows healthy as well as numerically.
Dinner and dessert went until about 8 when we finally got around to talking about some of the subjects that were planned and a few that were not. We managed to schedule the December calendar activities including caroling, 2 parties, and some community service. Best of all, the volunteers took the ball on all of these and all I'll need to do is show up (and even better I can rest assured that the activities will succeed even if I cannot make it).
From there we talked about small groups, the ups and downs of our work with the youth, and the direction we'd like to go in the future.
I really felt I needed to end the meeting at 10 so that the Mackies could have their evening, so I said that we would table the other topics (like camp) until the January meeting. I closed the meeting in prayer, then no one left.
A few trickled out a little after 10:30, and then we sat around talking until about 11:30. It's great that these volunteers get along so well that they want to make time to talk about more than just YM.
My rather upbeat day ended when I climbed into bed a little after 12.
Posted by Jesse at November 8, 2003 12:23 PM