Saturday, I did some gardening early in the day with my Dad, after eggs for breakfast. I picked peas and froze about half a pound, with Ray's help. I had my bath and got dressed and was ready to go when Deb and Janna arrived. It was Janna's birthday and I drove us to the Mall of Georgia.

The thing that I really wanted to do was return a couple dresses to Nordstrom and a broken wedding present to Williams-Sonoma. First we had a ladies' lunch at a chain called Mimi's, sort of faux French bistro. Janna said we ate there with my Mom when we were looking to buy a couch, but I didn't remember the restaurant. It was fine. We had salads.

There is something to be said for shopping at expensive stores. At Nordstrom, they scanned the tags on my dresses, found them in the computer, and credited back my credit card in no time. at any sales terminal, with no waiting. At Williams-Sonoma, it took a little longer, but they replaced the item. She told me the company would have sent a replacement if I had called; I probably wouldn't have had to send the old one back. After I had done those errands, Deb and I were there mainly to keep Janna company, while she picked out and tried on clothes for her trip to Barcelona this week. She lost a lot of weight with her illness and surgery and most of her clothes are too big. she bought 3 pair of pants, a skirt, 3 or 4 tops, a jacket...Deb bought several things too. I was pretty restrained (Nordstrom is expensive). The only things I bought were on sale: 2 t-shirts for $9.90 each, a fun casual skirt for $17, some pajama pants about $20. I didn't really need anything, but there's the psychology of having money to spend because I returned some things. We had three big dressing rooms in a row and no one else around, and a young woman running back and forth checking on us and getting new sizes.

Driving home, there was some traffic. Fortunately, we had some chicken curry we had taken out of the freezer. Ray heated it up and cooked some rice, plus we had a salad. Must eat lettuce before it all bolts, can't freeze lettuce! We have to eat things from the freezer to make room for the pig that is coming tomorrow or the next day.

Sunday I sang a solo and read a short speech about becoming a lay minister, so it was a little bit stressful. I had a little frog in my throat when I started to sing, unfortunately, but otherwise it went well. There were six of us that were "installed," so the service went long, which is something I gnerally object to, but my part was about 4 minutes, as instructed. My Dad came to the service and afterward the three of us went to DePalma's for lunch. I had shrimp and asparagus and bacon with risotto. It was good and Ray and I split a chocolate dessert.

After lunch, I pretty much goofed off. We watched a movie that we had seen before, Moscow on Hudson with Robin Williams. One of the fun things about it was that I can still understand a lot of the Russian. Kind of sad, though, that I never used it at all for any job.

At 6:30, there was a dinner at the Community Center, made by other people than me! I did bring some cookies, but I didn't have to. They were dedicating the stained glass window that Jim S. made and there was a good turnout. They paid a sitter, so I didn't have much young company.

We had to stay up kind of late, because I forgot I had started bread. This time of year I like to bake it at night, so the house can cool off overnight. But if I start it rising and then get sleepy watching TV, I often find myself having to stay up really late to get it baked!

I did manage to sleep six hours with my mask on, so that's good.