May 26, 2009--Virus and trip to Missouri

Last week, besides the ordination, the other semi-major event that happened is that I downloaded a virus on my PC. I was just going along, posting on forums here as usual, when this warning popped up saying that I had a virus and I needed to click here to quarantine it. It looked legitimate, and I clicked it, and lo and behold it downloaded a virus onto my computer. We tried to get rid of it and still haven't been able to, so we've been moving pictures and other important documents to Erick's laptop. I got very behind in my moderating, and since we had to download programs and things to the laptop that we used on the other computer, we ended up using up all the megabytes on our plan and I wasn't able to get on at all for a few days. By the time the new cycle on our plan started over on Saturday, there wasn't much time for playing around on the computer because we were packing up to go visit Missouri for a couple of days.

Erick went in to work early on Saturday so he could get home at a decent time Saturday night. We went to bed about 10:30, and then woke up at 3:00am and went straight to in Springfield. It took us six and a half hours to drive there, but since I forgot about the time change we actually made it in time for Sunday School. It was neat being there, although it almost felt like we were in a dream. So much has changed in the three years since we've been there last. The entire staff has changed over, and they've done a lot of redecorating. It's beautiful. The senior pastor used to be our Sunday school teacher when we were there. He was Erick's homiletics professor at CBC and while we were there he went on staff as family pastor or something like that. Now he's the senior pastor.

After church we drove down to look at our old house, and the kids went to see if one of their neighbor friends still lived there. She did, but she wasn't at home. We did get her phone number from her mother, though. We also drove out to Taco Bell where I used to work. I didn't really expect anyone I knew to still be there. I thought my boss might still work there, but she never worked Sundays so I didn't think she'd be there either. I was pleasantly surprised to see her there. She's the assistant manager now instead of the store manager, as she is working towards retirement. It was so good to see her again. There were two other girls there that I worked with as well.

Then we went up and stayed at the home of our old choir director for the night. She used to direct the choir at Praise, and her husband is now writing books. (Look up Phil Farrand if you are interested in his work.) They are really neat people and we enjoyed staying at their house. Phil gave me a copy of one of his books and I can't wait to read it and put up a review on Facebook for him. He's brilliant--when he couldn't get high speed internet in his area, he actually started his own company! They are fascinating to talk to.

The next day we went to Bass Pro Shops and then drove home. Abby wasn't feeling good, and ended up throwing up on the floor of a McDonalds' on the way back. Traffic was terrible and we got home a lot later than we had intended, but we made it.

Now I just have to catch up on everything!