I awoke at the crack of post dawn about two hours before my normal awakening time of 9:30am\u2026or sometimes 10:00am. \u00a0I gave up two hours of beauty sleep to start cooking. \u00a0Cooking!? \u00a0It’s a word not usually associated with the person you know as me.<\/p>\n
My senior fitness class at Anytime Fitness<\/a> in Pleasant Hill is having a pot luck Christmas Lunch today. \u00a0I had signed up to bring a food. \u00a0I struggled out of bed and into razor sharp consciousness. \u00a0Undertaking a cooking experience is fraught with danger for me. \u00a0I loaded myself up with power and opened up the demonic fridge. \u00a0Just two days ago, the fridge demon threw a heavy glass container from the top shelf to land on one of my precious toes, breaking one or more bones in the precious toe. \u00a0I glared strongly at the 32 oz glass container filled with blueberry juice and willed it to stay on it’s new shelf in mid range fridge. \u00a0It stayed.<\/p>\n I pulled the cooking stuff from the fridge. \u00a0I had much work ahead of me.<\/p>\n With my semi long serrated knife, I opened the bags and poured them all into the shiny ceramic crock pot inside. \u00a0After I got all the veggies in the pot, I prayed that the lid and the crock pot outside would be found in the truck, the last location. \u00a0I put on my outside clothing and went outside to feed and water the horses. \u00a0They were grateful to see that food and water come their way. \u00a0I checked the truck and discovered the crockpot outside and the lid right where I had left them last month! Happiness abounds.<\/p>\n Inside the house, I masterfully fitted all the parts of the crockpot together and went out the door. \u00a0I dropped off and plugged in the crockpot at Anytime Fitness and headed on to Nourish<\/a> for my favorite Vanilla Almond Protein Shake and Raspberry ice tea. \u00a0YUM! \u00a0I drove to Lee’s Summit to cash a check and visited the library. \u00a0I checked my email and all the Facebook happenings. Finally, it was time to return to Anytime Fitness and not do the Senior Exercise class (because of my broken toe). \u00a0Instead, I worked out on the machines while my friends sweated and groaned with the glee of senior class exercise.<\/p>\n My crockpot was working! \u00a0Food was getting hot. \u00a0Class was over and now I had an hour to kill before lunch starts at noon. \u00a0I decided to visit New Town Bike and Coffee Shop<\/a>. \u00a0By now, I needed coffee! \u00a0Instead I had a latte with almond milk and carmel flavoring. \u00a0I told Alan I was cooking for the senior class lunch. \u00a0He asked me if I was planning on going to college. \u00a0Sadly, I missed the humor. \u00a0Finally, I connected the words, “senior” and college. \u00a0Remember when you were a senior in high school and planned on going to college? Good Gad, for me that was around 40+ years ago. \u00a0I owe Alan a fun uncompliment! \u00a0I explained to Alan that I hardly remember high school. \u00a0He apologized. \u00a0humph!<\/p>\n Finished my wonderful coffee and went to have lunch with my senior class\u2026at the Fitness Center. \u00a0Yum Yum Yum.. \u00a0Us old people can certainly make great stuff! \u00a0Great googabs of my stuff was taken which made me pleased. \u00a0Whew\u2026all that cooking and physical fitness had tired me out.<\/p>\n Home for a change of clothes. \u00a0Out to the barn and Lucky Star volunteered to travel with me to the indoor arena and have a little ride. \u00a0Oh he was so good. \u00a0We had a great time. \u00a0Our communication is coming along strong. \u00a0We’ve come a long way on this, the start of our third year. \u00a0We are planning to be a show horse and rider in 2014!<\/p>\n Home again with Lucky getting to graze in the front yard to let him know he is special. \u00a0The front yard still has green grass. \u00a0What a happy horse he is to eat green grass! \u00a0Inside for a 30 minute rest. \u00a0This was not to be a nap day. \u00a0It’s going to be tough to recover from the post dawn early awakening plus no nap. \u00a0Probably take me the rest of the week.<\/p>\n I got dressed up in my Kauffman Center<\/a> usher outfit\u2026white shirt, black pants and black shoes. \u00a0Outside I went. \u00a0Lucky had to become a normal horse in the pasture and I took off to usher Canadian Brass<\/a> Concert. \u00a0What a great evening performance. \u00a0Helzburg Hall was full. \u00a0We found everyone’s ticketed seats and life was good.<\/p>\n Home before midnight\u2026a full day of great times!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I awoke at the crack of post dawn about two hours before my normal awakening time of 9:30am\u2026or sometimes 10:00am. \u00a0I gave up two hours of beauty sleep to start cooking. \u00a0Cooking!? \u00a0It’s a word not usually associated with the person you know as me. 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