I feel like I said all kinds of stupid things yesterday. First of all, I am not going to read City of God. It’s too long. Second, I am perfectly aware that Lent has nothing to do with second chances at fasting and reorganizing your life, in that the point is not to be engaging in personal self-improvement projects or practicing spiritual disciplines in the letter of the law and not the spirit of the law. I don’t even know if I said that right.

But I did buy the City of God book yesterday, along with another one. Next to Augustine was Selected Writings by Thomas Aquinas. That one I could probably read. I tried to read Confessions earlier in the year and lost interest pretty quickly. Just in the very little of these two theologians that I’ve read, I think I like Thomas Aquinas better. So I used my Barnes and Noble gift card for two new books to add to our library.

I’m not scheduled for any more shifts until later next week. Last night I was able to come home early because they were short on summer day shift today. I asked if I could come back and work it and just reschedule my spring evening training for another time. So today it was me and one of the assistant directors of nursing who is responsible for filling in shifts during days when the floor staffing is short. I was glad she was there.

At some point I’m going to have to be able to do this on my own but I am definitely not at that point yet. She picked up a lot of my slack when it came to calling in orders and doing a monthly assessment on the hospice patient who I could not get to wake up to take her medicine. She came in there and was able to do it. I saw Laura’s dad who was there visiting one of his parishioners and thought of our parents on the drive home.

Tonight Dad wanted to take everyone out to dinner as an end of Christmas break/back-to-school acknowledgment. After that we walked around in a store called Sierra. He found some soap and I found a soft pair of wear around the house pants so I don’t have to wear out my green ones as fast. These ones are light pink. The boys found snowpants. I saw a pink 12lb kettlebell but decided that would not be necessary.