got back from the potluck for church at the starke's house just fine. enjoyed my self. loved the starke's house and garden. diane will be on the master gardeners tour in 2006. visited with john and susan. kinda played with the kids when they weren't playing with all the other kids. thomas is so cute. i love his curls. i wonder if he will be a burnet or red head. i need to shave. don't want to. bell choir will be starting up in oct. we need more bell players but i think that we can handle the bells. hopefully. told martha that i was going to go to eden. and she was so happy. and said that she would help me find an undergraduate program that would be good and in the kc area. will talk to john again on thursday. and i signed up to usher at the nutcracker. don't know what i ws thinking. maybe i wasn't. o well it's done and i'll be doing it. so i'll be stuck at my parents house for another two to three years. owell. free rent. free food. not nessicarly good food but free food.