Nervous

Tomorrow is our Christmas program at church.  Honestly, I wasn't nervous at all about the program...until yesterday.  It didn't hit me until I was skipping out of work at 12 'noon.  My first stop was the mall...(sigh).  I parked out in Timbuktu.  I figured the walk would be excellent exercise and since it was 50 degrees and sunny, I didn't view the lack of parking places as an issue.  It was beautiful outside and I was not stuck in my cubicle!

My only mall stop was Yankee Candle.  Their votives were half off...and I wanted to purchase 5 Christmas Eve votives for my centerpiece.  While in Yankee Candle, I saw two familar faces - Lori and Lanie!!!  It was soo nice to chit-chat with these girlies.  :)  When I went to check-out, I told the Yankee Candle employee how thankful I was that the votives were part of their "12 Days of Christmas Sale." 

After Yankee Candle, I meandered through Barnes and Noble.  I'm such a sucker for bookstores.  I perused the games and puzzles.  There's a fun game I'd like to get - it's called Coffeetalk.  I added a couple other books to my wish list... 

Hobby Lobby was my next stop.  As I was wandering from department to department, I picked up glycerin, a Christmas present for a crafy friend, and 2 plastic bottles for homemade stamp cleaner.  As I was nearing the end of my wanderings, I ran in to Trudy!!!  What a blessing it was to see a friend. 

Hobby Lobby was my last "fun" stop.  After HL, Woodman's.  Not that I don't love getting groceries, but clearly groceries aren't as fun as arts & crafts.  I'm just being honest.

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The program is tomorrow morning.  Tomorrow morning as in...this is my last sleep before the big day.  Ahhhhh!  There, I feel better.

You know how I know that I am getting more nervous about the program...

A)  Today while running errands the song "Do You Hear What I Hear?" came on the radio.  Not a big deal, right?  Well - have you ever listened to the second verse?  A little lamb talks to the shepherd and asks if he (the shepherd) saw what he (the lamb) saw.  Now, call me "Crazy" - but sheep/lamb do not talk.  I do think animals communicate with one another - but I don't believe a little lamb spoke audibly to a shepherd.  It's not in the Gospel of Luke.  And so that (all that you just read) was what I "discussed" with the song on the radio...

B)  I dream about the program.  Friday night I had a dream that I went to bed on Friday night and did not wake-up until Sunday night.  And when I woke-up in my dream, I had several (as in 30+) voicemails...most of them were from the choir director and he was quite irate.  Note:  Our choir director is a nice guy.  Thankfully I realized in my dream that I was probably dreaming.  Does that ever happen to you?  You are dreaming and it's something completely ludicrous and you realize in the dream that you are probably dreaming.  Maybe I am the only one.

C)  I laugh for no apparent reason.  Tonight I completely cracked-up at the carol-sing because Trudy was going on and on about an Alderman saying the wisemen brought "Gold, Frankenstein, and Myrrh."  SERIOUSLY -- Frankenstein?  And the best part of the story - this Alderman said this mis-quote of the gifts at a Christmas program...in public...and outloud.  For real!!!!! 

As soon as Trudy told us the Frankenstein story, I lost it...lost it as in laughed outloud uncontrollably.  My laughter was only amplified when a little boy went in to the bathroom and started singing LOUDLY while taking care of business.

It's never good when I get stressed and laugh and cannot stop...it happens.  It's my nervous laughter.  It is what it is and I am afraid that on Monday, I am going to laugh and laugh and laugh...and so on and so forth...  It may be epic!  I'm scared, laughed the girl with curly hair.