"People!" - Yente
Friday, October 28, 2005
(17:03pm) Loraine Saint had come through the office the other day in petite jeans, running shoes, baggy sweatshirt, round glasses, and her hair in a ponytail. She had just been out to lunch with one of the senior high girls and Jimmy was watching the kids in his office while she was out. Loraine was so tired from being up with her and Jimmy’s little ones during the night. She was cute and whimsical, goofy almost. And so thin and junior-highish.
“She looks so young!” Ivy had whispered, smiling, as she walked back to Jimmy’s office to pick up the kids.
Everyone liked the Saints. They were goofy, calm, and just pleasant, hard working. And Mrs. Coca-Cola and the two youngest boys had come through for an hour or so to fold the bulletin on Friday. The boys always rushed past Collette’s desk with large QT sodas and mumbled an hello as they hurried through. As Collette sat at her desk eating lunch, she heard from the conference room where they worked:
“Mom, I’m getting my nose pierced.”
She laughed, and did not hear the reply. Goofy kids…
Meanwhile, Collette had smelled of beeswax all day long and she had only a banana and tea for breakfast as the yogurt was foul (seeing as she had forgotten to pick up vanilla and had only taken the plain).
At the old home front, there was good news just received from Iowa. The Lord-Welches were, indeed coming for a visit Friday, November 11th (in the evening) through Sunday, November 13th (leaving early that morning). Mr. and Mrs. Lord-Welches were to attend a log cabin convention in St. Louis (seeing as they now had their cabin on the lake to fix up over the next seven years or so). And Mom had asked that if they wished, OLeif and Collette might take the kids (along with the Snicketts kids, minus Carrie and Joe who worked) to the Zoo and the Science Center, along with a picnic lunch. It sounded like a promising weekend.
And Diana had passed through home on her way to a convention in Kansas City with the editor-in-chief of the “Spotlight” (Hoshaiah) as they worked together. Diana had dinner with her family Thursday night and would return to Wheaton after the convention. Also, Dad and Joe had just left that very Friday afternoon to pick up a Dolly Madison bed (willed to them by Uncle Roger, though still alive and kicking). He wished to pass it off to them as he would be entering a care facility and had nowhere to put it. The little things that came in a day…
In other news, Shepherd had been laid off, about which Collette found herself bummed. Now OLeif would never see Shepherd either, as he never saw Peter. And the Canadians had a “sweet” rental car (as OLeif put it), because their old Ford Focus had been smashed in on the side.