PowerPoint Frustrations

Thursday June 25, 2009

When I arrived at work this morning I had just a couple of hours to work on the necessary things. I added to my blog, checked my e-mails, printed my sermon, and continued to get pictures for the music video that I had finished timing last night.

At 10 the church staff drove to a tea shop in Brighton. I ordered a cappuccino which for a small cost $3.50. I really couldn’t believe that was how much it cost. I was going to buy some toasted banana bread with honey and almond mascarpone, but that would have been another $6.00! We talked a lot about the prostate thing I went to on Wednesday! So the joke of the morning was walnuts. I tell you I could educate you about the prostate with just a walnut!

After our “meeting” (it was more of a social gathering than to work) we walked along the beach. I had worn my high heels and I couldn’t walk very fast, but I was dressed very nicely for the beach!

We got back to church at 12. At 12:30 we had lunch. I was suppose to have a meeting with the community center at 1:00 but I think we were both confused on if I was coming over to them, or if they were coming over to me. So I didn’t meet with them until about 2:30. At 3:00 I was invited to eat some birthday cake and have afternoon tea to celebrate Rachel’s birthday. All day I was trying to get my sermon PowerPoint together for church. At 3:00 I still wasn’t done with it. My music video was done, but I still had to get my sermon PowerPoint done! At 3:45 I excused myself to finish working on my computer. At 4 I met with Pastor David. I interviewed him for the time capsule and talked to him about my sermon and how to prepare for the Aussie footy game on Saturday.

I was then given the computer that the PowerPoint would be run on. My computer has 2003 PowerPoint, but that computer had PowerPoint 1997. So some of the things that I had on my computer wouldn’t be compatible for that computer. I checked and fixed everything for my sermon PowerPoint (yes I did finish it right at 3:50!), then started working on my music video. I had it all perfect last night. Yesterday I spent the day working on getting pictures. I have 50 slides of pictures. I then spent the evening putting it to music. I had it all timed out and perfect by 11:45 last night. So when I put it on the other computer, the timing was totally off. I started working on it when Jeff came to tell me that it was time to go. I really needed one more hour of work. I really wanted to leave at 5:30 instead of 4:30. Even 4:45 would have been good.

So I briefly talked to David about my frustrations with the music video. I am not sure if I am even going to use the video even though it would go REALLY well with my sermon. So I left work upset. After putting in all that work, I may not even use it.

This evening I had dinner and watched the news. Then I went back to my room and wrote and read my book the rest of the evening – from 7PM till 10PM – instead of watching TV which was my other option.

Tomorrow, I didn’t have any certain plans, but Rosemary invited me to go to the Dandenong market. I thought that would be a cool place to go, so I agreed. So tomorrow we are going to the market! Saturday I am going to a football game. Its going to be great!