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[elainegrey]

Summary:

Thursday: preparing for the colonoscopy
Friday: can't remember much of anything. Clearly the conscious sedation works.
Saturday: Meeting retreat, music purchases for a wedding
Sunday: Meeting events, shopping.

PS: Hi to cyan_blue and brian1789. I saw you in Safeway but didn't engage my verbal skills to say hi until you both were long gone!



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I was derailled a bit this morning by finding one of my nephew-in-law's hotmail email address had been hacked. The email asked if i could loan my panicked "nephew" $1200 while my "nephew" was in the UK with a cousin with cancer. The several paragraphs on how his phone doesn't work is an attempt to keep folks from trying to follow up out of band. I hunted to find how one reports to hotmail such a hacking and passed it on to his parents.

I do wonder how carefully such scams are run. Think of the spam the must have to read! And how often do people really follow through?

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Then there was a crash course getting notes and material together for the committee meeting. I left the house muttering, "This is not about me, this is not about me." Sometimes i find myself carrying out my responsibilities believing myself to be engaged in a constant test, with some omniscient grader observing all my failures. But it's NOT that, it's all not about me.

So, committee meeting then i skipped worship to work on the five minute introduction to our adult education session on membership. I've spent a lot of time on this topic, stretching my understanding, and i wanted to set the stage for the group to move from some fairly concrete actions (serve on committees, go to meeting for business, and give financial support) to the underlying expectations. For example: the point isn't really to serve on committees, but to practice corporate discernment and to support and meet each other's needs.

That ran late. And i was starved.

So i picked up Christine and we went to Chipolte, where i am supporting their willingness to look for humanely raised meat. My first pork in well over five years.

We made our grocery list, went shopping. I saw cyan_blue and brian1789 as Christine and i tried to find Mounds bars in the candy isle. I wasn't quite able to connect brain to mouth to faces to names to greet them. I managed get out to Christine, "Those were LJ people!" after they passed by -- names came to me as i was pulling out of the lot.

I then went clothes shopping. HOURS clothes shopping. I kept trying to stretch to an apparently "in" orangy color. The color i liked -- a more muted coppery color -- were on bulky items, and what i was looking for were tops to wear under a heavy jacket back east. (Here i wear a tank top because my cube is SO HOT in the winter. In NC in November/December, tank tops aren't quite right.) Unfortunately, all the lighter tops were outright orange. I managed to find a top that was more red -- a big stretch for me.

I suppose i spent one third of the total on five blouses/tops, one third on three pairs of hosiery, and one third on lipgloss, lipstick, and eye liner. I was very disappointed on the hosiery choices. It was as if the people choosing the colors hadn't looked at any of the clothing colors available.

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Yesterday was the Meeting retreat at Hidden Villa. I left early to take my laptop to Apple and had a nice long chat with my mother while driving back and forth. Then i came home to find Christine working on the music for her sister's pre-wedding "rehearsal dinner," wedding, and reception. Discover card gives bonus dollars instead of points, and the bonus dollars can be stretched by redeeming them for special offers. Amazon MP3 certificates are a new bonus -- so i purchased tracks from my SIL's request list that we didn't already have. Now i have Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson and some song from Dirty Dancing on my permanent record.

Christine and i are giggling over whether there's any way she can slip Nina Simone's "Marriage is for Old Folks" into the mix.

For your amusement the music purchase list:

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Wedding Bell Blues (Digitally Remastered: 1997) [MP3 Download], Price: $ 0.99
From the album Up, Up And Away By: The Fifth Dimension

Silly Love Songs [MP3 Download], Price: $ 0.99 From the album All The Best
By: Paul McCartney And Wings

At Last [MP3 Download], Price: $ 0.99
From the album At Last! By: Etta James

(I've Had) The Time Of My Life (Remastered 2003) [MP3 Download], Price: $ 1.29
From the album Dirty Dancing (Legacy Edition) By: Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes

When The Stars Go Blue [MP3 Download], Price: $ 0.99
From the album Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 By: Tim McGraw

Love And Affection [MP3 Download], Price: $ 0.89
From the album Greatest Hits By: Joan Armatrading

Gypsy [MP3 Download], Price: $ 0.99
From the album Greatest Hits By: Fleetwood Mac

I Gotta Feeling [MP3 Download], Price: $ 0.99
From the album The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) By: Black Eyed Peas

When I Think Of You [MP3 Download], Price: $ 0.99
From the album Control By: Janet Jackson

Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' [MP3 Download], Price: $ 1.29
From the album Thriller By: Michael Jackson

This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You) [MP3 Download], Price: $ 0.99
From the album 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best of The Isley Brothers-The Motown Years By: The Isley Brothers

I Feel For You [MP3 Download], Price: $ 0.99
From the album I Feel For You By: Chaka Khan

Greatest Hits [MP3 Download], Price: $ 9.99 By: The Bangles


For *ME*
Aliens Ate My Buick [MP3 Download], Price: $ 6.99 By: Thomas Dolby
The Sensual World [MP3 Download], Price: $ 8.99 By: Kate Bush
Candy-O [MP3 Download], Price: $ 2.99 By: The Cars