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Amen!

One of my things to work on in 2007 is my spirituality.  The plan was to find a church.  Last week I got a post card in the mail inviting me to the new church in my neighborhood.  Funny how things work out some times.  While I’ve embraced technology in almost every area of my life, I have trouble with it at church.  The sermon was delivered by satellite to a movie screen.  Kinda like watching Football at the bar.  The non traditional service is . . . I’m not sure what the right word is.  Not exactly uncomfortable, but that’s what comes to mind.  I will give it some time to become more familiar.  Given the service time is perfect for me and I can walk, what’s not to like? 

Rubber Road to Nowhere

60 minutes, 3.25 miles, Grey’s Anatomy; “Deny, Deny, Deny” and rounded out the hour with some PodRunner.

TechnoGym Wave

43 minutes, 6.39 miles, 8.92 mph and Grey’s Anatomy; “Make Me Lose Control”.  Weird how my right ankle clicks on this machine.

Arboretum

Though cloudy, it was almost 40 today!  The Luce Line is muddy, rough and not stroller friendly this time of year so Avery and I went to the Arboretum and did the three mile loop, almost a mile of which she walked herself.  We ended up doing the last mile a second time as I dropped my camera and we went back looking for (and found!!) it.  A wander through the gift shop netted a new book.  We shared a turkey sandwich and chocolate chip cookie in the resturant.  Had a nap in front of the fire when we got home.

Woodway Treadmill

42 minutes, 2.25 miles and Grey’s Anatomy; “Enough is Enough”.

No Sync

I don’t think my Laptop synced when I docked it this morning and I know it didn’t do it when I left my office this afternoon.  There is also some weirdness with my 3M Post-It Note software.

This Week’s Assignment:

Be a girl.  Buy a pair of shoes.  I can do this.  Really, I can.  You don’t believe me?

CSC Dell Precision M70

The bad news:  All the folders are there again (d8, d7, d6, d5, d4, d3, d2 and d1).  The good news:  They are all empty.  I now have 30.3 GB free space!  I’ve got room for iTunes again!  FWIW:  The deleted folders have not returned to my desktop machine and they show they were last accessed on 12/14/06. 

Twenty Three

Caribou Coffee #23 and a game of Scrabble.

Disk Space Errors on Dell Precision M70

TreeSize Pro.  C:\Windows\CSC.  Deleted d8, d7, d6, d4, d3.  System file warnings ignored.  Outlook had to be closed.  Unable to delete d5, d2, d1 due to open program and access errors.  A similar procedure was done on my office desk top machine a week or so ago by Rent-A-Geek - though she cut and pasted the folders to an external drive rather than deleting them. 

Happy New Year!

We met Joel and Jean at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts where we saw the Passion for Paintings:  Old Masters from the Wadsworth Atheneum exhibit.  We left the museum to find the city covered in a blanket of snow.  My car got stuck in my own driveway!  Mr.B roasted a turkey, there was wine, cake, pizza and leftover Christmas cookies.  Today there will be home made turkey soup and much snow shoveling. 

WebCam

My Backyard- You Just Never Know- My Kitchen-

2006 Wrap Up

I start this every year and never finish.  Perhaps this year . . .

1. What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before? Dated total strangers.

2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?.  None made, none kept.  I am working with my Therapist on identifying specific areas of my life that need attention and the specific action to be taken.  In a nutshell at this point:  Socialization.  Spirituality.  Finances. 

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? No.

4. Did anyone close to you die? My beloved Blondie.  And it actually made me cry to type that.  I was so unprepared for how difficult that would be. 

5. What places did you visit? Many, many local attractions!  Places so close to home it’s a shame I’ve not visited before.  And so many still to discover!

6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?

7. What dates from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? 03/16-Jim’s email that he was leaving.  06/19-Divorce final.  07/15-Ashley & Tony’s Wedding.  I can’t imagine a why is necessary. 

8. What was your biggest achievement(s) of the year? Tony & Ashley’s wedding and a mostly civilized divorce. 

9. What was your biggest failure? I know you are expecting my marriage to be here.  But, I don’t see that as a failure.  I learned much from that experience.  I failed at being true to myself.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Nothing major.

11. What was the best thing you bought? The Vera Wang dress for Ashley and Tony’s wedding. 

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

14. Where did most of your money go? Household expenses. 

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

16. What song will always remind you of 2006?

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? Happier.
b) thinner or fatter? Thinner.
c) richer or poorer? While poorer in the monetary sense, immeasurably richer in others.

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?

20. How did you spend Christmas 2006? With my family.

21. Did you fall in love in 2006? Ask me again on July 1, 2007. 

22. How many one-night stands? None. 

23. What was your favorite TV program? Grey’s Anatomy

24. What did you do for your birthday in 2006? Had a lovely dinner with my family. 

25. What was the best book you read? “Eat, Pray, Love,” by Elizabeth Gilbert.

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?

27. What did you want and get?

28. What did you want and not get?

29. What was your favorite film of this year?

30. Did you make some new friends this year? Yes.

31.What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006? Comfort.

33. What kept you sane? Exercise, knitting, the Dogs. 

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

35. Who did you miss? Blondie.

36. Who was the best new person you met? Mr.B!

37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006.

It’s raining, it’s pouring . . .

And that’s pretty much what it did all day yesterday as well.  Perfect weather for knitting, laundry, cake baking, turkey roasting, soup making and . . . . 

“I Like You:  Hospitality Under the Influence” by Amy Sedaris

No matter the style or size of the gathering, from the straightforward to the bizarre, I Like You provides jackpot recipes and solid advice laced with Amy’s blisteringly funny take on entertaining and everything it takes to pull off a party with extraordinary flair.