I was happy to rise at about 7 without a headache. The air was damp and cool outside as the Oregon Mist and gray skies replaced our California-like weather of the last few days. Coffee was assembled the night before and was waiting for me. I was slightly time-boxed as I had a church meeting at 2. We were interviewing new potential accompanists for the church; I serve on the S/PRC committee (think church HR if you don’t speak Methodist), and I planned to ask the non-music questions.
I spent the morning eating only a banana and a nectarine with my coffee and writing the blog. I also updated my Quicken transactions, ensuring that I know where every dollar is going. I pool PayPal, AMEX, US Bank, Morgan-Chase, and Bank of America into updates in Quicken and inspect the changes every morning. I am not willing to use just one of the Financial providers and trust them. I also find splitting this up gets me better service. Bank of America disappoints in almost every way, but it does earn Alaska Airlines miles. However, I regret paying $95 a year. A Delta AMEX may make more sense; I am flying Delta more, and the AMEX website and processes are at least clear, directing you to pay off your balance (unlike the obvious ‘let us charge you interest’ website, which offers no prefiled balance payments, unlike Bank of America).
The blog, which is approximately 600 words in length, was completed and published around 10. I was soon dressed, though I did talk to my neighbors when I went out to post a card for Mom Wild earlier (I send something every day). They were in work clothing while I was still in slippers and a robe (definitely making that ‘retired’ statement). I took the too-large T-shirts to the clothing drop-off (all washed and in good condition) and then visited the SBC Recycling center to drop off the inflatable mattress that had been used only once in the last fifteen years. I missed my turn and had to do a Michigan-like left (a U-turn) to get there. They were happy to receive it, charged me nothing, and were sure they could find a good home for it (or recycle it).
I then headed to Panda Express and waited behind a family, each of whom was getting a separate meal. It took a while, but everyone was smiling as they had two bags of meals. This was then carried to a seat after an ocean of drinks was loaded into cups. I had the three-option combo with a glass of water and enjoyed some of my choices. Others were industrial Chinese-style food.
Next was a church interview, and I will leave those details out as it is private and not really my story to tell. It was more than an hour of listening and asking questions.
I returned home and soon a nap overtook me. I rested for more than an hour and woke, now with the same headache I had had for a week. However, drinking water solved it, and soon, skipping dinner, I was out the door and headed to the church. I was a few minutes early, and we resolved to try Concordia, but with the larger map, as Andrew was joining us. Z grabbed most of the personality cards, while I grabbed the Weaver card and saved my win. Z’s and Andrew’s scores were close, with Z just ahead of Andrew. We all enjoyed the game and know that the score we achieved was when Andrew had to sing in the choir, which would have changed. I believe I would have been in last place, as Andrew was ahead in building, and Z needed just to build to match her cards.
After that, I headed home and made a half sandwich with ham (Italian thin-sliced ham, similar to prosciutto) and cheese. I heated it in butter and added some water to steam the sandwich hot through. It cut it into squares (not diagonally) and enjoyed it for a late dinner or snack.
I was tired and went to bed early. I read some more Elric and liked this story too.
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