Category: Life

Early Mass.  Hello WeightWatchers.com! 

Goals for 2009:  Lose eight ten pounds.  Take a photo every day, preferably with my Nikon D2X.  Get through “The Daily Message” by Eugene H. Peterson.  All manageable.  I registered at the Social Security Online/Business Services Online site.  My intent was to submit my W2’s.  To my surprise, that site actually prints them as well.  No need to order special forms next year.  W2’s get submitted in batches of 20.  Of course, I didn’t realize the first batch included a duplicate until I had submitted all three batches and verified (or not) the total.  Damn!  I got outside to find my car covered in ice.  I scraped enough to get me across the street where I enjoyed a hamburger while I waited for the car to warm up enough that I could slide the rest of the ice off and allow me the visibility to get home.

I picked Avery up a bit late today, giving her a chance to sleep in.  I stopped at the Target in Oakdale to perform another Akoha.com mission.  I chose a woman with two small girls in the clothing department and gave her a Target gift card along with the Akoha mission card and my personal card.  Within an hour she had logged on to Akoha!  My brother Jeff spent the day with Avery and me, unfortunately, the cold kept us housebound.

Mass this morning.  Our guests are gone and it’s awfully quiet here.

They’re here!

I am grateful to be in a position to be making estimated tax payments today.

Early Mass.  Today’s project:  Laundry.

Today’s project is to get my sewing/knitting room morphed into a guest room.  That mostly accomplished, we went to Schmitt Music’s Warehouse Sale.  They’ve got some used Steinways I wanted to see.  Olive Garden for dinner courtesy of a gift card from Al at work.  A failed attempt to find a replacement dog door at PetsMart.  A trip to Target for a shower curtain for the north guest bath.  Home Depot for a new light fixture for the Bunk/Crib room.

I was sitting in my car at the Ridgedale Byerly’s, double checking my list, when a man tapped on my window.  I cracked the window open just so I could hear him ask for money.  He said his car ran out of gas and he was trying to raise some money to buy gas.  I shook my head and closed the window.  I’m grateful my car is helpful in maintaining my policy of keeping all the doors locked all the time.  Part of me felt bad to have turned him down.  I could have given him money, but chose not to.  I had a bad feeling about the situation and I honored that.  The drizzle kept Avery and I housebound, with the exception of filling the bird feeders. 

I feel sick.  Considering what I’ve eaten in the last three days, it’s no wonder.