1. I jumped on Jennifer's bandwagon and signed up to blog everyday this week. I blog everyday anyway, but to up the ante, I said I would blog twice each day. I really wouldn't want to blog twice a day. Not unless I was getting paid for it. I think I might finally run out of things to say.
2. I mowed and sweated this week. The temperatures were only in the 80s but the air was still and humid. Hot. It is hot around here in the summer. Even on "cool" days. But later in the week the temperatures really dropped and it felt like fall. I planted some late vincas because I never got around to the usual petunias in May. It is too hot to transplant petunias now in my book. But the vincas seem to be taking.
3. I went for a haircut. I told her not to "thin" it and she thinned it. I knew it was a bad cut when I asked my husband how he liked my haircut and he said, "I thought you were going to try somebody else." It isn't terrible, but it is thinned. I don't like thinned. It is thinning enough on its own already. I promise myself that this is the last time I let this haircutting woman touch my hair. I have 3 choices--let it grow and try the bun thing; cut it myself; or find someone new.
4. Last Friday I had out patient surgery on some growths on my eyelid. I had not expected it to hurt so much or to turn so red. But, it did. But, now it is better. I am so happy to have the growths gone because they sometimes interfered with my vision when I was tired and my lid drooped. I had asked my general doctor about having them off and he didn't recommend going to a dermatologist for it. He wouldn't do it. I didn't know what to do. Apparently the answer is to go to a real eye doctor. Compared to cataracts, cutting off eyelid growths must be a piece of cake.
5. I went to see my spiritual director on Tuesday. It was on overdue visit. I happened to mention that hubby and I would be willing to lead the Area Wide Prayer Meeting, maybe in October. My husband is teaming for an ACTS retreat and won't be available until then. My director said, "Are you planning to be there Thursday? Could you lead?" Without my husband, without time to really get myself together, lose 50 pounds, get a degree in theology? So, I was reminded that if it went well I can offer the success to God who gave it to me and if it goes poorly I could grow in humility, so it is a win-win.. I have a feeling that humility will be my lesson. (I am typing this up in advance, so even though you may be reading this on Friday, it hasn't happened yet as I write this.) And the really important thing to remember is--it is not about me.
6. I have started a private blog of family pictures. It feels good to finally do something with them. I have a photograph of my great grandparents after their wedding in 1875. Ultimately I plan to donate a good portion of them to the History Center in Oklahoma City. This way I have shared them first. Scanning and sharing photos that way is a good way to use technology to share family information. I have kept the blog as invitation only because I am sharing pictures of real people some of whom are still alive and telling the family relations. I really don't want some VW dealer in Romania to use my great grandfather's pictures to sell cars. Or some credit card hacker to figure out security questions.
7. Our new senior associate pastor is becoming well loved. He fits in as though he has always been with us. We have been through so many associates in the past years, I hope we hold on to him for a while. Quite a while.