This list is normally in my PDA but Tink's Friday blog prompt made me think I should share it with y'all so you can see us city folks are no slouchers. I wonder what the suburban folks in the blogosphere are doing this weekend?

TO DO Saturday!!!

• Measure ALL living room windows
  
• Hardware store – buy vise grip wrench, adjustable wrench, socket wrench, mini-blinds, and foam caulking to seal window gaps.
  
• Fix leak under bathroom sink
  
• Replace all old blinds in living room
  
• Staightening out & dusting the living room
  
• Do my Banking (get money order, deposit checks, get roll of quarters, get info on life insurance)
  
• Go to post office
  
• Visit Optometrist to get Pumpkin's eyeglasses repaired
  
• Office Depot – buy filing cabinet
  
• Visit Fishmonger – get swordfish, sea bass and mussels
  
• Supermarket – buy groceries for next 2 weeks
  
• Go to Drug Store – buy sundries
  
• Take my son to the park and play softball/catch
  
• While watching College Football do the following:
  
  - Plan/prep dinners for Saturday, Monday & Tuesday
  
  - Go online & schedule Milk/Fruit/Veggie delivery
  
  - Move old files into new file cabinet
  
  - Put together exercise equipment
  
  
• While watching Tigers devour Cardinals
  
  - reconcile checkbook
  
  - write checks for bils
  
  - review EOB's against billls submitted to insurer
  
  - plan for the week ahead
  

  UPDATE: Office Depot didn't have any filing cabinets in the store (huh?). Per salesperson I must order them online. As for fixing the leak and putting together the exercise equipment, I must say that I'm very proud of myself and did both very easily and well, needing only 3 bandaids in the process!
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  1 Oops - it was the Cards smacking down the Tigers. *grin* Hope it didn't slow down your todo's.

  Posted by: Teresa at October 21, 2006 11:58 PM (o4pJS)

  2 You forgot "Buy bandaids"....

  Posted by: _Jon at October 22, 2006 09:57 AM (uCdAQ)

  3 I wish I was with you this weekend.

  Posted by: Tink at October 23, 2006 12:05 PM (11q5z)

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This girl has been so incredibly busy at work that she will be taking to bed a couple of briefing books on national security and a congressional report on the Military & Defense Dept.Â’s Information Operations and Cyberwar Capabilities and Related Policy Issues.

The latter is really interesting reading. Really!

Link updated - thanks to RSM.

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1 Just so you know, here in the Chicago area, a single woman I know took a presentation and an inventory list to bed with her last night. And I can promise you, neither one of THOSE were interesting.....

Posted by: Tammi at October 19, 2006 05:20 AM (3UQTn)

2 Oh, is THAT what they're calling it these days? Darn kids and their slang...

Posted by: Ogre at October 19, 2006 01:26 PM (oifEm)

3 *sigh* link didn't work for me... but sounds like some fun reading ;-)

Posted by: Teresa at October 19, 2006 04:59 PM (o4pJS)

4 Good link here: http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL31787.pdf Sweet. at just 14 pages it's not bad either. Go Clay Wilson! (not the artist or the hockey player ones, though)

Posted by: RSM at October 19, 2006 06:52 PM (Grpq4)

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Oddy & RSM have both said to me that "anger is good". Tonight I'm beginning to think they're absolutely right. Part of the reason I'm so angry is the incredible amount of pain I'm in. I normally have a high threshold for pain, but right now I feel like I've been hit by a Mac truck, it's backed up, and run over me several times over.

Although I hurt all over, I'm in excrutiating pain from the middle of my back all the way to the base of my skull. I've already called my two old physical therapists, accupunturist and my massage therapist all who did a great job restoring me back to health after my ski accident, but the earliest any of them can see me is the middle of next week. So I have no choice for now but to wait. My Kingdom for a good pair of strong hands to work on me!

In the mean time, I smell absolutely lovely! Not of lavender & such, but according to my accupuncturist my eau de Tiger-balm & Eucalyptus smell is very enticing to her Ben-gay crowd. On nights like this I am ooooh so glad I am single. Oohhhh wait, I just realized, if I wasnt' I could ask my partner oh so sweetly for a back massage. Oh well, at least I don't have to hear complaints about my overpowering aromatic scent.

But what is really sending me over the edge is learning this evening from the detectives on the case, that this woman - who threw her baby into the water, is now claiming temporary insanity.

She's so lucky to be in protective custody. Really... she is... because had she been within reach tonight I think there would have been a 2nd person claiming that defense after throwing her out her hospital window. For now, I hope she rots in a hell of a cell for the rest of her life, with the smell of the ocean always nearby to remind her every moment of her life of what she did.

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A long time ago, one of my friends said to me that coincidences was GodÂ’s way of working in our lives quietly, so we could focus on the lessons. I was young and moving faster than the speed of light so I didnÂ’t quite get their meaning but thought the concept quaint. He always pointed out the way we met and how our friendship and our experience with cancer had bolstered the other in ways that no one else could have done in our lives. When I finally began to pay attention to this I realized that every person coming into my life did so for a reason and with a purpose. IÂ’ve since learned itÂ’s usually for us to help each other with this thing called life.

The week before my last living friend, Betsey, died of cancer, she said to me: “who would have thought that a prominent therapist like me would gain such insights and receive such strength from a friendship I never even anticipated.” I never truly understood the loving thought behind what she was trying to say. Mostly, because I was upset over her prognosis, but I now realize that it also had to do with my experience. I didn’t quite understand her meaning because until then Mike and I were the ones with the strongest inner spirit. Yes, there were storms in my life, but they were easily weathered knowing I had incredible friends as my support and anchors, who helped tweak my sails just so each time, enabling me to stay on course.

With their deaths IÂ’ve had to rely on my memories and guidance from the great beyond. That didnÂ’t always work so well. Recently, IÂ’m finding more and more that in your telling of your lives on your blogs, and in my reading of your funny, sweet, tender and often interesting revelations, I find similarities, differences and lessons that I have yet to learn.

Unbeknownst to one blogger, our email exchanges from this past week has helped me enormously in learning something about my life and myself that I otherwise would not have been able to learn. It wasnÂ’t the fact they were holding a virtual mirror to my face, it was the fact that their sharing helped me understand my life and events within it in ways no therapist could have explained that I would have understood because it was out of my frame of reference or understanding. What's even more amazing is realizing that God is helping me with life in the only form I can manage right now - online.

And so tonight, the ripples in the pond have managed to reach me and Betsey, with a simple stone cast by words in a digital medium that is often dismissed as inconsequential. As a result, I am ever more grateful for such inconsequential coincidences, because I now know theyÂ’ll all have a more concrete meaning tomorrow.

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