Items too short for a blog

Today I replaced my 50 year old glass measuring cups and 2 qt. casserole. I couldn't read the marks on the cups, and the lid broke about 40 years ago for the casserole. Unless they break, these will probably last the rest of my life.

My husband thinks my smocked, loose t-shirt looks like a maternity top, but pregnant women these days wear tight form fitting body shirts. Besides, at 70, I doubt that I'm confusing anyone.

The cat is coughing, snorting, gagging and sneezing less--down to about once a day--so should I risk not getting a refill of the antibiotic?

Can I finish reading Dearest Friend; a life of Abigail Adams in time to recommend it for the 2010-2011 reading cycle? It's a rule--we can't recommend a book unless we've read it.

It really irritates me that I can't find Palmolive hand soap anywhere. It's probably still made, but I haven't seen it in years. It's far superior to all the other green bar soaps. Meijer's used to have a knock off, but can't even get that.

A friend of mine has written a book about our home town, and I'm really learning a lot. I've bought 2 more copies to give my siblings.

I don't like this month's book selection, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. I suppose I shouldn't read it in the evening. I think I have Sundowner's.

Good news about vitamin supplements, especially calcium, decreasing the breast cancer risk. And only 4 years after they warned us they might increase the risk of cancer. I love research, don't you?

There's a guy on death row here in Ohio fighting execution because he says he has allergies to the injection material. So. . . what's the worst that could happen? He might die?

It appears I've sold my one little piece of Teco for $500. I had a blog entry about it. I went online and looked at another piece at Treadway in Cincinnati, about twice the size and a bit more complex. It was $74,000. We plan to use the money for Haiti.

Abigail's Tea Room at Lakeside was auctioned Saturday. Cold, windy day. We loved going there the last 30 years or so (until 2008). Very sad day for all of us. The Association didn't get it.

I've volunteered to help with English conversation class at our church, but orientation has been cancelled for the third week. Maybe I'll start in the fall. Hardly seems worth it for the spring since we're gone in the summer.

Got a wonderful new notebook for blogging. More expensive than I usually pay, but more pages. "Ebony and Ivory" by Drew Strouble.

A collection of odds and ends

Extortion with your personal information

And it isn't even Joe the Plumber and Gov. Strickland's snoopers.

Express Scripts, which handles prescription drug benefits for millions of Americans, is the subject of an extortion attempt, and it has called in the FBI for help. Someone claims to have the personal information for millions of customers and is threatening to reveal it unless the company pays up.

I'm reading it here, and have forgotten if you need to register.

Reese Witherspoon

Watched her first movie last night, "Man in the Moon" (1991). Really good. She was 14 playing a 14 year old who falls in love with a neighbor boy who falls in love with her older sister. Sigh. A period piece. 1957.

Reworking and editing

Today I spent several hours pulling out my blogs on the housing crisis, CRA, faith based initiatives, etc. (28 pages) Had to stop and clean up some errors. Blogger dot com has a problem I wish could be fixed--or that I'd remember how to work around it. (Not difficult, just open 2 windows.) If you save your entry in DRAFT, then go out and check the internet for something and click back, you may be on an earlier DRAFT and not notice it. I don't know how this happens, but I kept reversing the words "National City" and "City National" then I'd correct it, but going back, I'd get the old draft and not notice it. So I found it today. Obviously, no one read it, because on the internet everyone is an editor or critic. To add to the problem, the mistakes don't actually go away when you correct and hit PUBLISH, even if you go back and correct.

Joined a new ministry this morning

I'm an early riser, so I joined the group at church (7 a.m.) that reads scripture and prays before the service. Nice, quiet, peaceful. Only four of us plus the pastors. My first time, but I liked it. And it's not like choir where I had to recover the voice I lost or never had. Nobody sounds too terrific at 7 a.m.

Fabulous art show

Thursday evening about 5 p.m. we went to the opening of the Ohio Watercolor Society 31st Annual Exhibition at the Riffe Center Gallery, 77 South High. It will run through January 11, 2009. Oh my. Made me swoon. Don't miss it. Not only that, but God was at his artistic best with a golden sunset over the city buildings which were glistening. That was twice in one week I'd been down town. Don't get around much anymore, as the old song goes.

When you leave down town during evening rush hour do you ever wonder if the civil engineers had stepped out for a break while designing that access to 315 North? One lane? Were they crazy? Asleep? Cruel? There must be 100,000 people trying to get to the NW suburbs. And to think there are people that do that every day.