November 18th

I'm writing this looking back on yesterday as I was busy last night writing ads on both this blog and Reba's Run, as well as posting to Manic Monday on both blogs.

Being Sunday, it was an early day by my standards, as well as a full and busy day. Having gotten to bed about 2:30am it was hard to get up at 8:00am, so I kept hitting the snooze button. I then put myself behind time and had to rush more than I wanted to. I've decided that, when I'm doing something important to me, especially in the public eye, I want to be as calm and relaxed as possible. In keeping with this, on Saturday evening, I decided what I would wear Sunday and got it ready and hanging in the bathroom, so that helped a lot Sunday morning when I was running late. I also had everything I needed to take along ready and waiting to go. I still dashed out later than I wanted to and rushed in to town to the Centre, arriving about 10:15am when I'd planned to be there no later than 10:00am. Oh well, it all worked out, especially since I'd already done the programs earlier in the week.

As well as the Song Leader, I did the Inspiration & Treatment. For the Inspiration, I chose to read an interesting page from the book "The Power of Decision" by Raymond Charles Barker, then followed it with a Treatment from the December 2002 issue of Creative Thought Magazine.

I forget just now what year it was that I left the Centre and it took me many years to return, by then to a new minister in charge of things. The reasons I left are more than one, but a great part of it was the woman that was then in charge of the music department. I was in the choir and she got 'pissy' with me a few times, then kicked me out. It's a long story and it's late here now, 1:31am and I've lots to do yet before bed, so won't go into details. Anyway, I've not seen this woman since then until Sunday. I knew for a few weeks she was coming as a guest musician to our Centre, so had time to adjust to it and do some work on me. I'm happy to say that when I saw her it was okay. I remained feeling good about myself, and managed to not even feel badly towards her. She no longer has any control over me because I took my power back.

After the service, there was the usual social time over coffee/tea & cookies. Following that was a board meeting from about 12:50pm to after 3:00pm, forgot to check the time, but think it was about quarter past 3. Anyway, I also managed to, with help from Bev, get all the programs sorted and put away, ready to stuff again for next week.

I came home after that as I wanted to work on my speech and my Power Of Decision homework. As well as that and a bunch of stuff on the computer, I watched a bit of TV, but was disappointed that Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters were not on due to some awards show of some kind. I didn't watch long enough to know what it was. The usual chores were done and off to bed around 2am.