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• 1400 look into Keane & Ingrid Michaelson tickets at the Merriweather Post Pavilion-get awesome seats in row G
• 1500 pouring rain & thunderstorms
• 1730 drive in rush hour traffic to Colombia, MD
• 1845 arrive at venue, buy t-shirt & burgers
• 1900 Fran Healy of Travis
• 2000 Ingrid Michaelson!!!
• 2115 Keane
• 2230 drive home
• 0100 on a work night=Priceless!

So while in Las Vegas, I continued to beep everywhere I went in the mall. So with the help of Yu Pok, I took one item out of my bag at a time and walked past the security “gates”. It was my wallet. So while at lunch – I searched everywhere in my wallet and found the 2nd culprit. Now I think I can finally breathe again! FREEDOM! I dislike Coach for hiding the stupid security tags!

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Saturday-July 24

I flew standby on US Airways operated by Republic Air at 0800.  I slept the entire 2 hour flight.  I landed in MSY at 0940 local time.  Emily arrived with perfect timing in her blue toyota camry rental.  We drove  to her hotel in Belle Chasse to drop off my bags.  Then we scooted back to New Orleans, first making a stop at Starbucks.  We took pictures by the waterfront. Then we walked to the Hilton to eat at Dragos.   Emily made me try Char broiled Oysters - not for me.  We shared Spinach Dip and a Seafood Alfredo Pasta dish! Delicious!  Next, we shopped until we dropped in the French Quarter in 100 degree weather.  We stopped midway and had beignets at Cafe Du Monde.  Yum!  We left New Orleans and ran to Best Buy to pick up anti-virus software.  Then we ate a sushi feast at Big Tuna!

Sunday-July 25

Starbucks stop! Another 100 degree weather day. Shopping, Original Louisiana Pizza for lunch, more shopping, then we went to two book stores and ate dinner at Shoguns Hibachi Grill – Emily had scallops and I had steak.  We watched Leverage and the season 4 premiere of My Boys =)

Monday-July 26

Emily drove me to the airport at 0530.  I slept the entire flight again on US Airways operated by Republic Air.  I got home just before noon.  Ares had a surprise waiting for me – puke upstairs in the bedroom.  Not cool.

Today we had a green day fair at work.  I got some great goodies! Reusable bags, chip clips, hand sanitizer, coaster, pens!

My green efforts:

• Reusable bags for grocery shopping (my bags are kept in the canoe in the back seat at all times to avoid – forgetting them).
• Energy saving light bulbs
• Environmental friendly cleaners
• I just purchased environmental friendly laundry detergent
• paperless billing

For the longest time, every time I would enter or exit certain stores, I would set off the security theft alarms. Sometimes it would go off on entrance but not exit or vice versa, often times both. I searched my bag for that white security tag – but never found it. A lot of Coach accessories have them and I searched everywhere for one where I thought it would be. Tonight, I have finally found the culprit. It was in the small front pocket of my Coach mini skinny! I AM FREE! I no longer have to hold my breath every time I enter & exit a store!

• Play up your strengths;
• Simplify your life;
• Get a hobby;
• Decide, and then move on;
• Accept the fact that some people won’t like you;
• Widen your circle of friends;
• Accentuate the good;
• Silence toxic self-talk;
• Match you intentions to your actions;
• Move it!

–Shape magazine, Feb 2008

Pedicure day!!!  I also got some Christmas shopping done at Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale.  I discovered I do not like smoked salmon.  I will stick to grilled salmon – yum!

I was tossing and turning for an hour, finally my low blood sugar won, got up and ate some captain crunch. I had a few swigs of water too. Ugh…I am sleepy!