I can't believe it is Friday. I got so much done today but have so much more to do still. I swear that today I saw a woman who looked exactly like Betty White and a man who looked exactly like Newman on Seinfeld (before he lost all that weight). I'm thinking that has to mean something. Kind of like if you drop a dish towel you know you will have company. I just don't know what it means if you see 2 celebraty look alikes in one day. Anyway, the Betty White look alike sold me a pair of boots. I can pretty safely say I have never owned a pair of boots that were truly made for real winter weather. We just don't have much need in Atlanta. When I was 5 years old I had some kickin' white go go boots. I don't guess those really compare either though.

Ok - so now I have boots. I also bought my gifts for Abby's caregivers today. Whew - another huge relief. For some of the gifts, I bought 6 leather journals. I could see the sales lady eyeing me. She probably thinks I feel I have a lot to say/write. Probably even better than that though was when I was buying 10 CDs. An older man made a beeline for me and proceeded to tell me that apparently I was just like him because he couldn't stop buying CDs either. I nodded and smiled and moved on. I did feel good about helping him justify his CD habit. :-) Hmmm, or maybe I am just a CD enabler.

A little update on last night's Stage One of Packing. Well, suffice it to say, that since only half of what I had laid out to take with me would fit in my bags, I then began Stage One of What Can I Leave At Home. Let's just say many things I thought I could not live without, I have now decided I can live without. I stopped myself before taking underwear out of my suitcase but have decided to leave the laptop at home. So, I'm not sure how much I will be able to post. Hopefully still every day while I am in Uralsk, but I will just have to roll with things over there.

Alright - enough for tonight. Happy Friday everyone. I'm back to packing and stuff.