5 things personal post

[meridian_rose]

Five things make a post, I've seen others say. And while I have photos to share at a later time, I'll make a quick personal post here and now.

1. Still working on my unconventional courtship fic. The first draft is technically finished but there's a fair amount of detail I need to add during the first edit. Fandom is Ghost Whisperer

2. Found a bargain second hand red dress for next month; my church encourages everyone to wear red for Pentecost and takes a group photo. Plus my sister and younger nephew are getting baptised so it's a big day and I wanted something special to wear.
I'll try and get a photo when I wear it as it doesn't look so great just on a hangar. Also, I just googled the brand (Phase Eight) and I would never be able to afford a new one of these, prices being in the three figure bracket. The two most similar currently on their website are £150.
It was reduced to £6 at the charity store and then on the sale rail for the grand total of £2.

Last year I got a bargain for my baptism dress at a different charity store, a dark blue FCUK dress which again, retails for £100-200 and which I got for £15. Both of these I put on and they felt 'right', comfortable, which doesn't always happen with dresses especially as I'm petite so shorter in the body than some dresses are designed for. When you have that comfort and they look good, it gives a little confidence boost.

3. Also, please forgive another mention of church but our minister, Reverend Mandy finally got installed at 2 local churches, so made official vicar for them after a long period of being in the post on an interim measure. The evening service was lovely, overseen by our new Birmingham Bishop Michael, and attended by the Solihull mayor (the ceremonial mayor not the West Midlands mayor).
Mandy asked me to a reading and I didn't realise I was the only one doing a reading. (Mandy wisely didn't tell me, knowing I'd probably not have done it!) I got to wear the aforementioned blue dress again too.
She sent me the passage (Colossians 3:12-17) and I read it a few times and aloud once before the service, and I focussed on the words in front of me not the congregation in front nor the amassed clergy behind me at the lectern.
Afterwards people gave me a lot of praise which was nice, because I'm not a public speaker and again, this wasn't something I ever saw myself doing!

4. Nephews were both part of the scout parade for St George's Day in Dorridge. Big turn out from many local scout groups and people coming out to enjoy the band and the parade. Will try and add photos later. We were blessed with sunny weather - next day, Monday, was rain almost the entire day!

5. I'm trying to catch up on DW posts and my inbox (55 notifications!)

There was one DW notification in the posts and comments section I've never seen before, "you are not authorized to view this comment"
My inner critic prone to paranoia said maybe it was something someone had commented and then blocked me from a journal/community. It's probably more likely that it's a comment at something like the Snowflake Mods where I had temporary access prior to this year's challenge to post the pre-post and poll, but access was revoked during end of challenge housekeeping.

Still, weird.

Comments

[smallhobbit]

I love the idea of all wearing red for Pentecost! Congratulations on doing the reading at the installation.

[meridian_rose]

It's such a nice tradition and one I got to take part in for the first time last year :)
Thank you! :D

[kitarella_imagines]

Yes, I've never seen that notification, I wonder what it means 🤔

[meridian_rose]

Yet another mystery we'll never solve!

[kitarella_imagines]

We are becoming a pair of private detectives aren't we 😂

[meridian_rose]

We're trying our best! :D
Someone else said they had the same notification so I'm thinking it could be a Dreamwidth glitch or anti-spam measure (blocking spam comments before we see them, so we don't have to even report them).

[kitarella_imagines]

Okay, do you want to be Miss Marple or Jessica Fletcher? Or someone else 😋

Yes, I'd say that was a glitch or anti spam. I'm sure it's not personal to you.

I get that sort of notification if I try and watch some videos, it says 'you're not able to watch this video due to your location' or similar. Usually sport videos.

[meridian_rose]

LOL, like both of those I don't drive and don't have children (I think they both have nephews too!) but I think Jessica Fletcher because she's a best selling author ;)

Good point about the location on videos. Annoying when it happens!

[kitarella_imagines]

Oh yes, you can write best selling novels about our detective work!

I might be Miss Marple or maybe Nancy Drew. I liked the Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys mysteries 😂

Yes it is annoying about those videos 😕

[meridian_rose]

I read quite a lot of Nancy Drew in my late teens! I think I only read a crossover with the Hardy Boys.
I remember being shocked when I discovered that Carolyn Keene wasn't a 'real' person but a pen-name many authors wrote under for the series, same for Franklin W Dixon and the Hardy Boys.

Jessica Fletcher and Nancy Drew, a pair of strawberry-blonde crime solvers works well I think :)

[kitarella_imagines]

So did I and I read the Hardy Boys, I was in love with impetuous, blond Joe.🤣

Right, 'Fletcher and Drew', we'll set up an agency 😉

[under_the_silk_tree]

It is always so great to get a bargain on a really nice dress.

I'm glad your reading went so well!

I got one of those "you are not authorized" comments in my inbox as well and I did worry that maybe I had said something wrong and then was blocked. It didn't seem like something I would be able to figure out, so I made myself let go.

[meridian_rose]

It is! I don't buy loads of clothes and dresses very rarely so I was especially pleased :)

Thank you!

Oh, that makes me feel better; maybe it's another glitch or a spam reduction measure from Dreamwidth. As you say I don't think we can figure it out, so just have to write it off with a shrug!