The lawn outside my Mom’s house in Indiana. The last rain was on her birthday, June 4–so over a month ago. There is a chance of rain as well a possible “cooling off’ (down into the 80s) tomorrow, though apparently recent potential rains have been hours of lightning with nothing wet. We shall see. Regardless, … Read more
It’s late April now; daylight has been saved, summer’s heat is in preview, and it is still light as I commute home. The bus lets me off at a three-pronged intersection–two streets perpendicular to each other and one diagonal–thus I must cross three streets, each with lights timed against the others, in order to reach … Read more
I don’t know why I’m not writing much here–though I can guess. I have essay assignments due for both of my classes in the past couple of weeks, and now I’m working on this screenplay. A few random things: I think mercury just went into retrograde this week. My friends who are into astrology always … Read more
February, as you may recall, is my “make active choices” month. How’s it going? Meh… The parameters of the goal are pretty fuzzy, life has been in flux. I have not consistently been prioritizing that trip to the gym over other things. So I thought another form of active choice would be to throw a … Read more
Since the “picking out my clothes the night before” project has worked out pretty well, I’m trying to move on in February. However, I fear this month’s goal is in danger because it is less explicit. Basically it’s a prep for being healthier, and the “lose ten” pounds, that may come to the fore before … Read more
Today I went to this festival at USC called “Get Your Hands Dirty with the Arts.” I signed up to learn how to make an animated Gif. We were supposed to bring an object, so I brought some clay. This other woman in my group also brought clay, so we were on the same page. … Read more
Update on the re-fi saga: It looks like it’s back on the table. I went back to the bank, and it seems they overlooked something that threw things back in my favor. Which was awesome. When my loan rep told me, I was ecstatic. Then, as I walked back to work–I realized that the profound, … Read more
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO7J2knk4Ew] It’s been a hard couple weeks. I can’t even remember why, now, or if there is a why. I just know that when Wednesday came around, it was an exception. I felt much better. I literally thought:”Wow, I feel so much happier. How odd that I had to drag myself through yesterday, and … Read more
So, in the first chapter of my “sharing your place” book, the author reminds us that a new habit can be established in 21 days. She also says that you should not try to change more that three habits at once, because you’ll get overloaded. Before January, I decided on my first new habit of … Read more