This past weekend… Accomplishment #1: Did laundry Setback #1: Pulled laundry from dryer to find I had also laundered the blue ink -pen in one of Paul’s pockets, which broke and blue speckled all clothing and linens. Especially sad for the light gray Anthropologie pants that I wear at least twice a week because I … Read more
Day 11 of the sinus infection / cold thingy. Used tissues overflow from the wastebaskets in every room. When my head is clogged up like this, my emotions feel a little dull. Everything seems fuzzy around the edges. It’s like a sneeze guard to my soul. I understand that the world still has crisp lines … Read more
By 9pm feeling much better, less convinced of cancer. And I ORDERED A KINDLE! So happy? It’s an odd phenomenon, the way buying something that you can afford, even though you shouldn’t afford it, gives you a little rush. I think it has to do with feeling a little sense of control in a life … Read more
My life is kind of insanely busy right now. So much so that I can’t even bring myself to write about it because I’m so amped in that not that great way where I can’t really calm down enough to focus on what I’m saying. I’m all over the place. But, I’ll try to make … Read more
Today, by the way, is my first day back at school. And, as often, I am feeling unprepared (thus my keying in on the the word “preparation”) physically, mentally, and perhaps most of all, emotionally. I have a class this morning that I don’t quite trust. If it’s not immediately fabulous, I plan to go … Read more
And, I think, my first of three words: Preparation The specific intention I have been thinking of is getting all our ducks in a row-presentation wise. Paul does not have a website yet–and much as I try to let him run his own life and career, this makes me almost insane. So many job postings … Read more
Go to bed earlier. The ideal would be 11pm I think. That would translate to a wake-up time of about 6:30 am, which would be really cool. However, it’s 1:25 a.m. and we just got home and I’m doing my staring-at-the-computer-screen-decompression thing. And, you know, writing a little blog post here. I’m a little sweaty … Read more
Interrupting my my series of posts on New Years intentions (yes it will be a series I believe), yet in the vein of the new year-new page spirit in which I am writing them, I’d like to say I’m happy to see my friend Rosie back in blogging action with an excellent post wherein she … Read more
Volunteer It’s not that I didn’t do things for my community last year: I was part of a human wave because a friend had organized a huge environmental awareness event for 350.org. Another friend did a charity show for the Downtown Women’s shelter, I went twice. Friends directed documentaries about Darfur, and modern architecture, and … Read more
I just read another article about how willpower exists in finite quantities. So if you have have to expend a lot of willpower to complete a task, there is less willpower to resist the next temptation. People who have to watch a boring video and are then assigned a boring task are less likely to … Read more