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A wise guy once told me Lent is less about giving things up but more about reflection and renewal. I’ve been working balls to the wall for the past 4-5 months. I feel like this is a good time to reflect and renew.   Health – start working out again. I feel like a blob.  Work – stop being a doormat and quit complaining  Home – keep clearing stuff out. A friend has a challenge of taking one bag of…

In The Light of Day

First off, I want to apologize to my Facebook friends for my increasingly angry tone last night. It helps no one. The sun rose today, and we’re all still here.   I am largely disappointed that we voted with our guts rather than reason.  While I am disappointed, it is technically the will of the American People as a whole, apathy and all.  I will respect it.   When they go low, we go high. When…

No of course I didn’t write last night. I was too busy watching the World Series. Not that I like either one of the teams, they were plain playing some great baseball.  I had several conversations yesterday about career paths yesterday. It made me realize that I still don’t have it all figured out. This is like building a skill tree. No wonder I’m so bad at RPGs. I just want to be good at…

Surprise! I didn’t write last night. Actually I would be surprised if you thought I actually sat down and wrote 1700 words. I actually find it really hard to write at night.  I did jot down some ideas yesterday morning on the way to work. Hopefully I can use that as my starting point.  I have noticed that my ability to context switch diminishes as the day wears on. I usually have some very…

Can you tell I’m not good at keeping track of dates? Today is actually the day NaNoWriMo starts.  I have a theory that my mind is a singularity. All my thoughts, feelings, and experiences just rolls into one big ball, layering on top of one another.  My idea for my novel is actually a collection of letters. I’m pretty sure it will be non-linear. Multiple recipients: some inanimate objects, some…

It’s the first day of November, which means it’s the first day of National Novel Writing Month.  I’ve looked into writing something for a few years. Lots of starts and stops. I think I finally have something I can work with. Might as well commit to it while it’s fresh on my mind.  I’m committed to write 50000 words in the next 30 days, that roughly translates to 1700 per day. Which honestly is…

I met some interesting people last month in Portland. I discussed the merits of different coffee we were smelling with a journalist from Seattle. Hung out at a brewery with a guy (who I think is Australian) from Toronto working in LA for a few weeks and thought to check out Portland for the weekend. We hitched an uber ride with him to the airport since we were all on our way there. Ran into a…

Forgot to take a “before” picture. You know how sometimes you just get into a groove and have to finish something? This room was basically impassable this past weekend. It contained all of my makeup and toiletry plus some leftover clothing items. I managed to Konmari half a trash bin full of cosmetics and loosely sorted everything else. I need a bit more time to pack them away and stock them on…

I almost forgot to post today because the interwebs ate the post I wrote. Don’t edit your post while you’re in a basement restaurant waiting for your next course.  Anyway. It’s been a year since I traveled by myself. It wasn’t very exciting the last time around because I was just in Vegas. I’ve been there so many times nothing really interested me. I spent most of the time hanging around my…

The arrival of fall means a lot of different things to different people. Sure I love the PSL and jackets and Halloween. But for me, it’s finally comfortable enough again to play with yarn.  I have about 40 lbs of just this one kind of fiber sitting in my parlor right now. I also have a basket of completed scarves ready for distribution. I sold a good amount of them last year and actually covered…

I play Earth, Wind, & Fire’s September every 21st of September. Today was no exception. Interesting article I saw on NPR this morning about why this song is so addictive. There’s something about the simplicity and the lyrics that generates that yearning feeling. Obviously this was analyzed after the fact.  Do song writers inherently know this is what is going to happen? Maurice White didn’t want…

I attended a workshop bright and early Monday morning to work on feedback. Both on giving good feedback and how to receive feedback. The mechanisms I learned will come in handy, but the bit I am most interested is our natural reactions to feedback on general and how to recognize them.  My friends and I figured out that we tend to fight under adversity.  My physical signals are that I get flushed…