Because it’s Friday AGAIN. And because traditions are important. In which I cover the good stuff and the hard stuff in my week, trying for the non-preachy, non-annoying side of self-reflection.
And you get to join in if you feel like it.
Selma and I are actually in San Francisco right now so this is the miracle of pre-posting.
Whoo! Pre-posting. It makes me happy.
But yeah, it was quite a week.
And I’ve been doing a lot of general mulling over while remembering everything that’s been going on for me.
The hard stuff
Too many freaking things to do.
My Pirate Queen Action Items List is so long it actually makes me want to throw up looking at it.
No, I do not understand how it is that I have THREE assistants and still there are so many things that are on my list?
Maybe it’s that I haven’t figured out yet how to teach other people to do them. Or maybe it’s more that I don’t have time to teach them while I’m completely overwhelmed by the sheer size of the list.
I don’t know. But there was a lot of hard this week around that.
And I focused a lot of my time on just healing the ick and doing techniques to calm down. Blech.
The fireworks.
I already wrote about this.
But having my post-traumatic stress stuff come up again was not fun.
What’s the opposite of writer’s block called?
There is so much that I want to be writing about all at once that it forms this sort of weird paralysis.
I find myself resenting the time that’s designated for non-writing things.
And then when I do sit down to write, it’s with too many frenetic ideas floating around and begging for a piece of my attention.
Something to work on.
But not today.
I want some good stuff! Oh, right. Here we are. The good stuff.
The good stuff
As ladyfriends go, I am pretty much the best ever.
Executing the super-complicated Mission Ridiculously Complicated Birthday Surprise for my gentleman friend was not easy.
Well, mostly it was not easy to keep my mouth shut and not tell him what was happening.
I’d arranged a four day trip for the two of us to his favorite city, a four-star hotel, transportation, brunch plans with various friends of his … and oh, various other little sneaky surprises.
All of which I’ve been dying to be able to talk to him about since I’m not used to having something that we’re not talking about.
And then there were all the various loose cannons — his various friends in San Francisco that I had sworn to secrecy.
And our friends here who knew (I’m pretty sure the Spicy Princess was totally kicking Ranch Boy under the table when we had dinner at their place).
Anyway, it was agonizing. But so completely worth it to see his elated and astonished grin when Selma and I handed him his birthday envelope with a goofy deck of itinerary cards inside.
I learned something.
This is actually from a couple weeks ago, but the realization has been really helpful for me this week.
I was doing Cairene’s brilliant Bite the Candy thing which is all about doing the stuff on your to-do list that never actually gets done.
So I had four things that I wanted to give attention to, and one of them I kept thinking of as “the fun one”, so I saved that one for last.
And when I did it, I learned that hey, it wasn’t really fun at all.
Which was really useful. Because I was able to stop and say:
“Oh! Oh oh oh oh oh! THAT’s why I was avoiding it.”
Of course I had been thinking of it as the fun one because it was on a list of ew.
But it was really hard! And realizing that gave me permission to stop giving myself crap for avoiding the “fun” one.
People are awesome.
Every once in a while something bizarre happens that costs me money.
For example, someone’s house gets broken into and their Shiva Nata DVD gets stolen.
This has actually happened more than a couple times, which kind of makes you want to shake your head at humanity in general. But I figure that some loss is just the price of doing business.
So I have a very “oh well, what are you gonna do” attitude about that kind of loss. We ship another one, it gets marked in the books and then I forget about it.
But this one woman in the Netherlands? She got insurance money. And then she paypalled me 20 Euro as a thank you.
Isn’t that the sweetest thing ever?
Also, in a weird way it kind of makes me happy to imagine the person who stole her DVD actually using it, becoming a Shivanaut and changing his own patterns through the practice.
Shiva-Nata-inspired moments of bing!
Speaking of Shivanauts and the insanely weird Dance of Shiva, I have been getting the most brain-blowingly awesome insights all week.
Dancing up a storm. And writing down the things that come up afterwards.
And it’s out of control.
Swing!
My gentleman friend and I have been learning swing dancing. And now that we can do four different turns without falling on our faces, we can rock out in the living room while listening to Elvis.
And that is pure bliss.
And … new at the meme beach house!
Yes, that’s a Stuism too.
My brother and I like make up ridiculous band names and then say in this really pretentious, knowing tone, “Oh, well, you know, it’s just one guy.”
This week it’s:
My Right Arm For A Pepsi*
It’s just one guy.
*Second runner up: Barton Finkelstein and the Elephants. Also a guy. No elephants.
And … STUISMS of the week.
Stu is my paranoid McCarthy-ist voice-to-text software who delights in torturing me misunderstanding me. I can’t stand him.
My favorite was:
And the Giants rock!
That was instead of what it was supposed to be which was “and the giant rock“. But since I madly adore the San Francisco Giants, I was pretty excited that Stu finally got something right.
My second favorite was It’s that Nutter Irish instead of “It’s the Nataraj”.
(Yes, I know … and his second guess for Nataraj was not trashy, to which I say: ?!?!?!?!)
Anyway, the gems from this week:
- Friday Czech and instead of “Friday Chicken”
- That’s a heart, Inuit? instead of “That’s hard, isn’t it?
- folks and head wax instead of “pokes and head whacks”
- They steal the two hogs back together instead of “they seal the two halves back together”
- after Leslie instead of “effortlessly”
- here is termite brain instead of “erased from my brain”
- Ha ha Ha ha ha. No picket. instead of “Hahahahaha. No.”
- the sell you an arc is going to ash instead of “the cellular network is going to crash”
- no unbiased instead of “no one buys”
- So pick a Grammy instead of “So big hug from me”
- from Psalm A instead of “from Selma”
That’s it for me …
And yes yes yes, of course you can join in my Friday ritual right here in the comments bit if you feel like it.
Yeah? Anything hard and/or good happen in your week?
And, as always, have a glorrrrrrrrrrrrious weekend. And a happy week to come.
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Swing!!! I wanted to take classes with *my* gentleman friend, but he would only have done it as a favor to me, not because he’s into it. Sigh…
Enjoy enjoy enjoy 😀
Ooh, thanks for the “fun one” insight – I think I’ll find that useful.
And enjoy San Francisco!
‘That’s a Heart, Inuit?’ would make a great name for a band, but it would be really experimental, cacophonic music, so the “it’s just one guy” line would be met with eye rolls and someone would mumble “Of course it’s just one guy, bands with multiple people are so 200l.”
The Hard Stuff
-I kept telling my partner, ‘we’ll just take it nice and slow’ and ‘one step at a time’, but when you’ve hit a wall, you’ve hit a wall, so the last couple days in Paris and the one day layover in Barcelona were a bit more gah than fun and I of course felt guilty that they weren’t more fun, but we were both soooo tired.
-My body didn’t think much of this whole squeeze a few more drops of fun out of the trip plan and I’ve been pretty sick with a fever, sore throat, and ear ache most of the week.
-It was my partner’s birthday on Wednesday and I felt so guilty about being sick.
The Good Stuff
-Paris and Barcelona were nice and all, but oh my god, it’s nice to not be staying in hostels and sleeping on air mattresses.
-I’m starting to feel better.
-I have paid web work to do.
-I’m meeting some awesome people on twitter.
The Living Poets last blog post..Appeasing the Nagging Submit Me Voice
Yay for Friday Chicken! And double yays for your GentlemanFriend’s fabulous birthday getaway, courtesy of You. 🙂
Hard this week:
Overdid things and ended up in pain, not able to walk for a couple of days, which was ugh.
Good this week:
Had two treatments from my osteopath, and am walking comfortably again–hooray!
Did some astonishing work with clients; big shifts around difficult patterns.
Reading a wonderful book of essays by John Updike (I love essays) and bought Anne Sexton’s Collected Poems, which I get to dip into this weekend.
Hiro Bogas last blog post..What I Learned About Life & Business From Crossing The Road In Bombay
“No, I do not understand how it is that I have THREE assistants and still there are so many things that are on my list?” WORK will always EXPAND to occupy all free time and assistants! At least that is my experience.
I’ve accepted that I will go to my grave someday with an unfinished to do list.
The hard:
– gaining 5 pounds in the past 2 weeks due to ALL my dysfunctional eating habits rearing their ugly heads due to the stress that I’m under at work.
– the realization that our beloved kitty (adopted December 1994) will not be with us forever. She’s really lost a LOT of weight the past couple of months. She is literally skin and bones. She is like a child to us as we don’t have children. Hubby is taking it really hard as he is home with her all the time. I’m so wound up in the crap I’m dealing with at work that I don’t feel like I have any energy left to deal with the situation. Trying to make sure I take extra time every morning and night to give her hugs & pets as I don’t know when the end will come. This sucks.
The good:
– Getting out on my bike for 2 bike rides last weekend.
– Taking a day COMPLETELY off of work!!!!
– That it is Friday! And I survived another week of class prep and other assorted insanity.
Isn’t it great when plans work? What a wonderful surprise for your Gentleman Friend! 😀
The hard:
DH being passed over for a job again. We were so sure this time was *it*. I am at loose ends about what step to take next.
DD having trouble sleeping and anxiety and sharing it all with us in the most ugly ways possible. Trying to keep a balance so the boys aren’t totally caught in the crosshairs while still managing to be there for everyone and get my stuff done.
The good:
DH was really uplifted by the interview process; it went very well until the end 😉
Finding my copy of Corita Kent’s “Learning by Heart” and making some small pieces using her “finder” technique to make a composition.
Wonderful food from the farmer’s market. (blueberries and green beans and the world’s largest zucchini).
Great feedback from the pieces I made from the heart, re-affirming to me that it is best for me and the world when I do the work I love rather than worrying about “what sells”.
We are going to Lily Fest tomorrow. I am excited to see all the frogs and lotuses and artists and plants 😀
I hope everyone here has a great weekend!
Andis last blog post..Winner!
I hope that you and the lucky gentleman have an AWESOME time in San Francisco. That is so cool that you pulled the surprise off.
And I so get that action paralysis from having too many opportunities. Unfortunately it usually leads me into paralysis by analysis of trying to figure out the ONE RIGHT THING to work on rather than just grabbing one and getting on with it. More “stuff” for me to work on 🙂
Mike Stankavichs last blog post..Short Sale Auction for my Previous Home
Welcome, welcome, welcome (back) to San Francisco, Havi. And major kudos for pulling off the spectacular birthday surprise. Fantabulous!
The Hard:
-I hear you on the to do list thang. I have found myself in a state of numbed out paralysis a few days this week because I felt like I had so much to do I couldn’t make a start on anything. In a moment of ironacy (sort of like irony, but with lunacy thrown in), I spent a lot of time changing online todo list managers because I was convinced that having a better GUI would help me get more stuff done. Yeah. Can we say “rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.”
-My boss at work has been on the warpath. Her wrath has not been aimed at me, but when she’s like this it’s just so awful to be at work. The whole vibe of the place becomes black toxic yuck and it makes me sad. And mad at myself for still being there and not off in the world doing what I’m really supposed to be doing, lighting things up and making people laugh and making a difference. And I have not been making a lot of progress on my Escape from Cubicle Nation (despite having gone to the awesome Pam Slim workshop a couple weeks ago), so lots of self flagellation.
The Good:
-This one should be titled the Mindblowingly Awesome: I am just over 48 hours away from going to Havi’s San Francisco workshop. I’m so excited and stoked I can’t even use my words to describe what I feel. Woot!
-I’m in rehearsals for Guys and Dolls. One of my favorite musicals of all times. I’m getting to sing a lot of wonderful songs, and have a great time playing with my fellow actors, and letting Actor Pidge unabashedly run wild.
-I finished a bit of my memoir and will meet with my Saturday Memoir writers group tomorrow to go over it. So Writer Pidge gets some time in the sun.
Thanks for the Chicken. Yay chicken. Yay tradition.
@Havi: The opposite of writer’s block is hypergraphia, an overwhelming urge to write. Wikipedia has a nice explanation and there’s a fascinating book called THE MIDNIGHT DISEASE by neuroresearcher Alice Flaherty, who experienced hypergraphia following a traumatic incident. Recommended. I copied whole paragraphs out of it into my Moleskine.
@Hiro: Anne Sexton’s poems are great. I love her TRANSFORMATIONS book the best.
THE HARD
Spending lots of money on books and stuff I feel that I need for my upcoming transition from employee to student…at a time when I feel I should be conserving money. I’m telling myself I’m laying down the infrastructure for my new “business” as a student, when I won’t have this nice income anymore. But still.
Seeing my job go up on the company website, soliciting resumes. I knew it would happen but this made it REAL. (I’m here for another month.)
Too much stress eating and while I’m doing it *knowing* I have the tools to calm it down or short-circuit it, but then not doing it! Frustrating.
Avoiding tasks I don’t want to do at work. With no good reason why.
Writing on the lit review at least an hour a day, but going so slowly and the last section was just draggy. But last night’s session went better, so I have hopes.
No new blog posts this week.
THE GOOD
My Nomadics and YinYang Yoga DVDs came this week. But no time to watch them 🙁 Waiting for the Shiva Nata DVD to arrive sometime also.
Giving myself permission to spend a few minutes before bed reading my latest Seth book, GEORGE SPROTT. Just delightful.
Shared a short film I saw only once decades ago and loved (“Who Am I This Time?”, available from Netflix) with Liz, who was also charmed by it.
Introduced my manager to a friend who I want to take my job when I leave (and who will strongly extend the work I’ve started); the meeting went well.
And — the weather’s been great, not too hot, sunny, very pleasant — a rarity for central NC in July!
@Havi: The opposite of writer’s block is hypergraphia, an overwhelming urge to write. Wikipedia has a nice explanation and there’s a fascinating book called THE MIDNIGHT DISEASE by neuroresearcher Alice Flaherty, who experienced hypergraphia following a traumatic incident. Recommended. I copied whole paragraphs out of it into my Moleskine.
@Hiro: Anne Sexton’s poems are great. I love her TRANSFORMATIONS book the best.
THE HARD
Spending lots of money on books and stuff I feel that I need for my upcoming transition from employee to student…at a time when I feel I should be conserving money. I’m telling myself I’m laying down the infrastructure for my new “business” as a student, when I won’t have this nice income anymore. But still.
Seeing my job go up on the company website, soliciting resumes. I knew it would happen but this made it REAL. (I’m here for another month.)
Too much stress eating and while I’m doing it *knowing* I have the tools to calm it down or short-circuit it, but then not doing it! Frustrating.
Avoiding tasks I don’t want to do at work. With no good reason why.
Writing on the lit review at least an hour a day, but going so slowly and the last section was just draggy. But last night’s session went better, so I have hopes.
No new blog posts this week.
THE GOOD
My Nomadics and YinYang Yoga DVDs came this week. But no time to watch them 🙁 Waiting for the Shiva Nata DVD to arrive sometime also.
Giving myself permission to spend a few minutes before bed reading my latest Seth book, GEORGE SPROTT. Just delightful.
Shared a short film I saw only once decades ago and loved (“Who Am I This Time?”, available from Netflix) with Liz, who was also charmed by it.
Introduced my manager to a friend who I want to take my job when I leave (and who will strongly extend the work I’ve started); the meeting went well.
And — the weather’s been great, not too hot, sunny, very pleasant — a rarity for central NC in July!
Mikes last blog post..Old-world skillz
I really should know better than reading the stuisms of the week while eating!
What a wonderful birthday surprise for your gentleman friend! It must have been hard to keep everything a secret, but so good once the beans were spilled!
The hard:
– Still recovering from my trip to Paris and catching up on things. Can’t wait to find my rhythm again.
– The writer’s retreat in Taos is coming soon, and I still have so much to do to get ready! Kinda hard to get ready for a trip while recovering from another one. I was expecting to have more time between the two, but plans got changed somewhere along the way.
– Obviously, not much progress on my project.
The good:
– After meeting a blog/Twitter friend near Paris a few weeks ago, plans are under way to meet another one in NYC at the end of the year. I’m really excited about it!
– The writer’s retreat in Taos is coming soon! My plane ticket is bought! It will help me move forward on my project! And I’ll finally get to meet you! Yay!
Josianes last blog post..Creative vegan tip of the day!
The hard:
* No power ALL DAY Monday.
* Also: it was (sort of) my fault. The power went out late Sunday night. I was still up, but I felt lazy and didn’t call it in. No one else did either, so the power company didn’t know about it until 7am. I really beat myself up over that mistake. I’m not good at forgiving myself for stupid mistakes.
* Didn’t get as much done this week as I planned. Kind of beating myself up for that too.
The good:
* Took a day off to visit art galleries. Fun, and VERY eye-opening. I need to do that more often.
* I asked for, and received, some things I needed this week. I’m not good at asking, so this was big for me.
* Got my newsletter out. Only slightly late.
* Made a batch of homemade granola bars, and they turned out really well. Delicious! Alton Brown is the man.
Barbara J Carters last blog post..“Yellow Square” painting
Writer’s Snarl.
At least that’s what my friends and I call this thingy – so much stuff in the head that everything snarls up and nothing can come out.
I usually fix it by setting a timer for five mins, write on one thing and write on the next thingy when everything is done. Works for me. 🙂
Hope you have lotsa fun in San Fransisco!
Carinas last blog post..Steps of the Creative Cycle.
Havi, I love how you always describe Dance of Shiva as something a little crazy and bizarre looking. It makes me feel fearless about trying it because hey, if the expert says that up front I have no reason to feel self conscious when I get started. I can’t wait to join the ranks of the Shivanauts! 🙂
The hard:
my job. i took a step down to be an admin assistant just to get in at a creative agency. its hard to remember why i’m here as i’m doing dishes, serving food, booking plane tickets, going on coffee runs, stocking the fridge blah blah blah blah… 5 years out of art school and here i sit at the damn front desk.
my 10 year high school reunion in Oklahoma is tomorrow. I am too broke to get there, so i’ll miss it like i’ve missed all the weddings and births. It makes me feel like i’m being erased from that history. Like I’ll officially be forgotten. I’m not good at keeping in touch with old friends and this seems like the last straw. I won’t be in any pictures, they won’t see how I’ve changed and abandoned christianity and become just ME. I escaped, like we all wanted to, but now I can’t even get back for visits.
The Good:
My co-workers really appreciate all the menial tasks that I do and actually say so. Its nice to know it is noticed and to get thanked.
I am going to re-start a project i’ve been afraid of. The things i’ve learned hanging around this blog have sparked a new direction and approach for me. I am not crystal clear on the form it will take, but Imaginary Real World will be a web comic/graphic novel/blog about my christianity… how I got it and lost it and what it did and is doing to me. I want the project to be that thing I desperately needed and couldn’t find when the ‘big break’ in my reality happened. I just needed to hear from someone else that had experienced the same thing and couldn’t find it anywhere. http://imaginaryrealworld.com/
ilikereds last blog post..excuses
Am I the only one who wonders where the ‘correct’ phrases that Stu mangles appear in Havi’s posts? Some I can identify based on theme. I can say, oh, Havi talked about that in this day’s blog; for some of the others, I wonder whether they got axed from the final copy. If so, they live on through Stu!
My first time playing:
The Hard:
VERY promising job interview fell through when I got a call the *day before the interview* saying they were suspending the search due to “internal restructuring.” So disappointing.
My dog’s being sick. He appears to be better now, but for a few days there, he was vomiting.
Had a total meltdown this past weekend during which I revealed to my partner my deepest fears and insecurities. I had never told him this stuff before. Every time I think about it, I feel naked with my guts hanging out.
The Good:
My partner’s telling me I was safe with him and that I could tell him everything. It was a beautiful moment, nakedness and guts notwithstanding. Also, I feel a tremendous amount of relief that the cats out of the bag. This is me, bare.
Two excellent workouts at the gym, with another one I’ve promised myself tomorrow. I feel physically strong.
My boss telling me he’ll miss me when I leave the university to take a new job.
Excellent progress on dissertation, including getting close to nailing down my ever-elusive methodology. Watching an inspirational video on creativity by Elizabeth Gilbert, who wrote the delicious memoir, Eat, Pray, Love. It’s here: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html
Asking for input from my academic advisor, and receiving a very helpful, thoughtful response.
Have a blast in San Fran! My favorite city ever. Going there in a couple months. Can’t wait to hear how it went!
Termite brain. I like it. That’s what I’m going to call it when I have so much on my brain I forget something.
The… Ehn.
Wasn’t anything really bad, but definitely ‘ehn’ and ‘oof’. Getting sidetracked and focusing on everything which meant not focusing on anything. I’m planning a baby shower for this weekend and I just couldn’t pick something to focus on. This means lots of stuff slip past me while I chased my tail.
The Good:
Re-learning to ask for what I want/need. And listen *really listen* to listening to what others need. Wow. I’m practicing it all over the place.
melissas last blog post..Walking Meditation
Oh dear. I didn’t get to read all the comments yet because today is a busy day. So I’ll probably read them later and comment again – just letting ya know. But I wanted to Chicken before I zip out of the house.
Everything seems hard this week. I’ve been leaky and every time Dave asks, “are you crying?” I just have to shrug and say, “it’s a leaky week.” Good things make me cry, hard things make me cry. It’s equal opportunity week in my tear ducts. Still getting over the ankle pain and the near-stroke experience. And the 14 year-old cat who keeps peeing on our couch. Nothing like waking up and immediately sitting down in a puddle of ick. And Dave had some health issues this week, which is scary and bad, but since it reverses our caregiver roles, it strangely doesn’t completely suck.
Luckily there’s some good because otherwise I’d be writing this from the looney ward. I’m making progress in the ship’s cluttered store room and being noticed for my help. We had a wonderful dinner with some great friends yesterday. I have two possible gigs on the horizon. And I’m really looking forward to brunch with Havi and your Gentleman Friend tomorrow. YAY for well-timed visits!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone and thank you for sharing on here. The hard is a little easier to take when we can all share.
@Dawn: I totally play “Spot the Stuism” too, you’re not alone!
I’m so glad the SF thing is working out — I’m a little bummed I can’t come to the workshop, but I’ve come to realize that I haven’t got the time or the shoulders for it, so not having the money was probably for the best.
The Hard:
So much busy, and none of it is turning into money. But I’m coping.
Apparently, Shiva Nata makes me nap. Not that naps aren’t a good thing, but I don’t always have 2 hours in the afternoon to give my brain to process, which is giving me another excuse not to practice. Bah.
Money, and the lack thereof. Enough said, and yet, it’s been such a HUGE Hard for me this week, it seems like there should be giant arrows pointing to it.
The Good:
New clients in potential, if not actuality.
Bartered something I would have done for free for something that’s no big deal for the person, but hugely helpful to me — a little bit of wordpress help in exchange for getting my floors vacuumed before someone sleeps on them. Allergies make vacuuming a real challenge for me, so mostly I don’t, and I was feeling guilty about the cat hair. And Amy hair. And stuff.
My kitchen’s getting clean! And other things as well. And I gave away some mini-comics I thought I was going to have to recycle to someone who will enjoy and get use out of them. And I saw people I don’t get to see often. Much of the busy resulted in good, even if it was omgbusy.
Thursday is totally my new Saturday — introvert me had 2-3 meetings every day on Mon-Weds, so I spent Thursday doing Shiva Nata, napping, and watching SYTYCD. It was awesome.
I’m starting to work through some of my Stuff, or at least be more aware of it. And I’m loving Havi’s post about doing it from your comfort zone instead of having to force myself out of it, because it’s just so ME. I like being comfortable, thanks.
Kittehs are sleeping and being very cute. Even if Pod did wake me up earlier by attacking my butt.
Amy Crooks last blog post..Private Myths
You know what great thing happened to me? Havi, that’s what! What a treasure and I feel so honored.
Funny that, in a way it was hard to just accept what a nice thing Havi did for me, but I’m working on it!
Thank you!
I hope everyone’s Hard gets Easy.
Sounds like a great getaway — enjoy!
This week’s hard:
– Deadlines. Lots of ’em. All piled one on top of the other.
– Really looking forward to an event where I would meet some new people, then realizing when I got there that the group as a whole was nowhere near what I expected it to be, and not in an “oh, cool” way.
– Did I mention the deadlines?
This week’s good:
– Deadlines all met with the help of a couple of late nights and copious amounts of caffeine.
– I was able to say NO without any guilt when asked if I would take a leadership role in a new organization.
– Some of my work this past week was on paper, which meant I got to work outside on the back patio and enjoy the amazing weather we’ve had this week.
– I got another wholesale order and sold one of my favorite pieces from my Etsy shop this week.
Thanks again for providing this space for us all to share.
Lori Paximadiss last blog post..it was seven years ago today…
It took me forever to get a chance to sit down in a cafe with my baby laptop and check in with you.
Hi hi hi from San Francisco.
Loving reading about all your good and sending hugs and warm wishes for all the hard.
Looking forward to brunching it up with Casey … (ooh, I hope you’re awake while I’m typing this because I’m about to head over to your place).
@Dawn + Amy C – Spot the Stuism! That’s fabulous.
Actually, two of this week’s are either from Sunday’s post or a post-in-progress, and two are from me trying to dictate replies at the Kitchen Table forum.
You guys are too clever for me.
Internet hugs all around and happy Chicken. I’m sure there were all sorts of other things I wanted to say, but can’t think of any of them at the moment.
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It’s Monday where I am so I’m running late for Friday Chicken, but last week was important because:
THE HARD. The really hard.
– A friend of mine died. He was 35-ish and he died in his sleep. We don’t know why yet.
– This event made work really hard to focus on. I had termite brain.
THE GOOD. The surprisingly good.
– The Whole Gang (almost – my dead friend’s wife wasn’t there) got together and accidentally had a big party that night. We had Mexican food and sangria with tequila in it and we slapped the waitress on the behind in my friend’s honour. (He was a good guy but, um, quite rambunctious.) We also each wrote down our favourite thing about him. It was a lot of fun and very healing.
*cough* Um, okay, that’s it from me.
Chloe Walkers last blog post..chloewrites: @zenatplay Just typed my jottings into Evernote. I love it so.