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Lazy Day & Posting Articles

24 November 2007, 11:05 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under Blogging, Family, Geekery, Holidays, Home, Organization, Writing.

It has been such a lazy day. All our body clocks are com­pletely con­fused. It’s going to be so hard on Sam to get up Mon­day morning!

These days have been sweet and uncom­pli­cated. I just had a delight­ful can­dlelit bath, with my sto­ry­teller stay­ing with me the whole time. I am very, very sleepy now.

I’ve put this off for a time out of sheer lazi­ness, I sup­pose, but it’s past time to move the rest of the arti­cles on this site into Word­Press. I don’t know how long it’ll take me to work through them, but I’ll try to space them out a bit so as not to flood the feed. I’ll try to remem­ber to use the “more” tag, too.

I can’t just dump the HTML into posts or pages, because there’s always some­thing that’s out­dated, or that I would put dif­fer­ently now. And, of course, I’m try­ing to do this migra­tion with­out leav­ing a bunch of bro­ken links, which means set­ting up redi­rects as I go.

Yes, I know that I have obsessive-​​compulsive dis­or­der. It’s offi­ciously diag­nosed and every­thing. No, there’s noth­ing you can do or say that will relieve me of feel­ing that I had to go through every sin­gle article.

Oh. To be more accu­rate than above, I’ve put this off due to sheer per­fec­tion­ism, which is highly sus­cep­ti­ble to pro­cras­ti­na­tion for exactly these kinds of reasons.

SBQ: Stitching on the road

25 August 2006, 9:12 am. 1 Comment. Filed under Blogging, Needlework, Organization.

This week’s Stitch­ing Blogger’s Ques­tion is

What do you keep your WIPs and other stitch­ing sup­plies in when traveling?

I nearly didn’t answer this one, because the bag is dingy!
Work in Progress bag
This is the dis­rep­utable bag in which I carry my cur­rent stitch­ing projects. Projects go in Ziplock bags inside the bag, as the bag itself has become an aux­il­iary purse/​schoolbag/​carryall. I’ll have to replace it soon, as it’s wear­ing out.

I got the bag as a “prize” for being the first to answer a ques­tion a long-​​ago boss asked our depart­ment via email. I think the ques­tion was “what does ‘tcp/​ip’ mean” but I can’t absolutely swear to that.

The Challenge and a challenge/​invitation

2 July 2006, 3:13 pm. 3 Comments. Filed under Organization, Support.

A few days ago I referred to the Change Your Life Chal­lenge, but I didn’t really explain much, as I was in a bit of a rush at the time. I’ve been so excited about it, too, that some part of me thinks that of course every­body knows what it is!

Not so, silly Cyn.

So let me back up, and explain a lit­tle more about WHY I want to do it, and why I’d think any of you would have any rea­son to plunk down money to do it, too.

Every morn­ing, no mat­ter what else my email brings, I know there’ll be an uplift­ing mes­sage from Brook Noel. I’m hon­estly not a big fan of most generic affir­ma­tions or inspi­ra­tional newslet­ters, but some­how Brook’s daily Good Morn­ings don’t annoy me. They avoid glurge, and I fre­quently add her quotes and affir­ma­tions to my PopUp Wis­dom file.

I first “met” Brooke through her book, The Change Your Life Chal­lenge, which I found at a local book­store a few months ago. I learned that the book is actu­ally based on a suc­cess­ful online pro­gram, looked it up, and was intrigued. It promises to teach:

  • A step-​​by-​​step sys­tem for con­quer­ing clut­ter and keep­ing your home clean
  • How to recre­ate the din­ner hour and man­age mealtimes
  • How to make time work for you —instead of against you
  • How to dis­cover and live by your core val­ues and beliefs
  • How to imple­ment the sim­plest “diet” in the world
  • The “key” to never for­get­ting anything
  • How to improve your rela­tion­ships with the “5-​​Minute Miracle”
  • How to end procrastination
  • How to imple­ment a bud­get and man­age your money
  • And much more!

I was wor­ried because of the “70 day” part, though. What busi­ness did I have sign­ing myself up for yet another calendar-​​bound thing that I’d end up hav­ing trou­ble with?

Well, I listed to Brooke’s pod­cast last Mon­day, and she hap­pened to say that if she could go back and change any­thing, she would reti­tle the pro­gram as “A 70 STEP Life Makeover Pro­gram” and toss out the idea of tying it to the cal­en­dar. For­ward motion is impor­tant, but mak­ing it fit your life is more important.

So yes, the Chal­lenge is very much doable for any­one, includ­ing those of us who have chronic ill­nesses. It’ll be even more so in a small group of women who under­stand each other’s issues.

So here’s my chal­lenge: I’m going to begin the 70 Step Chal­lenge on July 15. I’ve set up a pri­vate group for any­one who joins up to do it with me. You’ll have all the nor­mal (exten­sive!) sup­port of the orga­ni­za­tion — there are thou­sands of peo­ple on her lists! — as well as a chance to build friend­ships within a smaller group of peo­ple in my group. We’ll do some chats, set up “bud­dies,” and use other tech­niques to help each other suc­ceed. We won’t get tied up in rush­ing through the chal­lenge as much as in work­ing it with a sense of balance.

Won’t you join me? I’d love to get to know you bet­ter, and it’s always good to have more friends and a bet­ter sup­port network.

I’m tak­ing the Challenge.….are you?
Take the Change Your Life Chal­lenge:
A  70 Day Life Makeover Pro­gram for Women


If you join through this link, I’ll be informed and will invite you to the pri­vate sup­port group within 24 hours. I do hope to hear from you soon!

 

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