sambear is throwing a birthday party for me tonight! If you didn’t get an invitation and want one, contact him. 🙂 It feels rather odd to say that, even. I can’t remember my last birthday party. Birthdays have pretty much…
What’s “Enough”?
Where do you get your idea of what’s “enough” to do in a day? It’s one thing to just say, “I know when I’ve done enough.” But when you’re in partnership with someone else, you need to have a mutually…
Reflecting On the Past Year
wordcandlemage mentioned this week that he does his yearly review/resolutions on his birthday for his personal new year instead of at Samhain or the calendar New Year. I’d been feeling very introspective/retrospective already, and I’ve decided to swipe the idea…
Big Science Questions & Miscellany
The science section of yesterday’s Times addressed some of the “big questions” still facing science: http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2003/11/10/science/text/index.html dwivian is here game geeking with sambear. I tried to get up several hours before my meds released me from slumber, so I have…
Data Entry Done!
I should be in bed, but I just needed to celebrate this: I just finished the entry of all the receipts. You wouldn’t believe how many little slips of paper you can fit in one office trash can. Looking at…
Check-Ins
I mentioned our evening check-in in my last post, then realized that maybe I should explain that. I want to, anyway. This past week we’ve started having a brief meeting each morning as a family. We check in with each…
Gifts, Health, & School
This link was shared on a homeschooling list this morning and I figured there are some parents here who’d appreciate it. For those of you who aren’t parents but buy gifts for kids—these kinds of gifts are often WAY better…
They’re In a Very Safe Place…
I can’t rebuild my PC ’til I find the installation CDs. Grrr. Good thing I looked for them before formatting the drive, though. Their current whereabouts are a mystery. That makes three things we really need to find that are…
Weekend Report
hope_evey, do you read hip_domestics? There was a post there just now that made me think of you 🙂
Irrational Inherited Beliefs
I started thinking about shoulds after doing some reading about Rational Emotive Therapy and irrational beliefs. This first one is the irrational belief that is most difficult for me to shake.