It's been a crazy year and so much has changed in my life. I'm not sure that I'm going to be returning to this blog -- if anyone is even reading it anymore.

I do have a new blog called One Obsession at a Time which reflects a new approach I'm taking to life. It's a place for me to reflect on the practice of productive obsessing.  My current ( Read more... )

Recently read "The Happiness Project" -- a much needed reminder of things I already knew and a new framework for pulling things together. Some important points I (re)learned ( Read more... )

I know that the thing I fear most is the thing I should do first. Doesn't make it any easier to do. In fact, it's exponentially scarier when I realize that I'm scared to even talk about what I've been avoiding for months. I thought I was just avoiding it because I couldn't decide if I *really* wanted it. This morning I realized that I wasn't ( Read more... )

FYI: Internet should be down at home sometime today. We should have it back up at the new place by late Thurs/early Fri. Feeling a tad better (worked from home yesterday since I had a fever), but the next few days will be busy-busy-busy. See everyone on the other side of the move.

I realized this morning that not only have I stopped posting updates on the web, it's been at least a month (probably longer) since I've even read my LF friends page or followed my Facebook feed. I don't think I've checking into FetLife more than 2 or 3 times since we moved. I've completely lost track of what's going on in the lives of my friends ( Read more... )

I was napping off and on the other evening while boy was at work and the movie "Evan Almighty" came on the TV. I had not seen this because it looked extremely silly. However, when you're drifting in and out a silly movie can be good background noise ( Read more... )

you see someone pulling a bunch of bubble wrap out of the trashcan at the Post Office and you wish you had seen it first ( Read more... )

For those who haven't yet heard: We are returning to the Valley of the Sun, (i.e., metropolitan Phoenix ( Read more... )

I'm waiting for firm job offers before posting where/when ( Read more... )

I'm officially abandoning my 2009 attempt to complete NaNoWriMo. Between a late and slow start, an unplanned visit to Phoenix for Michele's Memorial, and now being sick, it seems I wasn't meant participate this year. -- oh! and then there's the possibility that I'll be moving out of NM by the end of December which calls for lots of negotiating and ( Read more... )