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And to continue the trend of monthly goal writing ...

October Goals:

-  Row 6 days a week, and if unable to row on a specific day, row twice the following day to compensate.

-  Post a new food blog entry once a week.  (Four total for the month).

-  Be more active in commenting on journals/blogs.  Stop lurking so much!

-  Continue on the healthy-eating ( Read more... )

Since today is the final day of September, I thought I would look back on this entry where I posted my goals for the month.

September Goals :

- Read 4 novels.  Success!
  - Tinkers by Paul Harding
  - The Birth House by Ami McKay
  - Recipes for a Perfect Marriage by Morag Prunty
  - The Doctors Wife by Elizabeth Brundage

- Row 6 days a week, unless ( Read more... )

Of course, the universe is continually trying to tell me things - to teach me things or open my eyes to bigger possibilities.  Or perhaps it's just trying to get me to stop complaining and Shut Up.  Either way, shortly after posting my last entry about trying to make our house into a home, I came across a piece on Apartment Thearpy about five free ( Read more... )

I'm trying to be more grateful within my everyday life.

We were not able to sell our condo before leaving Baltimore, and so it is sitting there on the market - vacant. This bothers me because not only am I not close enough to go in and make sure it is up to my standard (clean it), but also because it doesn't show nearly as well when it is empty. We ( Read more... )

While we were in Vancouver I wanted to bring something home that would remind me of our time there.

The day before leaving we spent the afternoon walking around Granville Island and happened upon a shop with hand-made brooms. I have always been fascinated with the idea of broom making (thanks to a video that I saw on one of Martha Stewarts shows ( Read more... )

It's a good thing I have a lot of free time on my hands, because this website is just ridiculous!

This post, especially, kills me!

As a follow up to my previous entry about trying to make friends with internet "strangers", I kept reading his reponse to my (our) interests, and the more often I read it the more irritated I became.

An email from him asking "did I scare you?" promted this reply:

You didn't "scare" me.

I do, however, find it incredibly rude that you would ask me what ( Read more... )

From an email sent to my old friend. Jenn:

I am realizing that I don't really know how to be alone.

I have spent the day doing nothing but sitting in front of the computer - reading journals, reading blogs, listening to music, and accomplishing nothing of importance.  Thankfully, Steve made it to Boston without incident, though he 'did' have to wait ( Read more... )

I survived ( Read more... )