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Pause. Pray. Proceed.

Posted in list, tagged , , , , , , on October 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »

I’m sleeping like a rock these past nights.

I’ve seldom had trouble sleeping, but I never expected quitting that job to feel so liberating. I actually work a lot more now than I did when I “worked.” I move more. I accomplish more.

So, here’s what I’ve noticed so far:

  1. I feel better
  2. I cook healthy meals every day,
  3. which means we’re eating at home more
  4. (and if you don’t yet know Pioneer Woman Cooks, let me introduce you).
  5. Cash stays longer in my pocket,
  6. though I do do do miss my daily Starbuck’s Americano with one pump carmel syrup and a drizzle of half & half.
  7. I do not miss eating lunch at my desk in a windowless Yellow Hell.
  8. (I could go on and on here about a blabbing blabbing blabbing boss, but I won’t. It’s not healthy to live in the past and carry it around like that. Nope. No more about it. That’s history.)
  9. I’ve reduced my daily insulin because I’m eating better and moving more. This can only translate into GREAT.
  10. Every day I make moves toward developing the bee business. Why not? It’s what’s in front of me right this second, and I’ve simply decided to do what’s in front of me. I am trusting the universe on this one.

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To Do: 5/27/11

Posted in To Do, tagged , , , , , , on May 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »

To Do: 5/27/11

  1. Get Murphy a new leather dog collar. Also get his nice metal nametag hammered onto it…I dislike those dangling tags. Murphy likes his flat on his collar and hammered in with copper brads. We’re picky about things like that.
  2. I don’t know what happened to his collar. I removed it to wash cow manure and death from him a few days ago, and I know I put the collar in my pocket as I bathed him (yes, stupid to put it sorta in the pocket and sorta out, I know, but you know how we do stupid things), and I know I put the collar back on him that time.
  3. But then I had to re-bathe him a few hours later because he still stunk (stank? stinked? I don’t know. I don’t know everything). I have no memory of what I did with his collar on the second wash.
  4. Open a bank account for the new bee company.
  5. Get a credit card for the new bee company.
  6. Get some money.
  7. I’ve already formed the bee company, you know. It’s registered in Ohio as an LLC, and now it has it’s very own lovely tax ID number.
  8. Today, my liability insurance goes into effect so I can remove bees from people’s homes without risking my assets.
  9. Yes, I’ll still be risking my ass, but not my assets.
  10. You’ve missed me, yes, Reader? I know.

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Things I Hate

Posted in list, tagged , on January 19, 2011| 2 Comments »

Things I hate:

  1. hot tubs
  2. perfume
  3. meetings
  4. the telephone
  5. loud commercials
  6. the Miss America pageant
  7. people who go on and on
  8. people who baby talk to their dogs
  9. people who baby talk
  10. people (no, not you, Reader)

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Ennui Busters

Posted in The Mundane, tagged , , , , , , , on July 8, 2009| 1 Comment »

So, I wrote a quick reply yesterday afternoon to the old boyfriend and got the longest email in recorded history shortly thereafter…he attached a number of pictures. Yes, I can still see Randy in the pictures, but it’s hard to get past the thickness that’s sort of enveloped him.  I’ll write him a short note again, but I’ll wait a while. He went to great lengths about a lot of things including his airplanes but only briefly mentioned that, after two divorces,  he has for two years been living with a woman…no name, not a single detail…certainly no picture.  He’s a good writer and has a good sense of humor, though, and I still like that a lot; but…all in all…it gets me sort of tired.

Things that make me less tired:

  1. coffee before 6 am
  2. riding my bicycle
  3. backpacking in the mountains
  4. going to a movie
  5. physical labor…things involving a tool with a nice wooden handle
  6. crafting a word, a sentence, a paragraph
  7. a very quick visit
  8. water
  9. riding my scooter with those wild people
  10. home-grown tomatoes

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Another Day Like Yesterday, Please

Posted in list, tagged , , on June 1, 2009| 2 Comments »

I think we can all probably agree that the world has never seen a more beautiful day than yesterday, right? For me, the day involved a dog walk on a golf course with only the greenskeepers for company (did you know I used to be a greenskeeper, Reader?), some coffee, a donut, a little bit of church by osmosis,  a long scooter ride with some very hip and fast friends, a trip to the quirky garden store for some lavender, some digging around in the dirt, a visit with the very happy and busy bees, and some pizza with my True Sweet Love (a couple of days before her birthday). Nice.

May 2009

May 2009

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Things I Can See without Turning my Head

Posted in Domestic, tagged , , on March 1, 2009|

Things I can see without turning my head:

  • three Girl Scout peanut-butter cookies in their sleeve
  • the stackable mugs Suzanne gave us for Christmas
  • the Cuisinart coffee maker I use only when we have guests who want coffee
  • a Bybee-pottery crock full of kitchen utensils like wooden spoons and spatulas and ladles
  • a bag of Starbucks coffee
  • a dishtowel drapped over a drawer pull
  • three plants behind the sink
  • tongs, a long fork, a tupperware container, and one rubber glove—all on a dishtowel
  • a woven basket; in it—a bag with a half-eaten loaf of bread and another bag with a half-eaten slice of coconut cake from Coffee Please
  • one phillips-head and one flat-head screwdriver
  • the hooks I need in order to reattach our sectional sofa
  • a box of Kleenex
  • a cell-phone recharger
  • my kite watercolor
  • a plastic container of World Famous chocolate-covered almonds—a Christmas gift from my aunt and uncle (they always give us another sugar-free container of these as well, but I give those away. People try to be nice about the diabetes, but if you have to eat sugar-free candy, you might as well die)
  • an opened bag of Salt & Pepper Kettle Chips (again, without which you might as well die)
  • the typed request Deb gave me asking me to promise to write something for the church bulletin
  • a thank-you note from our world-famous soprano and one of our world’s-greatest friends, Kay Griffel (thank you for the sweet note, Kay. It may make you even more nostalgic to know that “Alto” was written from a memory only weeks after we met you…from our visit to Oberndorf, Austria where Stille Nacht was first performed)
  • Deb’s Valentine’s Day massage gift certificate
  • a stick of soft butter in the butter dish
  • a 1/3 cup measuring cup
  • a blue and white hand-woven hot pad
  • a tea kettle
  • a French press coffee carafe
  • a yellow mug
  • this computer
  • a shipment of drinking glasses I have to return to Sundance
  • Deb’s mother’s will
  • various keys and cell phones
  • a blinking red light for the bicycle
  • a Titleist golf ball
  • a to-do list written on an index card (on it: clean; FM—kettle corn, goetta; ride bike; call Connie Th*mer)

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