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Baby, Family, General, Health, Life, School
A case of the Mondays
02.03.10 | Permalink | 2 CommentsLong story short, I’m quite difficult to live with. And I’m sorry about the preposition there.
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I like this.
Good for a little perspective.
“Activities are endless, like ripples on a stream.
They end only when you drop them.
Human moods are like the changing highlights and shadows on a sunlit mountain range.
All activities are like the games children play, like castles being made of sand.
View them with delight and equanimity, like grandparents
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General, Life, School
Hello, again!
09.27.09 | Permalink | 6 CommentsI promised myself going back to school that I would cut down on the tweeting, facebooking, and general internet piddling. Weekly Flickr and blog posts were acceptable, but no more. As it happened, I barely uploaded to Flickr and (obviously) posted nothing here. I was significantly less attached to the computer and [...]
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General, Health, Life
Healthy changes
07.28.09 | Permalink | 6 CommentsBlakery on Braces: Now with 33% more self deprecation!
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Tasty tea
Joel loves girly flavored, caffeine-free teas. He prefers his hot, while I’ll drink mine room temperature or iced more often. Just about daily he offers to make some tea, and I appreciate his enthusiasm. We got a sampler box at the store awhile ago, and I tried the cranberry apple zinger. [...]
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Method
Usually I reserve posting for when I have something to say, but today it’s about getting over the hump and back in the habit. I recently wrote in Zoe’s journal for the first time since July 2008. I plan to make up the difference (in a multi-media scrapbook of some sort) with pictures [...]
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General, Life
Patterns
Lately I have been thinking a lot about patterns, like routines, habits, schedules. How do you get over the hump to break a bad one or start a new, better one? I believe that one of the big differences between success and failure has to do with whether you’re able to barrel over that hump [...]
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A studying update
I have now re-read the syllabus, solidly, for all the pertinent lectures for tomorrow’s gross anatomy exam. This is officially the first time I have prepared appropriately for a test, any test. There’s always something else I can do, of course, so I’m not done, but I’m feeling pretty good right now.
Getting enough [...]
