Others might have to live with my mistakes but I can only live with them for so long. Sunday night I decided to try to paint the bathroom again. I had hoped that adding a second bottle of color would hide the errors from the first, but I soon realized that the application process for […]
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The only way to cope with conformity is to make mistakes the norm
November 17th, 2004 · 3 Comments
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How I know something must be wrong with me
November 11th, 2004 · 1 Comment
Since we came home from our trip to LA I haven’t felt like myself. I thought perhaps it was stress. Or sleep-deprivation. But the night before I left for BloggerCon, I realized that I had a bad cold stuck in my sinuses. I even debated whether I should go to the conference. For days my […]
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Please don’t do this to me
November 2nd, 2004 · 1 Comment
Please don’t do this to me when I’m gone. Preserve and enhance your memories of me, perhaps, but not the flesh I leave behind…. [found via Trudy Schuett]
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Bite my tongue
October 24th, 2004 · Comments Off on Bite my tongue
What I had to do on Friday Return to the library at least some portion of the 57 items I had checked out on my card. Clean up the kitchen from the previous day’s attempt to create replica terra cotta Chinese soldiers and horses from a homemade flour-based playdough. Find a recipe and figure out […]
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The Art of Being: reflections
October 21st, 2004 · 1 Comment
The other night when the kids went to bed, I had groceries still on the floor to put away, dishes to wash and other chores to do. I vascillated between anxiety and procrastination, pacing in the kitchen while partially finishing a task. I tried not to think of the piles of laundry upstairs still to […]
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