@ Maarten: I feel so sorry for your country. I have seen it on TV. So horrible, so sad.

Let‘s see. The week. I know I am late … Friday is long gone, but I want to stick to this (for me) new ritual. My good stuff and my bad stuff:

Down mood and bad feelings moved away some footsteps (acupuncture works wonders sometimes, I love it). So at least I was procrastinating things and thoughts in a better mood than the week before. I got some stuff done (wow, nobody realizes that I am a big bluff package).
BUT: I didn‘t get the important stuff done – I postponed a deadline (and because of that even lied to my customer; only a small lie but that doesn‘t matter and I feel horrible about it). So, I was not any wiser this week. I actually feel the next freak out moment knocking on the door … but today is already the „next” week and I think I am a bit better prepared now, having some “Havi tools” in my pocket.

Oh, some great stuff: Family and friends – I am so lucky to have them! I got flowers all the week from friends to cheer me up or to say thank you for something I supposedly did for them. Flowers, family, friends, I like them. Very much.

2) Pirate Queen, I can see that. Will be interested to hear how that unpacks.

3) Lot of yikes among the FluentSelfers this week! I send you all love and tulips.

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Good: The divorce stuff will be over at some point. I will be off the meds for good at some point soon. I have two wonderful daughters and a bunch of really good friends who are helping me tons through this difficult time. I think I might know what I want to be when I grow up and it’s the same thing I wanted to be way back when before I decided to be “safe” and go to law school. Hopefully I can get past my stuckness and get to it soon!

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I hear you when you talk about being the Pirate and having mates on the ship. Much the same conclusion I’ve come to with various people that work for me lately. And, surprisingly, implementing this new philosophy – others have been very receptive to more direction and less murky-ness on my part.

Wondering how your beautiful arms, hands, shoulders, etc are doing? I hope they are healing and treating you well!

The hard and soft are together this week as everything is moving along at a good clip:

-I live in a housefull of floor length windows with a woods outside and very few walls – the house goes in a circle and each room kinda flows into the next. Anyway, my beloved dogs have wrecked every single screen with their nails. Been frustrated with this as too many bugs to open the windows. Good news was that I found a solution from a small hardware store here that offers PetScreens that should help and allow full air inside the house.
-I ordered The Undivided Life CD by Parker Palmer as part of the Amazon Vine program to review it. It is absolutely excellent.
-Bought Beyonce’s I am Sasha Fierce (her alter ego when she’s performing) and found out that I too am Sasha Fierce when I’m passionate about my life’s work! Who knew?
-My oldest son is better and back home BUT not following up on his medical condition despite knowing that his vision may be affected. Annoying at best for me – and also empowering as I let go of having any control over this situation at all. The result – less worry for me and laughing more at myself for thinking that even if he does check on it, doesn’t mean the doc is right – plus, why I think I have control over my adult kids just cracks me up in general. Ridiculous notion!
-Discovering some very helpful stuff http://www.perelandra-ltd.com which has been the missing piece to my own personal health care.
-Getting prepared for a possible pandemic with water and having nowhere to store everything because my son has wrecked the basement. The good is he’s coming home this week from college and he WILL deal with it.
-My back has been hurting again and I started up with my physical therapist – great move!!! Really helping.

Have a great weekend.
xoxox

Char

Thought I’d just join in on the good, the ‘hard’ (and the ugly) and reflect a little bit:

The ugly:
On the day of our national celebration here in Holland a man drove his car through a crowd, killing 6 plus himself, wounding another 26 people in a mad attempt to attack our Royal family. Needless to say our wee country is in shock…

The hard:
With focusing on completing my ebook my attention has been inward these last few weeks, which has resulted in an absolute lack of income presently. Worry sometimes overtakes me even though I’m working my a** off to permanently change these inner currents. It’s one of my toughest challenges in an otherwise blessed existence.

The good:
I’ve got the best friends in the world! My brother’s birthday celebration was fun, light and full of laughter, which is just what the doctor ordered for him and his kids (his wife died 3 months ago). The weather has been fantastic and I’m happily soaking up the warmth and vitamins every chance I get!

Bit of a week of extremes aye… and yet, love flows deeper in self-appreciation every day. Wonder-filled movement ;o)

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“Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!”

Get ready for National Speak Like A Pirate Day. I’m coming over to visit!

Wendy

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The hard: Wanting to be outside in this spring sunshine, running along the beach with those two dogs that I see having so much fun out there right now. Still walking with canes.

The good: I walked a whole three blocks in the sunshine today! Yay!

And I wrote two blog posts–one funny, one not. Sent out a newsletter. Mapped out a whole Voyager program with the help of the pirate queen. (Ahoy there, your Pirateness!)

Lots of other good stuff sprouting.

Much love to you, and see you at the Testimonials class on Sunday!

Hiro

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The hard: argument with my husband making me wonder, now that I’m getting a teeny bit better (or maybe just more experienced) with my own stuckness, how do I go about coping with his?

Starting to have those “recovering honor student” thought patterns around Dance of Shiva. I knew they’d turn up eventually, so not totally unprepared.

The good: My deadline got pushed to Monday, which I think I can actually do.

I *didn’t* hit the very large beaver which was crossing the highway just as I came over a hill … and there was no one in the right hand lane next to me, so I *didn’t* hit anyone else, either. And all evidence points to the beaver having made it to the other side in one piece.

I get to go hang out with old friends tonight–while knitting away on my deadline project all the while, of course.

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More people around the house this week, which makes it more difficult for me to concentrate on work.

The good:
Got our car that collided with a deer back (finally).

And a check I was waiting on arrived today.

And I did a bunch of decluttering this week. Both physical stuff (big city-wide clean-up day on Saturday so I wanted to take advantage of that. And virtual stuff in the form of dropping some RSS feeds and opting out of some newsletters. I’m hoping that plus some improved task management habits will help me to get more stuff done and feel less overwhelmed.

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