Just wanted to wish you a Happy Anniversary and congrats on your new front door.

You’re doing awesome things and changing the world by sharing your experiences and providing space for us to share what’s up.

I’m too tired to even think about my week – and I’m very grateful too.

xoxo

Char
.-= Char´s last post … test =-.

Hard: thought I was doing really well on pacing myself and not procrastinating on a big project… until I splatted into a brick wall on the home stretch. Ow.

Good: Took some baby steps toward a bigger writing goal. Harder than expected, but packed with learning.

Started learning some amazing techniques for dealing with the procrastination. :)
.-= Sandra´s last post … If I ever go looking any further than my own back yard =-.

The Good: Spending time with my 90 year old dad and brothers here in temperate Minnesota, rather than being home in Hot Columbia, South Carolina.

Aside: I was in the midst of re-designing my site to hide the blog behind a “general” page, partly because that’s what Havi did — and everyone knows that she’s really smart. Thank god I kept procrastinating…
.-= Dick Carlson´s last post … Seth Godin On The Tribes We Lead =-.

Another thumbs-up for the design reshuffling too.

This week’s hard:

*I should be there right now, hanging out with you guys and possibly cooking tasty no-sugar things for everyone. I would have just enjoyed a road trip up a part of the east coast I’ve never seen. I love Seattle and all, but chasing work sucks and this is WEAK SAUCE.

*I have a poorly-defined role at work right now and it’s frustrating to feel like I don’t have enough work, and too much work to do, at the same time. Ugh.

This week’s good:

*Being an item! Was not expecting that at all, and it totally made my day. Thanks. And all the AMAZING people I have started working with as a result… wow! I can’t even begin to thank you enough for bringing me together with cool people I can help out.

*Feeling really good about what I’ve figured out my life is supposed to be about. And getting lots of signs that the thing really is the *thing*, that I’m not just making it up.

Feeling the biggification this week. *super cheesy grin* I’m not in NC, but the world hasn’t ended yet. So there’s still hope for me. Have fun getting your wacky on!
.-= Shannon Bowman´s last post … Hey Baby, What’s Your Sign? =-.

The hard: Plenty of hard, but I don’t even care because…

The good (scratch that) The BEST: is Marissa worked her first 1.3 hours for me and got more done than I could have managed in a week. I finally, finally, truly believe I can get my meditation work into the world where it can feed everyone’s loving heart, and my head injury and all the rest that goes with it can’t hold me back. No real words to describe how that feels.
.-= Mahala Mazerov´s last post … Skillful Answers to Disgraceful Questions, Part 2 =-.

Hmm, my week… I haven’t done this for a while, may be disjointed, and definitely in no particular order.

Hard:

*Insomnia last night from too many things whirling in my brain.
*Odd swelling under my left eye this morning, plus painful blemish meant feeling uncomfortable and looking as though I’d been hit, which made me self-conscious all day.
*Slow days at work with nothing to do but try to look busy, a definite downside to temping.
*Re-reading Getting Things Done and realizing just how disorganized my life and my stuff is and how much work I have to do.
*Cell phone bill with stupid roaming charges that I swear weren’t charged the last time I was calling from there. Time to overhaul cell service, I think.

Good:

*Rereading Getting Things Done and realizing I want to make a concerted effort to get rid of things and figure out what to do about things that are basically in stasis because I’m in constant overwhelm.
*Sparkly clean apartment! The three of us pitched in and did all of those things we tend to let slide, in anticipation of tomorrow’s landlord inspection. There were moments of drudgery in the midst, but now it’s done and feels all fresh and new. Plus, housemate cooperation!
*Putting up a blog post after ignoring the space for far too long.
*Tweetup: seeing increasingly familiar faces and meeting new ones over coffee and breakfast.
*Returning to my zafu, albeit in small increments. I realized I missed meditation and I needed to make time in my schedule for it again.
*Using some of my temp job downtime to get some writing done.

Sorry so long, as usual. I do tend to go overboard when I get the chance. Thanks, as always, Havi, for the space.
.-= Faith´s last post … What I Noticed on My Walk Home =-.

The Hard:

- Having little patience for things I usually enjoy, like reading comments, participating in discussions and hanging out on Twitter. Despite, or perhaps because, these things are turning into real positives for me and my business.

- A bit of creeping ick that might be allergies, might be an oncoming cold, might be something I haven’t thought of, but is just dogging my energy without manifesting into anything real.

- Had to back-and-forth with a client far too many times because she wasn’t reading what I was sending (and later admitted this was so), creating more work for me and costing her more money.

- Did some Shiva Nata and my biggest epiphany was “ow” — had to stop before I’d intended to because of the grinding pain in my shoulders. Still working on a good way to fit this practice into my life, because they’re motions I want to be able to do!

The Good:

+ I got paid today! I love it when rent is covered so far ahead of the 1st, instead of barely maybe on the 6th.

+ Feeling just more abundant in general, with work, with money, with confidence.

+ Made progress in several ways with Antemortem Arts — got the CSS done for the site, got an awesome new commission, decided to start things off with a sale. Despite my worries and bigness-stuckness-avoidyness, I want this enough to make it happen bit by bit!

+ Got to do a happy illustration project for a friend, and felt good after thinking for a day about giving him a friend-price for it. Then having him offer more, which I could smile as I refused. Gifts are awesome, sometimes, even if it’s just the gift of extra time and care spent on his wee project.

+ Had a good balance of ins-and-outs, and got most of my to-do lists done this week. I keep surprising myself by being on track with all my projects!

+ Had a piece of art post to a community to a good reception, and many smiles (and no shoes) came my way this week.

+ Have discovered that Pod-the-kitten is a jealous little brat, which is a good because it was fun to watch him play “mommy mommy me me pay attention to me!” whenever someone came by this week. Also spent some quality time spoiling Bella-the-cat the other night, just sitting and petting her and ignoring the world. Cats are brilliant therapy!

Way more Good than Hard this week, and I even knew it ahead of time this time! Even the weather’s been cooperating.
.-= Amy Crook´s last post … It’s Coming Right for Us! =-.

The Hard:
- Putting our kitty that has been our companion for over 14 years to sleep on Tuesday. Very hard.
- Dealing with a student who failed his exams because he didn’t properly prepare. Of course, he is finding fault with everything I did. So explain to me how the other students in the class all passed and that your score was so much lower than everyone else’s?
- Being kept in the dark about some major changes that are happening in our program in the coming few weeks. My acting boss wants to tell me, but is being shutdown by higher ups. I will be on the frontline dealing with the students when all the crap hits the fan. NOT HAPPY that I’m going to be blindsided. NOT HAPPY AT ALL.

The Good:
- A dear friend who has patiently listened to all my venting about the above work situation and who comforted me through the last few tearful days with our kitty.
- My acting boss, who while she can’t tell me directly what is going to happen, has dropped just enough hints that I’m about 90% sure that I’ve figured out what is going to happen. It will be an ugly fall.
- My doctoral program starts tomorrow!!!
- And, my loving hubby, who did everything he could to keep our kitty comfortable these last few weeks of her life.

The Hard:

-Enduring the first stage of my tooth implant. They drilled into my JAW. Oh gawd the sound of the drill. And I smelled bone!!! I now have a titanium rod in my jaw. I was so SCARED during the procedure, but am thankful for modern dentistry to be able to eventually have a functional tooth where there has been none.

-Not being able to exercise for a few days while recovering.

-The HUGE cost of the procedure, which isn’t covered by dental insurance.

-Losing track of dissertation in the midst of all other life stuff. Working on finding my way back, though.

The Good

-That I got through the hard! I feel so brave! I’ve been avoiding this dental procedure for YEARS.

-Blogging on my site more.

-Got a couple nibbles w/respect to the job hunt.

-Packing in preparation to move in w/my very own gentleman friend. Excited about making a life together.

-One more hour to go till the weekend!
.-= Dawn´s last post … The Phinish Line =-.

-New bloodthinners bring tired tired tiredness and a big helping of crazy, edgy, insanity. Luckily, I’ve felt the crazy come before, so I knew what I could do to combat it. Also, yay for reduced stroke risk!

- Then I got my period, and on blood thinners it’s an extra treat, so I was extra crampy, and cranky, and generally ewwwwww. But the hippie hubby was sooooooo nice and comforting and extra snuggly – and he made me tasty foods and ran me a warm bath and lit candles and just generally diffused my entire crappy day.

- The temp job continues inexorably and though I hope to be done with it soon, it does make the time fly. Also I got to spend three days this week on the floor with the web-dev folks who are *way* more tolerable than my usual spot with the marketing weasels. The job *did* come with a great tragic story this week, and I hope to jot it down before it starts to fade.

- I have engaged Johnny B Truant to do some web/blog overhauls for me. I can’t afford it, but I also can’t afford to leave my sites in their lame states if I hope to get new clients.

- I have completely ignored the dance of Shiva all week. I listened to the “dust off the DVD” where it’s recommended that I do it in the morning. But I’ve been so tired, that mornings are a painful struggle just to get to work. So I’m switching back to my after-work 15-minutes because I need those epiphanies whenever they can come to me.

- And, finally, YAY, because tomorrow, the hippie husband and I are going on our first cruise aboard the SS Jeremiah O’Brien! Fun fun cruising around the bay in a WW2 behemoth.
.-= Casey´s last post … casey_cole: Dudes! First Japan, now Alaska. The Ring of Fire is active. Stock up yer guns and supplies! #SF #Earthquake =-.