Comments on: Friday Check-in #24: bony edition

By: creativevoyage

creativevoyage — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:36:28 +0000

Ha ! I've managed to get rid of click through for new posts but not the old ones.... creativevoyages last blog post..Honouring your Inspirations

By: Victoria Brouhard » Blog Archive » Saturn’s Karmic Finger #2 - Resisting Reality

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:21:26 +0000

[...] Finger” has more of an edge to it. Plus, I didn’t like encroaching so closely upon Havi’s Friday Chicken Check-in. But I still reserve the right to flip off the previous [...]

By: creativevoyage

creativevoyage — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:36:14 +0000

oh dear oh dear I have click through posts… I don’t like them either but my webgoddess does… I’ll try and change it :(

have a great weekend !

By: Havi Brooks

Havi Brooks — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:24:08 +0000

“Leather babushka, mmmm …”

Oh yes. Between that and the sexy burrito, I’ll have a lot to think about this weekend.

@LeAnne – wow, that’s a lot of stuff to have happen in a week. I’m going to talk about the thing you brought up (also what you expressed so beautifully in yesterday’s comment) on the blog this week, or next week.

Good for you for all the good … and hugs with all the hard.

@dpaul – I LOVE being on your bus, my dear.

@claire – hooray!

@Kyeli – Wow. Can’t wait to see the house when I come visit!

@Kelly – Ohmygosh, what a powerful story. And what a bizarre, uncomfortable situation. I can’t believe they left the peel.

@Annie, Lori and Amy – thanks for checking in with me. I LOVE it when people do Friday Chicken with me! Cheering with you for all the good and sending you love for all the hard.

It’s a lot you guys are going through. Just wow.

@Sonia – “a tasteful pink boa” … and that’s why I adore you. I ADORE YOU!

By: LeAnne McDaniel

LeAnne McDaniel — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:49:51 +0000

The Hard Stuff: Having to take blood tests every Monday for the next few weeks 45 min. away from home because the life threatening illness that is now just a pain in the ass but could turn back into a life threatening illness at any second WITHOUT MY KNOWING IT shook its finger at me.

The metaphorical equivalent of planning a party and no one showing up.

Lots of painful discussion with beloved hubby (and kidney donor) about expectations and the burden of having potential that is not lived up to or something like that. As a direct result of this blog. No, really, I’m glad it came up.

Realizing I have burdened my son who is a senior in high school with those same well-intentioned expectations.

Just plain old-fashioned stuckness. I’m on day 3 without a shower and wearing the same pair of sweatpants. I may not have brushed my teeth yesterday…shudder. (I’m sure this validates my husband’s fears that if he accepts where I am I’ll turn into a burrito. Am I the only one who thinks that sounds vaguely sexual and not completely bad?)

Prospect promising to call back by Wednesday and blowing me off…and my calls. And my emails.

Good Stuff: I got to move from the closed waiting room just off the kitchen at Havi and Selma’s to the table (yippee! And thanks for working with me on the payments.)

Big move here – gave myself permission to be stuck yesterday. The day didn’t turn out materially different than previous days, just without the butterflies of guilt for company. I guess that is materially different.

(This is turning into a blog post but I feel compelled to balance out the hard stuff)

Realizing we only overspent for Christmas by a few hundred (OK, I’m reaching).

Phew! Glad that’s off my chest. Hugs about the pesky ruskies (no offense anyone). Personally, I’m going with the leather babushka. mmm…

By: dpaul

dpaul — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:31:57 +0000

Hi Havi- Cheers. Yes, thanks for that Russion visual. Hoping I won't have nightmares. I think that puts a damper on my last blog post on the Soviet Girls Camps in Michigan. I didn't read your bit on email until now, so you're off the hook for having to send me a reply. I'll just have to connect via bloggosphere. You write good stuff as always. I'll still feel compelled to send you nutty twittering links now and again however. It's important to have the right people on the bus.... dpauls last blog post..The Curious Case of Defunct Soviet Girls Camps in Michigan

By: claire aka catskittyns

claire aka catskittyns — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:37:47 +0000

Hi Havi: The best part of my week happened on Thursday when I reconnected with intermediate school friends thru the awesomeness of the internet. Truly, the best stuff was just catching up and finding out there’s lots to chat about despite all the missed years in between.

By: Kelly Parkinson

Kelly Parkinson — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:41:27 +0000

Your Russian invasion brought up an old memory from my time in the Peace Corps. Back when I was living in West Africa, I came home from teaching on day to find my house had been broken into, and all my cash in Guinean Francs was missing. The only other thing missing was in the kitchen. Someone had used my knife to cut a banana in half, and had left the peels. I thought, who DOES that? Who goes into someone’s house and cuts a banana in HALF before eating it? They actually tracked down who did it that day, and it turned out to be twin 14-year-old boys. I still smile when I think of them standing in my kitchen, each of them chewing thoughtfully on half a banana, looking around at my American posters.

By: Kyeli

Kyeli — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:45:05 +0000

the hard: I got sick, and spent most of the week either asleep or in bed or foggy. Ick. the good: I got a bicycle! (Dru got one, too.) I'm super excited about getting out riding it all over the place. When I was a kid, my bike was my freedom. It was everything and took me everywhere. I'm really happy about having one again, after a 15 year hiatus. (: We also got our house. We're renting, but I'm so excited to be out of an apartment and into a space more suited to us. I took your advice and wrote a want-ad for a house, and this one fits nearly all the requirements. I was flexible on the ones it didn't fit. (: We get the key the day before you visit, so maybe we can take you on a tour of it! Kyelis last blog post..Introducing Book Bonanza Wednesdays! Chapter 1: The usual error

By: Sonia Simone | Remarkable Communication

Sonia Simone | Remarkable Communication — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:39:26 +0000

Maybe you could just soften the bad mental picture to Gorbachev in a tasteful pink feather boa. Sorry, probably not helpful. Yuk to gross spam, yay to freedom, double yuk to changing interfaces. It's like the MS Word thing. I don't even hate MS, but why IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY AND DECENT do they think every professional on the face of the planet wants to learn a new interface to their word processing software? It really doesn't make a lot of sense, now does it? I'm going to have to think about Kruschev in fishnets to cheer myself up. xoxo Sonia Simone | Remarkable Communications last blog post..The Mad Ninja Skill for Getting Anything Done