Here it goes:

The Hard
- Been behaving in ways that make me like myself less. Eating junk, being judgmental, not taking time to practice yoga or any other sort of spiritual practice
- Was really annoyed at one of the guys I’m traveling with, and torn about whether to split off from the group to go to Koh Kong Island in Cambodia, before heading to Phu Quoc in Vietnam
- Have been upset at myself for a while for not updating my blog in ages of ages.
- Being upset at myself for being upset at myself

The Good
- Decided to stay with the group and head to Phu Quoc because I knew one of the good friends I made while traveling in New Zealand was somewhere around the Mekong delta. Turns out, she arrived at Phu Quoc the day before me! So we got to hang out again for a couple of days. Yay synchronicity!
- Being close to the sea and the proximity of my friend’s fierce independence (I hadn’t run into her yet, but I had a whole conversation with her in my head), helped me decide that I need to travel by myself right now.
- Breakthrough! I finally updated my blog with all the STUFF that was holding me back from writing in the first place. And it was majorly helpful in helping me make some decisions that will result in me liking myself more. In fact, it’s already working!
- Giving myself permission to freak out about having to actually turning these decisions into actions.

Whew… This chicken thing really helps!
.-= Melody´s last post … Stuffed! I reached my limit… =-.

Er…

Hard

~ Finding a joint vision of our last 10 days in Singapore (before UK December). Well, not that hard actually, but the fight that lead me to *notice* we needed to do that – a bit hard.

~ Receipts.

~ Finance calls.

Good

~ Writing.

~ Having comments.

~ Pema Chodron (sorry Pema – can’t be assed with the umlauts).

~ Having the relationship I’ve always wanted.

~ TEN YEAR anniversary of that relationship! Huh. We’re old married couple.

~ Christmas-dinner-in-November (along with charades with Yanks).

~ Christmas budget (instead of swirling ignoring).

~ Hiro on Sovereignty.

~ Walking an hour a day.

~ Receipts = emotionally neutral. (Before – cliff-divingly-dizzyingly-pukey-terrifying. Good shift, eh?).

~ First forays into ShivaNata craziness.

~ This. This group of people. It’s good.

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Thanks, all.
.-= Andrew Lightheart @alightheart´s last post … Friday list #3 – Yay four and half steps! =-.

Hard this week:
- Kind of everything, in a way. It feels as though no important aspect of my life is in equilibrium at the moment. This isn’t universally bad, but it’s hard work.
- The weather. We weren’t flooded where I live, thank goodness, but we had a roof leak. The world is soggy and cold.
- I’m not doing my Thing – any of my Things, in fact. I’ve been trying to finish a blog post for three days. My novel is itching at me, but I simply don’t have any space for it. The sock I’m knitting doesn’t fit. Moan whine whinge complain.

Good this week:
+ My chamber choir kicked ass at the Sligo Choral Festival, winning both of our competitions. Never mind the winning, though – our performances were transcendent. Which is nice.
+ The weather cleared on Friday to perfect, crisp, winter sunshine, and we went to Dublin Zoo with a group of home-ed families. It was magic.
+ My fabulous mother-in-law came round and we spent the afternoon gardening (taking breaks when the rain got too heavy). Planted a tree and a reed and about 100 bulbs. Bulbs!
.-= Lean Ni Chuilleanain (@leannich)´s last post … Lace Shawl in Progress =-.

@Rebecca – Aw. It doesn’t have to be a bar if you don’t like bars! It can be a cafe. Or a wine bar where no one ever has more than half a glass.

Or whatever you want. Twitter is for *you*. The main thing is to follow people you like and ignore or unfollow anyone who isn’t your people. Or block, if they’re rude.

If/when you decide to have a decaffeinated beverage with me there, send me an @ reply or a direct message. I won’t tell anyone you’re there if you don’t want me too. But I’m happy to make recommendations about really, really sweet, non-mean people to follow to get started.

Like @SecretWormy. And @ZenAtPlay. And @victoriashmoria. And @Germinational. And everyone here whom I’m blanking on.

Anyway, I’ll stop evangelizing. But if you show up that is beautiful and I will do what I can to help make it seem like a safe, cozy place!

@claire – oh, level one is much slower. when you’re learning. then you get to do it fast. but not the first time or anything!

@AmyCrooks – hug.

@Pidge – ohhhh. Sorry for all the hard! No fun AT ALL>

And, if it makes you feel better, last year when the Communicatrix was in town, she harassed me into iPhone-ing it up. And at first I was all, oh nooooo, I just bought the most expensive phone in the world.

But then I realized that I had actually bought a really affordable, amazing computer that does ridiculously cool things, including, occasionally, making phone calls.

So the Communicatrix was right. As always. And I am positive you will fall madly if belatedly in love with the iPhone. But if that doesn’t make you feel better, ignore it completely! :)

Let’s do this thing:

The hard:
– Work work work – still with the broken ribs. So Very Tired, but have to keep going. I get that sinking feeling that everyone *else* on the team thinks I’m an idiot and other irrational fatigue-based fears.
– Closing in on the *end* of work, which means less money in the house

The good:
+ The Hippie Husband came home from visiting his mom. So very nice to have the snuggle back, and the support, and the company.
+ Ribs are definitely healing – hoping to be able to move normally in time for Sacramento class
+ Project is coming to a close – big deal site that will be Most Impressive, when I can finally announce that we’ve gone live. Nice to be nearing completion and kind of hoping that I won’t get another job right away – I need some rest.
+ Sacramento coming up in 2 weeks! OMG – nearly three days of destuckifying, learning, and hanging out with amazing people. (Well, one day of class, plus the night before and the one after, right?) REALLY looking forward to working on MY stuff after a too-long hiatus.

Happy chicken everyone – and hopes for an excellent weekend all around
.-= Casey´s last post … casey_cole: @richardmiller I think I did swing post-punk, pre-Scoot. How do we name my phases after all these years, my old friend? =-.

- Hitting an all-time low on procrastination.
+ Finally getting the Dissolve O’Matic and working with it. That was a good decision. Already feeling teetiny shifts in mindset.

+ Condensing the Dissertation To Do List to 7 instead of 9 chapters. The deadline (ack!) is firm, so the amount of work had to shrink. Instant wiggle room in the time schedule. Phew.

+ Grateful for good health. I cannot afford to catch any kind of bug until mid 2010, therefore taking good care of myself.

+ Looking forward to 4 weeks of hermitdom at home to write, write, write.

Have a great week Chickeneers, and smooth sailing to ye pirate ship, Havi!

humm struggling with tiredness just the left over of lots of work for many months

the house is a mess ! but I have no energy to deal with it

my lodger has given her notice so am wondering if to let room before christmas after christmas or what?

the good !

I have done a schedule for a playshop – well recieved !

I’m having a day OFF

I got my lomo lCA fixed

And I get to play with my new lubitel camera !

my big good is that I’m done giving the talk that I had 10,000 kinds of ambivalence about doing. Plus it went wildly better than expected and made me realize maybe I’m not the world’s most tragic spaz after all.

related good is that I promised myself a treat for surviving it, and have decided on a stupidly fluffy and nice-to-pet turkish bathrobe. It’s work attire!

my big hard is that I am just working working working working and I still can’t catch up. But this is the time for that, so I am getting in touch with my Beatrix Kiddo and punching away. Still, I don’t like working this many hours and it’s hard.

my little hard is that it’s been a million years since I posted on the blog, since all my fresh content is going to the email list. my little good is that Naomi reminded me I could take dates off my posts. :)
.-= Sonia Simone´s last post … What Makes Marketing Hard? =-.

Hard:
-A bad mistake I’d been making in my work came home to roost this week, causing me to lose face pretty badly, leaving me to grapple with shame and guilt. (Damn, that’s two days in a row that I’ve mentioned feeling ashamed in my comment. *Not. Good.*) What’s extra frustating is that I’d spent the past six months working to fix the problem, and I *did* make giant strides, but too little too late, I guess, so I’m left feeling that it was all for naught. Damn. Damn. Damn.

Good:
+Got to share a proud moment with my daughter.
+Got to explore the place where I’ll start a new contract next month, and I like it! Very exciting!
+I get to go on two dates this weekend, one with each of my sweeties. Yay!

Wishing you a peaceful weekend, Havi, and a much better week to come. My best to all! (And my apologies for any typos; it’s hard to read this itty bitty font on my phone’s little screen.)