ANYway…

The Hard
Mom in a lot of pain post-surgery, nothing I can do…helpless
Work is BORING and not engaging or affirming.
A thing I wanted for years is not going to happen. Weeping (ok, howling) ensued.

The Good
I made a delicious vegetarian stew that made my apartment smell of rosemary and sage (yay Moosewood Cooks at Home!)!
I had a little shadow (neighbor’s three year old) follow me around so close I couldn’t see him and we both laughed and laughed!
A walk in sunny coldness (its not as cold out as I thought!)
Mom loved her gifts AND I bought some more
Napping with kitties (boy do they love the large heater/feeder that is me)

Still weeping, but ok. Life goes on.

Havi, on behalf of all dog owners ever, I’m sorry about the barking dogs. As the owner of two dogs that adore barking (and trying desperately to train them out of it), I know exactly how awful the whole thing can be. Hopefully it’s only a puppy training issue and you’ll have peace and quiet soon.

The Hard:

-I don’t know whether it’s the snow or what, but I had a really bad work week. Unproductive, very little money coming in, and just ugh. I wanted to use it to tweak business stuff, but couldn’t even really get it together to do that.

-Product launch tomorrow! Imposter fear, etc. Still not entirely planned, but it’ll get there.

-The Snowmageddon: I need spring, stat.

The Good:

-Rediscovered my inner workout freak. The vaguely self destructive one that likes extreme sports that bruise you up, but exercise is still good. Debating training/buffing up for roller derby, despite having never done any serious skating.

-The Olympics: While this may possibly be responsible for my current extreme sport wishes, I haven’t enjoyed tv this much in a long time. Really enjoying spending time with the family watching winter sports.
.-= Holly´s last post … The Top Five Website Copy Mistakes =-.

It’s because I was in London in Friday, as part of the good.

My hard is still pretty low key. I am a bit worried and sad about not being able to stick to any project for long enough to make it work. I’m afraid my attention span just isn’t long enough to really succeed at what I want to do.

The good includes meeting up with all my comicky friends (in London) and getting the ball rolling regarding half quitting my job, also known as working part time.

It also involved me having a potentially rather good idea. It rolls a bunch of potentially rather good ideas up into one, and if I run with it and make it work it would give me an excuse to do yoga, like, all the time, AND write about Shiva Nata, like, all the time. It would pretty much be perfect. I need to have a couple of meetings with my board of monsters though before I can really commit to it.

Happy pretend Friday!
.-= Willie Hewes´s last post … Mascots for Life =-.

The Hard:

The Time Bandit stole my week. In a bad way… left me grumpy and exhausted. No time to read or write. Or at least not to enjoy it.

Miss my teacher who is on recess.

Not wanting to be someone who so thrives on a schedule, resisting this part of myself and ultimately just feeling like crap. Not sick, but just really, really bitchy.

Being completely exhausted and a Pajama Day didn’t work its magic as well as one would have hoped. Still freaking tired after spending a day in bed.

2.5 HOURS of making photo copies. I hate this part of my job. It sucks and I wish someone else would do it or figure a way out of it.

Co-worker complaining I wasn’t making said photocopies fast enough for her taste. Having to nicely tell her to back off or do it herself.

Finally felt some hurumph about my blog. Some good feedback from some and way less overall views. It’s just all so exhausting sometimes…

Oh, maybe it’s ME that’s exhausted.

The Good:

Saw my most favorite singer (Rhett Miller) in SF last weekend with oldest/dearest friend. Front row center sing along!

New band to follow – Leslie and the Badgers – amazing!

Decided that teaching yoga is fun. Damnit! And it was.

New yoga students returned and brought a friend! And bought class cards!

Another new (to me) yoga student wrote me a Facebook message that she loved my class and that it really helped her body and she was still thinking about the theme (self-care) days later.

My third graders are growing as students right before my eyes and I feel like a proud teacher most days. Sometimes it brings tears to my eyes how much I love these little boogers. I can’t believe they are going to move on in a couple months… *sigh*

Pajama Day nap. I haven’t done that in months.

Chicken makes me feel better. I hope it works for you too.
.-= Tami´s last post … Yoga+Music365 (day42) – Phases and Stages by Willie Nelson – The In Case You Missed It Edition! Volume 1 =-.

February: Add me to the chorus of ughs. December, the snow and the freezing temperatures are still new, and you have some holidays in there, so it’s kind of cool. January, you get to relax after all that December craziness and settle down and actually enjoy nature’s downtime. By February, I’m damn sick of it all, yet the spring clothes are out in the stores and seed and plant catalogs are pouring into my mailbox, all to taunt me even though we’ve still got at least two months of this crap to go. So yeah, ugh.

This week’s hard:
- Had a really off day in yoga yesterday. Stuff that is usually piece of cake was really really hard. Pushed a lot of last-one-picked-in-gym-class, beat-myself-up-about-it buttons.
- Amazingly long list of to-dos this week; no time for any kind of meaningful break.
- I had planned to take all of next week off from editing work to play in the studio for *five days straight,* but I got a call yesterday afternoon that a project I didn’t expect for another week had been moved up and had a very short deadline. Le sigh.

This week’s good:
- Three custom necklace orders! One of them word of mouth, one return customer, and another out of the blue.
- The rush project won’t take all five days next week to complete, so I’ll still get a couple of days off.
- The existing projects are done, with just a couple of loose bits (like invoicing) to clean up this weekend.

Happy halfway through this stupid month, everyone!
.-= Lori Paximadis´s last post … tidbits: avalanche edition =-.

Chic-ken:

Hardness:

Started the week off with icky stuckness and no motivation. Boxed up lots of Mom’s clothes and frames and emptied out the crazy labeled drawers.

NO Etsy sales. NOT ONE. It is the week of Valentine’s day, and not ONE of my lovely bonbons sold! After all that crazy work of posting photos, writing clever copy for each one, setting up showcase…Rats. Felt despis-ed and reject-ed, a woman of sorrows (Cue sad Messiah aria).

My brain was blown to bits by Shiva Nata. Could not wrap it around various theory bits, even flummoxed by the cheat sheets that Willie H. so graciously made! Felt beyond stupid and green and that I’ll never get the basic positions right, much less any epiphanies! :(

Goodness:

Geaux SAINTS! Hells yeah my team won the Super Bowl! Was that this week? It feels like last year. Had fun with drinking game (whenever Phil Simms said “tahm” instead of “time”) and commenting on FB with buddies.

Boxed up lots of Mom’s clothes and frames and emptied out the crazy labeled drawers. Took them all to Salvation Army!!! WOOT, clear space! So worth ickiness to drop them off.

Had a great metaphor breakthrough, thanks Havi! and have been on the Training Train since and suddenly working out is FUN! I even put down a half a slice of pizza that I really did not want whereas in the past I would have just eaten it. My inner Klingon trainer (formerly mean inner Nazi) has stopped terrorizing me and is being VERY supportive and helpful. Huge. HUGE. Yuuuuuuuge.

Kept on with Shiva Nata despite brain lying in gooey shards on my living room floor. Laughed through most of the flailing, then got another metaphor about a person who has camped out in my head: Havi’s red velvet ropes became PINK velvet ropes and my Klingon is the bouncer! Ha! As I was getting that the phone rang and it was that person with a very nice non-stressy just checking in call! HA HA!

Ended the week on a very upbeat note, even though I am coming down with a little something (did I catch it from all you lovelies?). I plan to use the opportunity to stay in bed and write write write!

XXs and OOs to all of you, me HEART-ies!!!

I second the motion that this week was a blur. I can’t believe it’s friday already, and yet monday seems like a month ago… maybe one of these days I’ll get a handle on the time-space continuum.

In the meantime the hard for this week:
– underestimating how long it would take me to get the techie bits of my new class going.
– forgetting to let my mailing list know about said teleclass until now.
– hard conversations with my sweetie about the hours I’ve been working this week (see above).

The good:
– I figured out that I can’t do a friday chicken on my own blog, much as I love the idea.
– I did get the techie bits figured out and the teleclass is open for bidness (as we say in Texas.)
– In spite of (or perhaps because of) the extra time getting the teleclass going took, I got this month’s articles in ahead of deadline. I’m sure my editor just about fell off her chair when she got my emails!
– Retreat with Jen, Hiro, Fabeku and more… yummy!

The Hard:

-the longest cold/sinus infection/whatever this is in history…including very sore throat

The Good:

-got my driver’s license (today)! Finally!!!

Happy Chick’m.
I’ve bookmarked this for some weekend reading.