The Good:
Getting the assignments done and dusted and handed in on time – yesssss!
Sleeping for ever which meant that when I woke up again the cold symptoms were reduced to nearly nothing. I love sleep.
Starting my new job. It’s going to be fun, I just know it is. And my boss is kinda cute. (she says with a grin)
Holidays – yay. I get a bit of a holiday now.
SNOW. It snowed.

But most of all, I was sat in the doctor’s today discussing Coeliac Disease and he was telling me all about villous atrophy. I was sat there and thinking, “Villous Atrophy huh… It’s just one guy.”
.-= Wormy´s last post … The Turning Point =-.

So, yeah. The hard.

I’ve been procrastinating a lot, and finding new stuckness I didn’t even know I had. Will have to go and investigate.

I started getting back on track with my writing. Which is a very good thing, with lots of hard surrounding it. But a step is a step, and I will get better.

I’ve been dealing with lots of offline people, who say things that make no sense to me. I try to smile and be polite, but when you have no clue what’s going on…hard.

The good:

Writing, see above. Good, in measured doses.

Realizing what a strong support group of friends I have online and off.

Making sure my children have a good Christmas…complete!

Watching my four year old “write” a letter to Santa, asking for “something.” And then writing letters to him for all her friends.

Hope everyone’s week goes much better!

~Kimberlee
.-= Kimberlee Ferrell´s last post … Pushing Past Your Writing Anxiety =-.

-husband was gone for 3 days straight

-house was a mess from making candy

+made more than 50 boxes of candy and delivered it!

+had a GREAT meeting in downtown

+went out to lunch with girlfriends AWESOME!!!!

+put up Christmas tree

+went to winter Sing-along at my son’s school Holiday spirit galore!!!

+had an epiphany while writing a post on my blog ;)

+signed up to be on Havi’s Kitchen Table!!!!!! *EXCITED* beyond belief!!!

Have a wonderful weekend!! Thanks for the Chicken!!
.-= Pam Belding´s last post … Support part 3 =-.

The hard:

- Oh, you know, the usual. Migraine. Migraine. Migraine.

The good:

+ I’m off from the day job for two weeks! Yay! Two weeks of dyeing, spinning, knitting, and taking naps whenever I want to!

+ Having a flood of epiphanies lately about things I could do to bring more money into my business so I can eventually quit the day job!

+ I started a sock yarn club and fiber club (http://happyfuzzyyarn.etsy.com) and I’m really excited about it! Money up front will allow me to branch out into some other base yarns and fibers that I haven’t been able to afford yet. Happiness!

+ My sweetie brought over a container full of homemade vegan oatmeal raisin cookies! Yum!

+ I put up my Winter Solstice tree this year for the first time since 2002 (the last few years have found me too depressed to be festive for one reason or another. This year I’m good). It’s so pretty.
.-= Riin´s last post … Happy Fuzzy Yarn Sock Yarn Club and Fiber Club =-.

Oh, my goodness, the Hard. On the Moh’s Scale of Hardness, this week was pretty much carborundum, with a pair of diamond earrings and a tiara. If I say much more than that, I’ll never stop.

The Good: Looking forward to Mahala’s class. Latkes. Elementary school band concert. Knowing that next week will be better.
.-= Melynda´s last post … Snow. =-.

Keeping it quick this week. Maybe. You can count me among the brevity-challenged.

Very sorry to hear about all the hard, Havi. I can relate to the wild dash to get things done before the holidays!

Hard:
I didn’t get enough done on my PhD preliminary projects, so the defense has been postponed, with no new date set yet. Extra-hard: feeling misunderstood by my adviser. It hurts.

Good:
Started a new music therapy gig this week! Great clients, good money, an excellent balance of people-time and introvert recovery time. And it’s only three days a week — on my other two work days, aside from two other small contracts, I will have a goodly amount of time for other creative projects. Balances within balances: this new schedule feels healthy and sustainable. Yay!

Good and hard:
Holidays. I celebrate the Winter Solstice, and we’ve opened our home to family and friends who are dropping in and out over the next few days. I love it, but I’m also working hard and feeling drained, when what I really want is to be sitting quietly in beautiful places, resting and dreaming. Somehow, I need to carve out enough space for both!

Ha. So much for brevity. If I weren’t so tired, I’m sure I could go on…and on…
.-= Kathleen Avins @spiralsongkat´s last post … If blogging can be therapy, can it also be triage? =-.

- It is just way too hard to do anything when two small kids are clinging to me like the very breath of life. Which I sort of am, I understand, but sometimes the breath of life needs to pee in peace.

- Twitter has locked me out. I am alarmed. And I am alarmed by my level of alarm. Shouldn’t I be more evolved than to be freaking out over Twitter?

- Christmas. Yeah.

The good:

- I have two healthy and beautiful children who love me very much, even if they will not let me use the bathroom in peace.

- My husband. He is my heart.

- Good-hearted business owners, who are biggified in the best possible way.

- A sewing project that involved no swearing. Who knew it was possible?
.-= Amber´s last post … Ventriloquists are Fun =-.

The hard:
- Lots of feelings of inadequacy towards my responsibilities–feeling like I have to be a leader or a manager, and feeling absolutely swamped by details and missions I am only dimly aware of

- Trying to prepare for Christmas with much less money

- Unable to focus on big things because my stats final and two papers to write — I let these three things dominate my viewfinder when maybe they didn’t need to.

- My shoulder still hurting when I go like *this*

- General overwhelm, feelings of “it’s all too much, I’m not big enough”

The good:
+ Saw the doctor about my shoulder

+ Attended my mentor’s dissertation defense and bid her farewell

+ Got a passing grade on stats, and handled the two papers without having to stay up past midnight either night. (I just now see in my email that she’s sent back one of the papers with comments; I’ve decided I have the right to look at the comments when I’m ready, dammit, and it ain’t now before I go to bed)

+ Afternoon naps! My god, is there anything in the world better than a 20-minute afternoon nap??

+ Continuing support of friends and mentors and well-wishers, who see me as bigger than I feel I am.

+ Seeing our local theater comapny’s production of “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.” Saw Part II tonight and it was stunning.
.-= Mike´s last post … Today in History =-.