Ze good:
Going back to my family’s farm.
Being back with my hunky spunky again. He smells good.
Waking up on the farm. As challenging as it is sometimes, that place is still utterly in my heart and spirit as home.

ark.
Missing the farm tonight!

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The Good: A day with the kids, doing just ordinary fun stuff. A walk to the park with my lady friend. Making a really nice flower for the basket for my lovely bike. Working in the garden. Building a compost heap! The Dusting Off the DVD conference call–which was really great. A very helpful meeting with my counselor. Many small epiphanies in a string (some of which may, on reflection, turn out to be not-so-small).

The Hard: Wishing that work would take a different turn than it’s likely to. Not yet finding that motivation to start working on the novel again. The everyday challenges of money, and time, and energy, and skill to do well at all that’s needed.

I send wishes for comfort and joy, which are needed just as much at this time of the year as any other.

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But I just never get anything significant done in the summer and feel aimless and like I’m scattering in a hundred different directions (so the basket workshop would have been totally useful for me!). I’ve tried to convince myself to be OK with thinking of summer as a time when I flit, like a butterfly, from lovely flower to flower but that’s never really worked. I prefer the focus and intensity I feel in the spring and fall.

Hard: Finding out the bank (because of homeland security regulations) won’t accept the name I’ve been using for 30 years because it’s not on my driver’s license so they changed it on their records and now I can’t deposit any checks made out to me so I have to go change my name legally. I have some resistance to this and I’m not sure why.

Good: Working with my web designer on the launch of my new website, which is gorgeous. Learning how cool WordPress is for creating websites.

Hard: Realizing my idea of what I am doing with my business is morphing even as we’re taking this BIG step towards changing the face/shape/structure of my business.

In good time,
Waverly Fitzgerald
http://www.schooloftheseasons.com

Speaking of which, I was so unfocused, I failed to keep up with this week’s The Fluent Self and Havi gets stitches and crazy nurses and dropped scissors, etc., so I will always be a faithful reader from now on.

Havi’s fate rests in my hands!

I have been thinking about Classified Ads this week and just today I read a funny thing. A musician acquaintance of mine is going to star in an independent film so that’s been interesting to me and a big to-do around these parts and all that.

In a newspaper article about all that, he said that 3 years he had decided he wanted to be in a movie and have his music in a movie. He was very specific about what he wanted and why he wanted that. Now, mind you, he didn’t just sit there. He started keeping his eyes open and his wife (who manages a lot of his business stuff and is a super go-getter and who I wish was MY wife) put his picture on a casting website.

Turns out, this director (a real director with international credentials) saw him, loved him, cast him and his band in the movie, and his music will probably be used as well. (And if it’s not, really, what’s wrong with those people.)

So, there you go.

Have a great 4th of July, everyone!

The Hard:

My BFF spent 3 days in the hospital this week from chest pains, shortness of breath, and bleah. Way too soon from losing Stuart to his heart attack, and it just threw everything for a loop for me. He’s out now and fine, with a diagnosis of too much stress and taking a few days off, but still. So hard to deal with, and I didn’t even end up visiting him in the hospital — he declared I wasn’t allowed to see him in the gown. ;)

Getting behind on everything because of Stuff. Accidentally Structured Procrastination. Not-so-structured procrastination.

Still trying to find people to take over the Stuart project, still finding it really hard.

Just feeling very @_@ and off my game today. And all week. Bleh. Tired Amy is tired, but has no time for a nap.

The Good:

My BFF is okay!

Getting back into the work groove and getting things done in time for the hard deadline, if not the earlier, softer one I wanted to make. And I painted stripes on my tiger! And wrote a good solid blog post today while not doing the other, harder work. And sent a chapter of Novel #2 to my beta group. Things Got Done, despite all the fog and bleh.

Shiva Nata! I got my DVD and have played with it 2 days this week, all I had energy/time for. Sore shoulders didn’t last, thank goodness, and I already had one interesting effect. I went to a meeting with a client yesterday, lots of walking around by myself to and from, and I noticed people kept smiling at me — and I realized it’s because I was looking up, and not down at the ground/my feet. Posture win!

Kitties and friends and new connections. And clients who buy me High Tea.

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I hope you’re feeling better by the time you read this. I really do – tough stuff when you don’t feel good.

I can’t think of a single hard for the week. It is all overshadowed by the fact that I got sleep – every single night since Sunday – deep sound sleep.

And, for me, that changes EVERYTHING. I just don’t function well without it.

I also discovered the wonders of having a timer in every room – not to be obsessive but just to help me stay more aware of where my day is going.

Lots of physical exercise too this week – walks every day with my dogs, pilates, yoga, walking dvd’s – 3 of 4 every single day. Heaven.

Also, got LOTS of work done. . . more than ever on a consistent basis. Think that the sleep, food, water, exercise, and regular online support – all have something to do with it.

Am compiling pictures of my family, mom and dad’s family, etc – and putting them in order as well as making some dvd’s for the kids of the favorite ones setting them to music. I took all these pictures stacked in the closet, basement etc to a studio to sort through – I’ve never done anything like this. One minute I’m looking at shots of me as a child, the next I’m looking at my kids as babies. No order to any of it- YET – but what a kick that all this has happened to me or someone I’m related to.

I commit to keeping track of my sleep, movement, food and water – because life is so much harder when I forget to take care of those daily needs.

Big learnings for me this week on that score!!

Taking care of basic needs = less struggle and more ease with work, relationships, etc.

Love it. Have a great weekend

xoxo

Char

I’m so sorry to hear about the hard this week. But I’m so happy that you have the wonderful gentleman friend to make you yummy food and just generally be there for you. He’s really good at that (in addition to so many other things).

Here’s my Chicken:
The hard: Depressed, worried, and angry over my continued health issues. Really sick and tired of being sick and tired. I’ve been taking lots of baths and trying to give myself permission to just feel lousy for a little while longer. I’ll be doing the shiva-flail/dance tonight after the hubby goes out. I think it will help – it always makes me laugh.

The good: I spent a few hours organizing the storage area on the ship. It’s great to see a little order in a chaotic space. I also got around to filing for my name change, which is all kinds of exciting. And I let myself get bullied into hitting “publish” on my first blog entry. It’s not the kind of great post that I wanted, but it breaks the seal, which I needed.

Have a wonderful week, everyone!

Stu should so totally be the poolboy/bartender at the meme beach house. He can bring us towels and frosty drinks and utter incomprehensible phrases all the while. But he’ll be so easy on the eyes it won’t matter.

This week for me, the hard:

- A leak I had thought could be fixed by recaulking around the shower wasn’t so easily fixed. The ceiling below is now wet(ter) and gross(er), and fixing it will involve an actual plumber. I hate dealing with plumbers, but I hate using the other shower even more (whoever invented low-flow showerheads didn’t realize that if you cut the flow of water to half, you double the amount of time one must spend in the shower to get the shampoo out of your hair properly).

- The leisurely July I had envisioned for myself just got more hectic with the arrival of a couple of can’t-say-no projects. Maybe I can slack in August.

This week for me, the good:

- Yay, exciting, interesting (and good-paying) new projects!

- I hosted a fun gathering for a dozen members of my Etsy team last weekend and remembered how much I love having people over.

- The last of the dreaded and disgusting white carpet is GONE from the living room as of today. And I don’t care if it stays boring cement with remnant stripes of glue for a while as we decide what we really want to do in there.

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Yay!

@Lucy – Double Yay for you, sweetie. That’s a lot of good in there. Wow.

And I had meant to say to you on the other post and forgot that I have had the same issue at times when I was depressed. Like, I just could not do it. And could not want to do it.

So just wanted to offer that reassurance and reminder … and I loved your brave wonderful tiny personal ad for help with it and I am sure that it is planting internal and external seeds like crazy.

@Crispy Mark – I like you so much!

@Catherine – wow. I’m sorry your Wednesday sucked so much but am weirdly relieved to know that I wasn’t the only one battling Wednesday in ridiculous ways. Maybe Mt. Hood was in retrograde again.

Also, thanks for sharing the poem.

@Anna + Ingrid – hugs to both of you!

-On the hard side: Finding out that my blog has stopped emailing me comments for no reason I can figure out. Siiiigh.
-Also on the hard side: Washing. Still.
-But on the good side: Two people contacting me, one via email, one via the blog, to offer me staying-clean-related support. Peoples, you are awesome. Havi, you are also awesome for inspiring me to post about what I needed.

MWAH. Now I’m really done.

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