We celebrated a few week 37 holidays, including TV Dinner day and Fortune Cookie Day. Coming up this week: 15: National Linguine Day and Make a Hat Day 16: National Guacamole Day and Mexican Independence Day and Mayflower Day and National Play-Doh Day 17: Citizenship Day and National Apple Dumpling Day 18: National Cheeseburger Day…
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have time for this
A month ago, I wrote about the feeling of “I don’t have time for this.” that I’ve been suffering from for years. And how over the past year I have been working very hard to get to the point where the frequency with which I utter that awful phrase is diminishing. Today I once again…
celebrations: week 37 (8-14 sep 2014)
We celebrated a few week 36 holidays including National Cheese Pizza Day! Coming up this week: 8: International Literacy Day and National Date-Nut Bread Day 9: Teddy Bear Day 10: TV Dinner Day 11: National Hot Cross Bun Day 12: National Chocolate Milkshake Day 13: National Peanut Day and Fortune Cookie Day 14: Eat a…
decatur: scenes from the decatur book festival
This past weekend, I spent time volunteering at the Decatur Book Festival despite still being under the weather. The part I enjoyed the most was exploring the festival before it opened, while all was still quiet. I’m hoping that next year I’ll manage to make it to a number of the author talks…
happiness project: learning + misc (sep)
Simplify and Prepare, Project 43 and the monthly projects in my Happiness Project … so many projects! In reality, they are all facets of the same project, guiding me to finish or give up old projects and move forward on the ones that are most important to me. August’s main theme was Exercise. Overall, I…
celebrations: week 36 (1-7 sep 2014)
We celebrated only one week 35 holiday and a day late at that! My being sick and Dragon*Con threw me off, I guess! Hoping we can do better this week… Coming up this week: 1: National Cherry Popover Day and Labor Day 2: National Blueberry Popsicle Day 3: National Welsh Rarebit Day and Skyscraper Day…
celebrations: week 35 (25-31 aug 2014)
We celebrated a few week 34 holidays, including National Lemonade Day and National Ice Cream Pie Day. Coming up this week: 25: National Banana Split Day and Whiskey Sour Day 26: National Dog Day and National Cherry Popsicle Day 27: Banana Lovers Day 28: National Cherry Turnover Day 29: Chop Suey Day and Lemon Juice…
celebrations: week 34 (18-24 aug 2014)
We celebrated a few week 33 holidays, including Julienne Fries Day. Coming up this week: 18: National Soft Ice Cream Day and National Ice Cream Pie Day 19: National Potato Day and National Aviation Day 20: National Lemonade Day 21: National Spumoni Day and National Senior Citizens Day 22: Be An Angel Day and National…
what’s this morning feeling?
For the first time in what seems like years, I woke this morning without an overwhelming feeling of exhaustion. Even though I could have slept for another hour, I “jumped” out of bed and started my day. As I had such an early start, I had a few moments to contemplate this burst of energy….
celebrations: week 33 (11-17 aug 2014)
We celebrated a few week 32 holidays, including National Rice Pudding Day. Coming up this week: 11: National Raspberry Tart Day 12: Julienne Fries Day and International Youth Day 13: Left-Handers’ Day 14: National Creamsicle Day 15: National Relaxation Day and Lemon Meringue Pie Day 16: Bratwurst Day and International Homeless Animals’ Day and National…
MODA: Design for Social Impact
While I feel negligent for not having made it to Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) earlier, I’m glad we made it when we did. I had in my mind that I needed to get the girls to the Design for Social Impact exhibit, but I also had it in my mind that it was closing…
celebrations: week 32 (4-10 aug 2014)
We celebrated a few week 31 holidays, including National Lasagna Day and National Ice Cream Sandwich Day. Coming up this week: 4: Coast Guard Day 5: National Mustard Day and National Night Out and National Oyster Day and National Walk on the Moon Day 6: National Root Beer Float Day 7: National Lighthouse Day and…
don’t have time for this
How many times have I said this over the past 10 years? I cannot even count the times… Over the past couple of years, I’ve been working hard to finish up projects, transfer projects, move on. Just to give myself a little bit of breathing room. Find the things that truly are worth my time….
happiness project: exercise + misc (aug)
Simplify and Prepare, Project 43 and the monthly projects in my Happiness Project … so many projects! In reality, they are all facets of the same project, guiding me to finish or give up old projects and move forward on the ones that are most important to me. July’s main theme was Work. As it…
celebrations: week 31 (28 jul – 3 aug 2014)
We celebrated a few week 30 holidays, including National Hot Dog Day and National Coffee Milkshake Day. Coming up this week: 28: National Milk Chocolate Day 29: National Chicken Wing Day and National Lasagna Day 30: National Cheesecake Day 31: Jump for Jelly Beans Day and Mutt’s Day and National Raspberry Cake Day 1: National…
happiness project: SIMPLIFY and PREPARE
I spent the first half of the year declaring that this was my year to THRIVE. And much as I had hoped to pursue that, what I’ve found is that this has been my year to SIMPLIFY and PREPARE. In order to make room in my life for the things I want to explore and…
celebrations: week 30 (21-27 jul 2014)
We celebrated a few week 29 holidays, including gummi worms day and corn fritters day. Coming up this week: 21: National Junk Food Day 22: Hammock Day 23: National Hot Dog Day and National Vanilla Ice Cream Day 24: Amelia Earhart Day and Cousins Day 25: National Hot Fudge Sundae Day 26: National Day of…
celebrations: week 29 (14-20 jul 2014)
We celebrated three week 29 holidays, including Chloe’s birthday. Coming up this week: 14: Bastille Day 15: National Gummi Worm Day and National Tapioca Pudding Day 16: National Corn Fritters Day and National Personal Chef Day 17: Yellow Pig Day and Peach Ice Cream Day 18: National Caviar Day 19: National Daiquiri Day 20: National…
celebrations: week 28 (7-13 jul 2014)
We celebrated only two week 27 holidays, Nation Ginger Snap Day and Independence Day. Coming up this week: 7: Chloe’s Birthday and Chocolate Day and Tell the Truth Day and Macaroni Day and National Strawberry Sundae Day 8: Video Game Day and Chocolate with Almonds Day 9: National Sugar Cookie Day 10: National Piña Colada…
happiness project: work + misc (jul)
Thrive!, Project 43 and the monthly projects in my Happiness Project … so many projects! In reality, they are all facets of the same project, guiding me to finish or give up old projects and move forward on the ones that are most important to me. June’s main theme was Blogs. I’ve worked hard over…


















