Posts Tagged: 30 Days of Blogs

I’m Like Edward Scissorhands… If He’d Worked at Supercuts

posted on 10/12/2010

Today I got to do something I haven’t done in about seven years: I took a brand new set of hedge clippers and started the long process of trying to reclaim our overgrown jungle of a yard. Our new house has a pretty extensively landscaped yard in front and back. It was definitely one of […]

The Stages of Weight Loss – #4 (Running in Place like a Cartoon)

posted on 10/11/2010

It’s time for another installment in the Stages of Weight Loss… When we last left our heroine, it was the WAY FUN stage of being totally balanced and really psyched about moving in the right direction. Well, I hope you enjoyed that feeling of momentum. Because now we’re going nowhere fast. This is a particularly […]

Love, Hate & Nachos; Thinking About Forever

posted on 10/10/2010

What I Hated About Today: The dead rat in the crawlspace. Discovered with my nose. YUCK! Gratuitous landlord drama. (Seriously? It’s been 9 days!) My fifth aborted attempt at a nap this week. Having to miss out on (a) dinner and (b) time with a dear friend, because MLM was exhausted and overstimulated and needed […]

Blog #18

posted on 10/09/2010

Darling hubby is out of town this evening, and MLM is long tucked away in his bed; so tonight it’s just me, the trusty laptop, Sixteen Candles and a plastic cup of wine. Aaaahhhhh…. If you haven’t noticed, 30 Days of Blogs has really turned into more like “30 Blogs in 40 Days” or something […]

What if Customer Service Representatives Were Honest?

posted on 10/06/2010

CSR: Thank you for calling Comcast/AT&T/Other Big Conglomerate. How may I demean and frustrate you today? ME: Yes, hello. I’m having a problem with my service. CSR: I’m not even a little bit sorry to hear that, ma’am. Actually, I was really enjoying a conversation with the people in the cubicles around me, and you’re […]

And then she crawled out from under a half-unpacked box…

posted on 10/03/2010

Whew! Sunday morning and I am enjoying my first pot of coffee brewed in the new house, while my boys are both napping upstairs. If you’ve been paying attention, you may have noticed that I dropped the ball a bit on my 30 consecutive days of blogging. (If you’ve been paying attention that closely, I […]

Name that Weird Feeling

posted on 09/29/2010

It’s been a long day, friends. I’m at work between clients just now; and this has been the most peaceful part of my day so far. Otherwise it’s been lots of packing and hauling and being really, really angry at the Comcast people. It’s amazing how much power over us some companies wield, like those […]

Closing out Closing Day

posted on 09/28/2010

Quick blog tonight – first, I just really want to say “thanks” to everyone for the good vibes, phone calls, texts, etc. It’s been a long but satisfying day. And we have a house! And a condo! And four days to move!! The closing went relatively smoothly today, at least compared to how badly things […]

A Little Too Much Getting it Right

posted on 09/27/2010

I’ve blogged before about my (selective) perfectionism, and how it can sometimes hold me back from getting things done. Needing to get things juuuuust right can really be paralyzing sometimes, because all the work it takes to do something perfectly can seem really overwhelming at the beginning of the task. Please don’t get the wrong […]

The Unfinished Business of Peas and Eggplant

posted on 09/26/2010

In the process of packing today, I pulled some things out of a junk drawer I hadn’t thought about in a while: six little blue and green ceramic vegetables. Two pea pods, two string beans and two eggplants. Anyone who has been in our house knows that I often have things stashed in unexpected places, […]