Update

I thought I should look over my list and note the progress I've made on the various Things.

1. I've been writing a moderate amount; maybe not enough, though, I should definitely up the number of words per day.
3. I haven't read much yet over break, although I did finish The Time Traveler's Wife. I need to start a new book.
7. I've watched (or rewatched, as the case may be):
Apocalypse Now
Citizen Kane
Gone with the Wind
Rear Window
Singin' in the Rain
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Sunset Boulevard
25th Hour
14. 1/14 (Margee, Jess and I went and saw Shutter Island) and this Friday Jess, RJ, Kenny and I are going to see Robin Hood, so that will be another one.:)
21. Have been working on my book with Jeni's assistance.
46. I've been writing these sporadicall, and I should do it more, since I enjoy so much reading them later on.
47. Same with the new word.
50. Same with news stories.
52. I've started putting my bangs back in bobby pins. Nothing special, but it is new. :)
58. I've been pretty consistent with the Food Journal.
67. Phoebe and I have been reading together a lot. Usually five or six books a day.
99. Probably the thing I'm most proud of: I've stopped scratching my fingers. :)

Update: aonth and a half in

May 10, 2010 - Long time, no see

So it's been a month (a day over, truth be told) since my last post, and that is unforgivable. I suppose since what I've been missing is my dailies, I can simply add however many days I've missed to the end of the total. Now the goal must be establishing a pattern so that it doesn't happen again.
Part of my summer plans is to write a great deal every day in accordance to a plan my friend Jeni and I have made up. This may as well be the place for that, too. As much as I like the idea of separate spaces for everything, it really isn't practical with my memory and organizational skills.

Anyway, writing commences as soon as I take Phoebs to daycare. See you in the next post.

April 9: Busy, busy, busy

"Living by the hour, I stop for every flower;
Everything is soft and slow.
Now all these tastes improve
Through the view that comes with you,
Like they handed me my life
(For the first time, it felt worth it;
like I deserved it.)"
- Jets to Brazil


ossify - harden into bone
teamster - trucker
serigraph - silk-screen print

Things I was grateful for yesterday and the day before:
(The day before)
1. Getting to sleep with Ken ken.
2. Getting the film presentation over with.
3. Becoming better friends with Sara.
4. Cory being a prince and doing the newspaper nearly single-handedly.
5. Warm breezes.
(Yesterday)
1. Waking up with Ken ken. :)
2. Chelsy's freedom and plans to live together.
3. Liz Beall Gregory's family and how much I admire her.
4. The power coming back on well before four.
5. King and Nanny. :)

Things I am grateful for today:
1. How happy Phoebs was when she woke up this morning, and how cute she looked in her new outfit.
2. DeRosset not being at work today.
3.
4.
5.


Articles:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7092435.ece

"At times the world can seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe us when we say that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. And what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may, in fact, be the first steps of a journey."
- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

trephine - noun, surgical saw

Things I'm grateful for today:
1. Getting the paper done super early.
2. Warm spring breezes.
3. Freerice.org
4. My sweet, sweet daughter.
5. Going to bed early on Tuesday nights so that I can stay up late Wednesday nights. :)

Day 5: Happiness

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
- Marianne Williamson


macropterous - large-winged

Things I'm grateful for today:
1. Lindsey and Nick moving to WV.
2. Kenny Kenny Kenny.
3. Pretty pictures courtesy of Chelsy.
4. The constant high I am experiencing.
5. How fully and peacefully I've let go of my feelings for Sean.

Day 4, oopsie :)

So I missed a day yesterday. Easter weekend is a busy time.

"I hope that I don't sound too insane
When I say there is darkness all around us
I don't feel weak but I do
Need sometimes for her to protect me
And reconnect me to the beauty that I'm missing"
- The Avett Brothers

provenance - noun - place of origin

&

misology - noun - hatred of reason

Ten things I've felt grateful for this weekend:
1. Chinese with girls I love. :)
2. Chelsy Hitt for being.
3. Jodi Picoult's The Pact
4. Phoebe and Easter egg hunting.
5. Leverage, especially Elliot, yum, and Skins.
6. Driving on beautiful days.
7. Delicious, huge family meals.
8. The over-the-top gifts I received for Easter.
9. Jade, for making her way back into my life.
10. Lindsey and Nick moving to WV. :)