Stop Looking for Occasions to Be Offended
I'm bookmarking this page entirely for my own self-awareness, but if you happen to find it helpful, that would be cool also. Stop Looking for Occasions to Be Offended When you live at or below ordinary levels of awareness, you spend a great deal of time and energy finding opportunities to be offended. A news report, an economic downturn, a...
Life Hacks
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Don't Be That Guy
Cool Design Guy Brian Veloso has a fun forum called "Don't Be That Guy" where you can post stories about the people who step on you in traffic, at work, as clients, etc. It's a funny idea, but I'm afraid I'm too often "that guy" (or girl, if you're hung up on the gender of it) to go around pointing...
Stuff I'm Doing This weekend (so I don't lose track)
1) Mailing eBay package 2) Mailing Stacy's birthday present (only a month late!) 3) Finishing Bil's logo 4) Helping mom pack up stuff from garage sale & haul to good will 5) burning stuff in Mike's yard 6) Helping David and Garrett scrape and paint their house 7) Make multiple copies of CD for CD club 8) Trim Annabelle's nails...
My T-shirt collection, revised
What my t-shirt storage looks like, post t-shirt challenge....
10 things to do during nesting month
This is an awesome list of stuff to do around the house before winter hits. I have a good portion of this stuff done already, with more lined up. I have to ad winterizing the house (plastic over windows, adding insulation) to my list....
Revisited: Things I have to do on Vacation
In revisiting my list, I'm running into a small snag. One of the items is the key problem: Work on a logo for Bil and Jerame Go for a Crown Hill walk with Lori Mail my sister's birthday present Take clothes to a donation point Take garage sale stuff to my mom's house Help my mom clean out her attic...
Things I have to do on vacation next week
I'm on vacation next week from the 12th through the 16th. Here's what I'll be doing: Work on a logo for Bil and Jerame Go for a Crown Hill walk with Lori Mail my sister's birthday present Take clothes to a donation point Take garage sale stuff to my mom's house Help my mom clean out her attic Clean the...
T-shirt Challenge Revisited
A while back I decided, since I have way too many t-shirts (over 100), I would wear all of them without repeating, and photograph each one. I didn't get too far into the project before photographing all of them became too much to keep up with. I've still be cycling through them, and I have 36 left to wear. But...
The Importance of Sleep
Harvard study on the importance of sleep: Van Cauter also showed that sleep-deprived subjects had reduced levels of leptin, a molecule secreted by fat cells that acts in the brain to inhibit appetite. "During nights of sleep deprivation, you feel that your eating goes wacky," says Stickgold. "Up at 2 a.m., working on a paper, a steak or pasta is...
the nine reasons we don't do what we should
Via Lifehack: a great article on why we don't get stuff done that we should. Fear Lack of Self-Confidence Lack of Knowledge Trying to Do Too Much Alone Trying to Do Too Much Loss of Self Lack of Energy Lack of Reward It Can't Be Done UPDATE: the more closely I read the article, the more I like it, and...
Long-delayed tshirt blogging
I started out with such great intentions. I was so determined. I as going to take a picture every day, and blog it right away. How quickly I got sidetracked. Curse you, real life! How dare you get in the way of my silly website projects? Well, anyway, here's the catch-up... see the main photo page for all my shirts...
tshirt blogging; day 4, 5, & 6
A really old t-shirt that I love because it has a cool tiger on the front. It's not really in the wearable pile anymore either, but I'll try to do something with the logo. Why do I keep sticking my hands in my pockets? A new Old Navy ringer shirt. I like this one because it's plain, and the...
The Great T-Shirt Challenge: Day 2
I have photos of me wearing this shirt in Germany, back in 1997, so I've had it a long time. I haven't worn this shirt in a while, because I don't usually wear red; I think the color makes my face look too red. It's also one of the shirts where the sleeves are too long and the seam...
The Great T-Shirt Challenge
We watched the first installment of Morgan Spurlock's "30" this past week, (the one where he and his girlfriend live on minimum wage) and now I'm analyzing every cent I spend. So this morning while I was folding clothes, I answered a question that's been bothering me for a while -- "How many T-shirts do I own?" I have a...
Things to do before I die
Having 2 near-death experiences in the past 3 years has been eye-opening. I need to make some changes in my life, and feel like I'm enjoying life and not just living through it. Self-improvement: Lose 50 pounds run in the mini-marathon Take up a sport that I do every day Learn another language Learn PHP and MySQL Fun: Go on...
Things I want to accomplish in the next year
My birthday is next Monday, so I made a list of things that I want to accomplish in the next year. Carry out my local freeway blogger project Run in the Mini-marathon Lose 50 lbs Get the trim and baseboards in my foyer replaced Cut the old water pipes out of my kitchen repaint my kitchen Visit Disney World...
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