So a while back I downloaded YNAB, which stands for You Need a Budget. Because I did–I really really needed a budget. I looked around at recommended free apps, and tried Wallet, and it just didn’t work for me. Somehow I never quite managed to figure out what I was supposed to be doing with […]
So back in the spring semester,ย remember me talking about my yoga class? Looking back I see I didn’t say much about it here, but trust me. There was a yoga class. I loved it. My teacher was awesome, and in something like twenty sessionsย got me doing stuff I wouldn’t have believed I could do in
This week I hit an amazing milestone–I’ve lost 80 pounds since February 2015. I’m so thrilled about it, I’ve been doing random happy dances for days. For the record, random happy dances can get embarrassing if one is not careful to be unobserved. But whatever. It is a fact worthy of celebration. I think about
Experiments in Food Production Read More ยป
I can’t believe we’re at the end of 2015. On Tuesday we’ll be in December. Combine that with how I put things on my blog so I can remember them, and then needing to remember them lately. Like how to light the pilot light, or measurements of the Christmas tree stand. The two together haveย me
Drowning My Muses Read More ยป
I’ve discovered TED talks on Netflix. This is important because it gives me something short to watch while I’m on my rebounder, so I’m not forced to choose between stopping in the middle of a story or staying on the trampoline (or off it) to watch the rest. And it doesn’t pull me into other
There Is No Spoon Read More ยป
So Monday I returned to work after my surgery. Monday night I came home and fell over. Tuesday by ten o’clock I’d realized there was no way it was gonna work at eight hour days, and I’m lucky enough to have both leftover sick time and an excellent (and available!) substitute, so I fixed it
Grist for the Mill Read More ยป
I hear it happens to everyone. You get neck-deep in a story, you start getting desperate–and the muses start tempting you with something else. “Hey, so sorry that tournament scene is giving you fits. How about a nice contemporary mystery instead? Or this really cool scene in this other universe you haven’t even started building
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