I’m struggling. All I want to do is work on my blog (not this one, sorry) and I can’t. Yeah I still churn out a post or two each week – and I have without a doubt a list of pending posts and things I want to cook and germs of recipes swirling in my head – but I can’t seem to do it. I wander in and out of the kitchen, I stare at the screen and keyboard, I watch twitter, I try to edit photos, I snack endlessly, I write here instead. I can’t get my head around […]
There are two kinds of people in this world. Ones who make lists and ones who don’t. I’m not judging either way it just is how it is. I am a list maker – I have to write things down or they fly out of my head, peeking back in a the most inopportune times and haunting me endlessly. I also love ticking things off of said lists – it is terribly satisfying. Needless to say the lists for our upcoming trip have started, sort of… there are currently three items staring me from a piece of paper on my […]
Occasionally the teachers at my yoga studio read quotes during the practice. Some resonate, some I just breath in one ear and out the other. But one caught my attention the other day. ‘You cannot force the fruit to ripen, you can only feed the tree‘. Apparently it was said by a famous philosopher but I can’t for the life of me remember who (can anyone help out with this one?) – the quote stuck but the author’s name flew out with an exuberant round of core. I’ve been trying my best to feed the tree. To put good things […]
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Many years ago a good friend called us gypsies. It made us laugh because it is pretty close to the truth. Not in the traveling-light sense but in the never-quite-settled sense. We get itchy feet quickly, we need to travel, or move or change. So in an attempt to solve for one of our items of inertia a decision has been made, sort of. A decision to look somewhere else to live. Somewhere that is less expensive, and closer to the beach and promises of a better lifestyle. Yes the irony of stating that we are forever on the move […]
So there is this woman at work who is remarkably judgmental about people taking leave. Vocally, eye-rolling-ly judgmental. The other day she had to justify the leave that she needs to take now, then at Christmas, then to get married, and then later on to take a delayed honeymoon. I felt bad listening to the run around she was being given, yet thought to myself, now you see how you make everyone else feel. I’d put money on the fact that the irony didn’t even occur to her.
Every once and a while things work out as they should. Instead of the sale starting the day after a big purchase it starts the day before. A late start means the traffic has cleared and the trip takes less time. You get laid off the day you are planning on quitting so they pay you to leave a job you would have paid to get out of. Yeah. That. 2 hours before a meeting that had been scheduled for weeks where I was planning on handing in my resignation. They couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t as shaken as […]