Yeah, so, even with the softening of "lust" to "love" in the meme format, this one gets into territory that not everyone's going to be comfortable with... and that includes me, given that I know that my immediate family is reading this blog ( Read more... )

"Guilty pleasures"? The concept is somewhat foreign to me. Guilt, I get. Pleasure, I get. I don't know how the two are supposed to mix. I've never been the sort of person who requires permission, a complicit accomplice, or an official pardon to order dessert if that's what I want to do. It's not that I'm immune to guilt... I'm really, truly not. It ( Read more... )

The lens I'm viewing this one through is kind of odd. I could have easily filled this with things that I would want if I had truly unlimited wealth, and this would include things like a giant saltwater swimming pool under a climate-controlled glazed geodesic dome with tropical landscaping and a tiki bar and barbecue facilities and such. I've ( Read more... )

I'm still trying to treat this as an exercise with some kind of a point to it, so for this one I'm kind of making myself a meta-task list for my life. These are things that I don't do but I need to. I could put more things on here than 7 ("Take care of myself.","Learn to save money."... though I've made some pretty good strides in both of those), ( Read more... )

Only seven? :P Clearly I'm going to have the opposite problem here from the Envy one. I think that to make this manageable I'm going to restrict myself to things that don't really matter all that much, petty little inconsequential things that can still make me froth and boil over... not the Big Issues of the Day or the things that really impact my ( Read more... )

This one's really not that easy to do. I have a pretty good life. There are parts of it that could use some improving, but they are by and large improving. Anyway, I'm sitting here typing this at the dining room table in a condo in a lovely little town outside of Tampa, Florida called Dunedin. I paid nothing to be here. Yesterday I was at Epcot in ( Read more... )

I wrote a flash story this morning that was basically a snippet of a story that's been bouncing around in my head for a while. Parts of it have come out as a Fantasy in Miniature segment before, I think. It might live as a longer story soon. I wrote it as a sort of "palate cleanser" to reset my brain into creative mode, which is one of the purposes ( Read more... )