Confession: I am a recovering packrat. In elementary school my parents went to Parent Teacher Night and found my desk stuffed with acorns and rocks. Around the same age I cried when we left the beach without a big stick I’d been playing with. I’ve always had a bad habit of keeping things I might use someday, just in case. Even now I have to ( Read more... )

This is incredibly late! Unfortunately, my mom spent the first two weeks of March in the hospital with an intestinal infection. I spent a lot of those two weeks going back and forth to the hospital, plus I stayed over a few nights. That has really messed March up and pushed back this post. Here’s the February report - March is going to be such a ( Read more... )

So I wrote this a few weeks ago for December and then never posted it so I’m putting January intoo. I kept a log in a spreadsheet so I can report to you. ( Original resolution post is here!)

( Fails for sleeping, exercise, and birding. Gold stars for uncluttering and photography )

A friend of mine told me she does birthday resolutions instead of New Year’s resolutions, and I loved the idea so I’m stealing it (my birthday was at the beginning of the month).  I also feel like have all these boxes to check off before the completely arbitrary deadline of turning 30 next year OMG.  I think my resolutions in the past have been a ( Read more... )

Made some tweaks to my plan thanks to the comments!

Iam going to use the 6 Changes Method to create some good habits in 2010. The 6 Changes Method & site were created by Leo Babauta, who writes Zen Habits, which is one of my favorite blogs.

Here are the steps from the site &my planned implementation.

( Cut for habity details )

Yayyyyy Inauguration!  It feels like Christmas!

So I know people would pay thousands of dollars to stay at my house this week.  And that this is a once-in-forever historical moment.  But as you can see from the fact that I am posting, I am not on the Mall.  I just knew I couldn't handle the crowd.  If a crowd is dense enough that I am touching other ( Read more... )

Ewwww!  Cooooool!  Slime Mold!

I never thought I would be as lucky as urbpan and get to see a slime mold.  But a few weeks ago at lunch I noticed a big yellow pile of foam around a plant near a Starbucks.  At first I thought it was just that spray filling foam you get at Home Depot, but then I realized that made no sense.  I looked closer and realized it ( Read more... )

Ugh.  I am being so lame.  I'm sorry, it's just that I've been neglecting Xanga for the siren song of LJ.

So I want to talk about TV shows in the last week but I don't feel like organizing my thoughts.  So you'll get a real life update instead.

Wedding:  We've been engaged for about 3 and a half months.  For most people, that's a quarter of their ( Read more... )

Holy crap!  I own a house!  With Carlos!  And I live there!  With Carlos!

It is a very big and interesting change
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Wow, I really didn't mean to not post this entire week.  I was just really busy.  And lazy.  At the same time, somehow.

I'll work on a real post with pictures, but for now I'll just post my New Year's Resolutions.  Even though they seem to be "out of style," they help me out.  I did fairly well with mine last year!

( Review of 2005 Resolutions, and new ones for 2006 )