While it is undoubtedly true that the best reason for inviting friends to one's home is to enjoy their company and strengthen bonds of fellowship and community, it is also true that for some of us it is the single best way to motivate ourselves to finally complete all (or most) of those little household chores we've been putting off.

I haven't gamed much in recent years, and it's been at least a decade since I spent more than five or six hours in a single session -- much less than twelve hours we did yesterday and the five or six hours the day before. I finally was able to sleep in this morning, but my body is utterly confused by the marathon drives, unusual energy work, ( Read more... )

I didn't try to organize my books when I first moved into this apartment. I just threw them up on the shelves as fast as I could so I could break down the boxes and get them out. Since then, I've been frustrated by not being able to find anything. This evening I started sorting it out -- which is a real challenge given the size of my library ( Read more... )

I'm spending this morning working on a document called "The Life I Want ( Read more... )

I spent the last three hours getting my big pictures hung, with my parents' help. They are real sticklers for detail, with lots of measuring and using levels. They're a great team. And my new place looks and feels so much better now ( Read more... )

Marcus: I spy with my little eye something beginning with B ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm not as much a Queen of Pentacles as my dear mother, who came over for an hour and a half this afternoon to help me dig through stuff. Together we ( Read more... )

I was certain that today was going to be the "pull it all back together" day -- except that last night I had a sore throat, and I'm still not feeling great today. In fact, I want to go back to bed again ( Read more... )

I'm having a lousy day today: deeper depression than I've experienced for quite some time. Intellectually I know it's let-down from the move and the job ending, combined with PMS, but that isn't making me feel any better. Instead, I feel an irrational degree of unworthiness and other types of low self-esteem -- not usual for me even during ( Read more... )

I've been having trouble winding down to to go to sleep. . . I need to start enforcing bedtime on myself again, and doing some gentle yoga in the late evening to help me relax ( Read more... )