2009 nov blogging

Marbling!

I had a post ready for yesterday. I wrote it up before I started working on the novel. But I just didn’t actually feel like posting it. So I’m doing this today instead. On Sunday I got together with a couple of people and we had a marbling party — where we marbled paper. I’ve

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Just find your zen

Yeah, I’m doing day job work today. I was supposed to do it yesterday, but spent the day figuring out the new configuration for my kitchen instead. I’m not too bothered. I’m doing fairly easy stuff today, and only for a few hours. One of the things that I keep running into is that while

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Resources

I really have been trying to post every day this month. Sunday I was offline most of the day, reading and knitting. Honestly, I hadn’t planned on posting, regardless of my “post every day” stance. Monday, I lost the key to my car while I was in Redmond. My friend had to come get me

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Perception

Do you know when you’re angry? This isn’t a fallacious question. My mother always denied feeling angry when she obviously was, storming around the kitchen, slamming drawers and cupboards. Do you allow yourself to feel jealousy? Or envy? Or any of those socially not acceptable emotions? I have a character who’s angry pretty much all

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cat waxing

Or the equivalent there of. I’ve had this open for more than an hour and I’m just too tired to blog anything useful or interesting. Extreme exhaustion means extreme stupidity for me. I will hopefully have something more intelligent to post this weekend.

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Just Breathe

Walking back from the convention tonight I realized I was paying a lot of attention to my breath. One of the things that both yoga and tai chi have helped me with is breathing while moving (I used to hold my breath. A lot.) I finally realized I was so tired that I was afraid

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I got nothin’

Today I need to: A) do day job work (including filling out expense reports, which I hate) B) clean (dishes, living room, take garbage out, etc.) C) pack (for a week-long trip) D) write checks E) write (start typing up chapter ten) F) transfer all necessary files from home beast to work beast (see traveling,

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