Some days you wake up and things just aren’t right. Surely you’ve had these days, too. My hair is a mess and I’ve had no time for a hair cut. I feel fat. (Why am I going to the gym anyway?) I’m don’t feel very smart and my deadlines aren’t willing to wait on a […]
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Things that Make You Go Hmmm – Morning Commutes
Riddle me this: Why is it in a culture where cutting in line is frowned upon, that it is ok to knowingly drive in an exit only lane in order to cut in front of traffic at the last minute?
I Just Want to Say…
Working in business development and marketing for a real estate-based business, I can’t help but keep one eye on the news and a finger on the pulse of the economy. I think it’s safe to report that the news isn’t great and our financial pulse is most definitely raised! While it’s cause for some overall […]
Better Here than There
Two to-do’s down, six million (ok, it’s really only ten) more to go. As I pause for my mid-afternoon dose of breathe in-breathe out, I’m also silently giving thanks that I live in Dallas which is not on Forbes’ top stressful cities list.
Breathe In, Breathe Out. Repeat.
Things are so crazy at the office that several of us had to sit still for a couple of minutes of deep relaxing breaths. At one point on Friday, I felt like we were taking a corporate yoga break. Now that I think about it, that could be a very cool employee perk. Free sodas […]
THIS is my kind of day
Busy, busy, busy. Everywhere I turn, something’s going on. Potential clients cold calling us (where’s the slow economy?), massive project deadlines that push our team to its creative edges, juggling press deadlines, photography contracts, schedules moving here and there… Fantastic. The day goes by quickly. I can see what I have accomplished. I can see what our […]
Things More Interesting Than Sitting in a Hospital Room
Watching paint dry Attending a tractor pull Taking an international flight Going to a baseball game Watching C-SPAN Filing monstrous piles of work documents Boiling eggs Proof-reading technical papers Listening to Muzak Replays of the Fed’s report to Congress Watching ants work Weeding Walking on a treadmill Doing taxes Sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic…in the rain
It Took All Day…
But my pile has been filed. Correct that, my piles have been filed. Exhausting work, really. Filing didn’t require simply covering my office (desktops, floor, chairs…) with stacks of “file this” and “file that.” It also required purging the existing files of one-time important documents that were now food for the shredder. And deadfiling long-fogotten projects […]
Overcoming Writer’s Block: The Sweet Spot
It seems that I’ve had deadline after deadline for writing projects over the last two months. It’s made me face an internal challenge. My problem isn’t that I don’t like to write – my problem is that I don’t like to write on a deadline, and I can’t write without a deadline. Many days have […]
Lovely Lavender Linen Water
We fell in love with lavender-scented linen water when we lived in England. It’s pretty simple to use. Instead of distilled water, you pour the linen water into your iron. The result is lightly-scented, fresh pressed clothes that you can’t wait to wear. And the weekly chore of ironing was a bit more pleasant as […]