Sunday, 2nd of May 2010 at 03:36:13 PM Oh, hello. This is totally the Saturday update, you just missed it yesterday. Yes. Yes you did. STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT.
Okay, fine. We are so busy daring the pants off of ourselves that somehow we (read: I) were not able to get all of our updates together yesterday. We’re just out there, daring and pantsless, and that keeps us very busy. You know how it is. (I, for one, am totally looking for pants, for example.)
Joshilyn says: My stupid idea was stupid. I worked out and promptly ended up back in bed in minor agony all week, and nothing could comfort me but almond roca. So. I think this is the most epic of ALL my fails to date, really. Break it down, hammertime style: First, setting an actively harmful goal, then executing it along with MYSELF, then sourly eating candy. Fail Trifecta. [Ed. note: But she's still so pretty. And hopefully feeling better.]
Lydia says: I am steeling myself to debut an original song in Monday’s post. Currently fiddling with bit rate and sample rate and megahertz and wishing I had an audio nerd in my crawl space so I could press him/her into service. [Ed. note: Can't. Wait. The Virginia Janes rock!]
Gray says: Feeling better every day! No stigmata improvement yet, but my hope is springing forth like a RABID DOE. My house is a swamp of disaster. I’ve begun to dig it out from the mire of neglect and somnambulant housekeeping. Daily writing has been invigorating, The weather is clearing, I’ve taken a few walks in the cool spring sunlight and all is right with the world. [Ed. note: I would like to order some "all is right with the world," please.]
Kira says: This is a very hard challenge to give an update on. I am doing amazing things. Or possibly achieving absolutely nothing. I may be growing as a human being. On the other hand, I could just be increasing the frustration level of my nearest and dearest. So… success! Or not. [Ed. note: I'm glad we cleared that up.]
Mir (that’s me) says: I… am ready for this challenge to be over. I feel like some awesome things have come out of it, but agree that it’s terribly difficult to quantify many of those. That said, in the last two weeks I accepted both a new writing gig and a speaking engagement I probably would’ve passed by before I started thinking in terms of “saying yes,” so I do feel like Good Things are afoot.
How is your week going? Are you growing as a person, even though we swore we were not going to do that here? Sometimes it just happens, all sneaky-like. We understand.
Yeah, it’s tricky to quantify. My challenge amounted to “come out from under that rock and spend time with people” and I have. Just not *all* the time. Being more specific, this week I talked more to my workmates and met some new people yesterday and made plans for a black forest cherry cake get-together.
So yes, personal growth is happening. Oh wait, you didn’t mean growth to the waistband?
You know, I dithered over this challenge and then it finally found me. Here’s what I’ve been doing: learning to love the people close to me for WHO THEY ACTUALLY ARE, and not who I wish they’d be. This of course means that the people that I struggle with the most, in terms of this, promptly began an energetic campaign of being as difficult as possible. Ha! But I have to say that it’s actually going well, and I have a little mantra that my husband helped me with and it’s helping me enormously to stay focused on the things that are important and let slide the things that aren’t. I can be a real impatient bitch when I want to be, but I’m finding that it feels really good to not be so snarly. Who knew?
I am doing a garden challenge as a strategy for conquering control freakitude. This week I planted tomatoes, peppers, leeks, fennel, savory, and rosemary. The basil is waiting in my kitchen window until I am sure it will not get too cold.
Nothing has died yet — huzzah! — though my daisies need watering.
This week: hydrangeas, rhubarb, rounding up materials for a Sq Ft Garden frame.