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blaugustine: October 2010
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Sunday, October 17, 2010. 1 At Costco, buy a supersized jar of organic strawberry jam. 2 At home, open the jar and pour it into half-pint jelly jars. 3 Affix a cute sticker (it could say. 4 For full effect, tie a sweet ribbon around the jar. 5 Give as gifts. The jam really is that good, probably better then what I occasionally make. But no, nuh-uh, I've never tried this trick on my friends. Friday, October 01, 2010. As I write these words, I think of another friend who was recently shoved out of her job&...
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blaugustine: September 2009
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009. Ever have one of those days when all day long it feels like you're slogging through molasses, up hill both ways, and never quite getting where you're trying to go? I usually swim on Tuesday mornings. Sometimes I dawdle a little at home. This morning, I was in my car exactly at the time I had hoped to be. When I turned the key, the car just made sad little noises. Oh sigh. The ride to work was filled with delays and many many construction projects. There was even a project...
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blaugustine: April 2009
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Friday, April 24, 2009. Today was a nice antidote to a weird week. In addition to the incredible tragedy that I wrote about yesterday, we attended a play on Tuesday night that was disturbing and brutal. It was a premiere called. Staged at the oh-so-intellectual and oh-so-avant-garde and oh-I'm-so-over-it ART (something something Theater). Itself a purely tragic play from all I've heard. Then yesterday, I wangled a doctor's appointment at lunch time to start understanding something that might be minor (wo...
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blaugustine: Thanksgiving plans
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010. My dear sweet aunt wrote to me weeks ago when, admittedly, we had no plans for Thanksgiving, to invite us to join the festivities in Manhattan. I wrote back and said that we were unable to attend and expressed the hope that we would all have joyous Thanksgivings. Quietly, I thought that even if Robert and I ate Thanksgiving dinner by ourselves, we'd be content with the peace and quiet. Four local invitations later, we've had to start saying "thanks, but we can't attend.".
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blaugustine: September 2010
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010. Yesterday, my antepenultimate day at work, I actually blew through (no, I did not "blow off") a large amount of work, with the hopes of leaving my colleagues in very good shape after I'm gone. I've mentioned to a few people that it is my goal to "go out on top," to leave them wanting more. I'd be mortified to think that for my last job especially, anyone would be thinking "couldn't she have gone sooner? I think I've succeeded in that goal. People have said they don't kn...
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blaugustine: quick crafts project
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Sunday, October 17, 2010. 1 At Costco, buy a supersized jar of organic strawberry jam. 2 At home, open the jar and pour it into half-pint jelly jars. 3 Affix a cute sticker (it could say. 4 For full effect, tie a sweet ribbon around the jar. 5 Give as gifts. The jam really is that good, probably better then what I occasionally make. But no, nuh-uh, I've never tried this trick on my friends. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. I twit therefore I am. Follow me on Twitter.
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blaugustine: June 2009
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009. Annoying physical bookstore experience. A few nights ago, I was early for a dinner meeting with a colleague. I was at a strip mall that included a Borders Books. Robert and I had been talking about our next vacation, so it seemed worth picking up travel books for that destination. I think the European travel books were arranged similarly. I guess someone in headquarters thought they were being clever. Back upstairs I went, where I finally located a few books of interest and was ...
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blaugustine: gratitude is a choice?
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Gratitude is a choice? Driving back from afternoon errands, I saw a sign on a church that said "Gratitude is a choice." Hmm. Is it? Maybe it's a choice to notice things for which to be grateful, but that sentiment is kind of hard to read at 40 mph. In any case, it seems like as good a time as any to start this year's list. This is not necessarily in priority order, by the way. Clean underwear and socks, whenever I want them. Big non-leaking roof and a warm bed. I write technic...
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blaugustine: yep, it's fall
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Thursday, November 04, 2010. Yep, it's fall. We've been burning wood for a few weeks now, though not as steadily as we do in colder months. But with the passing of Halloween, we've finally locked down the windows and turned on the heat. It's fall. The cats sit at the windows, trying to make sense of the changes happening outside. The changes continue, revealing little to our resident felines. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I write technical manuals for software companies. No, I didn't write all ...
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blaugustine: first commitment
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Friday, November 19, 2010. On leaving my job, a lot of time suddenly freed up. I've worried that other people will see that time as a juicy opportunity - for them or for their organizations. My time could get eaten up very quickly if I let it. Aside from getting substantial exercise every day, seeing friends, and cooking dinner, I've hesitated to jump into other time or heart commitments. I'm trying to avoid a "rebound" relationship with work, disappointing myself and others. I'm also thinking that a lot...
