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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Here’s a new, fun, productive thing to participate in: The Ponytail Challenge. I saw a posting about it on someone else’s blog and was a little skeptical at first. The blog offers humor and small self-improvement oriented [...]

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Rewards!

Wow, I have had a great week! I’m not boasting, really, but I have great cause to celebrate and happiness loves company as much as misery ever did.
As of today, I’ve exercised eight days in a row (excluding Sundays) for 30 minutes or more each time. I don’t think I’ve done that even [...]

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Opposition already

As is often the case when one begins working on a new goal, I’m already facing opposition to my plans. I expected difficulties, but not quite so soon! I woke up this morning with a yucky sore throat, a post-nasal drip, a slight cough, and a bad attitude. I didn’t get up [...]

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Hobbies

I’ve been thinking about hobbies lately.  Is blogging a legitimate hobby?  I mean, is it on par with something like oil painting or tennis or baseball or photography or coin collecting?  I guess it probably is.  Anyway, I’ve been thinking about taking up a new hobby.  I was thinking this morning that I’d like to learn to [...]

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Improvement!

Sometimes having a bad start is good movitation.  I’ve followed my plan so far down through “Pick up the toys in the living room” and my attitude is so much better! 
Because I called to submit my work orders, they sent the Bill the Great Handyman over and he fixed a ton of stuff!  The light [...]

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Learning to crochet

The last couple of weeks I've been learning to crochet again.  I say "again" because my mom already taught me to crochet.  Probably several times.  She even learned to crochet left-handed so she could teach me the way that would be easiest for me to do and understand, saint that she is.  But this time [...]

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In order to improve my opinion of my day, here's a list of the things I'm glad I did in the order I remember them:

Wake up
Go outside
Talk to my mom and wish her happy birthday
Did my exercises
Talked to Sonja
Helped Degen go potty
A load of laundry (took towels upstairs)
A load of dishes
Ate artichokes and fish for [...]

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Haircuts

I’m going to get a haircut today, courtesy a birthday present from my mother-in-law and sister-in-law (Kim). I really need one. I haven’t even had a trim in over a year now. I’ve spent months with my hair pulled back in a ponytail and now that I’m wearing glasses I generally feel [...]

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