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Aug. 12th, 2015 11:27 pmwe rowed by sixes, with eight of us in the boat and no training wheels, and it is exhilarating and splashy and kind of amazing and a LOT like stoking on a tandem
I got pictures back from the photographer, and wasted nearly an hour of his time because I misremembered the size of the second piece to be photographed and we had a giant scrimmage around resizing it until he finally laid a ruler on it and boom - done, it was, in fact, 20x48" and not 20x60" like the other one. Pictures are here on the other blog.
I haven't ridden a horse since May. I am not at all sure how I feel about that. Which is additionally confusing.
I read the 2000 comment (and amazingly moderated) thread on MetaFilter about emotional labor, and was delighted and astonished and appalled and enlightened, and i recognize more and more of my behavior in letting shit go that i just don't want to chase people for, not any more. I recommend the thread whole heartedly, but be prepared to take it in pieces, and be happy with your current partner or partnered state before you start it.
I am in the middle of beign grateful for my friends
I am also realizing that I don't restrict screen time for Alice in part because of all the thigns I use my computer for: journal, therapist, to read things that aren't magazines anymore, to send postcards (FB) letters (email), locate places to enter artwork, find inspiration, materials, techniques... She's not playing endless games of solitaire, she's doing soemthing similar; watching things, emailing friends, researching things that strike her fancy. Plus and also this is summer, and I am in a small minority of parents locally who believe in sloth for summertime. so.
I got pictures back from the photographer, and wasted nearly an hour of his time because I misremembered the size of the second piece to be photographed and we had a giant scrimmage around resizing it until he finally laid a ruler on it and boom - done, it was, in fact, 20x48" and not 20x60" like the other one. Pictures are here on the other blog.
I haven't ridden a horse since May. I am not at all sure how I feel about that. Which is additionally confusing.
I read the 2000 comment (and amazingly moderated) thread on MetaFilter about emotional labor, and was delighted and astonished and appalled and enlightened, and i recognize more and more of my behavior in letting shit go that i just don't want to chase people for, not any more. I recommend the thread whole heartedly, but be prepared to take it in pieces, and be happy with your current partner or partnered state before you start it.
I am in the middle of beign grateful for my friends
I am also realizing that I don't restrict screen time for Alice in part because of all the thigns I use my computer for: journal, therapist, to read things that aren't magazines anymore, to send postcards (FB) letters (email), locate places to enter artwork, find inspiration, materials, techniques... She's not playing endless games of solitaire, she's doing soemthing similar; watching things, emailing friends, researching things that strike her fancy. Plus and also this is summer, and I am in a small minority of parents locally who believe in sloth for summertime. so.