Posted in Getting Things Done, Rage Against The Pile on Oct 24th, 2006 2 Comments »
Last week I turned a corner; I flipped a bit; did a one-eighty – whatever your preferred analogy is for experiencing a rude awakening. I continue to feel the peace of God in the midst of total awareness of my depravity. Rather than feeling overwhelmed and depressed by the guilt of my sin, [...]
Posted in Depression, Getting Things Done, Rage Against The Pile, Until Death Do Us Part (and to the Death it will be) on Oct 10th, 2006 8 Comments »
I’ve had a very. bad. week.
The Ya Ya Sisterhood movie comes to mind – the part where Sidda is young and her mom disappears for days on end, blacked out, and wakes up in a hotel room on the coast. This is how I felt yesterday. I felt like abandoning my children just to [...]
Posted in Depression, Getting Things Done, Rage Against The Pile on Oct 3rd, 2006 9 Comments »
I’m tired.
Exhausted, actually. Mentally, and physically tired.
I have seven essays drafted on writing, things that I am processing as I push through the TALKING about writing so I may actually get to the business of DOING the writing. But my brain is so mushified that all I can bring [...]
Posted in Getting Things Done, On Writing on Sep 22nd, 2006 1 Comment »
Today during the kids’ naps I drafted an essay, read some blogs, and bookmarked several posts, thoughts, and insights that have inspired me. I feel I am constantly battling time, because at the moment I’d much rather finish my thought than empty the dishwasher. This is the point when discontentment can creep in [...]
Posted in Getting Things Done, Learning on Sep 13th, 2006 4 Comments »
I haven’t felt much like writing lately. Can you tell? This blog has taken a turn toward online photo journaling and reports of what I did yesterday, more akin to my journaling style of junior high.
Many questions are in my mind, like… do I really have anything to say? Does anybody out [...]
Posted in Friendship, Getting Things Done, Living In Community on Aug 24th, 2006 8 Comments »
Posted in Bryan, Getting Things Done, Learning, Living In Community, Video on Aug 9th, 2006 1 Comment »
Posted in Getting Things Done, Learning, Rage Against The Pile on Jul 10th, 2006 3 Comments »
I know I keep bringing this up, but I can’t say it enough: I’M FEELING GREAT!
As I look back on the last year of blog posts and remember this, and this, and this, and how angry and depressed and incapacitated I was, I thank God for bringing me through it.
We have come full circle, [...]
Posted in Remodel on Jun 14th, 2006 4 Comments »
We are finally ready to start moving Bryan in to his new office this weekend. The painting is almost done, and we put together two Ikea bookshelves tonight. In the photo below you’ll see the paint color and the brown trim, and the really cool ducting we had put in. The beam [...]
Posted in Getting Things Done, Rage Against The Pile on Jun 7th, 2006 2 Comments »
I am remembering who I am.
Over the years since I’ve been married and had kids, I’ve listened to a lot of voices outside of myself as to how a wife and mother SHOULD run her household. I’ve tried schedules, I’ve tried lists, but for as long as I can remember – even as a [...]
Posted in Bryan, Remodel on May 31st, 2006 No Comments »
Poor Bryan. The one thing he wanted to accomplish this weekend was sanding and staining the cement floor in his new office, but two trips to McLendon’s, three methods, and one full day later, only about two feet along the short wall have been stripped. When he emerged from the room in a [...]
Posted in Getting Things Done, Things on May 15th, 2006 No Comments »
My Garden Therapy has yielded results! I’ve never been happy with the bare ground under our dogwood tree. There had been a hosta to the left, but it never did well so I divided it and moved it to another part of the yard. Last summer I had also planted some alyssum [...]
Posted in Family, Getting Things Done on May 3rd, 2006 1 Comment »
I just went outside to turn on the drip watering system my dad helped installed in my garden yesterday. It was our first home project together. Ever. And it was strangely comforting and normalizing to have my father helping me with a home project. It was all his idea, too. [...]
Posted in Depression, Getting Things Done on May 1st, 2006 No Comments »
I’ve been super busy finishing up the painting in Bryan’s new office, so all my spare time has been devoted to that and the mounds of laundry that piled up after traveling for two weeks. With Bryan gone so much I’m left with little energy for things that re-create me, and spend most of [...]
Posted in Blog Stuff, Getting Things Done, Things on Apr 24th, 2006 1 Comment »
I think I may have stumbled upon a revolutionary new tool to aid me in Getting Things Done. Recently my watch broke, and while I was in Minnesota I bought a new one at Target. Today I discovered that, among many other cool features, it has a TIMER function, which makes Ruthie’s Time-Outs [...]