May 18, 2007
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Things I Have Learned in My Week So Far
Inspired by this thing I’m doing at work, knackered from entertaining my interesting in-laws while they visit this week while simultaneously launching a nation-wide festival (our main period of events started in earnest yesterday), I thought I’d snatch a moment to myself, grab a bowl of granola, and jot down the Things I Have Learned In My Week So Far.
1.) There is a fine line between self-awareness and self-involvement. The former creates thoughtful people who strive to understand themselves in order to treat the people and environment around them with dignity and love; the latter creates a person who is almost entirely unaware of their environment and the people around them. Many people walk that line without ever even knowing it. Some confuse the two.
2.) I am not a person who looses weight under stress.
3.) I am a person who can apparently survive on nothing but wine and cheese cubes.
4.) There is nothing that aggravates my partner more than a person who cannot savor the moment. This includes wine gulpers and individuals who fixate on lists.
5.) Fortunately, my partner assures me that I am a moment-savoring kind of gal.
6.) If I am lucky enough to have ten quid to burn, I’d go to a play, a castle, a tour, a movie, a reading, a pub, a nice meal out, a rock concert, an opera, a grocery store to buy snacks to throw a party with, a stationary store to buy nice papers to write home on, a book store to buy the stories to fuel me; I would NEVER choose to spend it on clothes. Shopping is not fun. It is something I do because I live in climates that force me to wear clothes and I don’t sew.
7.) This one I stole from Stefan Sagmeister: Trying to look good limits my life. Seriously – I am at my most beautiful when I am simply healthy, comfortable, well-fed, hydrated, laughing and the thought of checking a mirror, sucking in my gut, or reapplying lipstick is the last thing on the planet I’m thinking about.
8.) I like the cancelled Joss Wheaton show, Firefly, even though it is a half-breed of the two dorkiest genres of all time: Outer Space Adventure and the Western. We are watching it on DVD and at first I hated it but then I couldn’t stop watching it and now it has seriously grown on me.
9.) I like my job a great deal lately. I come home full of life from jam-packed, oh-my-god-its-4.30-and-I-still haven’t-eaten-lunch, crazy days. 9-5 days that involve meetings, data entry and other office shite leave me feeling like the life has been sucked out of me.
10.) My favorite Indian dish is four-lentil dahl with naan bread.
Today I am popping into work in the morning but I have the afternoon off to take my in-laws and (brave and emotionally frayed) husband on a road trip to St. Andrews to see the North Sea, visit the old castle ruins, and have a proper Scottish Seaside Day – you know, the kind where it rains on your ice cream cone. I’ll probably learn some new stuff today too, including how to get there. And how to drive British-style with a skittish, nervous American mother-in-law sitting in the back seat.
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What have you learned this week?::Random Tangent::
It was relatively sunny when I started this entry 15 minutes ago and out of NOWHERE the sky turned black and rain is pissing down in torrents. It’s the PERFECT DAY for the beach! Hahaha!
Comments (5)
1. I have learned that I am ready to move on from where I’ve been and go somewhere new.
2. That office jobs and I do not mix. I get bored far too easily.
3. That I must try not to piss my parents off since I am still under their roof.
It was raining the whole last week I was in London.
What I mainly learned this week is that it’s not much fun to be overscheduled and subsequently exhausted, then finally find time to comment on blogs two days later. Oh well. At least the overscheduling and exhaustion came from embracing life.
I learned that vicodin makes me loopy and that valium makes me sleepy. I learned that I become a total baby when anything hurts at all. I learned that oral surgery isn’t as scary as I thought it would be, mainly because I didn’t remember anything. I learned that I should stay on my toes but not jump too much when I’m defending the person who has the disc while playing ultimate.
Life is killing me! I cannot believe I just got here.Your #1 is funny to me. I just watched my sister have a therapy session on the grassy spot of an outdoor mall. I am not sure where that falls in the spectrum. I took pictures so that complicates things too.I have been known to savor the list. Often, those who are savoring things around me are doing so because I had the list prior and made it possible. However, I am trying to get a bit of my own too. I do not mind minding the details, I even enjoy that and see it as a way of embracing life; however, I so could use a change too!This week I learned that I should not tell the truth to people if I love them unless the truth is something of no consequence. I cannot believe it took me this long to learn that. Sheesh!
I learned that the full moon, especially a blue moon is not to be trifled with. Holy shit! Everything went wrong today, and of course Brad is out of town. Stress usually does make me lose weight though. I guess I have that going for me….Lynn