The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.\par
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George Bernard Shaw\par
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I don’t know much about G.B. Shaw, but isn’t that a great quote? I think it applies to thinking about how one feels all the time. If you go around asking yourself “how [...]
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Yesterday I accomplished a task that had been on my mental (and sometimes paper) to-do lists for about 4 years: I fixed the wallpaper in the nursery. No, I’m not talking about floor to ceiling wall paper, I’m talking about a simple, classic pooh wallpaper border, about waist-high around the room. No ladder work required. [...] Two chores that I do often enough (for me):\par Do not, for any reason, initiate fingerpainting with a 3 1/2 year old and an almost 2 year old. It works like this:\par “The fact that a proposition is absurd has never hindered those who wish to believe it.”\par I feel like my blog has been kind of lifeless lately. I’d like to write deep thoughts from time to time, and yet my days are largely made up of the mundane thoughts that are so unimportant, yet so necessary (i.e. Is there milk in the refrigerator? How long has that sippy cup been sitting [...] I feel like I haven’t posted pictures in quite a while. But I really haven’t taken many recently, either, so I haven’t felt the desire to come down and download them off my camera. Sometimes it just seems like nothing is particularly picture-worthy. Not because the kids aren’t cute… just for some reason I don’t [...] That ceramic stove-top cleaner can scrub off that annoying sticky residue on cookie sheets? If you like to keep track of other people’s blogs, but don’t want to have to check them every day only to be disappointed if they haven’t written, perhaps a subscription to http://www.bloglines.com is just what you need? You can subscribe to the blogs that you read, and sometimes to comments on those blogs, and [...] While I was living with my grandmother for a year I had the opportunity to think long and hard about where and whom I wanted to be when I reach my autumn years. I wrote down a long list of Dos and Don’ts, some of which were directly demonstrated (or not) by my grandmother, but [...] Never, never, never go shopping at Winco with two small children – during their nap time -\’c3\’82\’c2\~again. Ever. |
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