Comments on: The Friday List (nice things you did for yourself this week)

By: Alkelda

Alkelda — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:15:38 +0000

Hi Robin! It’s been good to have family in town, and yet there is stress, as you know (and I’m going to miss meeting everyone at the Kidlit conference, but you are all going to have such a good time that you’ll hold it again and again). Here are some good things I did for myself this week:
1)Exercised almost every day and gave myself stickers on the calendar.
2)Went to see “Stardust” with my husband and friends last Saturday.
3)Got a proper website address: http://faridadowler.com

Right now, the website just looks like my old gig blog account. I’m hoping to get some help to make it look like a real storyteller’s website.:)

By: Little Willow

Little Willow — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 04:17:43 +0000

I trained a new co-worker.
We all got a lot done a work.
We had a successful event today.
I rehearsed.
I memorized.
I had a snitch of an Oreo brownie.
I obtained a digital camera. (My friend planned to get a new one and recycle the old one, but when she heard me musing, she gave me the older one instead!)

By: robin

robin — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:53:54 +0000

Oh, you guys, what a wonderful feast you’ve conjured up here today! So many treats for the eyes and imagination. Thank you!

Deborah, wow on the new car!! Now that’s setting a good example for the rest of us!

Bravo to all of you who found (or made) the time this week to rest, be quiet, read, reconnect with family and friends. We can get so parched about the soul, don’t you think? I know I can go full-out for weeks, then suddenly wake up and realize I haven’t seen my friends all that time or taken time for the other simple pleasures like going to a weekend movie with my mom.

In other words, applause for all of you!

By: annette

annette — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:28:48 +0000

i’m getting the kingsolver book (or, uh hum, borrowing a copy) and will see how far i get with it. i love to cook and love to poke around farmer’s markets looking for treats. (you can see i don’t have the x number of, in my case three, kids at home pandemonium anymore).
the best thing i did this week was put the skids on–no new business, restrict phone calls, take care of all my wonderfully patient clients–really felt good.
deborah, i love you bought a new car–i hope you upgraded with the best sound system available. that’s what i adore about my car, killer sound system–put my tunes in, and i’m good to go indefinitely, ahhh.

By: Jen Robinson

Jen Robinson — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:41:06 +0000

I definitely need to do something to broaden my cooking horizons. But in the short term, I’m not taking on anything new until I start to feel more caught up.

I did, however, take a personal day this week. I spent it reading and talking to distant family members on the phone. It was very relaxing (except for that nagging urge to check email, and those nagging piles of unread books, and the nagging dirt in the house, and… OK, I tried relaxing, but wasn’t wholly successful). But I did read the new Gabrielle Zevin book, and a couple of old favorites.

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:35:40 +0000

Oh, wow. Food fest going on! So I’d better get with the program and say that my nice thing this week was going to get Lebanese food with my daughter last night before I drove her to college today. And I drank green tea on the way home to keep myself awake, and listened to some guy talk about the “kitchen as the nerve center of the home” on Oprah’s satellite radio channel. He said it so many times that I wanted to go: DUH, DUDE! Everyone knows that!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:07:14 +0000

Oh, Laura. Congratulations said with just a tiny bit of jealousy. I can’t wait until mine go back so I can get some writing done. I can blog. I can write syllabi. I can read student files. But write? No. That takes more than 5 minutes concentration.

5 more days…

By: Laura Fitzgerald

Laura Fitzgerald — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:28:53 +0000

I am lusting after everyone’s nice things they did for themselves, especially the food! I must have a tomato sandwich this weekend.

My nice things: My kids are back in school (!!!!!!), so my life is almost back to normal. I exercised awesomely all week and I also got some good work done on my new book. I was stuck on a few things and instead of trying to write through it, I just went back to my craft books and perused them and let my mind work through some things. This morning, while driving my kids to school, I figured out exactly what I need to do. Woo Hoo!! So, nice thing = I trusted myself that I’d figure it out, and I did.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:16:54 +0000

Robin, your tale of cooking for yourself reminds me now of my good meal from Wednesday. (I hope it’s non-vegetarian-ness doesn’t bother anyone — I’m a total carnivore these days.) I ended up cooking up bacon, crumbling up some co-jack cheese, and mixing both into hamburgers which I then cooked on the grill. The grill ended up a little cheesy but oh my god were those burgers great!

Other nice things I did for myself this week:

I found postcards and let myself spend too much money on them.

I took several long bubble-baths and read in the bath.

I ate a Dairy Queen sundae for supper last Sunday.

By: adrienne

adrienne — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:03:48 +0000

Now that tomatoes are in season, I’ve been eating tomato sandwiches like crazy. That is a really good thing.

I also bought myself a new bag I’d been coveting for quite some time. Okay, and some pens. And a new pack of notebooks. HOW CAN ANYONE RESIST THE ALLURE OF BARGAIN-PRICED SCHOOL SUPPLIES EVERYWHERE SHE GOES???

Ahem. Yeah, so, I think I need to avoid retail establishments until the mortgage is paid.