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

By: jules

jules — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:21:40 +0000

Good for you! Ever read The Readers' Bill of Rights? You have the right to not finish! {Incidentally, you'd probably love Daniel Pennac's Better Than Life from which those bill of rights come} . . .

By: robin

robin — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:19:41 +0000

Mother Reader, I’m with you up until the weeding part. Eww. And please do repost your book-dumping blog. I always enjoy seeing other people’s takes on that.

By: MotherReader

MotherReader — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:24:45 +0000

I spent a good part of yesterday’s lovely afternoon out in the sun first reading, then weeding.

I wrote a post once about dumping a book. Maybe I’ll repost it.

By: robin

robin — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:44:53 +0000

Nancy, congratulations on your weight loss! That’s fantastic! And it sounds like you’re treating yourself right–eating well, getting enough sleep, playing. Bravo.

Betty, you’re right–a part of the resistance to giving up on a book is the feeling like you’ve wasted your money. But it really is the same as with food. Once it’s on your plate it’s already wasted, since no one else can eat it, but it still doesn’t mean you have to wolf it all down yourself.

Besides, you can always donate the book to the library, which is more that you can say for that leftover fettucine.

By: Betty S

Betty S — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:23:36 +0000

It took me a while to learn to give up on a book. I felt like I was wasting my money if I didn’t finish it. (Besides, I might suddenly get better and I would miss it.) I’ve since realized that my time is more valuable than the few dollars I spent on the book. It is time that could be better spent writing or reading a “better” book.

Now I just need to learn to leave those last scraps of food.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:37:26 +0000

I bought myself clothes to fit my thinner self (having just hit the 50 pound mark in my weight loss). Also bought new makeup.

Allowed myself to eat a wonderful steak dinner and get dessert because the only way I can keep up with the whole weight loss thing is by letting myself eat when I really want to.

Slept in late on Friday and worked from home, saving myself 2 hours of stressful commute time.

Saw friends on the spur of the moment last weekend, and then made plans to see them again this weekend. They have promised to get me drunk and help me with my life plan. I didn’t know I had a life plan, but apparently it will be getting a makeover this weekend!

By: robin

robin — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:45:04 +0000

BJ, your list is so Spring. Love your relationship with the ravens. I had no idea they could imitate sounds. Especially like them imitating your cat.

Annette, It’s so sweet of you to indulge all the freeloading children, but I’m sure they hang out with you because you’re nice and fun, not just because it’s free eats. And I like to hear your assessment of the upcoming generation. I agree with you–there are so many fine young people out there right now, the future looks bright.

Miri, thanks for clearing that up. It’s so cool you’re learning that.

By: Miri

Miri — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:50:57 +0000

Heh, nope, I’m English through and through. (Well, technically, I’m the equivalent of European alphabet soup. A quarter of my blood comes from England.) I understand a good bit of what I’m singing at any given time, but that’s just through repetition and looking up translations. Hooray for memorization!

Thanks, though!

By: annette

annette — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:42:40 +0000

took a young couple (our son’s best friend and what will hopefully be his very long time s.o.) to dinner, along with, of course, our “never say no to a free meal” children. the couple in whose honor the dinner was had are both medical students and such full-on fine people (as are our own “never say no to a free meal especially when drinks are also on mom and dad” children) i can’t help but feel optomistic about the future. it was just so nice and then the next day the father of the young man half of the couple in question called and we talked about how much we “really, really liked ‘her’” and agreed that they made a great couple and how proud we are of them and how much fun we had at dinner–and that was also just so nice.

By: bj

bj — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:56:34 +0000

I’ve been getting out in the garden a bit at least once a day, as part of my lunch stretch. Not as much as I’d like (that’ll come next month) but it feels good to be outside in the fresh air and talking to my friends, The Ravens, who live in that humongous fir tree out back, and have for years. They are really amazing, they imitate noises. Not as well as a mockingbird does, but it’s still quite amazing. One day I thought my cat got out and was in the tree. He didn’t. It was Mr. Raven, teasing me. They also make clicking noises every time I come outside. Kind of a Crow Hello.

I’ve taken up a dance stretch routine for 15-20 minutes a day. I need it. This winter has made me . . . soft. And that’s not something that’s ever happened before, a sad result of my age, I think, but I will be damned if I let it get out of hand. So I’m doing something about it. And hiking season is starting, so things will get better.