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

By: robin

robin — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:47:49 +0000

Jules, you know how to live.

By: jules

jules — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:07:39 +0000

I visited my mother and let her play with the girls for a bit while I took a luxurious bubble bath with a big ‘ol stack of books in hand.

By: robin

robin — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:50:20 +0000

Little Willow, I’m so sorry that April is batting you around! That’s not right. Look at the list above you and treat yourself sweetly right now. Have a gourmet grilled cheese sandwich, watch a comfort movie, go to bed early, etc. If April won’t be nice to you, all the rest of us will.

BJ, it’s so nice to reconnect, isn’t it? Good for you for reaching out to make that happen. And congrats on the free car wash!

By: Little Willow

Little Willow — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:02:22 +0000

Do quasimergencies count? I went to the dentist on Wednesday due to swelling and pain. I have to go back at least three more times within the next four weeks.

Dear April,

Stop being horrible.

Sincerely,
Me.

By: bj

bj — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:55:09 +0000

I missed “niceness” on Friday, but made up for it yesterday, by spending the day on the Mainline at a coffee shop meeting with my GeekGroup (http://refreshdelval.org), and had a nice surprise on the way down. Decided to backroad it and a Church Group out in East Jibippy was having a FREE car wash! What a wonderful serendipitous (and very necessary) moment! And the church group sure got a workout on my car.

Last week at the Climate Change Rally I ran into someone I had met briefly once before, and we talked. This week I dropped her an email and invited her out for a cuppa joe today. She accepted. She lives here in town, and I don’t have many friends close by, so it’ll be really great if this turns into a friendship. So that was something nice I did for myself. We’re planning on taking a good walk after coffee, something I really need, and the weather couldn’t be better for it.

By: robin

robin — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:37:41 +0000

I’m with you, Jen–shopping can be either torture or delight. But it’s so nice when you find clothes that actually fit and that you think are pretty. Good job buying them all, since now that exempts you from shopping for many more months.

By: Jen Robinson

Jen Robinson — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:32:34 +0000

I went clothes shopping yesterday. It’s not really something that I enjoy, but I really needed something new for an upcoming business trip. I ended up finding several things that I liked, and that fit, and since this is rare for me, I bought them all. Now it feels pretty good to have them to pack up for the trip.

Sadly, I haven’t been getting any reading done. But I have some great stuff earmarked to take on my trip.

By: Sara

Sara — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:54:32 +0000

I used to live in New Mexico, so I know about the heat. I like the T-shirt they sell of two skeletons reclined in lawn chairs, with the dialogue: “Yeah, but it’s a DRY heat…”

By: robin

robin — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:55:32 +0000

Vivian, I SO need your last thing there–going to bed early and catching up on my sleep. I am going to do that tonight, just because you said so.

Sara, you’re so sweet! But even though I want one and all to come to the party, I feel strange about asking any human person to be in Phoenix at that time of year. So if you can’t swing that, maybe you’ll be in one of the cities I end up in over the coming year.

By: Sara

Sara — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:38:29 +0000

Obviously, I missed the memo about this week’s food theme. For the record, I’m eating Good and Plenty right now. And plotting how I can stay in LA for three more weeks after the SCBWI conference in August so I can return through Phoenix on the 28th. Anybody want me to be a writer in residence for three weeks?