Category: Life – It doesn’t live itself

Tiny small wee business opportunity?

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The coolest thing just happened!  I work in a city, moderately sized, and there are several coffee joints nearby.  I also knit/crochet in my spare time, and I talked to one of the places about selling crocheted coffee coozies (cosies, whatevs), and they said yes!  I was so nervous to bring it up to them, but they said okay!

I didn’t even think about this part, but the owner brought up that Christmas and stuff is coming close, and the people that work in the nearby business buildings often have holiday parties and other gift-giving sessions, so they might need something quickly.  She said, “You could put it into a nice kind of packaging…” The kind of stuff I hadn’t even thought of!

Now my mind is all abuzz with packaging and color ideas.  I’m excited!

Unplugged.

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Getting away from these glowing screens is a delicate subject in the Quest household.  Cohiba makes his living by being brilliant on these things and, as his wife (in less than five months – yay!), I am equally yoked.  Furthermore, since our bread and butter is produced by these boxes, he is never without some kind of connection – and therefore I am not without a connection.  He has to be available for coworkers or needs to check in on his own. He doesn’t like being lost or without an answer to something he needs.

Having said that, we love to get outside (I think me more than him, actually) and I know there are full days I get so engaged in life that I’m not checking Facebook in favor of biking or climbing or knitting or reading. Although, come to think of it, I’m reading on a Nook, so maybe I’m not as far as I think. 🙂

 

A bit at a time

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I got to clean the kitchen this past Saturday – it made my whole weekend.  So cathartic and meditative, I love having things clean.

I think part of clutter has to do with all the *stuff* that we have, stuff that, while nice, isn’t a necessity.   Cohiba and I daydream about the day in the future when we build a little house on an old trailer bed, and travel around in it.  I wonder why we don’t do it now.

Because having things clean makes me feel so good, but I have a lot of other things that I do (bikes and PhD applications come to mind) I do a bit at a time.  Vacuum one weekend.  Do the kitchen like I did last weekend. I didn’t used to do it like this, and I like it.  A lot of the junk or stuff is Cohiba’s; we’re still learning how to manage this kind of thing with each other. That’s also coming along a bit at a time, but it is coming.

What do prithee and probably have in common?

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Language is a beautiful and living bridge back in time. As one who enjoys a Renaissance fair, I’ve studied Elizabethan speech in effort to get more into character.  I’m not very good at it, but I still love it. During the renaissance period, verbal communication was the main form of entertainment available to people.

“Prithee wait until I fetch it to you anon.” (Wait a sec.)

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Facebook is the new wedding ceremony?

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As I’m planning my wedding, I’ve been reading lots of magazines and hearing others’ stories of their wedding day, and one thing has come through as very important: How precious it is to be surrounded by people who you (and your spouse) love and who love and support you two as a couple.  I love that idea, and have been feeling it as I”m planning. I’m especially learning that now. Continue reading “Facebook is the new wedding ceremony?” →

Akeed ragaa w law bainy w baino blad – 5 min stream-of-consciousness

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I frequently listen to Indian and Arabic music; I just love it.  Unfortunately, I can’t sing along to that kind of music because I don’t know the words.

I love to sing along to things, especially when I’m in the car, especially Tina Turner. Goldeneye.

This guy in the office is such a jerk. How can he stand to be inside himself; he bitches about everything.  And can’t he pick up social cues that he talks too long?

But back to music

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Do you prefer dork or nerd?

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Are you kidding me? I LOVE school! Love it so much I want a PhD.  Love it so much I want to do research and read and write all the time.  And maybe teach also.  I love it.  I just finished a master’s in the spring of ’12, and I was working full-time while I was going, so I was pretty fucking tired when it was done.  I was all geared up by the fall, though, and applied to eight PhD programs in social work for this fall.

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Moon on the rise

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I have heard this to be true about people, that the moon effects our emotions and actions like it effects the tides of the planet, and I never saw this so much as I have here working with my guys in the homeless program.  It actually isn’t so much my guys, like, our regular members, as it is the people who come in for lunch, which is open to anyone in the community. During a full moon, people are more agitated.

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