Another Project Finished

/> Along with the painting, my next task to finish off this project was to do the window treatments. I received (by request) a new sewing machine for the holidays, and I put it to work making these valances. It’s amazing how much this jazzes up the room!

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Using Color

It always amazes me when I get paint on the walls. We’ve been in the house for a while, and we’re slowly replacing the builder’s white with our own colors. While the color for the master suite has been picked out for almost two years, we just got around to painting it this week.
Painting has [...]

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A Little Bit of December Fun

I don’t, as a general thing, play games on the computer. Firstly, I am terribly uncoordinated. Secondly, I don’t see the point of wasting my time.
But there is one exception, and it comes out at this time of the year. During December, I always bring out Elf Bowling, by NStorm, and this is the exception.
The [...]

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On Finishing Projects

It is the beginning of the new year, and I find myself looking at my list of outstanding projects. I realized yesterday that most of the things on my list have been there for some time, and keep getting bumped by other projects (started later) or just have languished for lack of interest.
If there is [...]

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Wednesday Quotation, 12/20/2006

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

–Unknown

Technorati : quotation, worry

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On Being A Nicer Person

I’ve been trying for the past couple of weeks to be a nicer person. This means minding my own business, not judging others, and most of all, keeping my mouth shut. It is definitely a struggle at this point, because somewhere in the past few months I have lost touch with the compassionate side of [...]

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Does Human Nature Change?

There was an article in August, titled Human Nature Doesn’t Change, on the blog Slow Leadership. It caught my attention for two reasons: the meaning of the title, and the content.
The content of the article is how people automatically express how busy they are, regardless of whether or not it is true. It is a [...]

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Repelling Telemarketers

I will let you in on a secret. For a brief period, about 2 weeks, I was a telemarketer. It was my first summer on my own, after my third year in college, and I was desperate. I was also awful at it. I left after two weeks, and got a job temping. So I [...]

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Back in the Saddle Again

I’ve taken a couple of weeks off from writing lately, mainly because the experience of NaNoWriMo, while thrilling, also left me utterly drained. (I won, by the way, producing a 50,000 word novel in 29 days.)
I’ve been kind of flitting from place to place in my off time. I’m not really motivated to read or [...]

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