You are currently browsing all posts tagged with 'failure'.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 entries.

Goals and Resolution: Checkin 1

  • Posted on January 16, 2012 at 10:00 am
This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series Goals and Resolutions 2012

No, you haven’t lost your mind. Our family is down to one computer, and I was hoping to have mine fixed by now. Unfortunately, laptops are not too fond of mac & beef, so repair has been agonizingly slow. And when I only have a few minutes in an uncomfy chair right before bedtime, expounding upon the subject at hand is easily delayed/dismissed. I’m backdating the entries for the days they *should* have been published. Thanks for joining my time-travel team <3

So how am I doing, two weeks after I set myself up?

Resolution: Get Healthy. Goals: Diet and exercise

I’m still fighting the urge to eat potato chips and cottage cheese for breakfast, but not all that often. These days I’m fighting the urge for crunchy food with a small handful of mixed nuts. And I’ve pinpointed “eating more veggies” as a designated target while my body adjusts.

I’m not working out every day, but I’m making a conscious effort to move more than I was. The scale has moved a bit, but it’s too early to tell if it was water weight.

Resolution: Budget. Goals: Develop side business, track spending

I’ve already totally blown the “keep track of money” part. I’ll try to pick it up again at the next payday.

My work on the side business has dealt mostly with focus. Am I going to design? host? code? troubleshoot? (Most likely? Troubleshoot.) How much do I charge?(believe it or not, that *has* been a problem in the past)

30 day challenge resolution: Uncluttering

Not going according to schedule. At all. After pondering on my “moderate failure” post from Friday, I had a realization.

I’m ready to let go of these things, but I’m not necessarily ready for what (if anything) is going to replace them. And to be completely honest, I’ll probably need some time and help processing that little tidbit.

And that’s all the news that’s fit to print right now about my resolutions.

Garden Update: April 2011

  • Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:00 am

This month’s experiment is:

A tipi for cucumber vines to grow up

my cucumber tipi. Bamboo tomato stakes strategically placed, tied up and wrapped with a scrap of cotton yarn. Hopefully the cotton yarn will be enough to let the vines do their thing. I placed the stakes so I have a window on each side to reach in and grab cukes if I need to.

The sugar snaps are up in the cardboard boxes, but…

as you can see, the cardboard was a good idea but execution needs a bit of work. I’m going to end up either transplanting them or (more likely) building a wooden box around the cardboard to hold it together til the end of the season.

Lettuce box #1 is up and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying picking my own salad – with the exception of the mustard greens. The problem with buying a packet of mesclun is that I wasn’t sure what I was planting – I just shook out half the packet in the box and waited for goodness to grow. While I like mustard greens in a salad, I don’t like THAT MUCH in one sitting. The other problem?

Crushed lettuces. The dog has been in here again.

Evidently the dog has a new bed.

And wrapping things up, we have complete failure.

Seeds planted in eggcrate

Every single “tips for getting kids to garden” includes using eggcrate for seed trays. I’m going to slice the crates up and stick the dirt in pots and hope SOMETHING comes up. The good news is I only planted 12 seeds in each crate (I was tempted to just sprinkle seeds and see what happens). I still have plenty more in the seed packets and am going to get those going as well. The crates are holding pickling cukes, two varieties of tomatoes, and stevia.

I’m a freezer-cleaning failure

  • Posted on August 3, 2010 at 11:56 am
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series I'm the man of the house.

We have three freezers. Two refrigerator/freezers and one upright deep-freeze. As you can imagine, every once in a while something gets shoved to the back and forgotten about.

Plus, the deep-freezer is not a frost-free model. This means that at LEAST once a year it needs to be emptied and shoved out on the porch to melt down – otherwise we end up with layers of crusty frozen ice and no shelf space. And let’s face it – if I get a bigger deep freezer, I COULD get rid of the second fridge. Maybe.

The kitchen freezer is full of Mom’s stuff. It is mostly un-marked, un-dated and generally questionable. The secondary freezer is full of kid-food. None of it is destined for the trash can. The back freezer is combination of both.

The answer, then, is to toss all of Mom’s un-marked and un-dated stuff and move my stuff into the kitchen freezer, right?

WRONG, FOOL!

It’s a sin to waste food. She’ll know I threw her stuff out. Trash day was yesterday and I don’t relish the scent of food decaying in the heat for a week. Even if the cans ARE at the street.

Someone come hold my hand. Please??!!??

The Invitation

  • Posted on June 18, 2008 at 12:18 am

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon…
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.

Oriah