Category — Microblog Mondays

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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It feels like I should be making a resolution this week.  Setting a goal.  Giving myself a focus for the year.  I did it last year, and that worked well.  But I haven’t come up with one.  There is plenty I would change about myself, but I highly doubt that I would be successful in changing those things.  So why dedicate the time and energy to something that is essentially Sisyphean in nature?  It’s hard to change a personality.

I do question why we always have to be working to change ourselves.  Why can’t we ever be happy with the status quo?  Why isn’t it okay to say, “You know, I don’t have any resolutions this year because there is nothing I need to work on.  I’m happy as is.”

Because… it isn’t.  We live in a self-help culture.  We’re always supposed to be looking at ourselves with a critical eye and then working on… something.  If we’ve got time to lean, we’ve got time to clean.  Or something like that.

Are you making a resolution this year?  What is it?

Like last year, “peruse the list and see if there are any resolutions you can help someone else reach.  Know what they want to learn?  Give them some tips to get started.  Have a great piece of advice that helped you reach the same resolution in the past?  Pass it their way.  Consider it crowdsourcing the springboard to get your resolution going.”

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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So.  What are you doing for Christmas?  Are you traveling or hosting or doing a small celebration at home?  Did you decorate or skip it this year?  And if you decorated, do you have Christmas lights on your house?  I love those.  Do people turn them off when they go to bed, or do you leave them on all night?

I sort of think of them like a lighthouse, keeping lonely drivers company on the road.

If this Christmas is not your best Christmas, then what has been your best Christmas ever up until this point?  What made it so memorable?

Living vicariously through all of you and by watching Love Actually.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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We recently rewatched Back to the Future with the twins because we’ve been playing LEGO Dimensions and there is a Back to the Future level.  The ChickieNob informed me that Michael J Fox was not that cute, which caused me to gasp and sputter.

Michael J Fox is cute, alright?  He was cute then and he’s cute now.  He’s cute.  Case closed.

But she did make me roll out my long list of childhood crushes, and most of them either haven’t aged particularly well or when I go back and look at pictures of their younger selves, I don’t see what I saw at the time.  Meaning, I don’t know why I thought they were cute.

Do you still think your childhood crushes are cute?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I own a spelunking suit.  It is — without a doubt — the least used item in my house.  I don’t go caving anymore, and I don’t foresee myself doing it again in the future.

It was worth the money when I bought it because I cannot tell you the number of times I was happy to be able to get back to the camp site, wash it off, and be done.  It has a lot of pockets — big pockets — enabling me to carry everything efficiently.  Loved that suit.

Even though it is useless now.

If the point is decluttering, that suit should go.  But it’s an item I will never purchase again.  Meaning, I own it now, but if I get rid of it and then need it in the future, it is too costly an item to buy a second time for how much I will use it.  And yes, I can imagine plenty of scenarios where the suit might be used.

Do you have items that you hold onto because while you don’t need them, you also don’t want to repurchase them again in case it turns out that you do need them down the road?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored posts.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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If you live in the US, you likely spent the last five days either cooking a big meal, consuming a big meal, and/or perusing the big sales.

We were only in charge of the cranberry sauce and dessert, so we didn’t have to cook a big meal.  But we consumed a big meal.  And while I didn’t end up shopping since we have nothing to shop for in terms of gifts, I did purchase two things on our to-buy list simply because sales made it easy.

If you live in the US, what did you say that you were thankful for?  And if you don’t live in the US, it’s a nice practice to pause from time to time and reflect on what makes you grateful so join along.  What is on your list?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored posts.