Category — Microblog Mondays

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We watched.  ChickieNob and I slept at my parent’s house (because we always watch royal events with my mother) and woke up at 4 am to watch the wedding.  This required a lot of coffee.

(Here is the ChickieNob’s take. And I got a photo credit!)

I cried when William and Harry walked into the church because Harry looked so nervous and William looked so reassuring.  I cried when I saw Meghan in the car with her mother.  I lunged and grabbed the ChickieNob when they kissed outside.  And I sang along to “Stand By Me.”

I thought the best part was the carriage ride through Windsor.

Did you watch?  What did you think?

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Chalk up this story to twenty kinds of awesome: A library patron is confused because several of the books she picks up have the page number on page 7 underlined.  She asks the librarian, whose imagination runs wild to spy codes and secret messages until she discovers that the elderly patrons of the library have each chosen a symbol which will be their symbol for marking a book read.  That way, if they pick up the book again, they’ll know whether or not they’ve read it.

It’s like an offline GoodReads.  Because technically, if you know someone else’s symbol, you can also see who else has read the same book.  It’s not only a catalogue of your own read books, but it’s a way of seeing someone else’s read books.  At least, if you pick up the same book.

My symbol would be a little stick figure on the inside cover.  I’ve always wanted to get a stick figure tattooed on my ankle, and this would get that idea out of my system.

What would be your symbol?

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I read a very old post and I loved the idea, so I’m throwing it out here.  An accomplishment box.  It’s impossible to believe that you’re not getting stuff done when you’re faced with a clear jar filled with tiny slips of paper detailing what you’ve done.

The idea is that when you feel good — when you check something big off your list or get praise at work — you write it on a slip of paper and drop it in the jar.  It’s not just helpful when you’re working on your resume down the road; it’s there when you’re having a crap day and feeling like you’re not achieving anything.  You can look in the jar and have hard-and-fast proof that it’s your mood talking and not reality.

My most recent slips would be finishing an animation for work and donating the baby stuff.

What’s going on your slip?

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I had a 35 day streak going on Smiling Mind, and I missed one day because I kept putting off meditating.  I am beyond pissed with myself because I really liked the counter in the dashboard listing a nice, high number.  And now it says 10.

I decided that I had to meditate at a set point every day or this could possibly happen again.  No more wherever-I-can-squeeze-it-in.  So I’ve now made it my pre-work ritual.  On weekends, it’s my pre-first-activity-of-the-day ritual.  If we’re in a hurry, I do the shortest meditation, which is only a minute or so.

It all goes back to a piece of advice I read: If something will only take you two minutes, do it immediately.  If you put it off, you will spend more than two minutes remembering to do it and it will still take you two minutes to complete the task.  Meditation technically sometimes takes more than two minutes, but it could take two minutes.  So I just do it and get it over with.

And then my mind is calm because I’ve taken care of the task.  Win!

What is something you need to do that will only take you two minutes?  Go do it right now.

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I have been tearing through books lately, somewhat due to our weekend read-a-thon.  It also helped that the three books I read before the read-a-thon were on the shorter side.  I didn’t love them, but it raised my self-esteem to see my “read” list growing longer, so I stuck with them.  I sometimes make bad reading decisions like that just because I feel like crap when I feel as if my “read” list is short at the end of the year.

I don’t deal well with reading pressure; even self-imposed reading pressure.

I’d like to do a reading challenge, but I don’t think it would be motivating.  I just think it would feel like work.  Ditto for book clubs.  I like the idea of a book club and socializing around a book, but it turns out that I really hate reading books that other people have told me to read, even when I intended to read them in the first place.  Again, it feels like work, even though I love getting book recommendations (recommendations, yes, assignments, no).  I have to read so much for actual work that I want my down time to be fun reading.

Do you like reading challenges and book clubs?

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