Monday, February 14, 2005

    Happy Valentine's Day

 
Happy Valentine's Day. To all of those of you that hate it, I understand, I have many, many years of hating Valentine's Day in my life. I didn't like it until two years ago when Bryan really made Valentine's Day special. He made it extra special when he proposed and Valentine's Day will never been the same again. He sent me flowers today. I'll post a photo tomorrow. They are beautiful little pink roses, deep red snapdragons, lavender asters, peach gerberas, lavender statice and creamy white snapdragons. My cubicle smells like a florist's shop, it's wonderful!

Yesterday wasn't as productive knitwise as it could have been. I spent a lot of time trying to update my website. The littlest things seem to take the longest to do. I'm working on combining my currently listening to and my music pages, and my recent reads and my literature pages. I'm really working on paring down my site, it's become overwhelming and such a monster to keep up.

Since I am so behind on keeping up with the "up to" blog, I am apologizing profusely. I am going to try to keep this up better.

Last week, Bryan and I went an entire week without the news - no reading it, no tv and certainly no radio. It was difficult, at first, but today I haven't even wanted to read or listen to it. Our idea started when we were at our "Creating a Life Vision" class and it was mentioned that in one week of The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, she says not to read for an entire week. I decided that I should go a week without any tv. Then we decided that we should go a week without the news. So I taped both American Idol and Alias last week. I was so productive in the knitting department, I couldn't believe it. So this week, I'm going to have a selective tv watching week. I will probably watch a little bit of the American Idol that I taped last week, but still tape it this week and also tape Alias. We were much more calm all week, I couldn't believe it.
posted by erica Monday, February 14, 2005 []

  Tuesday, February 01, 2005

    Busy weekend

 
It doesn't feel like there was a weekend, it was more like just two days off of work. Friday night, Bryan and I went to a class at the Unitarian church about creating your life's vision. It was very interesting and, as usual, a lot more work than you think. It's a three-week class and this past week was "Fulfilling your values." It was about what do you value and how can you feel fulfilled in those values. There was an interesting small discussion about the word "Freedom" and how it gets used so freely right now. When freedom means different things to different people and most people that night didn't agree with George Bush's ideas of freedom. I think most people were also irritated how he tends to define it in a certain way and if you disagree with him, then you're not an American like he is and you have the wrong definition of freedom. It's so irritating. One thing about the Unitarian church is that I feel like I don't have to hold back about my political views and that so many people feel the same way. It's very refreshing. The class was very interesting and gave us some things to work on. It comes at a time in my life that I'm working on living a more content life. In the last several months, things seem to be coming along at the right time, this class is one example.

Saturday was a whirlwind day. I had my hair cut in the morning, had lunch with my sister and her friends in the afternoon, and went to a retirement party in the evening. Bryan and I managed to take a nap between the time I got home and the time we needed to leave, which was about two hours. We can't nap together or we end up taking 2 hour naps. The retirement party was for a woman that Bryan works with at the library. Bryan remembered her working at the library when he was a kid and he would see her walking to work when he was a kid. She'd worked at the library for 25 years.

Sunday morning, we decided to lounge around. I went to a friend's house for the afternoon and was exhausted by the time I came home Sunday evening. I hadn't had enough time to relax during the weekend.

Last night, worked late until 6:30pm, and came home very tired. I put in The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood DVD and knit. About 8:45pm, I started to not feel well. So I laid down on the couch and just watched the rest of the movie and the DVD extras. I woke up this morning with an upset stomach again. After lunch, I started to feel dizzy. So I've been trying to get through my day so that I can go home and relax. I was supposed to teach tonight, but I'm not feeling well enough. I hate cancelling a knitting class, but I'm in no shape to teach or even converse with someone. If I didn't have a heap of work to do on a project right now, I would go home early.
posted by erica Tuesday, February 01, 2005 []