Getting the kitty litter boxes cleaned out & refilled. What's so great about that? Follow through! Bought the kitty litter AND used it in a time-effective, end-achieved manner!
And I made homemade blueberry muffins made last night - didn't wait for this a.m. - and delivered to the ANC gals between 1st & 2nd bells (best time, since I get to see all the girls, and vice versa), to the guys before chapel bell (they all knew the muffins were coming, because I told them yesterday when I left them soft pretzels & mustard).
Did NOT make vanilla cupcakes with fudge ganache (for the guys) or Morning Glorious muffins (for the gals) tonight, as I'm taking John to work at the ungodly hour of 4:40 a.m and will have lots of time for baking between then & 7:30. Cupcakes first (have to cool before frosting), muffins second (can always take still warm).
BUT, it is 11:30 p.m. and I am still at the computer. The wise action would have been to have teeth scrubbed, tucked in & lights out at 10:30!!
Kudos for wise actions, nudges to get to be in wise action time tomorrow - and almost every morrow!!
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Scales
This has been an incredibly topsy turvy month. Lots of aspirations, lots of efforts made, lots of feeling discouraged over what feels like a low level of tangible results.
It's big-time important that I learn a lesson I did NOT learn back in 6th grade. After I'd begged them to let me take the clarinet, my parents rented me an instrument & signed me up for classes. Problem was, I didn't want to LEARN how to play the clarinet; I wanted to do it, right off the bat.
Discouraged with how awful I sounded, I begged my parents even more passionately to let me ditch the classes.
And they let me.
Years later, in my twenties, it hit me that my parents gave me what I wanted, but lost an opportunity to provide me with what I needed. Since the choice to take the clarinet was mine, it seems to me that the best response from my parents - no matter how hard I pleaded, cried, made life uncomfy - was to say that I could quit ~ ~ after I'd mastered the scales.
That's a lesson I have to remember today, decades & decades after The Incident of the Clarinet - it was easy to realize that I am, by nature, a Task Type, but the reality is that all of my patterns have focused on un-, even anti-Task dynamics. Like with the clarinet, I want to BE something that's going to take step by step by step work, and that's sometimes going to feel as awful as the sound of a clarinet being played by someone without a clue how to partner breath with reed work.
Look at the successes, not the work left to be done. Applaud mastering even the smallest "next best step forward" dynamic. Be persistent with what works & do more of it, while at the same time not doing what doesn't.
Learn the scales of Task-oriented living. Parent myself with a devotion to inspiring my inner child to do what I need long enough that it becomes what I want. Master the scales of smart living & the ability to live a more harmonious life will be a performance away.
It's big-time important that I learn a lesson I did NOT learn back in 6th grade. After I'd begged them to let me take the clarinet, my parents rented me an instrument & signed me up for classes. Problem was, I didn't want to LEARN how to play the clarinet; I wanted to do it, right off the bat.
Discouraged with how awful I sounded, I begged my parents even more passionately to let me ditch the classes.
And they let me.
Years later, in my twenties, it hit me that my parents gave me what I wanted, but lost an opportunity to provide me with what I needed. Since the choice to take the clarinet was mine, it seems to me that the best response from my parents - no matter how hard I pleaded, cried, made life uncomfy - was to say that I could quit ~ ~ after I'd mastered the scales.
That's a lesson I have to remember today, decades & decades after The Incident of the Clarinet - it was easy to realize that I am, by nature, a Task Type, but the reality is that all of my patterns have focused on un-, even anti-Task dynamics. Like with the clarinet, I want to BE something that's going to take step by step by step work, and that's sometimes going to feel as awful as the sound of a clarinet being played by someone without a clue how to partner breath with reed work.
Look at the successes, not the work left to be done. Applaud mastering even the smallest "next best step forward" dynamic. Be persistent with what works & do more of it, while at the same time not doing what doesn't.
Learn the scales of Task-oriented living. Parent myself with a devotion to inspiring my inner child to do what I need long enough that it becomes what I want. Master the scales of smart living & the ability to live a more harmonious life will be a performance away.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Unexpected Benefits
Getting a new oven & microwave would have been awesome, but it was not to be. And that is not a downer. When I get my next oven & microwave, they will be ones that fully meet my purposes.
In my current financial situation, it's essential to spend every dime wisely - getting less than I need would have sent to the Universe a garbled message I can ill afford at this financially sensitive time.
As things turned out, looks like it's win-win all around. My benefactor doesn't have to spend more than she'd bargained on. I garner the energy behind her kindness, and that's more important to me, more powerful, than any purchase. And because of her over-the-top caring support & sweet desire to make a difference, I started researching what BEST suited me. That's a rather unusual move for me to make ~ living a life directed toward realizing my fullest being is within my nature, but it was so NOT my nurture.
Finding the just-right stove & microwave helped release a best-self expectation I'd rarely, if ever, experienced before. Ditto realizing that the best short-term solution is to let my Budgemeister give me a countertop oven for Mother's Day (big enough to bake bundt cakes!), rather than having anyone buy something that falls short of what I need in the long run. Unless any purchase is spot on, there are other expenses that need addressing before this; getting less than what is truly right would have generated bad vibes when it comes to resolving money issues left over from a decade of upheaval.
That not make sense to most people, but it does to ME.
Because of all that happened - and it's all good - found an easy solution that's reasonably affordable AND a tax right-off! So, see - make the right choice, take the best step (however lunatic it may seem to others), and it all works out.
Kismet!!!
In my current financial situation, it's essential to spend every dime wisely - getting less than I need would have sent to the Universe a garbled message I can ill afford at this financially sensitive time.
As things turned out, looks like it's win-win all around. My benefactor doesn't have to spend more than she'd bargained on. I garner the energy behind her kindness, and that's more important to me, more powerful, than any purchase. And because of her over-the-top caring support & sweet desire to make a difference, I started researching what BEST suited me. That's a rather unusual move for me to make ~ living a life directed toward realizing my fullest being is within my nature, but it was so NOT my nurture.
Finding the just-right stove & microwave helped release a best-self expectation I'd rarely, if ever, experienced before. Ditto realizing that the best short-term solution is to let my Budgemeister give me a countertop oven for Mother's Day (big enough to bake bundt cakes!), rather than having anyone buy something that falls short of what I need in the long run. Unless any purchase is spot on, there are other expenses that need addressing before this; getting less than what is truly right would have generated bad vibes when it comes to resolving money issues left over from a decade of upheaval.
That not make sense to most people, but it does to ME.
Because of all that happened - and it's all good - found an easy solution that's reasonably affordable AND a tax right-off! So, see - make the right choice, take the best step (however lunatic it may seem to others), and it all works out.
Kismet!!!
Did I see this coming?
Yes, I did.
Appears the financing for a new stove fell apart. No one's fault. Just what is. And I was the one who pulled the plug.
The person helping make the purchase wouldn't give me a budget to stay within. I asked - twice. Now, it turns out what I found is over what she'd anticipated.
Surprised? Sort of, but sort of not. And pleased to sense that my feathers aren't the least bit ruffled over the turn of events.
So much was learned. Important things. Like the difference between getting what's right & getting what's not. That, in itself, was a big lesson for me. Invaluable.
There was a reason I asked for the dollar range. Just as there's one behind stepping away, rather than feeling even a smidgen of a negative buzz that's impossible to explain but would also be impossible to ignore.
As I wrote to my amazingly generous, utterly well-intentioned friend - "I wish I could put into words all that your thoughtfulness means to me. Words fail. Because, dear friend, it is the energy of your caring that makes the difference. Not a THING in the world can come close." Didn't feel awful writing that, or happy - just like it's the right thing to do. Kismet.
Am glad - truly - that I've been through life situations enough to know when something's off kilter. And to tip my hat & walk onward.
Appears the financing for a new stove fell apart. No one's fault. Just what is. And I was the one who pulled the plug.
The person helping make the purchase wouldn't give me a budget to stay within. I asked - twice. Now, it turns out what I found is over what she'd anticipated.
Surprised? Sort of, but sort of not. And pleased to sense that my feathers aren't the least bit ruffled over the turn of events.
So much was learned. Important things. Like the difference between getting what's right & getting what's not. That, in itself, was a big lesson for me. Invaluable.
There was a reason I asked for the dollar range. Just as there's one behind stepping away, rather than feeling even a smidgen of a negative buzz that's impossible to explain but would also be impossible to ignore.
As I wrote to my amazingly generous, utterly well-intentioned friend - "I wish I could put into words all that your thoughtfulness means to me. Words fail. Because, dear friend, it is the energy of your caring that makes the difference. Not a THING in the world can come close." Didn't feel awful writing that, or happy - just like it's the right thing to do. Kismet.
Am glad - truly - that I've been through life situations enough to know when something's off kilter. And to tip my hat & walk onward.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Lost My Heart to Kitchenaid
TWO Kitchenaids - a convection oven with a beeeuteeful blue interior AND its companion convection microwave.
(Didn't realize the wise shopper gets the microwave for ventilation - that or a vent hood, which makes no sense.)
Which means that I'll have three racks for baking AND a 2nd oven! BUT my brave little toaster ovens will always & forever have a special-beyond-words place in my heart.
(Didn't realize the wise shopper gets the microwave for ventilation - that or a vent hood, which makes no sense.)
Which means that I'll have three racks for baking AND a 2nd oven! BUT my brave little toaster ovens will always & forever have a special-beyond-words place in my heart.
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