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joining the 20th century with our new-to-us car
Our new-to-us car outside our house.
We bought a car this week. The car is the first one I’ve ever owned so we’re conceptualizing it as my starter car, which will hopefully make my partner’s shift from a red Mustang convertible to a gray Saturn Ion moderately less ignominious. Like I said, we’re hoping. […]
posted: March 29th, 2008 under goals, home, various.
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book challenge 2007 update
As I roll into the last quarter of the year, I’m pausing to take stock of how well I’m doing on my own personal book-related challenges.
As expected, I have had no trouble actually reading, but a bit less success powering through some of the denser works that have been sitting by the side of my […]
posted: October 13th, 2007 under books, challenge 2007, goals, meta.
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book challenge 2007 progress report
At the end of month two, I have faced two major hurdles in my efforts to not buy new books this year, and come over them slightly battered. Vows were meant to be tested, right? Slips are an opportunity to get back on the wagon, right? Right.
In January, I visited Powells for […]
posted: February 24th, 2007 under books, challenge 2007, goals.
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setting intentions for 2007
Welcome, new year!
I have quite a few big intentions for 2007. They mostly involve creating daily habits: daily walking, daily zazen, daily yoga, daily vitamins, daily reading, daily writing. I could add ‘daily drinking coffee’ and ‘daily watching the birds out my back window,’ but those are habits I already have pretty well […]
posted: January 1st, 2007 under goals.
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