My Second Job
A while back I decided to learn html. A long while ago. I’ve built my websites myself for years until one day I paid a friend to do so because, well, because it was a good thing to do. And I’ve traded building my site for  things as well, because …
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O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
It has been a long winter.  A very long winter. There have been actual feet of snow. There have been too many inches of ice. Many missed days of school and work.  I think it is 11 or 12 now.  What you see in these pictures isn’t actually snow, it’s …
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A woman? Is that meant to insult me?
Oh I’ve been stewing on this for awhile.  I’m sick of being underestimated because I’m nice. Or because I’m quiet. Because I surely am the former but not so much the latter. Well If you know me. If you don’t or if Iâ€m in a situation I’m not fully …
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Time for Bed
J with his cat Zak. Em leaning on him. This picture says a lot somehow about our family. I don’t know what exactly but I love everything going on here. Her pretty face and big eyes, elegant fingers on her Dad’s back. J with his companion of 14 years. Zak …
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Little words
Em’s phrases: Derp Hee in your sauce Cheese Bus Flails away into the sun You can’t fight the Homestuck (shudder) Do you Ship that? OTP!!! She’s starting to get a bit embarrassed about pictures now. My kind, smart, gorgeous girl.Â
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Snow Night
Snow Night, a photo by jyllianm on Flickr. School is cancelled tomorrow, still waiting to hear about work . It was a pretty, snowy day snuggled in with the family.
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Bartleby Raises the Roof
Bartleby Raises the Roof, a photo by jyllianm on Flickr. My sweet boyo in the the new cat tree. It’s a little shorter than I/they like it to be but he surely looks cute in there.
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The Winter Couch
Fotor, a photo by jyllianm on Flickr. 2/365 What some evenings look like in the winter. When I say I’m cold J tells me to ‘throw another cat on there.’ I’ve had 4 out of 5 but by that point I’m roasting. Zack enjoys placing himself in the most uncomfortable …
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Hoppin John
1/365 Eating black eyed peas on New Years is a Southern tradition. One of my sweet memories of a good friend, Matt, is when he brought black eyed peas to a New Years party in San Francisco—giving us both a shared language in the midst of living elsewhere. Funny I …
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Beginning at the End
Oh somewhere in me I had an epic goodbye 2013 post, you sucked. Can’t wait to see you leave..etc etc. But we have girls spending the night and I’ve been snoozing with cats on the couch, so my fur is just not up. I had a list of resolutions about …
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. Samuel Butler
From Kat McNally 2014 is going to be MY YEAR because…I am cutting off the crueltyIn 2014, I am going to do… what helps my family and me and stop doing what hurts us.In 2014, I am going to feel…like I am good enough and getting better.In 2014, I am …
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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Well I disappeared for awhile and fell off the Reverb wagon because—that time of year I think. Also family drama. Kat McNally asks about the way forward and Project Reverb wants to know about gratitude. Since I’m behind and back dating this. I’m going to be succinct. I am grateful …
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous–to poetry. ~Thomas Mann
Kat McNally’s prompt asks us to consider self-compassion: The Buddha said, “You, yourself, as much as anybody else in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.†While Project Reverb asks if I was an introvert or extrovert this year. It really is interesting to me how I find connections between these …
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Perchance to Dream, Aye there’s the Rub
A Peace of Clothing. Sorry I couldn’t resist. Every year I wear out several black cardigans of varying weights. They are my armor, my uniform. I started wearing cardigans because I didn’t want to wear blazers. I wear blazers now, usually vintage men’s but still I go back to cardigans. I …
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.― Socrates
Word and Habit… What word can guide me through 2014. The word for 2013 seems to have been upheaval unfortunately. For 2014? Possibly steady. I like steady. I want to be steady in my work. Showing up, doing well. No conflict, no difficulty just turning out good product and helping …
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A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. ~Eudora Welty
I think I don’t have a thousand words, so how about these. This is the difference happiness makes: This is all I need to know.
