http://www.thisexaminedlife.com Examining my life, for what it's worth Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:04:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...place your head between your knees... * For about the fifth or sixth time today, I am finding it necessary to stop and BREATHE. This morning, we met with the accountant who is handling our taxes and the city's lawsuit against us. He was reassuring in that he's certain we will ... http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/in-the-event-of-an-emergency/ I've been a little reluctant to post a new post after that sweet, sweet letter that D wrote me. I just kept coming back to my blog and re-reading it. I know that I am loved. I will be fine. We'll get through, it, whatever it may be. Yet life and ... http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/anxiety-2/ Dear Pann, Just over a month ago, our 10th anniversary came and went, without either of us taking much notice. Oh sure, we knew it was happening, and we wished each other a happy one, and we received well-wishings from families and friends. But on the actual day of ... http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/an-open-letter-to-pann/ C (making homemade sock puppet toy talk): Sweetie, we have to get married! I'm pregnant! A (holding other puppet toy, talking for it): It's okay, you can just have the baby. You'll see, everything will be alright. You can have a baby first, before you get married. Memo to self: have that ... http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/overheard/ I think cooking with a crock is awesome... even though I don't know what I am doing, things seem to turn out yummy. (Hey, kids, this isn't a restaurant. You're getting what I cooked for dinner and you're going to like it.) That approach isn't all that successful, but hey, if ... http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/crock-pots/ De-Clutter: (verb) 1. "to painfully throw away tons of stuff that you thought you should keep for the past fifteen years but turns out you just left in a huge heap in your closet causing you to be unable to find the few things you actually wanted, and then ... http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/de-cluttering/ I had an anxiety dream about my job that starts in the fall. In my dream, the school year had begun, and I forgot to show up to work. Instead, I tried just picking up my kids and going home. I was greeted by all the kids there at school, ... http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/mired/ Seems that Mondays are when I do the running around. Making a lot of stops with my two gals in tow is tiring under the best of circumstances. Doing so in 90 degree summer humid heat is really tiring. And doing so after a long (very fun!) weekend at the ... http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/errand-day/ I think I have some kind of freakish aversion to packing. Unpacking, too. I just do not like it. I avoid it. That is why, here I am, after midnight, without any clothes packed or organized, and maybe not even clean. And we're hoping to leave for the shore First ... http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/aversion-to-packing/ This year I had extra ambition and rented two plots in the community garden, rather than just one. And they are bigger plots than last year, because when we tilled at the beginning of the season, we tilled right into the path. This is the path along the edge of ... http://www.thisexaminedlife.com/garden-update-2/