Category: inspiration
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The Week Feb 21-26
Last week’s goals with progress indicated: Finish 3 more sets of decreases on the arms for The Green Wood Cardigan (that’s knit 24 more rows) and measure to see if I need to knit more or can start the ribbing for the cuff. Not only did I do that, but I finished the sleeves altogether; on…
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The Week Feb 13-20
It’s been a while since I set goals and tracked them; I haven’t done it since December 2016. It’s time to get back on track and do this again. Last week’s goals with progress indicated: Yeah. I’m not going back to review December goals, partly because it’s been so long and partly because I got…
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Sunday Thoughts on a Tuesday
Today was a difficult day for me lots of reasons, including current events. It also probably wasn’t wise of me to see Manchester By the Sea yesterday and Jackie today. Anyway, it’s more like the straw that broke the camel’s back kind of day than a day that makes others pale in comparison, if you…
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Sunday Thoughts
I needed to read this quote more than a few times this week and it helped. Perhaps a few of you will like it & benefit from it, too. “When you feel overwhelmed, you’re trying too hard. That kind of energy does not help the other person and it does not help you. You should…
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NZ Day 14 & 15: Dim Sum, Downtown Auckland, Departure
Writing this last NZ travelogue post means that the trip is really really over, so I’ve been putting it off even though I’ve now been back from the trip for as long as we were gone. Goodbyes are hard. Our last full day in New Zealand we took it easy: we slept in and were…
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NZ Day 13: Lake Taupo
The weather was good for the majority of the trip, so we couldn’t really complain on day 13 when it rained and rained and paused and rained some more. After talking about some alternatives over another breakfast at McDonald’s in Roturoa, everyone finally settled on white water rafting since they would get wet during that activity…
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NZ Day 12: Waiotapu Thermal Park, (Luge), Rotorua
After our most busy day on the trip on New Years Day, January 2 found us limping along. Or at least I was limping along. We were all tired and cranky, and Mr. Q and I started the day of pretty tensely because of some petty disagreement the previous day whose origins I can’t even…
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NZ Day 9 (actually day 11): First Sunrise & Sunset of 2017 Hobbiton, Rotorua
New Year’s Day, probably our busiest day of the whole trip, we got up at 4am to drive from Auckland to Hobbiton, which is really the only reason I saw the sun rise. Seventeen of us including Melanie (our ever patient host) and her sister Gloria tetrised into 3 cars with luggage enough to last…
Little Golden Notebook 