Weekly Epiphanies!
July19
Weekly Epiphanies!
(Sorry about the weird formatting in the entries, I have been testing a way to post entries from work, which means that sometimes things are not quite how I imagine them. If anyone reads this, and has a blog on wordpress, let me know if you have any tips for getting posts to format nicely??? KThx!)
I have decided, since I see a lot of my favourite bloggers doing this, that I will start weekly traditions in my posting. I am hoping that that will push me to post a bit more often and get me back into the thrill of writing again.
I have decided, since I see a lot of my favourite bloggers doing this, that I will start weekly traditions in my posting. I am hoping that that will push me to post a bit more often and get me back into the thrill of writing again.
Havi over at The Fluent Self has Friday Check ins (or chickens as GirlChild calls them)
Tova at the Secret Life of Tova Darling has Tova’s Totally Awkward Tuesdays
Sass at Are you Sassified? has Things I want Thursday
Jamie at Jamie Ridler Studios has Wishcasting Wednesdays…
Because I wanna be like the cool kids, but I can’t just play WITH them, I have decided to try to be more disciplined and have a weekly epiphanies post… probably on the weekend, because I get so busy on Fridays writing about them that I forget to post until Saturday mornings. And although I know that not many people read blogs on the weekends… well… I can’t seem to stop doing it and so I am just going to have to embrace the fact that I am a weekend poster and be good with that… and so should you (the invisible imaginary people to which I write).
Bear in mind that I have attempted to do similar things in the past… I have tried to do this type post on fridays to review my week (but stopped because I felt like I was not supposed to be mooching the idea)… and I had originally had a WTF Wednesday thing that I was doing, but they all got eaten and therefore NOT posted… and I had at one time had a schedule of podcasts that I was trying to do, but that dropped by the wayside after the third podcast (due to cloudiness of what I wanted it to be). So I am starting yet again with something more structured…
It seems that over the weeks I am doing the Decluttering Goddesses eCourse I have realized different things about myself and my life and other stuff that I sometimes feel the need to write about and remember… but never have the time.
As I write this I am being distracted by the fact that I am feeling very sick (heart sick and sun sick) and lonely… and the neighbors upstairs have started their weekly SUNDAY ritual of pounding away to GarageBand so loudly I can barely HEAR myself think as they bang on the floor and holler to music above my head. So I’ll try to do my best through the pounding and the tears that are threatening to spill down my cheeks.
- I need to get out of this place. I can’t continue to live like this, with neighbors above my head that slam doors and blare music and screech all hours of the night any night they feel like it. With a landlord who has no contact with me and no one who manages the property while he’s out of touch, its getting to be too much. Maybe I’m just too old and cranky. Yes, I’m a hermit for the most part, but I don’t need to live feeling trapped in my own space forever.
- I am the only one who can make me happy. As things progress or fail to progress with my relationship with Reg I am realizing that no man can be my be all or end all. I am not theEx, I obviously am not able to make friends as easily as I did before I married, and its going to take work to make those social connections. I have to be happy with myself, because the rate I’m going I will be spending more time alone than I will be spending with my significant other.
- I don’t need to keep everything I ever owned. I do not need permission to buy things anymore.
- I can give myself permission not to try to maintain an interest in everything. I gave myself permission to quit pretending to care about doing altered books and artist trading cards.
- I realized and renewed my interest in creative needlework. I had put aside my needlework for over 3 years… corresponding to the fatal downfall of my former marriage. I realized I LOVED creating cross stitch treasures, but when I stopped feeling comfortable in my homes, when I was “homeless” I stopped being able to sit still and create needlework for myself. It does not matter if I ever get them framed, its the process of creating something beautiful that I love. ANd I have every right to pick up a former hobby again….
- I will get my passport.
Because I have run out of energy now, I am gonna quit for this week.
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I like cross stitch too. I kind of set it aside because I tend to get busy with cakes plus I have a giant stack of unframed cross stitches that I did, but never did anything with. But I like actually getting into the zone and stitching and counting. It’s relaxing!